Both Sides of the Table
JULY 16, 2010
This is finally happening because the boom of 1998-01 means that many funds are reaching the maturity of their 10-year funds [strangely, 10-year funds usually last about 13 years!]. You invest low amounts of capital and the company gets to IPO (96-99) or trade sale (05-08) without raising too much capital and certainly not on punishing terms.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
OCTOBER 23, 2012
.” Here’s the summary of his track record (excerpted from the Fast Company article): Forefront — IPO’ed in 1995 by CBT — CBT stock fell 85% in 1998 and prompted class-action lawsuits. invested, IPO’ed in 2000 for $32/share — stock price now $2. from an IPO under a year ago of $10.
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David Teten
APRIL 1, 2011
I hope that you can join us Monday night, April 4, midtown NYC, at a panel on “Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO” The program is sponsored by the HBS Club of New York and the HBS Angels of NY.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
Yes, it’s true that FOMO (fear of missing out) is driving some irrational behavior and valuations amongst uber competitive deals and well-financed VCs. In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. IPO markets had burned an entire cycle of retail stock investors and many institutional investors to boot.
Feld Thoughts
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Corporate law: In Germany, most companies in general and most VC-financed companies are structured in the legal form of a “Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung” (GmbH). Often, this integration results in VC-financed GmbH companies having little to do with the GmbH as envisaged by the law.
Campus Entrepreneurship
DECEMBER 23, 2010
When I attended between 1998-2001, there were a few course on entrepreneurship (entrepreneurial finance, entrepreneurial strategy, etc.), Their success is unparalleled, said Steven Kaplan, Neubauer Family Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance. He’s started four IPO-able companies in eight years.
Ben's Blog
MARCH 24, 2011
In the great bubble of 1998-2000, the boom in public valuations mirrored the boom in private valuations. Similarly, in recent high profile private financing rounds for private technology companies with valuations over $1B, the valuation multiples were at or below corresponding multiples for publicly traded companies such as Google.
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