Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

I was reading an article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. had its initial public offering, raising $33.8

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

The name “investment bank” somehow always sounded like a place where I could deposit my investments, and maybe even earn a little interest. That would be almost any bank that provides checking accounts, savings accounts, and money market accounts to businesses, and also makes loans to businesses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2010

I was reading an article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. had its initial public offering, raising $33.8

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2011

The name “investment bank” somehow always sounded like a place where I could somehow deposit my investments, and maybe even earn a little interest. That would be almost any bank that provides checking accounts, savings accounts, and money market accounts to businesses, and also makes loans to businesses.

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Berkonomics

JULY 8, 2021

The title of this insight happens to be the name of a CEO roundtable organization I belong to and have been a member since 1989 (Adaptive Business Leader Organization – or ABL). How do roundtables operate? Unlike other groups, ABL members all belong to either healthcare or technology industry-focused roundtables.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The Golden Age (1970 – 1995): Build a growing business with a consistently profitable track record (after at least 5 quarters,) and go public when it’s time. Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 10, 2012

If it's not your plan to get venture capital down the road, then you'll probably stop in Stage 2-receiving enough funding to boost your marketing, sales, and infrastructure to grow organically from there to the point where you are satisfied or ready to sell. Series B is the round that follows series A in early stage financing.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2014

Secondly, because he had single-handedly managed to achieve something that my adopted startup hometown of London (despite a fair amount of wailing and hand-wringing) has not yet achieved; namely, an incredibly successful public flotation of a homegrown tech company listing on the local market. and RealEstate.com.au

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 31, 2016

Oliver, author of “ Mantra Design ” and “ Mantra Leadership “ Successful businesses are not a result of chance, but are the by-product of an effective and evolving strategic plan, complimented by an equally effective operating infrastructure, and supported by exceptional human talent. Is a marketing plan important?

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

First Name. Loading… Markets. About 14% of the technology firms that have held initial public offerings between January 2011 and the end of June 2012 went public with at least two share classes—more than twice the 6.4% Marketing Jobs. Market Data Center. another account.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Loading… Markets. Loading… Market Data. Media & Marketing. Marketing & Strategy. NAME Comcast. NAME Verizon Communications. NAME Yahoo. NAME Shikhar Ghosh. NAME Toby Stuart. NAME Daniel Dreymann. NAME Charles Holloway. NAME David Cowan. » More.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

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. In “The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy,” O’Reilly states the goal of having monopolistic control of a market has led Silicon Valley astray. “If

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

For most startups, it’s no secret that a significant part of their long-term plans is to go public and become the next market darling for investors. You also have to discount the performance of companies like Facebook and Google, who were performance outliers even at the time they made their market debuts.

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