Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

Founded it as a California LLC but your potential VC wants a Delaware C-Corp? When we want to sell or IPO companies they’re there again. He mostly covers Southern California. of Stubbs Alderton, a firm that focused exclusively on early-stage tech, media and game companies in Southern California.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2015

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. This approach is not for entrepreneurs already out of money.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

San Diego, California) Jobs Comentum is a dynamic and cutting edge company.Be Gregory Wehmeyer True, Ben, once upon a time, Angel Investors provided the launching pad for Venture Capital Firms to propel any startup on two legs toward a successful IPO. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 4, 2012

As the morning fog burns off the California coast, I am working with Steve Blank, preparing for the Lean LaunchPad Faculty Development Program we are running this August at U.C. Alex explained that in his community building a successful venture that generated nice cash flows – not IPO’s – were the big win.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

My first IPO at Convergent. We must have made them play the demo twenty times. There were a few times in my career I knew at that moment I was watching something profound – (Holding the glass masks of the Z80 microprocessor. First silicon of the MIPS RISC processor.)

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Haystack

DECEMBER 30, 2018

That’s still OK given the IPO is more of a financing event than anything else, right? If things hold up through lock-up periods, waves of cash will wash up in northern California. Well, actually, quite a few tech companies IPO’d in 2018, though many of those are a bit underwater now given December’s public market volatility.

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Startup Company Lawyer

AUGUST 31, 2012

In fact, Paul Graham wrote a letter to Y Combinator companies warning them that the performance of the Facebook IPO may hurt the market for early stage startups. Convertible debt with a maturity date longer than one year creates problems for California-based investors due to licensing requirements under the California Finance Lenders Law.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Gregory Wehmeyer True, Ben, once upon a time, Angel Investors provided the launching pad for Venture Capital Firms to propel any startup on two legs toward a successful IPO. We are coaching VCs and Angel Investors everyday who call us wanting to understand our Early Stage LPO versus late stage IPO approach to business.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

A company that’s not going to grow much beyond a sole proprietorship or a side gig has vastly different software needs than a tech startup whose founders are planning on an eventual IPO. Adam holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Entrepreneurship and a Master’s Degree in Accounting from University of Southern California.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

so I feel I have an unbiased appreciation for BOTH Californias. I believe you can attract people to relocate to Los Angeles but it’s likely that they’ll come from locations other than Northern California. TechCoast Angels backed GreenDot should be a major IPO this year. Go on, have a bit of fun down memory lane!).

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 15, 2020

WeWork’s founder was been accused of self-dealing, which in turn has thrown the company’s IPO into question. Uber is still living down reports of its founder’s past behavior, and California pushed to treat drivers like full-time employees and take on the associated costs. The founder stepped aside. Juul’s founder resigned.

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David Teten

MARCH 22, 2011

The Committee received and continues to receive valuable feedback from the HBS Angels of Northern California via conference calls. Monday, 04/4/11 at 6:00pm: Innovation in Private Company Liquidity: Online M&A, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO. RSVP: [link].

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www.mattbartus.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Matt is a lawyer representing technology companies through all phases of their lifecycle, from pre-incorporation, seed & VC financings, exit transactions and IPOs (read more). California companies can have specific salary arrangements with salaried employees. Thanks Casey! About Matt. Recent Posts. What are the potential issues?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 24, 2013

The banks lobbied regulators in Louisiana , New York , California, and Idaho and soon they were issuing injunctions forcing PayPal to delay their IPO. As the company grew larger, incumbent banks forced PayPal to register in each state.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

When I looked at the diagram in that ski cabin I realized there was a fundamental question I couldn’t answer: if all startups follow that model, why is it that some companies are opening bottles of champagne at their IPO and others who almost followed the same rules are selling off their furniture? What was the difference here?

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Gust

JULY 18, 2012

This tension explains why shareholder advocacy groups, large investment funds, and (to a varying extent) the SEC put so much energy behind initiatives related to executive compensation , Board independence, shareholder proposals (the corporate equivalent of direct democracy — e.g., propositions on the ballot in California), and so forth.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 15, 2011

In addition, over 750 investors came in from all over including London, California, Boston, and DC to network and participate. The audience was awesome as well bringing together many rock stars of the past with those of the future. So why will this be different this time around: 1.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 15, 2011

In addition, over 750 investors came in from all over including London, California, Boston, and DC to network and participate. The audience was awesome as well bringing together many rock stars of the past with those of the future. So why will this be different this time around: 1.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2012

In 1998 when Larry Page’s and Sergey Brin’s Google offices were a Menlo Park, California garage, Bezos invested $250,000 of personal funds into the fledgling startup. At Google’s IPO that represented a stock share position worth over $280 million. When Google went public in 2004 that $250,000 investment translated into 3.3

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Steve Blank

JUNE 24, 2013

The banks lobbied regulators in Louisiana , New York , California, and Idaho and soon they were issuing injunctions forcing PayPal to delay their IPO. As the company grew larger, incumbent banks forced PayPal to register in each state.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Are they drawn to Texas or moving away from California? Texas exported more than California and New York combined in 2019. Only California and New York have a few more, and maybe not for long. Texas provides the red carpet for businesses to succeed while California puts up walls of red tape! What’s bringing them here?

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 15, 2015

For those in the bubble camp, Domo is “ Tech Unicorn ,” a recent start-up worth, either through a financing, an acquisition or IPO, more than $1 billion usually without any meaningful profits to speak of and thus instead valued via reasonings and justifications far outside of the pale of traditional finance and accounting.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

M&A, IPO? Product Development – How do you engineer it? Waterfall, Agile, Lean? Manufacturing – How do you build it? Seed and Follow-on Financing – How do your finance it? Liquidity – How? These are just my checklist list items for students, your list doesn’t have to look like this.)

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

Assuming no early liquidity (via an IPO or merger) for the company, more fund raising is required. In the dot-com bubble economy, the investors used an IPO at product launch to take the money and run, before there was a track record of success or failure.) Building the sales channel and supporting the marketing can burn a lot of cash.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 27, 2010

The backdrop again: In 1998 when Larry Page's and Sergey Brin's Google offices were a Menlo Park, California garage - Bezos invested $250,000 of personal funds into the fledgling search engine. At Google's IPO that represented a stock share position worth over $280 million! million shares of Google stock. Talk about leverage.

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Scalable Startup

JUNE 22, 2017

He has extensive experience in funding, mergers, acquisitions and IPOs. In 2011 Tom launched The Scalable Startup in Santa Monica, California to help tech startups launch and grow by providing mentoring, funding, community and strategy consulting. The same year Tom also started publishing the popular blog The Startup CEO.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

The backdrop again: In 1998 when Larry Page’s and Sergey Brin’s Google offices were a Menlo Park, California garage - Bezos invested $250,000 of personal funds into the fledgling search engine. At Google’s IPO that represented a stock share position worth over $280 million! million shares of Google stock. Talk about leverage.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 18, 2020

2- A business I built IPO’ed. A business that I built just IPO’ed (yesterday actually and I am still smiling). I started the company when I was 25 years old and had just moved from California to NYC. All in all, 2020 was a great year at Hill Law Firm. Thanks to Justin A. Hill, Hill Law Firm ! #2-

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

The Abundance of Late-Stage Capital Benefits All A lot has been said about the negatives of the late-stage capital that has entered the VC world but the reality is that it also is incredibly important at funding “the long game” and letting many of these companies remain independent and ultimately IPO. Entrada Ventures? —?that

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

— Sajan Pillai is the CEO and Managing Partner of Season Two Ventures, an early-stage venture fund based in Southern California. McLaren Technology Acquisition Corp, the SPAC focused on fintech recently closed a $ 201 million IPO at NASDAQ. Sajan was responsible for the company’s growth and acquisitions.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

It was still a year away from its IPO. But first some background.) Things Change In 1956 Hewlett Packard (HP) was a 17-year old company with $20 million in test equipment sales with 900 employees. Its latest product was an oscilloscope, the HP 150a.

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Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 10, 2010

Unfortunately, both moved off to California and are active investors and mentors for young start-ups out there. era who were very successful in their day - Open Market (IPO 1996, peak market capitalization of $2.5 Their founders -- Mitch Kapor and Mitch Kertzman, respectively -- are brilliant guys with an incredible amount to offer.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

John Greathouse has held a number of senior executive positions with successful startups during the past fifteen years, spearheading transactions, which generated more than $350 million of shareholder value, including an IPO and a multi-hundred-million-dollar acquisition. John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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Seeing Both Sides

MAY 26, 2009

  It is scary to reflect on how few of the 7,000 professionals active in the industry today were general partners before Netscape’s IPO in 1995. (3)   It is scary to reflect on how few of the 7,000 professionals active in the industry today were general partners before Netscape’s IPO in 1995. (3)

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Austin Startup

APRIL 26, 2020

In honor of Netflix’s big beat today in the very unfortunate age of COVID-19, I decided to revisit my four-part Bazaarblog series while I was CEO of Bazaarvoice (from our inception in 2005 to our IPO in 2012). Then in 1998 along came a tiny company in Los Gatos, California named Netflix. The name of the last part? It worked, big time.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

If you’re a visiting dignitary whose country has a Gross National Product equal to or greater than the State of California, your visit to Silicon Valley consists of a lunch/dinner with some combination of the founders of Google, Facebook, Apple and Twitter and several brand name venture capitalists. California Dreaming.

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