article thumbnail

6 Risks For Taking A Side Door Into A Public Exchange

Startup Professionals Musings

A reverse merger is the acquisition of an already public company (usually a dormant shell) to avoid the Initial Public Offering (IPO) process and cost, to quickly get your startup on a public exchange for fund raising through visibility and selling stock. There just aren’t enough angel investors and VCs to go around.

Merger 261
article thumbnail

6 Considerations For Going Public Via Reverse Merger

Startup Professionals Musings

A reverse merger is the acquisition of an already public company (usually a dormant shell) to avoid the Initial Public Offering (IPO) process and cost, to quickly get your startup on a public exchange for fund raising through visibility and selling stock. There just aren’t enough angel investors and VCs to go around.

Merger 303
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Disturbing

Austin Startup

John Imlay of MSA occasionally took me on road shows with analysts to talk about his new acquisition Peachtree Software. Hurricane Irma had a major negative revenue impact on one whose fall book of business was mostly in Florida. I got the message.

article thumbnail

It’s Back & Better Than Ever! Announcing NextView’s Everyday Economy Virtual Accelerator

View from Seed

See some alumni locations below: Lula: Miami, Florida. Our structured sessions will focus on fundraising, product, customer acquisition, as well as other important pre-seed topics. . This model has produced a wide array of geographic diversity at a national scale, which we are aiming to replicate in the upcoming cohort.

San Diego 156
article thumbnail

OwnLocal Acquires Print2Web

SiliconHills

Austin-based OwnLocal announced its acquisition of Print2Web, a digital service provider to the newspaper industry, on Monday. Petersburg, Florida, was one of the first companies to digitize print ads for newspapers. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Print2Web, founded in 2001 in St.

Florida 48
article thumbnail

25 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments in 2019

Hearpreneur

On the heels of seeing the 10% influencer base increase the referrals process yielded, the team at Intellifluence pushed to create a brand-to-brand referral program as well, intent on creating user acquisition flywheels wherever possible. Photo Credit: Kyndall Bennett.

article thumbnail

Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 2 Really Cool Companies

ReadWriteStart

She has, thus far, not done any other formal customer acquisition initiative. Next, Dan Stewart from Safety Harbor, Florida, pitched Happy Grasshopper , an email-based referral marketing service. The next two customer acquisition strategies we will be expanding on are more aggressive guerrilla p.r. Happy Grasshopper.