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Is Your Startup Ready For The Challenges Of An IPO?

Startup Professionals Musings

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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A New Era For Entrepreneurs And Startups Has Begun

Startup Professionals Musings

is already well above the dot.com bubble of 15 years ago, although we have slipped a bit this year from the high point of 320 new entrepreneurs out of 100,000 adults in 2011. Thus a record number of entrepreneurs (and employees) are getting rich. Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy.

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Knowing When It’s Time To Sell Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

For years, the most desirable exit strategy for startup companies was to go public through an initial public offering. Of course, if you have run out of money or received a stratospheric offer, the decision may be easy. Each one can provide valuable lessons to the entrepreneur. They only had 13 employees!

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Starting up down under: The guide to Australia’s growing startup scene

The Next Web

He is co-founder of international start-up community event organisation 3beards and founder and director of Albion Drive , a fully integrated communicaitons agency for entrepreneurs and challenger brands. Australia Entrepreneur Analysis and Opinion Investigations Lists Roundups' Halfbrick Studios.

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Blitzscaling: Silicon Valley’s Harmful Idea of Success

Austin Startup

Those were CEOs of public companies and founders or executives of some of the fastest-growing and most successful tech companies in Austin and tech. Those were teachers, accountants, consultants, entrepreneurs, and community leaders. Are there amazing Silicon Valley VCs out there with whom entrepreneurs should work to partner?

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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Updated July 10, 2012, 7:57 p.m. Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. and Groupon Inc., —has naturally won support from entrepreneurs. TECHNOLOGY.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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September 19, 2012, 9:32 p.m. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. Failure often is harder on entrepreneurs who lose money that theyve borrowed on credit cards or from friends and relatives than it is on those who raised venture capital. SMALL BUSINESS. Stock Quotes.