Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Initial Public Offering (IPO). ” This is because, when a company decides to sell itself to another company, the buyer will often incorporate or merge the services of that company into their own product or service offerings. The post Planning for the Future: Your Exit Strategy appeared first on Bplans Blog.

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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). Replacing the founder when the company needed to scale was almost standard operating procedure. The founders. The founders.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The reward for doing so was a liquidity event via an Initial Public Offering. There was no repeatable methodology, startups and their VC’s still operated like startups were simply a smaller version of a large company. Show and talk at conferences, be on lots of blogs, use social networks and build a brand.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 20, 2015

Bessemer offers a good overview of current valuations for different business models: SaaS, marketplaces, consumer, and ecommerce. You can see in their chart below that marketplaces get some of the highest revenue multiples because of their operational leverage and high defensibility at scale. So what about early-stage marketplaces?

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Growthink Blog

MAY 10, 2012

The average Series A round is between $2 million and $5 million, with the expressed goals of funding early stage business operations. Providing enough capital for 1 to 2 years of operations, funds obtained from the Series A round can be used for the full gamut of needs-from product development and marketing to employee salaries.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 23, 2011

With this capital, the company propels itself to $50 million+ in revenues, and to either a sale to a strategic acquirer or to an initial public offering. By definition, companies that receive venture capital cannot fund their businesses from operations, and thus need to seek outside capital.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2014

Canva claims to give you everything you need to easily turn ideas into stunning designs, be it for Web or print, blog graphics, presentations, Facebook covers, flyers, posters, invitations and more. In a nutshell, the startup allows non-designers to use ‘Search and drag simplicity to create beautiful designs without ever leaving the Web.’.

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