Pascal's View

AUGUST 12, 2009

economy: “… Sarbanes-Oxley compliance costs, Eliot-Spitzer’s stock analyst settlement and the economic downturn have created an historic drought in venture-backed companies going public. . It boggles the mind that Washington would enact new policies sure to prolong this (IPO) drought and strike at the heart of American innovation.”

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

A version of this article is in the Harvard Business Review. — Unremarked and unheralded, the balance of power between startup CEOs and their investors has radically changed: IPOs/M&A without a profit (or at times revenue) have become the norm. A pre-IPO board usually had two founders, two VCs and one “independent” member.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 1, 2004

I was with a banker today talking about the influx of new IPO filings and the end result of our discussion was the following: 1. The stock now trades at $8.34. In this quarter, we failed to close several transactions due to customers’ merger and acquisition activities. We are disappointed with these results.

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Board Effect

JULY 22, 2021

Private company stock. Publicly traded stock. Pre-IPO shares. Donor-advised funds can be given to most tax-exempt public charities that meet the definition of the IRS as a 501(c)(3) organization (and classified as public charities under IRS code 509), including international charities. Securities. Cryptocurrency.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

T aking a company through an initial public offering (IPO) is not an easy task. It’s also an uncertain exit for the entrepreneurs, as they are typically restricted to sell any of their stock in the first 180 days following the IPO, and even then they can sell no more than 1% of stock a month. The company has $15.4

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Virtual Stock Exchange. This service is temporary unavailable due to system maintenance. MarketWatch. SmartMoney. SmartMoney. AllThingsDigital. AllThingsDigital. Financial News. WSJ Classifieds. WSJ Classroom. Ran gold Resources Ltd. View All Search Results » |. Please register to gain free access to WSJ tools. another account.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Virtual Stock Exchange. Computer Software. AllThingsDigital. AllThingsDigital. Financial News. Professor Journal. SmartMoney. Student Journal. WSJ Classifieds. WSJ Classroom. Ran gold Resources Ltd. View All Search Results » Subscribe. Media & Marketing. Small Business. More Industries. Accounting. Advertising. Computer Hardware.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. So where does Salesforces profitability stands today compared to the most successful on premise public software companies? traditional software is like cocaine--youre hooked.

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philipsmith.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Compensation-wise the biggest challenge is insuring people are respectful of my time and skills (when they don't write real checks for hourly or project work they don't tend to be quite as diligent on this as one would like!). Don't be paying yourself or others a decent salary and then expect someone else just to work for stock.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Marc Andreessen: So the computer industry started in 1950 and basically ran for 50 years with the same model, which was a model where all of the new computers, all the new technology, all the new software started out being sold for the highest prices to the biggest organizations. So originally the customer was the Department of Defense.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 31, 2020

IN THIS EDITION Fintech products ease more Americans into the stock market In defense of the IPO, and how to improve it What’s inside your (mobile) bank? Among the most interesting is Stash’s “stock back” program, which is essentially an alternative form of rewards. Thanks for signing up. in addition to home ownership.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

IPO market. Prior to joining Andreessen Horowitz, I held several executive positions in a publicly-traded software company and was previous to that an investment banker. With the benefit of increasing IPOs in the last few years, we are starting to see better growth: In 2020, there were close to 500 IPOs in the U.S.,

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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. Brian is the CEO of Coinbase, a successful tech company, and one of 2021's most successful IPOs. This is Out Of the Crisis. What are institutions for?

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Up and Running

JUNE 13, 2015

What Daniel Coyle, the author of, The Talent Code, calls a “Deep practice,” I think of it as painful practice because it’s a little bit uncomfortable. At the time of their IPO, Groupon was valued at $13 billion. They’re out of work and Michael was kind enough to give the review and a recommendation for that book.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. s the new way to code, and quite easy to learn. You can write back end code in javascript, one language conquers all! Code Igniter. Code Hosting and Version Control. code spaces (svn). WorkingPoint.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Meanwhile, the rash of early liquidity and recent IPOs — unsatisfying as they were — gave liquidity to thousands of employees at large companies, and a subset of those made very real money. This time around, there has been an explosion at the early stages, and the very late pre-IPO growth stages. Open Sesame! (A

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