Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 8, 2010
My favorite two quotes of the weekend were: “Never trade your cat for somebody else’s dog” (referring to selling your company for stock to another privately held company – quote was from Alan. I really enjoyed learning more about Buddy Media and meeting Michael Lazerow. I’m going to save that for a future blog post.
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 16, 2011
Usually a small company can sell about 20 percent of its stock in an IPO. The timing of an IPO is driven heavily by the state of the economy in general and the stock market in particular, in concert with your profitability. In 1999, there were 486 IPOs nationwide; just 10 years later, in 2009, there were only 63.
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Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 25, 2010
Blanchard/O’Reilly Media. I believe you reward investors who make an early call just like on the public stock market. As I’m generally a believer in ‘pricing rounds’ I initially didn’t agree with the premise of the post. Photo credit: D.
Growthink Blog
SEPTEMBER 20, 2010
Gordon Gekko may have a new movie coming out, but the days of the jolly old stock market he once knew are gone forever. public stock market performance over the past 11 years has been. market indices (Dow, S and P, NASDAQ) are trading lower today than they were in September 1999. And if so, what to do about it? Invest in U.S.
Growthink Blog
AUGUST 29, 2010
stock market performance and the drumbeat of negativity that passes as business reporting these days has been the massive growth in U.S. By way of anecdote, from the time Dave Lavinsky and I founded Growthink in 1999 through 2008, more than 95% of our firm’s clients and investors were U.S. Almost completely shrouded in the anemic U.S.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 28, 2011
When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 The biggest media attention in our industry went to the so-called “super angels&# during the 2009/10 timeframe and while I don’t believe there is such thing as a super angel I believe that much media attention was deserved. Spawning of Micro VCs.
Pascal's View
AUGUST 21, 2011
This time, the debate centers on the “favored few” Social Media venture backed companies that have brought tremendous windfalls to a select group of venture funds and management teams, both pre- and post-IPO. … We have a stock market that works for one kind of buzzy (Demand Pull) stock but is a disaster for the rest of the economy.
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