2010, Exit Strategy and Marketing

Here is Why You Need a Good Startup Exit Strategy

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2012

So here are the most common exit strategies and considerations these days for planning purposes: Merger & Acquisition (M&A). But since the Internet bubble burst in the year 2000, the IPO rate has declined every year until 2010, and is now at about 15%. To some, an exit strategy sounds negative.

Exit Strategy

Exit Strategy Initial Public Offering IPO Startup

16 Great Startup Posts from March

SoCal CTO

APRIL 8, 2010

If I Launched a Startup - The Startup Lawyer , March 17, 2010 Great advice on initial steps of setting up a Startup. 9 Reasons Why Many Smart People Go Nowhere - Life Beyond Code , March 29, 2010 You would have met many smart people who live a mediocre life. It’s the old – 5% of massive market gives us a big number.

Software Review

Software Review Startup PR Exit Strategy

What do I see in venture through 2010???

BeyondVC

JULY 31, 2008

Anyway, here are the questions and my response: Even though there is uncertainty in the credit markets, a stalled IPO market, and few billion-dollar plus M&A transactions, the investment activity level and appetite for quality businesses in the middle-market continues to be vibrant. Exit Strategy.

Jordan

Jordan Exit Strategy IPO Semantic

Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

To do this they have to accomplish five things; 1) get deal flow – via networking and legwork, they identify likely industries, companies and teams with the potential for rapid growth (less than 10 years), 2) evaluate those companies and teams on the basis of technology, market opportunity, and team.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital

A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

They are quite happy with a business that will turn into a profitable $20M company and dont necessarily need an obvious exit strategy. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles. This is something Ive always wondered about.

Incubator

Incubator Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles

Startup Exits Should Be Positive and Planned Early

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2011

So here are the most common exit strategies and considerations these days for planning purposes: Merger & Acquisition (M&A). But since the Internet bubble burst in the year 2000, the IPO rate has declined every year until 2010, and is now at about 15%. To some, an exit strategy sounds negative.

Exit Strategy

Exit Strategy Initial Public Offering Startup IPO

How to Attract Talent to Your Start-up

www.inc.com

JULY 9, 2010

Intellectual Property

Intellectual Property Los Angeles San Francisco New York

Knowing When It’s Time To Sell Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

by Christopher Wallace, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Amsterdam Printing. For years, the most desirable exit strategy for startup companies was to go public through an initial public offering. A volatile stock market and economic recession have since changed much of this thinking. Rapidly growing market.

IPO

IPO Exit Strategy San Francisco Startup

Microsoft’s fading adtech ambitions

The Equity Kicker

JULY 3, 2012

To my knowledge the last aggressive move that Microsoft made in Adtech was participating in a $50m funding round in Appnexus back in 2010, and it looks very much like their ambitions in this sector are fading. For Adtech startups looking for an exit strategy this is bad news.

Exit Strategy

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What Do Angels Want?

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 13, 2012

According to the just-released Halo Report from the Angel Capital Association and the Angel Resource Institute ( ARI ), founded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation , "The median size of angel & angel group syndicate rounds was $700,000" last year, up from $500,000 in 2010. So what do angels want? What's your end game?

Angel Investor

Angel Investor Syndicate Syndication Exit Strategy

Social, Agile, and Transformation: Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research

ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

But I would also recommend teams discuss "exit strategies" for these features if the outcomes dont meet the success criteria, especially if there is significant tech debt associated with developing them. Shifting to a Market, Program, and Platform Organization. Achieving 2X in Speed To Market Using Agile Platfo.

Agile

Agile Architecture Offshore Software Developers

Durant Versus Sloan – Part 1

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Top management was trying to coordinate all of the operating details (sales, manufacturing, distribution and marketing,) across all the divisions and the company almost went bankrupt that year when poor planning led to excess inventory (with unsold cars piling up at dealers and the company running out of cash.) car market.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley United States RSS Customer Development

Game Startups Eye Zynga Bling

ReadWriteStart

MAY 1, 2012

For entrepreneurs in the gaming field, being bought by Zynga is the new exit strategy. Zynga bought 22 companies in 2010 and 2011, and plans to increase its acquisition pace in the years ahead. And it’s easy and cheap in this field to slingshot a game into the market and see if it crushes a pig. Who woulda thunk it?)

Startup

Startup Exit Strategy Acquisition Flash

TodaCell Raises $1 More Million from Afterdox

VC Cafe

MARCH 10, 2010

Morgan, mobile display advertising is expected to grow by 81% from $140 million in 2009 to $253 million in 2010. The proceeds of this round has been earmarked for sales and marketing as well as five new sales offices in New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, London & Bombay. Think iPad, Kindle, hand-held gaming devices, etc.

Los Angeles

Los Angeles Exit Strategy Europe Mobile

How to Hire a Chief Technology Officer

www.inc.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Fractional CTO

Fractional CTO CTO CTO Hire Hiring

Ten questions the entrepreneur should ask the (prospective) investor

Tim Keane

APRIL 12, 2006

When they discuss market size, do they distinguish between current and addressable markets? This whole topic is of interest to investors for a number of reasons beyond the logic of market dynamics. In each case, some sort of “exit strategy” will be part of the structure.

Entrepreneur

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Your Business “Driving Force”

market-by-numbers.com

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Market By Numbers on Twitter | Entries RSS | Comments RSS Market By Numbers High-Tech Marketing and Customer Development Home What is Customer Development? The driving force helps shape technology choices, importance of design, market segment, and business model as well as company culture, growth plan and exit strategy.

San Diego

San Diego RSS Lean Elevator Pitch

Why Leave A Six Figure Corporate Job For Internet Entrepreneurship?

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 21, 2011

Stock Market In my Junior year in college, I started day trading and grew a $2,000 pot to over $40,000 thanks to a big one-hit wonder. Outside of that terrible experience when money was most scarce for me, I haven’t gambled much in the market. Where do I get the money to invest in the markets? I am not a guru in stock trading.

Internet

Internet Technical Review Stock Due Diligence

What is the perfect startup team?

www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Team Configuration 500 Startups Guerilla Marketing Organizations Entrepreneurship Startup Founders & Entrepreneurs Startups Startup Incubators and Seed Programs Seedcamp Y Combinator TechStars Lean Startups What is the perfect startup team? Lakshman Prasad • Nov 16, 2010.

Technical Review

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