Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. Crowd funding is setting new records worldwide, with $17 billion from North America alone, and VCs poured another $100 billion more into small growth companies last year. Startup incubators and accelerators are popping up everywhere.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

According to the latest Kaufman Startup Activity Index , entrepreneurs are making an unprecedented comeback in America, with data showing the largest year-over-year increase in two decades. Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. Last year was the most active year for IPOs in the United States since 2000.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. But in 2012 a visit to any major college in America will show you the massive increase in aspirations of our young talent to become the next Mark Zuckerberg and build a future Facebook. From this we have seen a commensurate boom in the number of startup companies.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

as a “17 Women to Watch in 2017,” by Entrepreneur Magazine as a 2016 “Woman to Watch,” and was selected to participate in the United Nations Foundation Global Accelerator. He spent several years advising CEOs on raising capital, strategy, and how to create maximum value out of M&A and IPO transactions.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 13, 2021

And then also another investment that I’ve made through Greylock is Entrepreneur First, which is an incubator. And they’re like, well, all of these incubators all failed, why would we pick up the 70th one? There wasn’t like an IPO – this amazing IPO that just happened. I was wrong.” Harry: Totally.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

For a pursuit that largely revolves around silent time spent at a computer by one person then, slowly at first, a few more people, a bit more talking, and on and on until failure, acquisition, or IPO, it may seem inconsequential to consider where it all goes down. Should you listen to every word?

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

For a pursuit that largely revolves around silent time spent at a computer by one person then, slowly at first, a few more people, a bit more talking, and on and on until failure, acquisition, or IPO, it may seem inconsequential to consider where it all goes down. Should you listen to every word?

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New York City New York Entrepreneur Seed Stage 120