Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 1, 2009
So we loaded up on flat screen TVs, multiple generations of iPods and trips to Hawaii. Bad stock markets mean less IPO’s and lower prices for M&A. Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capital. We spent our future since the equity was artificial. So why the ’09 bounce?
Scalable Startup
OCTOBER 26, 2014
If the startup actually makes it to an IPO, there is actually something you can do. The Greenshoe is an over-allotment of stock options, up to 15% of the total offering at time of IPO. Since they’re options, acquirers only exercise if the stock goes up, and have no downside risk or capital outlay.
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Scalable Startup
OCTOBER 26, 2014
If the startup actually makes it to an IPO, there is actually something you can do. The Greenshoe is an over-allotment of stock options, up to 15% of the total offering at time of IPO. Since they’re options, acquirers only exercise if the stock goes up, and have no downside risk or capital outlay.
online.wsj.com
SEPTEMBER 23, 2012
SIGNIFICANCE PROMINENT. --> The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. The National Venture Capital Association estimates that 25% to 30% of venture-backed businesses fail. NAME David Cowan.
Scalable Startup
DECEMBER 14, 2012
Raising Money – you are constantly doing this, preparing for this and thinking about this, whether it’s pre-seed, seed funding, debt, revenue, partnerships, IPO or other. When you’re the CEO of a startup, a real startup with product and some cash in the bank and/or revenue, there are 3 FULL TIME JOBS.
Scalable Startup
SEPTEMBER 11, 2013
VCs of course, Angels, they invented the term Super Angel, San Francisco, Real Estate leverage, IPO millionaires, corporate funding, Asian and European money, and on and on. Money, money, money – There are so many giant sources of money in SV that it’s staggering.
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 30, 2010
trillion out of our homes and spent 2/3rds of it on flat screen TVs, trips to Hawaii, time shares, Apple products and everything else we couldn’t afford. This affects M&A activities for startups, which with the reduction of the IPO market could spell lower returns in the short-term for technology startup investors.
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