Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

According to more recent statistics , fewer than a quarter of all crowdfunding operations end up being successful, and the rest have to return anything they do collect. Investors cannot verify accountability or governance. Board seats can’t be negotiated, and even informal mentoring in decision and governance processes is unlikely.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2023

So unless your business is well established, and ready to sell or go public (Initial Public Offering - IPO), you should steer clear of investment banks. Yet every business needs to have a good relationship with a bank, for day to day operations. I guess it’s no wonder that banks are struggling these days with their public image.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2020

So unless your business is well established, and ready to sell or go public (Initial Public Offering - IPO), you should steer clear of investment banks. Yet every business needs to have a good relationship with a bank, for day to day operations. I guess it’s no wonder that banks are struggling these days with their public image.

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Start Up Blog

MAY 13, 2019

Last Friday night, I did a TV interview on ABC regarding Uber’s long awaited IPO. An IPO is when a company first becomes a publicly traded stock that anyone can buy and hold. Amazon IPO 1997 – 2 years after it was founded. Google IPO 2004 – 5 years after it was founded.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 18, 2014

Apart from having different ways of thinking about ‘growth’, startups seek financial investment differently than most small business operations. Startups tend to rely on capital that comes via angel investors or venture capital firms while small business operations may rely on loans and grants.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2015

If you grew up inside of Facebook through its rise, its IPO and it becoming an 800-pound gorilla you will see the world through that lens precisely because you are so powerful that you’re used to getting your way because you’re, well, Facebook. And it will make you a significantly better negotiator and operator.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

We operate at scale and speed unprecedented in human history.” * I first wrote about the changes to the Venture Capital ecosystem 10 years ago and this still serves as a good primer of how we arrived at 2011, a decade on from the Web 1.0 dot-com bonanza. How little we all knew how ironic that term would become but has nonetheless endured.

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Gust

JANUARY 31, 2013

Modern theories of economics and finance teach us that in a world of perfect information, the market will decide what a fair price is for any company’s stock at any point in time based on its current financial condition, results of past operations, analysts’ forecasts of future performance, industry conditions and so on.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2011

Even though the Initial Public Offering (IPO) alternative for a successful startup seems to be coming back into vogue, it is still extremely rare. companies made the IPO transition in 2009, out of thousands of startups. Increasing government regulations. Only about a dozen U.S. Pressures to maintain growth pattern.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

So unless your business is well established, and ready to sell or go public (Initial Public Offering - IPO), you should steer clear of investment banks. Yet every business needs to have a good relationship with a bank, for day to day operations. investment bank entrepreneur startup funding IPO' Marty Zwilling.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 24, 2013

Smart startups prepare to face off against rent seekers and map out creative strategies for doing so… First, however, they need to understand what a rent seeker is and how they operate… ———-. They use government regulation and lawsuits to keep out new entrants with more innovative business models.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 14, 2012

The Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, or GAAP, are the set of rules that govern financial accounting in businesses. IPO stands for Initial Public Offering, and is the first sale of a private stock to the public. IPO stands for Initial Public Offering, and is the first sale of a private stock to the public.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

John Berger, Director Operations & Impact Solutions, Toniic , observed that this has clear investor benefits: “ The grace period became a feature because it benefits investors in regions like the US where there can be tax differences between short and long term gains. Governance. Volatile, uncapped. Flexible VC: Revenue -based.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 24, 2013

Smart startups prepare to face off against rent seekers and map out creative strategies for doing so… First, however, they need to understand what a rent seeker is and how they operate… ———-. They use government regulation and lawsuits to keep out new entrants with more innovative business models.

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David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

I’m excited about the program below on “Investing in Intellectual Capital: Intellectual Capital: Patents, Trademarks, Domain Names, Litigation, Government Rights, and other Intangible Assets” Click here to make a reservation. Jake Geleerd, President and Chief Operating Officer, Ocean Tomo, LLC.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

One of the most recent success story is the IPO of QIWI plc on the NASDAQ in May 2013. QIWI plc is the largest Russian operator of electronic payment systems and was founded by a group of iTech Capital LPs. Since the date of the IPO, the company has tripled in size. The role of the Russian Government.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 27, 2019

I watch his “I have a dream” speech every year), and finished with our federal government finally re-opening temporarily after a clear failure of action-oriented communication and the longest government shutdown in American history. Same point?—?but but with a better training wrapper. The bottom line: don’t waste time?

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2011

government backed venture firms and limited partnerships. This all changed in 1980 with the Genentech IPO. In 1980 Genentech became the first IPO of a venture funded biotech company. But by the early 1960?s s the tidal wave of semiconductor startup spinouts from Fairchild would find a valley with a growing number of U.S.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

In recent years, government regulation has emerged as another such force to be reckoned with in the technology industry. Yet the content industry (principally represented by RIAA and MPAA) has been relentless in pushing for UGC site operators to be deputized in a copyright police state in the interest of fighting piracy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2011

So unless your business is well established, and ready to sell or go public (Initial Public Offering - IPO), you should steer clear of investment banks. Yet every business needs to have a good relationship with a bank, for day to day operations. I guess it’s no wonder that banks are struggling these days with their public image.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 24, 2019

We grew very quickly from $0 to over $100m in sales in just six years, culminating in an IPO with a billion-dollar market cap. Governments began to sign up. All of the big eCommerce platforms hosted parties with us at the industry tradeshows. It was an entrepreneurial dream come true! And we gave a lot of power to the people?

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Agile VC

AUGUST 9, 2012

The company’s lost nearly 80% of its value from the peak earlier this year, in the run up to Facebook’s IPO, and currently trades below $3/share… a fraction of it’s IPO price of $10. multiple (net of cash) of either adjusted EBITDA or operating cashflow. That much we all know.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

While individual VC’s inside venture firms specialized in particular domains (PC’s, peripherals, semiconductors, test equipment, operating systems, applications, etc.,) In 1980 Genentech became the first IPO of a venture funded biotech company. VC’s invested in things that ran on electrons: hardware, software and silicon.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. This is a philosophy that governs my daily life as well as my entrepreneurial activities. I like the term because of two connotations: Lean in the sense of low-burn. September 11, 2008 2:06 PM Editor said.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

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. The second is a lack of operational scalability.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2010

So unless your business is well established, and ready to sell or go public (Initial Public Offering - IPO), you should steer clear of investment banks. Yet every business needs to have a good relationship with a bank, for day to day operations. I guess it’s no wonder that banks are struggling these days with their public image.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

That’s why we have operations alerts trigger a page, but it can also work for other customer events. This is true for split-testing features, but it’s also true for marketing programs or even operations changes. When the incidence rate is small, emails or text messages are a great mechanism.

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The Equity Kicker

APRIL 13, 2012

Throughout our evolution, from privately held start-up to large, publicly listed company, we have managed Google for the long term — enjoying tremendous success as a result, especially since our IPO in 2004. It’s important to bear in mind that this proposal will only have an effect on governance over the very long term.

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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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Up and Running

JUNE 9, 2010

As with all VCs, Sequoia expected a substantial return on its investment — most likely through an IPO. Zappos continues to operate independently. Our relationship is governed by a document that formally recognizes the uniqueness of Zappos’s culture and Amazon’s duty to protect it. And lots and lots of money.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Companies are retrenching, VC firms are going through their own upheavals, and IPOs are non-existent. But overall this is a period where the IPO market remains largely closed to VC-backed startups. And even Facebook has a shambolic first day of trading and trades below its IPO price for over a year. Rowe Price, hedge funds, etc.

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Board Effect

JULY 22, 2021

Sponsoring organizations for donor-advised funds are 501(c)(3) organizations that maintain and operate separate funds or accounts for individual donors. Pre-IPO shares. Certain private operating foundations may also legally receive donor-advised funds. The funds must only be used to make grants to charities. Securities.

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Scott Edward Walker

JULY 7, 2011

Redemption rights are principally designed to protect investors from a situation where, after a period of time, their portfolio company is just moving “sideways” and, accordingly, is not an attractive acquisition target or IPO candidate. What Does a Redemption Rights Provision Look Like? This is a non-starter.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Are they running from high prices, high taxes, dysfunctional government, and wildfires? All of the investors, all of the big companies, all of the government groups?—?they In fact, the Houston city government ranks number onein the country in renewable energy use. What’s bringing them here? Count all of the people you know!

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VC Cafe

APRIL 29, 2020

The $349 billion aid package issued by the US Government and distributed in the form of SBA loans was quickly gobbled up by a large number of applications, many of which were from venture-backed or PE-backed startups. Source: NVCA , “Startup Ecosystem Faces Capital Crunch over Coming Months” USA – SBA Loans and PPP.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Companies are retrenching, VC firms are going through their own upheavals, and IPOs are non-existent. But overall this is a period where the IPO market remains largely closed to VC-backed startups. And even Facebook has a shambolic first day of trading and trades below its IPO price for over a year. Rowe Price, hedge funds, etc.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

The pressures of lofty paper valuations, massive burn rates (and the subsequent need for more cash), and unprecedented low levels of IPOs and M&A, have created a complex and unique circumstance which many Unicorn CEOs and investors are ill-prepared to navigate. In Q1 of 2016 there were zero VC-backed technology IPOs.

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