Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Time horizons for Return on Investment from a VC investment may be 7+ years, ROI from the acquisition of an earlier stage company, 4-5 years and the ROI from acquisition of a mature company, 2-3 years.) In Stage 2, the corporation adds venture capital and/or mergers-and-acquisition teams to provide these functions.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Incubator Acquisition Business Model 120

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Five Quarters of Profitability During the 1980’s and through the mid 1990’s startups going public had to do something that most companies today never heard of – they had to show a track record of increasing revenue and consistent profitability. There was now a public market for companies with no revenue, no profit and big claims.

Silicon Valley 217

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

We’re now in the second Internet bubble. VC’s worked with entrepreneurs to build profitable and scalable businesses, with increasing revenue and consistent profitability – quarter after quarter. With Netscape’s IPO , there was suddenly a public market for companies with limited revenue and no profit. Carpe Diem.

Internet 334

Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 334

Mike Michalowicz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Using the internally developed software, the Judge Group executes Internet Bots that continuously crawl the internet in search of new potential candidate resumes and new job postings. The internet bots serve as resume harvesters, building a qualified candidate pool.

CPA 76

CPA Software Review LLC Technical Review 76

The Equity Kicker

MARCH 16, 2012

Mergers and acquisitions have a notoriously high failure rate and as a result investors knocked a couple of percent off Cisco’s share price yesterday following the announcement of their $5bn acquisition of NDS Group. This is the money quote: Many acquisitions fail.

Acquisition 104

Acquisition Merger Social Network Revenue 104

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 21, 2011

Right out of Graduate School, I started my career with one of the big four accounting firms in their M&A (Mergers and Acquisitions) practice. But long story short, I have ended up consulting several individuals, and more recently even small businesses on various internet entrepreneurship matters.

Internet 80

Internet Technical Review Stock Due Diligence 80

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2018

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. On the other hand, if you are a new entrepreneur, still in the idea stage, professional investors will only tell you to come back later when you have traction (customers and revenue).

Angel Investor 184

Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers Private Equity 184

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet: AOL. It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. AOL was closed, the Internet was open. And then came AOL.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

Gust

MAY 24, 2012

This is nothing new; long favored by family-controlled media empires such as Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation , among Internet firms alone, Google took a dual-class approach when going public in 2004. In the case of an acquisition, the shares are tendered for cash and/or stock in the acquiring company.).

IPO 159

IPO Equity Common Stock Stock 159

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2014

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. On the other hand, if you are a new entrepreneur, still in the idea stage, professional investors will only tell you to come back later when you have traction (customers and revenue).

Angel Investor 232

Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers Private Equity 232

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2012

Assuming your startup takes off, you will probably find that the fun is gone by the time you reach 50 employees, or a few million in revenue. So here are the most common exit strategies and considerations these days for planning purposes: Merger & Acquisition (M&A). Entrepreneurs love the art of the start.

Exit Strategy 241

Exit Strategy Initial Public Offering IPO Startup 241

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

PMC-Sierra, a premier Internet infrastructure semiconductor solution provider, is purchasing Wintegra Inc. , Shamir Optical reported revenues of $142 million in 2009, generated mainly in Europe and the United States, and has about 1,400 employees. In 2008, the company, which employs about 30,000 worldwide, reported revenues of $28.8

Bandwidth 79

Bandwidth Framework Forecast 79

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 27, 2015

I am looking forward to the possibility of selling several proposals I have developed that could generate tremendous advertising revenues for newspapers, broadcasting companies, magazines, internet media companies and the internet divisions of multimedia companies.

Fresno 48

Fresno Entrepreneur Merger LLC 48

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2016

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. On the other hand, if you are a new entrepreneur, still in the idea stage, professional investors will only tell you to come back later when you have traction (customers and revenue).

Matching 120

Matching Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2011

Assuming your startup takes off, you will probably find that the fun is gone by the time you reach 50 employees, or a few million in revenue. So here are the most common exit strategies and considerations these days for planning purposes: Merger & Acquisition (M&A). Entrepreneurs love the art of the start.

Exit Strategy 231

Exit Strategy Initial Public Offering Startup IPO 231

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Internet and Online Business. But with the help of Grahams company, which specializes in creating tech systems for start-ups, Jumpstart grew to more than $50 million in revenue--enough to make it an attractive acquisition for media conglomerate Hachette Filipacchi. Leadership. Strategy and Planning. Human Resources (HR).

Arizona 40

Arizona Equity Iowa Venture Capital 40

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

The importance of the conference is that it assembles most of the top privately held early-to-mid-stage technology companies in the country (and some globally) as well as most VC’s, growth equity funds and corporate development departments from large industry players looking at technology acquisitions. Revenue of ~$160mm in 2008.

IPO 242

IPO Venture Capital Private Placement Cofounder 242

Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Small” IPOs — companies with less than $50m in annual revenue at the time of IPO – have declined from more than 50% of all IPOs in the 1980-2000 timeframe to about 25% of IPOs from 2001-2016; Companies are staying private much longer — the median time to IPO from founding hovered around 6.5 Performance has been more un-even.

SEC 36

SEC Accredited Investor IPO Technical Review 36

Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Never missing an opportunity for a good war story, I’d like to revisit one high-profile transaction, the $650 million acquisition of MySpace by Fox Interactive Media in 2005, on which I spent many sleepless nights along with the rest of the deal team. Read on for a fuller explanation.

Valuation 98

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Merger Vesting 98

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 10, 2011

I still don’t understand PPC marketing well enough to this day to be able to make a killing from it like some internet marketers do, and that’s why I only do it for one of my niche content websites. To ward off a bit, a niche content website generating the same amount of revenues would have sold for more than four times its earnings.

Technical Review 71

Technical Review PPC Due Diligence Exit Strategy 71

The Next Web

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Even if a mobile app developer manages to cross the distribution hurdle and starts raking in some revenue, the next challenge is even worse: getting copied. This kind of innovation would be hard to find in a traditional Chinese Internet company as usually they are copying others, copying those from the US and UK to bring them back to China.

China 122

China Developer Intellectual Property Mobile 122

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 2, 2012

The real truth is, since the "Internet bubble" burst in 2001, initial public offerings have not resumed the vitality levels of the late 1980s, let alone the boom years of the '90s. It refers to this specific, new group of young, low-revenue companies for whom some of the SOX reporting regulations will no longer apply.

IPO 121

IPO Startup Florida Seed Capital 121

www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

Social media audiences have effectively become another universe of prospects to tap, which means measurement and tracking is essential to yielding from these visitors both direct and indirect revenue. Web/Internet/IT/eMedia. Internet/Online Only. Mergers and Acquisitions. Internet/Digital Media. Operations.

Social Media 40

Social Media Rhode Island Media South Dakota 40

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Here’s the rub: in consumer internet (and often enterprise), if your founding team doesn’t have the chops to get a prototype of your product out and in the hands of a blogger to test and write about, you might as well save yourself a lot of pain – you’re not going anywhere. I don’t know any developers. I need money for the servers.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84