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How do you find a startup investor?

The Startup Magazine

A successful startup can yield a pot of gold if there’s an initial public offering. Getting to meet the founders and investing early is a lot more fun than trading stocks at an online brokerage. Some of them also offer guidance and mentoring. . Their funds are sometimes worth billions.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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Loading… New York. Find New $LINKTEXTFIND$ » smaller. Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. Mozilla Firefox. » More.

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

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. All of their founders and employees have done well.

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Blitzscaling: Silicon Valley’s Harmful Idea of Success

Austin Startup

Almost immediately, people started to dig what we were doing: Digital Trends named Localeur one of their favorite new apps of SXSW 2013 and other press followed. Second, I went on to raise roughly $5 million in angel investments from 100 individuals who did listen to, understand, and value my experience as a black founder and CEO.

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EyeBlaster’s Second Shot at IPO: Will it Work This Time?

VC Cafe

T aking a company through an initial public offering (IPO) is not an easy task. percent) and co-founder Osfer Zadikario (6.2 It requires months of preparation from management and a tiring roadshow process, in order to convince potential investors on the viability of the company and its plans for growth. percent). —

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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Loading… New York. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., And companies that didnt survive might have closed their doors for reasons other than failure, for example, getting acquired or the founders moving on to new projects. New Hampshire. New Jersey. New Mexico.

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IPO Task Force Leader: JOBS Act a Wake-up Call for Startups

ReadWriteStart

Their task was to draft a set of recommendations for how the nation's "IPO crisis," as some call it, could be resolved - a post-bubble lull in the number of startup companies in all sectors that proceed to the initial public offering stage and go public.

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