Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. According to a report just out, a record 156 operating companies went public in the U.S. Most now routinely buy startups for new technology and new products. A year from now that’s projected to go as high as 100.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2023

A few, like Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), despite recent failures, 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2020

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.

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SiliconHills

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Today, Dell Technologies filed papers with the Securities and Exchange Commission disclosing that the company’s board is considering taking the company public again with an initial public offering or by merging with VMWare. Normally, the company doesn’t […].

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Campus Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Does your university or college offer a full fledged entrepreneurship ecosystem. Here is an article from Katherine Dunn in MIT’s Technology Review which explains the ecosystem at MIT and how it has grown more extensive and networked over time. Technology Review: The Entrepreneurship Ecosystem.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2019

Instead of a startup going public six to eight years after it was founded to raise capital to grow the company, today companies can to $50M+ funding rounds is a deferring the need for an Initial Public Offering to 10 or more years after a company is founded. Who leads that process best?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. Conglomerates, which were the engines of growth and vitality in the twentieth century, have proven themselves unable to innovate, and have a tarnished public image due to financial woes and poor management. Women are a growing force as entrepreneurs.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 23, 2012

Technology has done wonders for the world; it has eradicated disease, brought man to the moon (and soon Mars) and increased living standards across the globe. by Alanna Hardy. Online Gaming, Mobile Entertainment and the Video Game Design Boon. And such business is very profitable. A Career In Video Game Design Industry.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 31, 2016

Continuously improve your company’s products and technologies by focusing on the few truly strategic core platforms. Yes, cash flow is king and every start-up wants to achieve greatness or hit a sizable IPO, initial public offering sooner than later. Instead, think bare bones, and as narrowly as humanly possible.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 20, 2023

While venture-backed startups struggle to find relief amidst a backlog of richly priced ventures, some tech companies are defying expectations and going public with resounding triumphs. Another prime example is the debut of Oddity Tech , a beauty-focused company that harnesses modern technology tools to create its products.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

T aking a company through an initial public offering (IPO) is not an easy task. Its main shareholder is Sycamore Technologies Ventures, which owns 33.9 The company has $15.4 million in cash and cash equivalents. percent of the company. Other big stockholders include Insight Ventures (22.6 percent), CEO Gal Trifon (8.1

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

Three trends which started in 2010 should continue into 2011 and should accelerate as the year goes on: VC funding will continue to accelerate fueled by the global growth in entrepreneurship; job creation will see gains, fueled by startups and small business; initial public offerings will see a comeback.

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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 company plans to use the proceeds of its offering to expand operations and add additional customers. […].

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

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. At the same time, entrepreneurs could raise funds in an open public way without having to go through the complexities of an initial public offering (IPO).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2015

The visibility of Google, Facebook and a few others continues to propagate the myth that the ultimate objective of every entrepreneur should be to take their startups public via an initial public offering at the earliest opportunity. Everyone thinks this is the route to become the next billionaire like Mark Zuckerberg.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 7, 2021

How many of them, particularly in technology, were able to start a company, supply all the funding, and share no management tasks or equity with others, and still grow the company to any significant size, worthy of a multi-million-dollar opportunity to cash out at exit? It starts with sharing the opportunity and upside.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 28, 2010

warned a technology forum this week that without a change in U.S. does not exceed 500, which studies show is the level required to support 3% annual U.S. In a Wall Street Journal editorial, Otellini’s Lament , dated August 27,2010, the editor quotes Intel CEO Paul Otellini’s recent comments: “…Otellini.

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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.

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Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Try these statistics on for size, from 1999 to today Asia’s share of the world’s Initial Public Offerings grew from 12% to 66%. Modern business, shaped by technology, is increasingly diverging to two nodes – on the one hand to great size quickly (see Google, Facebook, eBay, Twitter, et al.) How do you market to them? •

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

A tech bubble is the rapid inflation in the valuation of public and private technology companies that exceeds their fundamental value by a large margin. Today, the signs of the new bubble are the Linked-In initial public offering (IPO), Facebook’s stratospheric valuation and the rapid rise of early-stage startup valuation.

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Pascal's View

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Grant Thornton LLP’s Capital Markets Group today announced the release of Market Structure is Causing the IPO Crisis , a white paper examining the demise of initial public offerings in the United States, and offering remedies to resurrect the IPO market. which was published in November 2008. IPO market.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 20, 2014

222 firms held initial public offerings last year, raising $55 Billion, the most since 406 companies went public for $97 million in 2000. The bull market will celebrate its 5 th anniversary in March (NASDAQ grew 38.3% last year, more than any other major index), and the IPO market is booming.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 2, 2013

From Twitter and LinkedIn breaking up, to FaceBook posting an embarrassingly low initial public offering, and Pinterest’s astounding 11 million unique monthly visits (the fastest growth of any other standalone site ever), 2012 was packed with memorable marketing moments. Many of them, like Yahoo!

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Berkonomics

JULY 8, 2021

Unlike other groups, ABL members all belong to either healthcare or technology industry-focused roundtables. Since I am chairman of the Technology side of the Organization, I attend more than one ABL group each month, and estimate that I’ve now attended more than six hundred half-day roundtables over the years.

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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. If you use history as a guide, I’m afraid you’ll find no real consensus on the matter of when to go public with your startup.

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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.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 14, 2012

One of the key objectives of the recently passed JOBS act is that it will “open” the now 11 years and counting "shut” window for initial public offerings. Because golly, when it comes to the IPO market and public market returns in general, help is needed in a big way. companies went public. Hopefully, it will help.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 2, 2014

Well, if you don’t, try on these IPO, M&A, and financing stats from 1st Quarter 2014: Initial Public Offerings: 72 companies went public in the U.S. Don’t you just love these booming markets? in the 1st quarter - the largest number of new issuers since 2000 -raising a total of 11.1 Wrong about the U.S.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

“If LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and entrepreneur Chris Yeh’s new book, Blitzscaling, is to be believed, the Uber-style race to the top (or the bottom, depending on your point of view) is the secret to success of today’s technology businesses. This premise has become doctrine in Silicon Valley. But is it correct? I have my doubts.”

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The reward for doing so was a liquidity event via an Initial Public Offering. Filed under: Technology , Venture Capital. VC’s worked with entrepreneurs to build profitable and scalable businesses, with increasing revenue and consistent profitability – quarter after quarter. You have to deliver.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Technology. Personal Technology. TECHNOLOGY. Craig Walker, co-founder and CEO of Firespotter Labs, a technology incubator, said it feels unnatural to bestow so much voting power on one executive. This time around, technology entrepreneurs are being more assertive. WSJ Classroom. Ran gold Resources Ltd. My Journal.

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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.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 12, 2009

Almost all technology startup companies that I work with are C corps. I generally avoid LLCs as most technology startup companies need to grant options to employees and consultants, and there is no easy “off the rack&# method to do this. A C corp is also the easiest type of entity to take public in an initial public offering.

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

These valid observations may be drawn from primary research sources such as the work published by the National Academies, whose most recent report, Assessing the Impact of Changes in the Information Technology R&D Ecosystem: Retaining Leadership in an Increasingly Global Environment , was released several months ago.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 31, 2014

Unlike other groups, ABL members all belong to either healthcare or technology industry-focused roundtables. Since I am chairman of the Technology side of the Organization, I attend more than one ABL group each month, and estimate that I’ve now attended more than four hundred half-day roundtables over the years. facing their industry.

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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. What is the responsibility of the winners?

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Growthink Blog

MAY 23, 2011

Through connections, or through a chance meeting at a networking or social event, an angel investor hears the entrepreneur's story, likes them and their technology, and on the spot, writes a check to provide the company with its first outside financing. There are a lot of dark, hard days.

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