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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. And this is happening in mezzanine (pre-IPO) deals as well. And post IPO deals, although these tend to correct more quickly. Why does all this matter? Have a cushion.

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This Week in VC: Michael Montgomery (President, Montgomery & Co.)

Both Sides of the Table

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? Founded in 2002 and expanded after founders graduated from CMU in 2006.

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10 Tips for Enterprise Software Startups

ReadWriteStart

The big enterprise software companies almost all bootstrapped their way to profitability before they got their first external investors (typically via an IPO). Bernard is based in New York, was born in Berlin, has lived in and started companies in Asia and Europe as well as America; he is comfortable with globalization.

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

Michael was the lead research analyst for the IPOs of Internet companies like UUNET, Yahoo!, He was named among the World’s Top 100 Young Innovators by MIT Technology Review and received the TR100 award in 2002. Previously, he was Vice President of Global Business Development for Massive, Inc.,

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Cracking The Code: Death Sentence for SaaS.or for Lawson?

Cracking the Code

The Deutsche Bank report has a very interesting chart on the topic presenting the Free Cash Flow margins vs. the revenue growth four years post IPO for select software leaders: As you can see, with 20% Free Cash Flow margin and a 50% growth rate, Salesforce is well positioned in the pack! 2002, the stock price went from $17.5

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Swipe debit card, get stock; In defense of the IPO; New models for SMB lending, and more

Ben's Blog

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? The proof is seemingly obvious: IPOs are 50x oversubscribed! An IPO is far from perfect, but this narrative is almost completely false. Thanks for signing up.

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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

And now all of a sudden you have got this global market of all these early adopters that have smartphones connected to the Internet, and they can just pick up their things and run with them. Larry Ellison in 2002 came out and gave a speech and said the correct model for enterprise software, enterprise computing, will last for 1,000 years.