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Why Do Consumer IPOs and B2B IPOs Get Treated Differently?

View from Seed

Zoom is a B2B company Pinterest and Lyft are obviously B2C companies. And Zoom has become the most valuable of the three in terms of market cap though daily fluctuations put it and Lyft fairly close ($16B+). Google was a one such company when they went public in 2004 and Facebook was too at their 2012 IPO.

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Why Do Consumer IPOs and B2B IPOs Get Treated Differently?

Agile VC

Zoom is a B2B company Pinterest and Lyft are obviously B2C companies. And Zoom has become the most valuable of the three in terms of market cap though daily fluctuations put it and Lyft fairly close ($16B+). Google was a one such company when they went public in 2004 and Facebook was too at their 2012 IPO.

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April 4-Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO

David Teten

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.

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When Entry Multiples Don’t Matter

Ben's Blog

While multiples are indeed often an input for valuing mature, slower growing companies, in the private, high growth tech market, entry multiples tend to be a byproduct of the valuation process: What investors are really trying to understand are possible exit values. A multiple is a company value divided by a metric.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

We also like the humorous element of the name, an element that we’ve carried over to the imagery that we use on our website and marketing materials (a cartoon plunger is our mascot!), – If it could be related to our niche (web design and digital marketing). which also reflects our fun personality. so much the better.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

Loading… Markets. Loading… Market Data. Media & Marketing. Marketing & Strategy. His findings are based on data from more than 2,000 companies that received venture funding, generally at least $1 million, from 2004 through 2010. Finance, Banking, Loans, etc. Business Services (B2B).