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7 Costs To Consider Before Taking Your Startup Public

Startup Professionals Musings

They are still nowhere near the rate required to match the yearly total of 486 hit way back in 1999. Public ownerships usually lends prestige and credibility to your sales, marketing, and acquisition efforts, but it may work counter to your vision of saving the world.

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[Review] An Innocent Story

YoungUpstarts

Embodying the informal, casual wit of the company, the founding of Innocent is summarized on their website in the form of a charming story as follows: “We started innocent in 1999 after selling our smoothies at a music festival.

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Think you’ve got a strategy to enter the Chinese market? Think twice

The Next Web

Yu graduated from Nankai University in 1999 with a bachelor’s degree in economics. Market demand for this sector is best seen in the rapid growth of Xiaomi , a Chinese cell phone manufacturer who reported online sales of 100,000 mobile phones in 90 seconds for its sub-1000 yuan phone (about $130 US).

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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

Both Sides of the Table

The world has changed much since I started my first company in 1999. Our sales guys were on the front line and heard what they needed to win deals. He decided that our largest customers would be involved in the setting of our priority lists (we did some of this internally in the early years but we saw it mostly as a sales process).

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Want to Know How VC’s Calculate Valuation Differently from Founders?

Both Sides of the Table

Back in 1999 when I first raised venture capital I had zero knowledge of what a fair term sheet looked like or how to value my company. So they agreed to match True’s term sheet. This states how the proceeds from a sale or dissolution of the company will be distributed. No gotchas. No option pool shuffle.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

Although the company created an incentive plan to boost sales, its sales growth fell from 19% before the recession to 8% after—five percentage points below Staples’ postrecession sales growth rate. As the authors found, “Firms that cut costs faster and deeper than rivals don’t necessarily flourish.

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7 Reasons To Reconsider A Planned IPO Exit Strategy

Startup Professionals Musings

According to Investor's Business Daily , even though IPOs in 2018 through July were up nearly 39 percent from last year, the total of 115 companies so far is still nowhere near the rate required to match the yearly total of 486 hit way back in 1999. Executives shoulder new risks for insider trading and employment practices.