NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Generating liquidity usually entails either selling the venture or an IPO. In deep tech companies value creation milestones are more likely to be tagged to validating the technology and IP creation. Your big decisions will be when and how to : raise capital. pivot the business. scale – this may include the need to go offshore.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

More and more angels will be minted as the 2019 IPO class emerges. Governments blocking acquisitions, the curtailment of company expansion, more scrutiny on overseas operations of U.S. companies, more sensitivity around technology IP and security. Hundreds of new micro funds somehow keep getting into the market.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

This is done by enriching transaction data points such as name, email address, and billing and shipping address with around 2,000 extra data points, such as an IP latency check to measure the real distance from the user, IP connection type, distance between key strokes, and email name match.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Startup 122

Hunter Walker

MAY 13, 2023

Especially in the early days of mobile/iOS engineering, if you hired strong technical talent into your early stage company, you basically created an acquisition outcome floor. Sometimes you’d even get lucky and receive stock in the acquirer, which was how I gained pre-IPO equity in high growth stars like Pinterest and Facebook.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2012

Pure technology companies focus on IP, and need to compete with emerging markets, offering cheaper labor and potentially better economies of scale. Israeli companies are attractive acquisitions for International players such as Apple, HP, Microsoft, which contributes to their attractiveness for VCs. million in 2011, higher than the $3.23

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

I find it amusing when a journalist writes an article about a prominent startup (either privately held or preparing for an IPO) and decries that, “They’re not even profitable!” If you spent the 3 years perfecting some hugely differentiated technology IP that may also be different. One of them is profitability.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

The value ascribed by subsequent investors (in a secondary); buyers (acquisition); or the public markets (IPO). Flexible VC offers you this. Additionally, Flexible VC can accommodate all types of companies, not just asset-lite, tech-enabled companies.”. Yes, typically preferred equity. 15-20% sold per round. Volatile, uncapped.

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Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

For entrepreneurs who want to learn about how to work with investment banks, how to position yourself to be acquired and what the IPO markets look like this is the episode to watch. How to investment banks help with the M&A (mergers & acquisitions) process? Should you use investment banks to raise venture capital?

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2017

These corporate VC activities go hand in hand with other strategies of large companies including internal R&D, IP licensing, M&A, etc. . Fortunately we proved skeptics wrong and every one of these strategic investors made a tidy 2.5 – 3x return once PayPal IPO’d in 2002 and then was acquired by eBay later that year.

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Agile VC

AUGUST 9, 2012

The company’s lost nearly 80% of its value from the peak earlier this year, in the run up to Facebook’s IPO, and currently trades below $3/share… a fraction of it’s IPO price of $10. That being said, unlike a company that has essentially zero user acquisition costs (e.g. That much we all know.

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David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

Kevin Barhydt, Head of Acquisitions, RPX. Geleerd began his career at Arthur Andersen in tax consulting before leaving to join Sam Zell’s Equity Group where he underwrote the acquisition of over $2 billion of real estate acquired by the Zell-Merrill Lynch Opportunity Funds (which ultimately went public as Equity Office Properties, LLC).

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Naming Government Intellectual Property LLC 122

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

How do you sustain growth that precedes the highest IPO in history for a software company? Results from Snowflake’s ABM efforts post-IPO. This approach works for both new account acquisition and account expansion. Keep doing what works. For cloud-based data warehouse Snowflake , that was ABM.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

IP Location Tools. great web customer acquisition tutorials. British Library Business & IP Centre : Funded by the London Development Agency, the British Library supports inventors, small businesses and entrepreneurs from that first spark of inspiration to successfully launching and developing a business. Xtranormal.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

John Greathouse has held a number of senior executive positions with successful startups during the past fifteen years, spearheading transactions, which generated more than $350 million of shareholder value, including an IPO and a multi-hundred-million-dollar acquisition. IP) is an ugly thing at a startup.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

So the acquisition came toa screeching halt while we tried to sort this out. But its hard to raise money with an IP cloud over your head, becauseinvestors cant judge how serious it is. Before you consummate a startup, ask everyone about their previous IP history. Now we needed to raise more to keep going. Dont do what we did.

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