Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 31, 2019
In the old days, every entrepreneur dreamed of easily taking their startup public, and making it big. 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. Going public is an expensive process.
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 6, 2014
With the recent apparent successes of several startups in taking their company public (initial public offering) and raising billions of dollars, I’m hearing a groundswell of enthusiasm from new entrepreneurs to follow in their footsteps to fund their companies and become billionaires overnight.
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Steve Blank
MARCH 18, 2011
The Golden Age (1970 – 1995): Build a growing business with a consistently profitable track record (after at least 5 quarters,) and go public when it’s time. Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability.
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 26, 2013
Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. According to a report just out, a record 156 operating companies went public in the U.S. That is a 65% increase in the number of IPOs over 2012, and the highest proceeds raised since the year 2000. Cost of entry for a startup is at an all-time low.
Reid Hoffman
MARCH 19, 2019
And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. These companies didn’t blitzscale; they scaled sustainably.”.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 19, 2015
Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. Last year was the most active year for IPOs in the United States since 2000. Cost of entry for a startup is at an all-time low. Two of these, Uber and Xiaomi, are already above $40 billion. No wonder 90% of the successful startups still bootstrap.
Pascal's View
MAY 13, 2011
ii. Bubble period 1996-2000 totals $243.6 2000: Regulation FD was passed to create a “level playing field”, reacting against whisper numbers, favored research analysts, and the “hedge fund information advantage”—all in the name of giving everyone simultaneous access to the same corporate disclosures—which absolutely did not happen.
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