Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 26, 2020
Despite the fact that the number of IPOs (Initial Public Offerings) for startups have continued to stay low, I still hear it touted often as the preferred exit strategy. According to TheStreet , US IPO market results in Q2 2020 posted a strong bounce-back from Q1 with 58 IPOs, after a slow start due to the Covid19 pandemic.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 24, 2017
A version of this article is in the Harvard Business Review. Technology cycles have become a treadmill, and for startups to survive they need to be on a continuous innovation cycle. 20th Century Tech Liquidity = Initial Public Offering. Technology Cycles Measured in Years.
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Steve Blank
APRIL 10, 2019
A version of this article first appeared in the Harvard Business Review. VC’s have just changed the ~50-year old social contract with startup employees. For most startup employee’s startup stock options are now a bad deal. Why Startups Offer Stock Options. Here’s why. On its surface this was a pretty radical idea.
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 26, 2013
Thus a record number of entrepreneurs (and employees) are getting rich. 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. Most now routinely buy startups for new technology and new products.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 19, 2015
Thus a record number of entrepreneurs (and employees) are getting rich. Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. Most now routinely buy startups for new technology and new products. Two of these, Uber and Xiaomi, are already above $40 billion. Women are a growing force as entrepreneurs.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 31, 2016
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The Next Web
JANUARY 16, 2014
Secondly, because he had single-handedly managed to achieve something that my adopted startup hometown of London (despite a fair amount of wailing and hand-wringing) has not yet achieved; namely, an incredibly successful public flotation of a homegrown tech company listing on the local market.
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