Gust

DECEMBER 28, 2011

If the company was successful, this quickly led to an IPO – a very happy ending for the entrepreneur, the angels, and the venture capitalists. The two major differences in the exit environment in the past decade are (1) the disappearance of the IPO market and (2) the rapidly increasing size of the average VC fund.

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Up and Running

JUNE 16, 2014

This is where the ‘exit strategy’ comes in. An exit strategy is not your plan for when the business fails, but rather, your strategy for returning money to investors. This may include planning for an IPO, a strategic acquisition or for management buyout. Investigate your investor’s portfolio.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2012

Solution product & technology. Describe your technology patents and “secret sauce”. Exit strategy. What is the planned exit strategy (IPO, merger, sale, including likely candidates)? What is the timeframe for the exit? Fuzzy terms like “not user-oriented” or “too expensive” are not helpful.

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Elevator Pitch Exit Strategy Burn Rate Merger 247

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2018

As a technology buff, I’m all too sensitive to the common investor complaint that technical people often end up selling yet another “solution looking for a problem,” because they are so impressed with their technology. Your solution may include leading technology, but if available to competitors, the lead won’t last.

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BeyondVC

JULY 31, 2008

As an aside, I worked with JEGI two years ago and they did a fantastic job helping us sell Moreover Technologies to Verisign. How is the environment changing for deal exits (e.g., IPO vs. M&A)? (My Exit Strategy. Unfortunately, the market for IPOs is currently “dead”, but it may reopen in 2009.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2011

Solution product & technology. Describe your technology patents and “secret sauce”. Exit strategy. What is the planned exit strategy (IPO, merger, sale, including likely candidates)? What is the timeframe for the exit? Fuzzy terms like “not user-oriented” or “too expensive” are not helpful.

Elevator Pitch 234

Elevator Pitch Exit Strategy Burn Rate Merger 234

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

Many entrepreneurs scare away potential investors by claiming that their technology represents “truly disruptive technology.” Exit strategy. For a family business, don’t project an exit. Otherwise, identify your preferred exit strategy, including specific candidates for merger or sale, and timeframe.

Business Plan 283

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 283

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2010

Solution product & technology. Describe your technology patents and “secret sauce”. Exit strategy. What is the planned exit strategy (IPO, merger, sale, including likely candidates)? What is the timeframe for the exit? Fuzzy terms like “not user-oriented” or “too expensive” are not helpful.

Exit Strategy 235

Exit Strategy Elevator Pitch Burn Rate Merger 235

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

Many entrepreneurs scare away potential investors by claiming that their technology represents “truly disruptive technology.” Exit strategy. For a family business, don’t project an exit. Otherwise, identify your preferred exit strategy, including specific candidates for merger or sale, and timeframe.

Business Plan 290

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 290

Gust

AUGUST 19, 2012

Solution product & technology. Describe your technology patents and “secret sauce”. Exit strategy. What is the planned exit strategy (IPO, merger, sale, including likely candidates)? What is the timeframe for the exit? Fuzzy terms like “not user-oriented” or “too expensive” are not helpful.

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Exit Strategy Elevator Pitch Burn Rate Merger 146

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

For example, “We just patented a new battery technology that will cut your smartphone charge time and cost in half.” Be sure to include this in your “elevator pitch,” which you must always deliver as a prelude to your technology features. Outline a viable exit strategy for you and investors.

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Business Plan Product Intellectual Property Elevator Pitch 423

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

Just because your technology is exciting and potentially disruptive doesn’t mean you are ready to build a business. Technically, this is your exit strategy, usually a merger and acquisition (M&A) or initial public stock offering (IPO). What is the business problem you are solving?

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Sweat Equity Advisory Board Liquidity Event Startup 120

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. Most now routinely buy startups for new technology and new products. Three of these, JUUL Labs, Didi Chuxing, and Toutiao have already passed $50 billion. Thus a record number of entrepreneurs (and team members) are getting rich.

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North America Incubator Initial Public Offering Exit Strategy 320

Gust

AUGUST 5, 2012

Many entrepreneurs scare away potential investors by claiming that their technology represents “truly disruptive technology.” Exit strategy. For a family business, don’t project an exit. Otherwise, identify your preferred exit strategy, including specific candidates for merger or sale, and timeframe.

Business Plan 182

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 182

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

Many entrepreneurs scare away potential investors by claiming that their technology represents “truly disruptive technology.” Exit strategy. For a family business, don’t project an exit. Otherwise, identify your preferred exit strategy, including specific candidates for merger or sale, and timeframe.

Business Plan 186

Business Plan Exit Strategy Sweat Equity Intellectual Property 186

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. That is a 65% increase in the number of IPOs over 2012, and the highest proceeds raised since the year 2000. Most now routinely buy startups for new technology and new products. business entrepreneur investment IPO social media startup'

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IPO Entrepreneur Social Media Startup 273

Pascal's View

AUGUST 22, 2009

On Monday, August 10, Barron’s ran a story “Does the IPO Market Shun Smaller Companies?”, This practice has created “ a near oligopolistic hold on tech IPOs ” by these large investment banks. The IPO chasm that exists today is the result of the death of the sub $50 million IPO. jobs today.

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 14, 2010

The next big technology investment idea is the “Early Exit.” The best articulation of it comes from Basil Peters, a serial technology entrepreneur, co-Founder of Nexus Engineering, former Canada Entrepreneur of the Year, and Managing Partner at 3 venture capital funds – Fundamental Technologies I and II and the BC Advantage Funds.

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Private Equity Intellectual Property IPO Venture Capital 67

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2013

Within the venture community, the first rule to remember is that opportunities abound these days, due to the increasing pace of technology evolution, and the scope and creativity of the global community. Exit strategy. That means merger and acquisition (M&A), not initial public offering (IPO).

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Cram Down Angel Investor Intellectual Property Venture Capital 269

Gust

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Talented entrepreneurs are nothing if not resilient in the face of change: Market forces, competitive threats, technological shifts, you name it. In recent years, government regulation has emerged as another such force to be reckoned with in the technology industry.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

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%. Most now routinely buy startups for new technology and new products.

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IPO Angel Investor Startup Incubator 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2018

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 Didi Chuxing, have already passed $50 billion. Thus a record number of entrepreneurs (and team members) are getting rich. Women are a growing force as entrepreneurs.

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Entrepreneur Valuation Incubator Initial Public Offering 166

Gust

OCTOBER 31, 2011

And by “overall”, I mean “overall”: the rate of change for economic, geopolitical, technology, regulatory, and market conditions makes predictions radically more difficult than every. This point of view gains importance as overall uncertainty continues to increase, as it will.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2020

For example, every investor I know can tell you about meeting a passionate entrepreneur who is pitching a great technology innovation, but has not done the financial homework on making it a good business. Define an exit strategy for investors to liquidate their share.

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Liquidity Event Forecast Exit Strategy IPO 308

Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Technology : If you are a technology company, it’s critical for your business plan to describe your technology and what your “secret sauce” is. You don’t have to give away trade secrets in your business plan, but you do need to describe how your technology is different and better than other solutions out there.

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Up and Running

APRIL 28, 2015

Exit strategy. You do this in the form of an “exit strategy” slide that outlines who your potential acquirers might be if you manage to grow your company and be successful. Here are a few slides that are often found in investor pitch decks.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

In an IPO, it might not merely addexpense, but change the outcome. Those remedial actions can delay, stall or even kill the IPO. Of course the odds of any given startup doing an IPO are small.But not as small as they might seem. Once you take money from the generalpublic youre more restricted in what you can do. [ Whendel.icio.us

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discuss.joelonsoftware.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Im confident that this business will be able to compensate these two additional principles along the way, after initial risk of investing their time, and will later reward their vesting with an exit strategy. They might be experienced people who want to work on a new technology but hate interviewing.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 2, 2021

Investors and entrepreneurs are very excited about the special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) model as an exit strategy for private companies. Arguably, the growth of SPACs will spur technological development. With easier access to funding, tech innovators are better able to design life-changing technologies.

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AJAX Early Stage Acquisition Merger 90