Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

had its initial public offering, raising $33.8 In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 Amazon.com - Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994 and took it public three years later, making him a multibillionaire. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994.

Entrepreneur 263

Entrepreneur Initial Public Offering California .Net 263

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

had its initial public offering, raising $33.8 In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 Amazon.com - Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994 and took it public three years later, making him a multibillionaire. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994.

Initial Public Offering 295

Initial Public Offering California .Net Business Plan 295

Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Try these statistics on for size, from 1999 to today Asia’s share of the world’s Initial Public Offerings grew from 12% to 66%. Since 2005, they have been the two leading investors in Africa, investing $31 billion and $16 billion on the continent, respectively. In the U.S.

Africa 104

Africa Brazil China India 104

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2010

had its initial public offering, raising $33.8 In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 Amazon.com - Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994 and took it public three years later, making him a multibillionaire. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994.

Initial Public Offering 221

Initial Public Offering Startup California .Net 221

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

For years, the most desirable exit strategy for startup companies was to go public through an initial public offering. This startup offered free peer to peer on-line phone service. The founders sold the two year old company to eBay in 2005 for $2.6

IPO 162

IPO Exit Strategy San Francisco Startup 162

Version One Ventures

JUNE 7, 2016

eBay was relatively successful when it acquired marketplaces like Rent.com (2005) and StubHub (2007). In fact, the only reason you’d ever acquire a marketplace is if it were a large, standalone unit that could grow on its own. This means that an IPO is the exit option for the most successful marketplaces.

IPO 60

IPO Distribution Channel Business Model 60

Growthink Blog

JULY 23, 2012

Try these statistics on for size, from 1999 to today Asia’s share of the world’s Initial Public Offerings grew from 12% to 66%. Since 2005, they have been the two leading investors in Africa, investing $31 billion and $16 billion on the continent, respectively.

Africa 76

Africa Brazil India China 76

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2012

Their task was to draft a set of recommendations for how the nation's "IPO crisis," as some call it, could be resolved - a post-bubble lull in the number of startup companies in all sectors that proceed to the initial public offering stage and go public. was created by firms less than five years old.

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IPO SEC Silicon Valley Startup 118