Up and Running
DECEMBER 9, 2014
Bates: Good morning and welcome to our CEO panel, “How to Fine-Tune Your Small Business Finances From Funding to Growth” which I think is the direction that we would all like to be going. I’m here with some really phenomenal CEOs who are going to talk to us today about small business finances from funding to growth.
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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Gust
JUNE 19, 2012
And in January I saw that digital music overtook physical media for the first time in 2011, something I expected since 1998. I bought the Diamond Rio mp3 player in 1998. And if you’re a startup CFO, finance lead, bean counter, or presentation slide deck preparer, then you should read this book.
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!]. So angel and seed stage investors’ returns will be dependent on good times continuing or on the ability of their portfolio companies to get financed.
Hearpreneur
JUNE 14, 2017
My strength was not in finance, so one of the first things I did was hire someone to handle the books and keep me on a solid financial path, so I could focus on running my business. It was 1998 and the internet wasn’t exactly readily available. It sounds simple now, but in 1998 it was unheard of. What were the election results?
Ben's Blog
MAY 24, 2021
Small” IPOs — companies with less than $50m in annual revenue at the time of IPO – have declined from more than 50% of all IPOs in the 1980-2000 timeframe to about 25% of IPOs from 2001-2016; Companies are staying private much longer — the median time to IPO from founding hovered around 6.5 1990-1998 13.3% 1990-1998 10% 6.3%
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 27, 2020
Whenever you get revenue in the door, you have to have the discipline to transfer the 1% to a savings account. She began training on the Internet in 1998 and began the first television-like broadcasting in 2002, launching her own TV channel – www.hvacchannel.tv. This savings plan is not difficult to do. Others do it once a week.
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