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Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 2, 2021
Simple metrics and your personal knowledge of the industry can’t keep up with all the relevant competitive forces. Short-term earnings per share may be low, even as revenues and cash burned are high. Don’t be lulled into a false sense of security that what worked yesterday will work tomorrow.
Gust
JANUARY 31, 2013
Last month, the SEC announced it was taking action regarding Netflix’ (NFLX) securities compliance based on a Facebook status update posted by CEO Reed Hastings. To understand the SEC’s point of view , it’s necessary to review the principles underlying securities law in the United States.
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BeyondVC
APRIL 4, 2018
Look at the Dropbox IPO which priced above its initial value and came out white hot at the end of one of the worst weeks in stock market performance. Couple that with Mulesoft being bought for 21x TTM revenue ( see Tomasz Tunguz analysis ) at $6.5 New architectures = new attack vectors and security needs to be reimagined.
Ben's Blog
OCTOBER 29, 2020
Since then, the debate over IPOs has continued, with a particular focus on allegedly underpriced offerings that jump shortly after opening — the dreaded “pop.” ” As some criticism has it, this supposedly deprives companies of millions of dollars that should have been theirs if not for underpricing the IPO.
ConversionXL
AUGUST 13, 2019
SaaS sales and marketing teams can get overwhelmed by metrics. But without any metrics, it’s impossible to track growth. If growth is the best way to get out alive, marketing metrics do little unless they correlate with sales. But only 400 software companies have made it to the $500M revenue mark.
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!!” I think it’s kind of like a terrorism and security analyst. Good press and industry mojo wasn’t enough to overcome the financial metrics of the business and the offers came in at more like $10 million.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 24, 2017
— Unremarked and unheralded, the balance of power between startup CEOs and their investors has radically changed: IPOs/M&A without a profit (or at times revenue) have become the norm. In the 20th century tech companies and their investors made money through an Initial Public Offering (IPO).
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