YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

For years, the most desirable exit strategy for startup companies was to go public through an initial public offering. They had a phenomenal obsession with customer service and offered free shipping and returns. When Amazon came knocking in 2009, they had been modestly profitable for only two years.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

20th Century Tech Liquidity = Initial Public Offering. In the 20th century tech companies and their investors made money through an Initial Public Offering (IPO). But the majority of technology companies that went public circa 1979-2009, with professional VCs as their investors, faced this challenge.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2018

According to the 2017 Kauffman Startup Activity Index , the share of new entrepreneurs who started businesses to pursue opportunity rather than from necessity reached 86 percent, more than 12 percentage points higher than in 2009 at the height of the Great Recession. Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 2, 2012

IPOs by year, 1980-2011, with pre-IPO last 12-month sales less than (small firms) or greater than (large firms) $50 million (2009 purchasing power). The real truth is, since the "Internet bubble" burst in 2001, initial public offerings have not resumed the vitality levels of the late 1980s, let alone the boom years of the '90s.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

T aking a company through an initial public offering (IPO) is not an easy task. million in 2009. million, in part due to cost-cutting (Eyeblaster says it “focused on cutting costs given the uncertain global economic environment” during the first half of 2009). Revenue inched up only two percent to $65.1

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Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

iii. Post bubble period 2001-2009 totals $218.2 The market may have a taste for $100 million initial public offerings today, but that’s because there is a liquidity problem, not because there is something inherently wrong with raising $50 million or less in an IPO. Amount of venture capital raised has exploded.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 22, 2009

For a clear example, see the following list of 17 companies that went public and raised $50 million or less between 1971 and 1996: These companies only raised $367 million in the public markets and they account for 470, 000 U.S. jobs today.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

"Square, the payment technology company founded and led by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, this evening raised $243 million by pricing its initial public offering at $9 per share, which would imply an market value of around $2.9 It is a major disappointment for the San Francisco-based company." A "major disappointment".

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

About 14% of the technology firms that have held initial public offerings between January 2011 and the end of June 2012 went public with at least two share classes—more than twice the 6.4% For Most, Tax Rates Hit Lows in 2009. Customer Jitters Hit Applied Materials. Coding Start-Up Raises $100 Million.

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