Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

For anyone seeking venture capital funding or angel investment , having a clear exit strategy is essential. Initial Public Offering (IPO). Common exit strategies include being acquired by another company, the sale of equity, or a management or employee buyout. Who needs an exit strategy? Types of exit strategies.

Exit Strategy 117

Exit Strategy Lock-up Period Merger IPO 117

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.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Leadership Early Stage Initial Public Offering 100

SiliconHills

OCTOBER 23, 2017

SailPoint Technologies, founded in 2005, filed papers with federal regulators on Friday to raise $100 million in an initial public offering. The Austin-based cybersecurity firm has raised $26 million to date in venture capital and private equity funding.

Private Equity 69

Private Equity Initial Public Offering Venture Capital Equity 69

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

I myself have two investors, Arlan Hamilton of Backstage Capital and Chris Shonk, an angel investor in Localeur but founding partner of ATX Seed Ventures, who are VCs. or were forced to raise too much venture capital?—?something Venture capital wasn’t always the default way to grow a company. Certainly.

Silicon Valley 48

Silicon Valley Technical Review Venture Capital San Francisco 48

VC Cafe

JANUARY 15, 2024

M&A/ Exits – This situation is compounded by a narrowing window for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and initial public offerings (IPOs). There’s been a process of ‘right sizing’ in venture and many growth investors played it safe and waited for the market to bottom out.

IPO 88

IPO Valuation Private Equity 88

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

A few, like Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), actually do provide management services to startups, invest in startups, or provide early-stage venture capital, but that is not called an investment service and is part of a function called Emerging Technologies, or sometimes Private Equity.

IPO 205

IPO Silicon Valley Private Equity Initial Public Offering 205

The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2014

Similar to Telefonica’s Wayra accelerator in Europe and Latin America, Muru-D is looking at the entire Australasian region where the telco operates and time will tell whether they will expand beyond Australia’s borders in a similar fashion to their Latin American counter-parts. .

Australia 146

Australia San Francisco IPO Cofounder 146

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2011

A few, like Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), actually do provide management services to startups, invest in startups, or provide early-stage venture capital, but that is not called an investment service and is part of a function called Emerging Technologies, or sometimes Private Equity.

Silicon Valley 211

Silicon Valley Private Equity Initial Public Offering Startup 211

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The reward for doing so was a liquidity event via an Initial Public Offering. There was no repeatable methodology, startups and their VC’s still operated like startups were simply a smaller version of a large company. Filed under: Technology , Venture Capital. August 1995 – March 2000: The Dot.Com Bubble.

Internet 334

Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 334

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2010

A few, like Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), actually do provide management services to startups, invest in startups, or provide early-stage venture capital, but that is not called an investment service and is part of a function called Emerging Technologies, or sometimes Private Equity.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Private Equity Startup Initial Public Offering 120

Growthink Blog

MAY 23, 2011

With this seed capital – more often than not totaling between $100,000 and $1,000,000 - the company accomplishes a number of key technical milestones, gets a beta customer or two, and then goes on a "road show" to venture capitalists around the country for capital to “scale” the business. There are a lot of dark, hard days.

Angel Investor 112

Angel Investor Venture Capital Sweat Equity Cram Down 112

Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 12, 2009

If a C corp generates net operating losses rather than net income, these are carried forward to offset future corporate taxable income. However, such operating losses may not be used to offset taxable income of the individual shareholders. A C corp is also the easiest type of entity to take public in an initial public offering.

LLC 61

LLC Stock Options Preferred Stock Stock 61

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. Each round may raise between $5 million and $20 million or more.

Equity 88

Equity Mezzanine Later Stage Venture Capital 88

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Over the past two years, one of the most influential venture-capital firms has turned the usual rules of start-up investing on its head. In the early days of venture capital, when money was scarce, entrepreneurs often gave up control of their company in exchange for their first investment funds. LUBLIN And SPENCER E.

Silicon Valley 42

Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

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.

Cofounder 28

Cofounder Business Model IPO Non-Compete 28

Gust

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Due diligence on an investor is where you validate the track record, operating style, and motivation of your new potential partner. Consider the person who finds a good-looking partner to take home from the bar at closing time, but then wakes up in the morning wondering “What did I just do?”

Due Diligence 119

Due Diligence Entrepreneur Offshore Angel Groups 119