Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2021

I was reading an old article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. Even still, it was another five years before Microsoft went public in 1986, making him an overnight success worth $350 million. In April, 1996, Yahoo!

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

I was reading an old article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. Even still, it was another five years before Microsoft went public in 1986, making him an overnight success worth $350 million. In April, 1996, Yahoo!

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2018

Thus I’m getting more questions on new mechanisms, like crowd funding, or going public through the side door as a reverse merger. Being a public company isn’t cheap or easy. Being public makes the company more visible to shareholders and potential acquirers, and provides a presumption of future liquidity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

I was reading an old article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. Even still, it was another five years before Microsoft went public in 1986, making him an overnight success worth $350 million. In April, 1996, Yahoo!

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2016

I was reading an old article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. Even still, it was another five years before Microsoft went public in 1986, making him an overnight success worth $350 million. In April, 1996, Yahoo!

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2014

A reverse merger is the acquisition of an already public company (usually a dormant shell) to avoid the Initial Public Offering (IPO) process and cost, to quickly get your startup on a public exchange for fund raising through visibility and selling stock. Being a public company isn’t cheap or easy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

I was reading an article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. Even still, it was another five years before Microsoft went public in 1986, making him an overnight success worth $350 million. In April, 1996, Yahoo!

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