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10 Negatives That Still Make Going Public A High Risk

Startup Professionals Musings

In the old days, every entrepreneur dreamed of easily taking their startup public, and making it big. Today the rate of startups going public (IPO – Initial Public Offering) is up from the dead zone, but is still half the rate of 15 years ago.

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Bazaarvoice Files for IPO

Austin Startup

In the “you knew this was coming&# category, Bazaarvoice filed for an Initial Public Offering (IPO) of it’s stock today. The company is one of the fastest growing in Austin, going from 70 employees in April 2007 to over 600 today. The news is being covered by TechCrunch and The Statesman.

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Business Week Report on “Radical Future of R&D” Misses Critical Capital Markets Link in Innovation Ecosystem

Pascal's View

I believe that, if he understood the reality of the venture capital industry today and its inextricable link to the Initial Public Offering (IPO) drought, his otherwise well-written article would have taken a markedly different direction. But from 2000 to the end of 2007, the rate plunged to 900,000 a year.

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Go Big or Go Home: It’s a binary outcome for marketplace start-ups

Version One Ventures

eBay was relatively successful when it acquired marketplaces like Rent.com (2005) and StubHub (2007). In fact, the only reason you’d ever acquire a marketplace is if it were a large, standalone unit that could grow on its own. This means that an IPO is the exit option for the most successful marketplaces.

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Starting up down under: The guide to Australia’s growing startup scene

The Next Web

all IPO’d circa 2007/08 for a combined market value of around AUD $13 billion. If it is, then Australia does start to look appealing as a startup destination both as a founder and an investor. In fact, Australia’s biggest startup successes have all been in multi-sided marketplaces – CarSales.com.au , Seek.com.au and RealEstate.com.au

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The Rise of the Secondary Market for Emerging Growth Equities– Necessary But Insufficient

Pascal's View

years in 2007- the longest gestation period since 1991: What has driven these changes to the capital markets and are they permanent or temporary? Bubble period IPO’s average 539 per year. iii. Post bubble average IPO’s 129 per year. Less than 20% of IPO’s <$50MM. Median age of a venture backed company hits 8.7

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