Gust

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

For instance, if your company is only a few weeks old and you have zero customers and your product offering is still in design, don’t expect someone to hand over $10 million to fund your efforts. If your startup is at the wrong stage for the investor you are approaching, fishing for money is a waste of time for both of you.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The reward for doing so was a liquidity event via an Initial Public Offering. Rather they understood that a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. They taught you about customers, markets and profits. Tools in the New Bubble.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 12, 2009

A C corp is also the easiest type of entity to take public in an initial public offering. LLCs operate more informally then C corps and are either managed directly by the owners or managed by one or more owners (or an outside party) designated to fulfill such responsibility.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2018

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. Bloomberg reports that forty-nine percent more companies went public in 2017 versus 2016. This approach, popularly known as “glocalization,” means you design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market you plan to attack.

Entrepreneur 166

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. According to a report just out, a record 156 operating companies went public in the U.S. This approach, popularly known as “glocalization,” means you design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market you plan to attack.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 20, 2012

Examples of firms that historically have been Bankable Advisors could include Goldman Sachs (initial public offerings), McKinsey (strategy consulting), and IBM (computing). This has been the downfall of some fashion designers — remember Pierre Cardin, who put his name on everything in sight? Bankable Advisors are scarce.

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Gust

DECEMBER 28, 2011

Design your milestones around the capital sources available. These changes suggest three messages for entrepreneurs: Don’t try to raise $3 million (in the gap between angels and VCs). There are simply very few investors doing gap funding. Raising venture capital may lead to a huge exit. But, it will take much longer than in the past.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. This approach, popularly known as “glocalization,” means you design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market you plan to attack. Two of these, Uber and Xiaomi, are already above $40 billion.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2014

Marketing itself as ‘the world’s largest online graphic design marketplace’, Melbourne-based 99designs tops the list as most talked about when I asked who to watch. A kind of “Prezi for Design,” collaborative Web tool Canva has been generating a lot of buzz since its launch for bringing great design to the masses.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 31, 2016

Oliver, author of “ Mantra Design ” and “ Mantra Leadership “ Successful businesses are not a result of chance, but are the by-product of an effective and evolving strategic plan, complimented by an equally effective operating infrastructure, and supported by exceptional human talent.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

One of its champions includes Jason Goldberg, the co-founder and CEO of online design retailer Fab.com Inc., About 14% of the technology firms that have held initial public offerings between January 2011 and the end of June 2012 went public with at least two share classes—more than twice the 6.4% POST A JOB.

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Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

based companies initially funded by venture capital between 2006 and 2011, 84% now are closely held and operating independently, 11% were acquired or made initial public offerings of stock and 4% went out of business, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. Web Design/Tech Services. Of the 6,613 U.S.-based

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