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. investment bank entrepreneur startup funding IPO'

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 12, 2009

It boggles the mind that Washington would enact new policies sure to prolong this (IPO) drought and strike at the heart of American innovation.” IPO drought testifies to a systemic liquidity crisis for emerging growth companies that is putting at risk an entire generation of innovative American companies. from the WSJ editorial).

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

The collapse of the IPO market and dysfunctional math in the venture capital community has stacked the odds against you. Startup lifecycle in an IPO Market. Netscape’s 1995 IPO changed the rules. The public markets for venture-backed technology stocks never really recovered after the collapse of the dot-com boom.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2012

Solution product & technology. Describe your technology patents and “secret sauce”. What is the planned exit strategy (IPO, merger, sale, including likely candidates)? Fuzzy terms like “not user-oriented” or “too expensive” are not helpful. Opportunity sizing. Show a breakdown of the intended uses of these funds.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

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. With Netscape’s IPO , there was suddenly a public market for companies with limited revenue and no profit. Filed under: Technology , Venture Capital.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

Startups here are primarily in what they call the TMT (Technology, Media and Telecommunications) segment. Not only does Zhongguancun have Chinese startups, but global technology companies (Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Microsoft, IBM, Sun, Oracle, BEA, Alcatel Lucent, Google) all have offices here or elsewhere in Beijing.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

If you don’t know Montgomery & Co it is one of the premier technology & media focused investment banks in the country (and as Michael corrected me they also have a strong Healthcare / Med tech practice). How to investment banks help with the M&A (mergers & acquisitions) process? We discussed: 1.

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Unlike many venture capital firms that invest in certain geographic regions or specific technologies and sectors, Foundry Group’s investing activity is largely driven by a thematic approach. What are your thoughts about M&A and IPOs – and a successful exit for ad tech startups? Do you see a window developing?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2011

Solution product & technology. Describe your technology patents and “secret sauce”. What is the planned exit strategy (IPO, merger, sale, including likely candidates)? Fuzzy terms like “not user-oriented” or “too expensive” are not helpful. Opportunity sizing. Show a breakdown of the intended uses of these funds.

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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. And, as of Monday 54 of the 72 of them were trading above their IPO price. in the 1st quarter - the largest number of new issuers since 2000 -raising a total of 11.1

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

For example, “We just patented a new battery technology that will cut your smartphone charge time and cost in half.” Be sure to include this in your “elevator pitch,” which you must always deliver as a prelude to your technology features. Use non-fuzzy terms to quantify customer value. Most investors don’t want long-term commitments.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2010

Solution product & technology. Describe your technology patents and “secret sauce”. What is the planned exit strategy (IPO, merger, sale, including likely candidates)? Fuzzy terms like “not user-oriented” or “too expensive” are not helpful. Opportunity sizing. Show a breakdown of the intended uses of these funds.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

Just because your technology is exciting and potentially disruptive doesn’t mean you are ready to build a business. Technically, this is your exit strategy, usually a merger and acquisition (M&A) or initial public stock offering (IPO). What is the business problem you are solving?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

Many entrepreneurs scare away potential investors by claiming that their technology represents “truly disruptive technology.” Otherwise, identify your preferred exit strategy, including specific candidates for merger or sale, and timeframe. Going public” (IPO) is another alternative, but not common.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

Startups here are primarily in what they call the TMT (Technology, Media and Telecommunications) segment. Not only does Zhongguancun have Chinese startups, but global technology companies (Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Microsoft, IBM, Sun, Oracle, BEA, Alcatel Lucent, Google) all have offices here or elsewhere in Beijing.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

Many entrepreneurs scare away potential investors by claiming that their technology represents “truly disruptive technology.” Otherwise, identify your preferred exit strategy, including specific candidates for merger or sale, and timeframe. Going public” (IPO) is another alternative, but not common.

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Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 290

Gust

AUGUST 19, 2012

Solution product & technology. Describe your technology patents and “secret sauce”. What is the planned exit strategy (IPO, merger, sale, including likely candidates)? Fuzzy terms like “not user-oriented” or “too expensive” are not helpful. Opportunity sizing. Show a breakdown of the intended uses of these funds.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 22, 2009

On Monday, August 10, Barron’s ran a story “Does the IPO Market Shun Smaller Companies?”, This practice has created “ a near oligopolistic hold on tech IPOs ” by these large investment banks. The IPO chasm that exists today is the result of the death of the sub $50 million IPO. jobs today.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 9, 2016

Joining me in SiriusXM’s studio in New York were: Drew Silverstein , co-founder and CEO of the music technology venture Amper Music. We didn’t IPO it. Craig Kanarick ’s career has integrated digital technology, design and strategy. After the merger people were asking, “Why am I working for these people now?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

A cautious person wouldn’t try to pry people out of Twitter right before their IPO to” join my cause!!” Have the breakthrough technology. There are merger discussions, board debates, product miscues, revenue misses and a litany of delicate topics. Are tacking. A $1 trillion global market. To change things.

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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. Blitzscaling is a strategic technique for moving faster, not a reckless gamble.

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Gust

AUGUST 5, 2012

Many entrepreneurs scare away potential investors by claiming that their technology represents “truly disruptive technology.” Otherwise, identify your preferred exit strategy, including specific candidates for merger or sale, and timeframe. Going public” (IPO) is another alternative, but not common.

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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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Silicon Valley Private Equity Startup Initial Public Offering 120

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

17, on “How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology”. The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

Many entrepreneurs scare away potential investors by claiming that their technology represents “truly disruptive technology.” Otherwise, identify your preferred exit strategy, including specific candidates for merger or sale, and timeframe. IPO as an exit strategy is not recommended these days.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

It’s meant to support and grow a business until an “exit” in the form of an IPO, a merger or acquisition, or in less than ideal scenarios, a company shutdown. Many very successful, non-technology companies have also been products of venture capital, including Home Depot, Starbucks, and Staples. but globally.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2013

Within the venture community, the first rule to remember is that opportunities abound these days, due to the increasing pace of technology evolution, and the scope and creativity of the global community. That means merger and acquisition (M&A), not initial public offering (IPO). Exit strategy.

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Scalable Startup

JUNE 22, 2017

He has led and mentored over 2 dozen venture-backed technology companies, 5 of them as President and CEO. He has extensive experience in funding, mergers, acquisitions and IPOs. Tom Nora is an entrepreneur, startup CEO, blogger and business mentor.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

It was adopted by the consumer packaged goods industry in the 1950s and spread to the technology business in the last quarter of the twentieth century. Assuming no early liquidity (via an IPO or merger) for the company, more fund raising is required. It has become an integral part of startup culture.

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

Dave Barry, Managing Editor of Dow Jones Financial Information Services , has invited me to join a panel of M&A experts on September 26 to discuss best practices and some of the key challenges currently facing VC-backed company boards involved in mergers and acquisitions.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 24, 2022

It remains to be seen what the outcomes will be in 2022 as the exit markets are less active and the IPO window is closed, but assuming the merger gets approved, we’ve already seen Activision’s $70 billion acquisition by Microsoft and Twitter’s potential $40 billion takeover by Elon Musk.

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venturebeat.com

JULY 12, 2012

Despite the name, the Bing Fund doesn’t require its companies to work with the Bing search engine or the technologies associated with Bing, including speech recognition, image processing, video, local/geo/map technologies, and so forth. From $1.5B to half a trillion dollars: PayPal celebrates a 10th anniversary. Featured stories.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Finance, Market cap as of Oct 2009 and Oct 7, 2019 This public market momentum is continuing to accelerate with 24 SaaS IPOs in 2018-19 compared to 17 in 2015-17. The 2018-19 cohort were valued at a combined $126 billion in market cap on their IPO day, which is 4.3x billion collectively. These 13 companies have $19.5

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Steve Blank

JULY 6, 2010

He started a new venture firm when he realized that that the rules had changed for the venture business – VC’s could no longer expect the same kind of returns they got in the past through an IPO. Instead, he realized that most VC-backed startups would exit through a merger or acquisition- at a sale price of $20 to $100 million.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

IPO market. There are a number of trends concerning IPOs and capital formation to note: First, the raw number of IPOs has declined significantly: From 1980-2000, the US averaged roughly 300 IPOs per year; from 2001-2016, the average fell to 108 per year. In the first quarter of 2021 alone, SPACs raised $87.9

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Up and Running

JUNE 22, 2010

Lower startup capital costs, alternate financing strategies by angels and entrepreneurs, and early takeouts by mergers and acquisitions–hungry platform companies like Yahoo!, But traditional VCs are now being challenged by a variety of changes to the startup economy.

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