The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Companies like Warehouse Now have developed digital platforms leveraging AI to help warehousing and supply chain businesses streamline their capital-expenditure (capex) intensive, highly underutilized real estate warehouse assets to operational expenditure (opex) based, just-in-time, highly efficient supply chain management assets.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Global Technology 167

Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 18, 2020

[I originally published this on Medium pre-IPO, so the tense is outdated, but I think the framework holds]. Every big tech IPO results in predictable Twitter chatter. And while yes, managing the ‘pop,’ is part of this, it’s an overly narrow view. 5% Did the Company Take Advantage of the IPO as a Marketing Event.

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IPO Stock Retention Valuation 90

YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2018

by Rebecca Stidham, Senior Manager – Tax Services at OUM & Co. We only have work-from-home employees outside of our home state; we aren’t subject to tax in other states.”. Rebecca Stidham is Senior Manager – Tax Services at OUM & Co. The sale of software isn’t subject to sales tax.”. more than two days).

South Dakota 160

South Dakota North Dakota Wyoming United States 160

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Morgan Stanley predicts that Robo Advisors will manage $6.5 IPO market is broken”, positioning their offering as an alternative to capitalize on the dwindling supply of smaller IPOs, pointing out that only 18 companies completed IPOs that raised less than $50M last year, versus 557 in 1996. Transaction Processing.

Technical Review 154

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Software Review IPO 154

View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

He has over 10 years experience in growth and product management and has built data-driven product teams from the ground up at multiple successful startups. He was previously VP Product at Runkeeper (sold to Asics), a General Manager and Director of Product at Zynga (IPO), and Director of Product at Conduit Labs (sold to Zynga).

Operations 176

Operations Cofounder Technical Review Angel Investor 176

Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In addition, there are the managing directors as executive bodies. In the VC sector, it is common to introduce a third body in addition to the shareholders’ meeting and the management. IPO issues: Possibly the biggest problem for German venture-backed companies is the very low number of IPOs in Germany.

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Germany Liquidation Preference Option Pool Advisory Board 165

Up and Running

DECEMBER 1, 2015

If you’re thinking about extending equity to an employee or a vendor (as in the example above), you should know that the topic is multi-faceted. If however you are giving a “normal employee” an incentive stock option plan (more on that later), that’s entirely different. Finding great employees first. What is equity compensation?

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Equity Employee Stock Options Vesting 60

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. Last year was the most active year for IPOs in the United States since 2000. 275 IPOs were completed in 2014, topping the 2013 total of 222 by more than 23%. million businesses in 2014.

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IPO Angel Investor Startup Incubator 120

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Common exit strategies include being acquired by another company, the sale of equity, or a management or employee buyout. Initial Public Offering (IPO). Management buyout. Having management or employees buy your business is a good idea if legacy matters most to you. Who needs an exit strategy? Liquidation.

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Exit Strategy Lock-up Period Merger IPO 117

VC Cafe

JANUARY 15, 2024

With the IPO window closed, growth funding severely dwindled and multiples down as a result of the public market, unicorns face tough choices in 2024. With limited options for liquidity (M&A or IPO) and significantly less growth capital, unicorns face an uncertain future. trillion, according to CB Insights.

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IPO Valuation Private Equity 89

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

It was one of the year's most successful IPOs so far, and has been heralded as a "landmark moment" for cryptocurrency's entrance into mainstream investing. Just before the IPO, I had a far-reaching conversation with co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong as he approached this major milestone for the company he co-founded back in 2012.

IPO 113

IPO Cofounder Technical Review Government 113

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2021

Many entrepreneurs never get past their first-stage focus on their innovative product, to scaling the business globally, organizing a structure to handle thousands of employees, and concentrating their focus “on the business” rather than working “in the business.” Switch your focus from product development to sales.

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Merger Due Diligence SEC IPO 379

Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2014

Most large companies manage three types of innovation: process innovation (making existing products incrementally better), continuous innovation (building on the strength of the company’s current business model but creating new elements) and disruptive innovation (creating products or services that did not exist before.).

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Acquisition Intellectual Property Silicon Valley Startup 333

The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2014

The story struck me as significant for three reasons – firstly, because Freelancer founder Matt Barrie had been very public leading up to the IPO about wanting to list in Australia over both London and NASDAQ. Finally, that this was not the first highly successful tech IPO in Australia in 2013 with OzForex raising AUD $439.4

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Australia San Francisco IPO Cofounder 146

Berkonomics

AUGUST 27, 2020

Well-maintained deal rooms enhance a company’s image with a buyer, quicken the pace of the deal, help maintain secrecy from employees while due diligence is in process, and lower the stress levels of all parties during the process. When to start a data room? The payoff. The post What’s a “data room” and how do you use it?

Software Review 62

Software Review Due Diligence Intellectual Property IPO 62

Hunter Walker

JUNE 25, 2021

Why Ken Norton’s Dual Product Management Career Path Can Also Encourage Innovation At Scale. Ken’s argument is that most tech companies treat product management careers in a very different way than they do engineering and design. And oh my does this concept speak to my own experiences as a BigCo product lead.

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Management Product Vesting IPO 98

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 3, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, March 3, 2009 Employees should be masters of their own time Every startup should have a culture of learning. The rule is simple: every employee is 100% responsible for how they spend their time. When I was a manager, I was once leading a cycle post-mortem. I asked why.

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Employee San Francisco Lean Software Review 146

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. This engineering manager is a smart guy, and very experienced.

Software Review 164

Software Review Engineer Management Technical Review 164

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 11, 2009 The cardinal sin of community management Once you have a product launched, you will the face the joys – and the despair – of a community that grows up around it. Nothing worked, until we finally had one of our community managers start talking to real customers on the phone.

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Community Management Lean Software Review 158

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 21, 2016

This way, employees, partners, and board members will all be on the same level with the understanding that information security plays a major role in the success of a company. When are we looking for funding, investors, or going IPO? Bring awareness to employees with social engineering, training, and positive reinforcement tactics.

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Security Intellectual Property CTO Hire Offshore 100

NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

So managing risk in a startup is less about compliance, it’s more about being as brave and ambitious as you can without breaking things. This may mean straddling the line between governance and management when necessary. Generating liquidity usually entails either selling the venture or an IPO. And they need to do this at pace.

Technical Review 88

Technical Review Software Review New Zealand Due Diligence 88

YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2019

by Arsalan Sajid, startup community manager at Cloudways. By offering the advantages of your company, you will be able to find some great employees. You might have to hire more team members because your initial team will be struggling to manage all those customers. There is a complete process to go for an IPO.

Startup 113

Startup Technical Cofounder Merger Early Stage 113

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2022

The right motivated employees dilemma. Later you need specialists and managers. If you take investor money, expect a push for hockey-stick growth and a liquidity event, like going public (IPO) or sale (M&A), to get the payback. Bootstrap if you can, otherwise climb the pyramid of family, friends, angels, and VCs.

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Founder Hockey Stick Cofounder Liquidity Event 325

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

In theory when you went public, everyone’s shares were now tradable on the stock exchange, but usually the underwriters required a six month “lockup” when company insiders (employees and investors) couldn’t sell. The IPO Bubble – August 1995 – March 2000 In August 1995 Netscape went public, and the world of start ups turned upside down.

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Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 230

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

Of course your friend’s company raised $50 million and offers it’s employees free kombucha and desk massages. And even this can’t stop their employees from fleeing after two years of vesting to move on to the next hot startup. For investors life is no different. You don’t need to be hot.

Software Review 150

Software Review Turkey Portfolio Syndicate 150

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 18, 2020

We were not forced to lay anyone off and actually added employees during the pandemic. 2- A business I built IPO’ed. A business that I built just IPO’ed (yesterday actually and I am still smiling). We managed to launch our WhitePaper, which was a research paper on blockchain technology we spent two years working on.

Connecticut 147

Connecticut Entrepreneur Technical Review Florida 147

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Another challenge with keeping this list current is that many of the Israeli unicorns ‘graduate’ by getting acquired or going public via SPACs or traditional IPOs. For example, in the case of Ironsource alone, Israeli newspaper Calcalist estimated that over 230 employees made over $1 million.

Lock-up Period 218

Lock-up Period Merger IPO 218

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

Scott Kupor is the managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he’s responsible for all operational aspects of running the firm. He's been with the firm since its inception in 2009 and has overseen its rapid growth, from three employees to 150+ and from $300 million in assets under management to more than $10 billion.

Lean 108

Lean Venture Capital Conversion IPO 108

Steve Blank

MARCH 16, 2016

This happens when you either sell your company ( M&A ) or go public (an IPO.) As the company goes from searching for a business model to growth , only then will they bring in a new “professional” management team to scale the company (along with a business development executive to search for an acquirer) or prepare for an IPO.

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Liquidity Event Founder Liquidation Preference Venture Capital 120

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 19, 2020

He also has strongly held ideas about structuring a company to institutionalize these intentions to make sure the next leader, future employees, and the next board will be true to that philosophy. Then the rolling waves of crisis management as the new reality hit every sector of Airbnb’s business. This is when it matters most.

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Management Cofounder China IPO 122

Berkonomics

JANUARY 12, 2023

Management undertakes a simple exercise of calculating the increased profitability of shutting down all R&D, sales and subordinate operations, and universally notes with shock the high net profit that results – from shutting down all operations except customer service to recurring customers (as in software support operations.).

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Revenue Cloud IPO .Net 118

Berkonomics

MAY 31, 2018

It is tough to lose your best employees wanting to advance their careers. And, as in today’s story, sometimes it can mean the beginning of an amazing journey leading to a story for the ages… We’d all like to retain our best managers and employees forever or at least for as long as possible. Good to hear from you.

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Employee Private Equity Seattle IPO 90

Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 10, 2020

With Airbnb’s IPO, I thought the time was right to take a look back at the past decade (Greylock led Airbnb’s Series A in November 2010) and reflect on what I learned from the journey. Even though the company had been on track for an IPO, it retrenched and laid off 25% of the team. HOW GREYLOCK INVESTED IN AIRBNB.

Hosting 69

Hosting Hockey Stick IPO Silicon Valley 69

Hearpreneur

JUNE 5, 2022

He firmly believed that a leader should set an example and strive to motivate and inspire the employees. More recently, I’ve had quite a bit of admiration for management theorist Simon Sinek. Who knew it was his first step toward building an empire that holds the record for the largest IPO. 2- Simon Sinek. 11- Jessica Alba.

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Romania United Kingdom Entrepreneur United States 131

David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

Managers of VC funds typically want to grow their business aggressively, just like the founders we back. This is a model used in at least one case by China’s third-largest private equity firm, China Science & Merchants Investment Management Group ($12 billion+ AUM), which funded in 2015 CSC Upshot, a $400m seed fund through AngelList.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Cofounder 60

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

When he did manage to start his own business, it was short-lived and failed. Failing at that business, terminating my employees, and shutting the doors was the most challenging thing I had done. I admire Howard Schultz for using his thinking skills in taking over a company name where he previously worked as an employee.

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Entrepreneur Bankruptcy Southern California South Africa 100

Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Since then, the debate over IPOs has continued, with a particular focus on allegedly underpriced offerings that jump shortly after opening — the dreaded “pop.” ” As some criticism has it, this supposedly deprives companies of millions of dollars that should have been theirs if not for underpricing the IPO.

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IPO Securities and Exchange Commission Demand SEC 36