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Planning for the Future: Your Exit Strategy

Up and Running

For smaller companies that have already begun expanding—like restaurants that have franchised—an IPO may be a good way for the owner to recoup money spent, though it is worth noting that he or she may not be allowed to sell stock until the lock-up period has passed. Have you mapped out your exit strategy?

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Slack S-1: Will ARPU Drive Long Term Value?

View from Seed

But it does mean that traditional 180 day lock-up periods won’t generally apply to existing Slack shareholders. My interest in digging through Slack’s filing was to better understand the business. So the things I was trying to broadly analyze include: What are the current and future growth prospects for Slack?

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Slack S-1: Will APRU Drive Long Term Value?

Agile VC

This post also appears on NextView’s blog. But it does mean that traditional 180 day lock-up periods won’t generally apply to existing Slack shareholders. Reading Time: 6 minutes. Slack dropped their S-1 a couple weeks ago. But now we have a chance to really dig in and understand Slack’s business a bit better.

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ProfessorVC: The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic

Professor VC

Dont miss Plan - This may seem obvious, but Ive seen a number of CEOs shot for missing the first quarters numbers after going public, which is a great way to shrink your market cap well before the lock-up period is up. Blog Archive. My Blog List. Same principle here. No comments: Post a Comment. Newer Post.