The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Investments from capital markets to real estate plummeted. Zhitao runs Hangzhou Liaison Interactive, which is a Chinese technology-based company founded in July 2002. These shares propelled him to billionaire status in 2015 when the firm’s market value soared. In 2014, the company raised $28 million in shareholder equity.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

To stay competitive and capture market share, you need to be progressive with your strategies too – or get left behind quickly by your competitors. Employee ownership gives these entrepreneurs this autonomy as well as equity in the startup! Current Startup Trends. Innovation Centers. What Has Changed Over the Past Ten Years?

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 29, 2018

On top of this, applicants like small businesses are increasingly being categorised as high-risk and so will generally need to provide security (normally a home or car) or put in equity and arrange for all business banking and insurance to go through the lending bank. This can sometimes be nigh on impossible.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 14, 2019

As long as your offering receives a positive response from its intended market, you’re on the right track. Often, there’s plenty of room for you to offer a variation that will find a healthy market niche, especially now that online technologies are revolutionizing everything from how we shop to where we stay on vacation.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 8, 2016

” The first week of 2016 in the public markets has been an entertaining reminder of this. In 1998, when I started ending up with lots of shares in public Internet companies, I came up with a formulaic approach for any public equities that are distributed to me (either from our funds or other VC funds). Or a weekly basis.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

They’re looking to be paid properly in the context of the overall salary structure, including cash, benefits, and equity, and to be paid commensurate with performance. Are they consistent with your founding team, are they competitive in the market, and will they not create precedents that you’ll regret in the next round of hiring?

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

In addition to market concerns, I had the unique experience of working with Dan Nordstrom and the team at Nordstrom.com in August of 1999. Also, many of these companies were built with heavy doses of advertising spend, a clear red-flag in our book. and John Fleming, previously EVP of Walmart and CEO of Walmart.com.

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Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

years in 2007- the longest gestation period since 1991: What has driven these changes to the capital markets and are they permanent or temporary? This is a good example of technology driven market change being accelerated by new securities regulations). Median age of a venture backed company hits 8.7 cents or 6.25

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

For entrepreneurs who want to learn about how to work with investment banks, how to position yourself to be acquired and what the IPO markets look like this is the episode to watch. What does the market look like for IPO’s and is this likely to improve?

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View from Seed

JANUARY 26, 2016

There are a number of factors that have contributed to the rise of pre-seed rounds, but the strongest have been the frothy late-stage financing market, coupled with both the scaling-up of some of the early winners in the institutional seed ecosystem and the scaling-down of some larger funds that retrenched after the financial crisis.

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 13, 2014

There were, I think, 2-3 years of little growth before market changes pushed music streaming into the mainstream, user numbers rocketed and the company was acquired by CBS for $280m. in 2002, so they built what they thought the industry needed and people would want. In his new startup Michael is rigorously applying lean principles.

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finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

Term Sheet The latest on private equity, M&A, deals and movements — from Wall Street to Silicon Valley. Overall, the fund-of-funds is 97% called for 45 funds raised between 1999 and 2002. MPM BioVentures III (2002): 76% (44%). Providence Equity Partners IV (2000): 198% (186%). Market Movers. Term Sheet.

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Gust

MAY 24, 2012

Some commentators have suggested this is the wave of the future, signifying a shift in the balance of power from investors to founders of the relatively small, elite group of growth companies that make it to public markets. Nevertheless, these preferences aren’t intended to last forever.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Take a look: This full-day Master Class focuses on how to build a startup from the ground up to focus on customers, markets, and speed of iteration. Unlike other incubator-led programs, this workshop is open to anyone who wants to learn, and it does not require companies take investment or give out equity. It was a disaster.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas. He was named among the World’s Top 100 Young Innovators by MIT Technology Review and received the TR100 award in 2002.

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Austin Startup

JULY 23, 2010

The company announced that is just completed $13M in financing from existing investors SMH Private Equity Group, ABS Ventures, Austin Ventures, and Trellis Partners. This financial commitment from our investors will help us capitalize on increased market demand, and accelerate our market lead.”. CrunchBase Information.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. One investor played chicken with me by threatening not to approve my next-round financing unless I gave him more equity. My SVP of Sales & Marketing quit 30 minutes before an important board meeting. Your highs are super high.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 13, 2020

And, in 2002, when Richard Florida published “Rise of the Creative Class,” Austin was a city that outperformed similar sized cities in large part due to droves of creative professionals wanting to live here. I’ve had police pull me over just because and I’ve hosted events raising tens of thousands for charity.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. One investor played chicken with me by threatening not to approve my next-round financing unless I gave him more equity. My SVP of Sales & Marketing quit 30 minutes before an important board meeting. Your highs are super high.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 28, 2019

This concept was explored in cinematic form in the film ‘Minority Report’ (2002) in which people are served advertisements in public places based on their personal profiles on an individual basis. This can be put to good use by ‘cross-secting’ technology, equity entrepreneurship and data science enabling the ‘predict’ and ‘act’.

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Spencer Fry

APRIL 17, 2015

While Lynda began offering online classes in 2002, my first taste of online education came from seeing Skillshare grow from it’s founding in 2010 from within the Carbonmade office (shoutout to the Skillshare founder, Mike Karnjanaprakorn). I grilled him about the market, what was out there, how well the companies are doing and so on.

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David Teten

MARCH 24, 2014

So the retail market is notoriously irrational. They go to market stressing that their model is highly proprietary. UltraQuant’s real strategy is to create a pure, blind index of the market. The firm hires a lot of PhDs to do research and come out with a wonder drug, and then markets it widely with tons of PR.

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BeyondVC

OCTOBER 10, 2003

Henry’s $400 call on Amazon.com put him well on his way towards equity research fame or infamy. He did it by building positions in technology value stocks which sounds like an oxymoron but made a ton of sense if you began buying in early 2002.

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Seeing Both Sides

MARCH 19, 2009

  In 2001/2002, it was Tyco’s CEO Dennis Koszlowski spending $1 million of shareholder money on his wife’s 40 th birthday party (mine is coming up this summer, by the way, and I don’t think it will cost my LPs very much at all, really). .   They want every possible dollar to go towards building shareholder value.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Sarah also points to the vast global wealth that has to get allocated somewhere as well as a small bump in long term average returns, now that the generally terrible performance of funds from the 2000-2002 time frame (after the tech bubble of the late 90s crashed) no longer factor in to 10 year returns.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 31, 2020

IN THIS EDITION Fintech products ease more Americans into the stock market In defense of the IPO, and how to improve it What’s inside your (mobile) bank? This trend is worrisome because investing in public markets has traditionally been one of the most important wealth creation mechanisms in the U.S., Thanks for signing up.

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