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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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. The third is high gross margins.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

About 14% of the technology firms that have held initial public offerings between January 2011 and the end of June 2012 went public with at least two share classes—more than twice the 6.4% that did so in 1999 and 2000, according to an analysis for The Wall Street Journal by Jay R. Sales Jobs |.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says. Businesses For Sale |. Businesses For Sale |. Businesses For Sale |. 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.

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