Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 31, 2019
Today the rate of startups going public (IPO – Initial Public Offering) is up from the dead zone, but is still half the rate back before 2000. Thus most startups I know don’t even mention the IPO exit option, when applying for angel funding, and most angel investors will react negatively if you do mention it.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 6, 2012
Dysonics secured $750,000 in funding from angel investors to develop products that will reproduce three-dimensional, immersive sound in headphones. Through NYC ACRE, NYU-Poly builds clean tech and renewable energy companies, sharing resources for physical and virtual tenants, while offering guidance and business assistance.
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Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 27, 2014
Venture capitalists (VCs) have long been seen as the top of the pyramid for startup funding sources, but in fact angel investors now fund over 60 times as many companies, according the Center for Venture Research. Individual angel investors have been filling the gap, and now match VCs in total amount invested.
Steve Blank
JULY 15, 2010
If you take funding from a venture capital firm or angel investor and want to build a large, enduring company (rather than sell it to the highest bidder), this isn’t the decade to do it. During the decade between 1991 and 2000, nearly 2000 venture backed companies went public. Here’s why. Take a look at the chart below.
Scalable Startup
DECEMBER 15, 2011
Here are the justifications and logic process for so many claiming they have a startup before they really do, and in many cases actually getting some funding: people feel like they might as well start their own business since nobody is hiring. the barriers are now very low for actually forming a business, as is the cost. millionaires.
This is going to be BIG.
NOVEMBER 7, 2011
Just because an angel investor that made tens of millions of dollars gives $50k to a startup, and got 9 of her friends to do the same thing, doesn't mean that company deserves to get a $5 million check. Is 2012 going to be 2000 all over again? When the bubble burst in 2000, many of us felt it in our pockets.
Up and Running
MAY 16, 2016
percent in 2000 to 19.6 The most traditional routes are bank loans, small business loans, or angel investors. There may be state level grants geared toward emerging businesses in the health care field as well. From 2010 through 2015, the industry saw a moderate but steady four percent growth. population.
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