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. in 2013, with aggregate proceeds of over $38 billion.
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. Two of these, Uber and Xiaomi, are already above $40 billion. Thus a record number of entrepreneurs (and employees) are getting rich.
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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.
Pascal's View
AUGUST 28, 2010
There is plenty of debate, however, over what drives that job creation engine in our country. 6) The most efficient fuel for this IPO engine is venture capital. Everybody agrees that, without meaningful job growth, America will not emerge from its current deep economic funk. GDP growth, the U.S.
Pascal's View
SEPTEMBER 7, 2009
I believe that, if he understood the reality of the venture capital industry today and its inextricable link to the Initial Public Offering (IPO) drought, his otherwise well-written article would have taken a markedly different direction. But from 2000 to the end of 2007, the rate plunged to 900,000 a year.
online.wsj.com
SEPTEMBER 23, 2012
The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says. Engineering & Accounting Svcs. His findings are based on data from more than 2,000 companies that received venture funding, generally at least $1 million, from 2004 through 2010. There are also different definitions of failure.
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.
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