YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

According to Adena Friedman, CEO at Nasdaq, “through this effective integration of blockchain technology and global financial systems, we can realize greater operational transparency and ease of reconciliation, which can have profound implications for outdated administrative functions in the capital markets.” Underwriting. And they’re trying!

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.” Kauffman Fellows Report (2020): “Diverse Founding Teams generate higher median realized multiples (RMs) on Acquisitions and IPOs]. What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 31, 2020

Every expert agrees that VC investing faced a huge setback last year with the IPO flops of major companies such as WeWork, Uber, Slack, and Lyft as the facts show. The focus of the world is now being directed at critical issues such as global warming, climate change, education, poverty, gender activism — and of course, COVID-19.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

For startups and entrepreneurs, awareness of the stock exchanges will help prepare you for a potential public financing of your company through an initial public offering, known as an IPO. It is first on the global list of the largest stock exchanges for a reason. It is now being regarded as a highly regarded US stock exchange.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

And this is happening in mezzanine (pre-IPO) deals as well. And post IPO deals, although these tend to correct more quickly. If everybody is over-paying for early-to-mid stage deals you’d imagine that these all need to feed into a frenzied M&A and IPO market that will garner big returns for these risks investors are taking.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

It’s meant to support and grow a business until an “exit” in the form of an IPO, a merger or acquisition, or in less than ideal scenarios, a company shutdown. but globally. Learning everything you can about VC first is important for that reason, but also to ensure it’s the right form of financing for your business.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Yes, it’s true that FOMO (fear of missing out) is driving some irrational behavior and valuations amongst uber competitive deals and well-financed VCs. Try charging customers for your product when you have 12 competitors giving the product away free finances by $20 million of VC. The Exit Problem. There are 20x more consumers online.

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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.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

IPO market. There are a number of trends concerning IPOs and capital formation to note: First, the raw number of IPOs has declined significantly: From 1980-2000, the US averaged roughly 300 IPOs per year; from 2001-2016, the average fell to 108 per year. In the first quarter of 2021 alone, SPACs raised $87.9

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

billion 2013 figure) have been massive financings at Honest Company ($70mm), JustFab ($85mm), ZipRecruiter ($63mm) and lord only knows how much SnapChat has actually accumulated. But many people forget that we have 2 relatively recent IPOs that are substantive companies: TrueCar (Upfront backed) & Cornerstone OnDemand.

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thebarefootvc

JANUARY 27, 2014

Last week, a chart in the Wall Street Journal listed private companies globally that have raised capital at $1 billion-plus valuations from venture capital firms. Globalization and resulting economic prosperity has created more wealth around the world. Suddenly, everyone’s worth a billion dollars. Or so it seems. Which leads to….

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

And the loosening of federal monetary policies, particularly in the US, has pushed more dollars into the venture ecosystems at every stage of financing. We have global opportunities from these trends but of course also big challenges. What Has Changed in Financing? even before the pandemic itself has been fully tamed.

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View from Seed

MAY 3, 2022

The first is environmental – the fashion industry alone contributes to more than 10% of global carbon emissions, so being able to save millions of items from ending up in landfills and recirculating them is fundamental. Beyond that, however, are economic and even social causes.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 2, 2023

That’s of course part of a global trend. On a global level, venture financing of private companies dropped 33% year over year, from a record $733B in 2021 to $490B in 2022. The ten biggest exits of the year included a mix of IPOs and acquisitions. 2022 is behind us now and the end of year reports are trickling in.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 30, 2017

Some companies choose an IPO path, acquisition offers or a “recap” to bring in new investors to buy out earlier investors. Since 2012, the company has received the highest possible score on the Global Impact Investment Rating System assessment of social and environmental impact. What is your plan for capital and growth?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

On July 27th, 2001 Accenture IPO’s and many of the partners grew fabulously wealthy. Investment in training, adherence to process, global knowledge sharing systems, quality control / partner reviews and campus recruitment programs that attracted the right talent. The things that always differentiated Accenture?

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

As the parlance goes, it’s the quiet ones you need to watch; Supply@ME Capital PLC (LSE: SYME) has done the unthinkable and produced a blockchain-powered offering that could truly upend capital financing. There is little to suggest we won’t see a repeat in 2021. Oil and Gas.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 3, 2014

In advance of the IPO I reconnected with their SVP Product & User Experience Alex Kinnier, whom I know from our days together at Google. I couldn’t ask Alex specifically about the IPO or future plans but wanted to get some more info on a company that gets less press than your typical social app but is poised for an amazing run.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

The past year saw startups on the rise, an increase in venture capital funding (both in real dollars and numbers of companies funded), a resurgence of IPOs, and the rise of David against Goliath, as best represented by Groupon’s spurning of a $6 billion offer from Google.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Unlike traditional initial public offerings (IPOs) that could take years to unfold, you may only have a couple of months before you’re public. According to global research and advisory firm Gartner, the average cost of downtime is $5,600 per minute or $336,000 every hour. Out of 111 IPOs listed in 2020, 88 of them were SPACs.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

The value ascribed by subsequent investors (in a secondary); buyers (acquisition); or the public markets (IPO). Part of the magic of revenue-based financing is how historical performance and strong, achievable financial projections are ultimately the backbone of how RBI/RBF investment decisions are made.” Volatile, uncapped.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

For life sciences it was the Genentech IPO in 1980 that proved to investors that life science startups could make them a ton of money. A 20 th century VC was likely to have an MBA or finance background. The second thing that’s changed is that we’re now Compressing the Product Development Cycle. (And

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Michael was the lead research analyst for the IPOs of Internet companies like UUNET, Yahoo!, Previously, he was Vice President of Global Business Development for Massive, Inc., He holds a Master of Science in Finance from the London Business School and a Bachelor of Arts from Tulane University.

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Cracking the Code

MAY 25, 2010

One of his secret: "Incentivize your marketing team on sales not leads" Jeff Jordan, CEO of OpenTable speaking about his IPO process: " Build relationships with key public investors 2-3 years before going public (Morgan Stanley, Fidelity and T. ipo process. Global warming: a plague for humanity? Global Warning!

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VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

“Because COVID is shaking our habits and beliefs it opens the door to discussion to whether we should change our whole system,” says veteran investor Sir Ronald Cohen, chairman of the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment and the man known as “the father of British venture capital” .

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Entrepreneur Homepage Startups Starting a Business Home How-To Guides Startup Basics Business Ideas Business Planning Startup Financing Success Stories Home-Based Business Starting a Business Play Video How to Take a New Product from Just an Idea to a Business (Video). Financing Some Jobs Act Proposals Make Headway. More in Financing.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 29, 2021

We decided to set up a joint venture to go after the global “Audio for Business” market, and Soundtrack was born. But the biggest opportunity presented is that the global music market has grown into a bigger market than ever before currently at $77 billion and that is expected to grow further to $142 billion before 2030.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2013

Startups are hungry for credit, but banks and other financial institutions have never been stricter with their financing parameters. They’re using metrics that are often unworkable in the current business environment, causing growing businesses to look elsewhere for capital and increasingly towards alternative forms of financing.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Yet as we enter February 2017 the VC funding markets are booming, Snap, Inc has filed for its IPO, AppDynamics was just purchased for $3.7 But the reality is that “global warming” massively blunted the effects of winter and my prognosis for VC fundings of entrepreneurs in 2017–2018 is now very sunny indeed. Ok, Suster. So WTF happened?

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

While poised with a limited number of transactions this year, the world of public Cloud Computing and SaaS companies has been marked by two events in the past few months: the acquisition of Omniture by Adobe and the high profile IPO of LogMeIn, a leading provider of PC remote access and support with a very interesting freemium model.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

As I pointed out in this post about the changing structure of the VC industry , private tech companies are delaying IPOs and thus privately held tech investors are reaping more of the value prior to an eventual IPO so public investors must have felt compelled to respond. The response? So eventually rationality has to occur.

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The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 6, 2013

The next observation is that the generally improving economy and strong exit environment (60 venture backed IPOs so far this year) are justifications for some level of increase. I guess the first thing to observe is that when anything hits a ten year high there is a reasonable chance that the next movement is down.

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Seeing Both Sides

JUNE 1, 2012

The simple notion is that the confluence of broadband, mobile and globalization in combination with Moore's Law have allowed the technology industry to innovate almost everything in existence. Facebook's IPO brought their "hack" culture to the forefront of the world's conscience. That's an exciting prospect.

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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). We became a global company and it was truly an entrepreneurial dream come true for Brant, our team, and me. published on Mar.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

On June 18, Aswath Damodaran , a finance professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business, published an article on FiveThirtyEight titled “ Uber Isn’t Worth $17 Billion. For the market size, he states, “For my base case valuation, I’m going to assume that the primary market Uber is targeting is the global taxi and car-service market.”

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

I hope that you can join us Monday night, April 4, midtown NYC, at a panel on “Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO” The program is sponsored by the HBS Club of New York and the HBS Angels of NY.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 7, 2019

The global financial crisis served as a wake-up call to investors: few investments are immune to panicked selling activity. We’ve seen significantly fewer IPOs pre-and post the financial crisis ( 213 in 2007, 31 in 2008, and 222 in 2013). Of course, they can fall too as was the case during in global financial crisis.

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