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6 Key Rules To Stay Competitive In The Digital World

Startup Professionals Musings

Short-term earnings per share may be low, even as revenues and cash burned are high. That means that many companies are now forgoing the rush to go public (IPO), in favor of major equity investments from specialized venture capital funds, such as Japan’s SoftBank. These tolerate negative cash flows for growth.

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6 Risks For Taking A Side Door Into A Public Exchange

Startup Professionals Musings

A reverse merger is the acquisition of an already public company (usually a dormant shell) to avoid the Initial Public Offering (IPO) process and cost, to quickly get your startup on a public exchange for fund raising through visibility and selling stock. Being a public company isn’t cheap or easy.

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Chargify Appoints New Chief Revenue Officer

Austin Startup

Chargify, the leading billing platform for B2B SaaS, today announced the appointment of Matt Downs as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) effective immediately. He will play a pivotal role as Chargify and SaaSOptics are brought together as the industry leading SaaS subscription billing and revenue platform.

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Does Fintech Disruption Break The Investment Banking Model?

YoungUpstarts

A Forbes article from May reviewed an arrangement between Citibank and Nasdaq to allow investors holding private company securities on Nasdaq to be able to use Citi’s cross-border payments facility and blockchain to buy, sell and settle transactions, bypassing the heavy paperwork typically associated with this type of transfer.

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6 Considerations For Going Public Via Reverse Merger

Startup Professionals Musings

A reverse merger is the acquisition of an already public company (usually a dormant shell) to avoid the Initial Public Offering (IPO) process and cost, to quickly get your startup on a public exchange for fund raising through visibility and selling stock. Being a public company isn’t cheap or easy.

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2011 May be the Year of the IPO for Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

It has been at least a decade since going public via an Initial Public Offering (IPO) has been considered a credible exit strategy for startups. Usually a small company can sell about 20 percent of its stock in an IPO. In 1999, there were 486 IPOs nationwide; just 10 years later, in 2009, there were only 63. How’s the timing?

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Confronting A Radically New B2B Marketplace: The Storytelling Secret That Will Rock Your Result

YoungUpstarts

When FireEye became my client, their revenues were stalled in the low millions of dollars a year. They had unique technology, but needed help better explaining why that mattered to buyers who were stuck in the old ways of thinking about network security risk, products and categories.

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