Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

The frantic pace of technology cycles, the amount of tech news, the blogs, the conferences, the demo days, the announcements, the fundings, the IPOs. ” And then there are incubators and accelerators. Somehow the world seems to be spinning faster these days than just a few years ago. It’s exhausting. Perhaps unsustainable.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

In 1995 Netscape IPO’d and browsers started to become more prevalent. IdeaLab has created 75 companies, leading to 8 IPOs, 35 or so acquisitions and more than 5 companies worth in excess of $1 billion. I commented that many young entrepreneurs I talk to these days have a desire to “go plural&# and create an incubator.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2021

If you ever felt enticed to jump into a quick money deal, like a real-estate quick-flip, or an IPO, that was your Opportunist side showing. Overall, I see real value in using this methodology in conjunction with incubators, business accelerators, and mentoring. Specialist.

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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. What this means is that the emergence of incubators and super angels have dramatically expanded the sources of seed capital. VCs have now ceded more control to founders.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Participate as a mentor in local startup incubators. Incubators are a great place to learn about potentially great startups, and participating as a mentor helps you learn which ones are a good fit for you. Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Incubators and accelerators. Startup incubators and accelerators often give many startups resources simultaneously, and fund the most promising businesses upon their exit. If and when a startup gets big enough, it can pursue an initial public offering (IPO) to get listed on the stock market, and raise funds publicly.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

As of January 20, 2016, based on the “CrunchBase Unicorn Leaderboard,” there are 157 unicorns (companies with $1 billion+ valuations) which have not IPOed or been acquired—and more start-ups reaching unicorn status every day. Unicorns have been over-hyped during the past few years, and nowadays frequently attacked by skeptics.

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venturebeat.com

JULY 12, 2012

The Bing Fund, Microsoft’s newest incubator, to be headed by VoodooPC founder Rahul Sood. After playing coy and dropping hints for weeks, Microsoft has finally announced its newest incubator, the Bing Fund. Topics: accelerators , Bing , Bing Fund , incubators. 4 days ago. From $1.5B Editor’s picks. Featured stories.

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Rob Go

DECEMBER 28, 2011

IPO’s/Exits. Kayak: Registered for an IPO but on hold. Raised $174M in its IPO in April, current market cap ~$550M. in its IPO, current market cap of $282M. Please add more in the comments and I’ll update the post, as this isn’t meant to be comprehensive. Tripadvisor: An amazing entrepreneurial story.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. IPO markets had burned an entire cycle of retail stock investors and many institutional investors to boot. If you want to understand the details of why this is, I covered it in detail in this post, Understanding Changes in the Software Industry. The Exit Problem.

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

I’m distinguishing these from incubators and accelerators.) Prominent investor Chamath Palihapitiya recently announced he is launching a blank-check public VC fund, hoping to raise $500 million in an IPO. I see a small number of other VCs at our stage pursuing a similar, expensive strategy. .

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Participate as a mentor in local startup incubators. Incubators are a great place to learn about potentially great startups, and participating as a mentor helps you learn which ones are a good fit for you. Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Orcam was created by the founders of Mobileye (NYSE: MBLY and one of Israel’s largest IPOs ), Prof. Orcam (2010) – Orcam can potentially help the 280 million visually impaired people to automatically read any text they are looking at via a discreet device that attaches to the user’s eyeglasses.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 13, 2021

And then also another investment that I’ve made through Greylock is Entrepreneur First, which is an incubator. And they’re like, well, all of these incubators all failed, why would we pick up the 70th one? There wasn’t like an IPO – this amazing IPO that just happened. I was wrong.” Harry: Totally.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Gregory Wehmeyer True, Ben, once upon a time, Angel Investors provided the launching pad for Venture Capital Firms to propel any startup on two legs toward a successful IPO. Nearly all have abandoned hope in the "sure thing" and are stepping into what has traditionally been the Angel role of incubating startups.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Gregory Wehmeyer True, Ben, once upon a time, Angel Investors provided the launching pad for Venture Capital Firms to propel any startup on two legs toward a successful IPO. Nearly all have abandoned hope in the "sure thing" and are stepping into what has traditionally been the Angel role of incubating startups.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

HomeAway is another one of our five tech IPOs in the last five years. And Josh Kopelman and First Round Capital were among the seed investors in Uber, the blockbuster IPO-to-be of 2019. Siete, which is just five years old, started out at SKU , our local CPG incubator, and it has been a monster return for them. It is worth $3.4

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

I’ve been hearing about the so-called Series A Crunch for at least six months, and in recent weeks, I’ve spoken with more than 20 venture capitalists, angel investors, incubator heads, lawyers, and other necessary cogs in the ecosystem trying to get some details about it. Angels begot quick wins that produced even more angels.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The sales helped them raise $30K and the attention of a startup incubator, which offered them training and another $20K in funding. One of the top five largest IPOs in the world was done by the reformed General Motors in 2010, and the company generated a profit. Thanks to Christopher Andrew, 420 expert advisers ! #18-

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Facebook Handled their IPO Exactly Right – [link]. Incubator 1871 Nurtures Chicago’s Growing Startup Scene – [link]. Why you should continue working on your bad idea – [link]. Making Money While Keeping Prices Low: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Explains It All (Mostly) – [link]. – [link].

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Startup incubator seed funding. While an accelerator offers a specific program to startups for a fixed period of time, usually 90 days to four months, incubators tend to be more open-ended. Yet, they often provide similar small seed investments, similar to those of accelerators.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Participate as a mentor in local startup incubators. Incubators are a great place to learn about potentially great startups, and participating as a mentor helps you learn which ones are a good fit for you. Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 17, 2014

Keep that in mind and you may just be the next $1billion IPO. Advice For The Young At Heart business incubation business incubator Elton Rivas startup' An accelerator can be the key to taking an idea and making it a reality, just make sure you choose the right accelerator for your unique business needs.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 22, 2014

More money is flowing in from a new crop of angels, newly wealthy from a number of tech IPOs. AngelList makes it easier for founders to reach angels and there are hundreds of accelerators and incubators to choose from. At the same time, funding opportunities have expanded for early-stage start-ups.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

In an IPO, it might not merely addexpense, but change the outcome. Those remedial actions can delay, stall or even kill the IPO. Of course the odds of any given startup doing an IPO are small.But not as small as they might seem. What is an incubator? Thats where the name"incubator" comes from. Im not sure myself.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2013

Because device IPOs are rare, and M&A is much tougher, liquidity for investors is hard to find. Moreover, the absence of recent IPOs and public companies benchmarks creates uncertainty for VCs evaluating later investments too. Venture Capital Issues. Early stage Venture Capital for medical device startups has dried up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Participate as a mentor in local startup incubators. Incubators are a great place to learn about potentially great startups, and participating as a mentor helps you learn which ones are a good fit for you. Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 29, 2013

Hero mentors” have exited their businesses through a trade sale or IPO, sometimes multiple times; they offer inspiration to your team and coaching on strategy and tactics. Meng Weng Wong is co-founder and social engineer at JFDI Asia , which he helped started in 2010 to bring the TechStars model of startup incubation to Southeast Asia.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 6, 2021

This marks the first IPO in the Version One family. . Arweave announced its incubator, the Open Web Foundry. The SEC declared Coinbase ’ s S-1 registration statement effective. The company expects its direct listing to occur on April 14, 2021 with its Class A common stock trading on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol COIN.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

If you ever felt enticed to jump into a quick money deal, like a real-estate quick-flip, or an IPO, that was your Opportunist side showing. Overall, I see real value in using this methodology in conjunction with incubators, business accelerators, and mentoring. Specialist.

Entrepreneur 242

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 16, 2018

There, he would be showered in venture capital, build a team of similarly brilliant twenty-somethings, acquire millions of customers seemingly overnight, and steer his startup to an IPO and himself to the cover of Inc magazine well before his 30th birthday. Oh, how wrong you would be.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Participate as a mentor in local startup incubators. Incubators are a great place to learn about potentially great startups, and participating as a mentor helps you learn which ones are a good fit for you. Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

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. Let me preface by saying I obviously have a vested interest in being wrong about tough times ahead but as the old saying goes, “hope for best, plan for the worst.”.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 14, 2013

The key ingredient to traction is a launched product, a few months of solid growth (5-7% weekly growth is pretty good early on – growth can be users, revenue, or whatever is valuable for your company), some short term pieces in play for continuing that growth, and a long term story about growing the business into a company with IPO potential.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

In 1980 Genentech became the first IPO of a venture funded biotech company. Finally, the “ death of the IPO &# and the emergence of the “ small market M&A &# changes Consumer Internet economics. YCombinator, Techstars, et al, have been described as incubators but in reality they are the new “Lean Angels.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

I am somewhat of an expert in this having created one of the first pioneering labs and incubators in the Internet era, from N AZ where the normal course of action was to prove lean ventures with our retirement only to see them copied by deeper pockets on the coasts when we went searching for capital.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 3, 2020

For the past 20+ years, he’s focused his attention on providing guidance to numerous private and public businesses in various stages of their life cycle, from incubation to commercialization to maturity. Chris Kape: I established JAMCO in early 2001 in the wake of the dot-com bubble collapse.

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