Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Even though the Initial Public Offering (IPO) alternative for a successful startup seems to be coming back into vogue, it is relatively rare. IPOs in 2008, the market was up to a still trivial 159 in 2011. The pressures to maintain growth patterns and meet the expectations of the investment community are typically real and intense.

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SiliconHills

MAY 25, 2018

The company, now based in Chicago, has strong ties to the Austin startup community. The post Xeris Pharmaceuticals Files to Raise $75 Million in an IPO appeared first on SiliconHills. Xeris has raised $202 million to date in […].

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 31, 2020

Every expert agrees that VC investing faced a huge setback last year with the IPO flops of major companies such as WeWork, Uber, Slack, and Lyft as the facts show. In the same vein, various technological innovations such as artificial intelligence have made VC funding easier and less biased.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

“This investment will accelerate our work to build the metaverse and create spaces where players can have fun with friends, brands can build creative and immersive experiences and creators can build a community and thrive.” billion as of August 1st 2022, a drop from it’s IPO at approximately $38 billion but relatively steady since Dec.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

When my friend and the father of LA’s tech startup community Bill Gross first demonstrated his company GoTo.com (renamed Overture) on stage at a TED conference he was actually booed (True story. You can hear many other amazing stories in this 1:1 interview ).

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Start Up Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

The upcoming Facebook IPO is a very interesting scenario. There are a lot of facts and figures being thrown around, but from my point of view I’m interested in just a few of them and what they mean for tech entreprepreneurs: 100 Billion Valuation: If the IPO is successful the expected valuation is 33 times their current revenue.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2019

by Arsalan Sajid, startup community manager at Cloudways. There is a complete process to go for an IPO. After an IPO, you can retire and get a new management to work for the company. After an IPO, you can retire and get a new management to work for the company. And, you must have wondered, ‘Man! Again, it is your call.

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Eric Friedman

JANUARY 3, 2020

With the stock price off since IPO and the need to “rollup” enterprise chat + video MSFT takes a swing at solving a huge b2b problem with a startup friendly platform. 10/ Community is a moat. The 13 year bull run ends, and we go into a decline/recession scenario. 7/ Microsoft buys Slack.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2016

It may be time to bring in a new executive team with visible integrity and a sterling track record, or round up some new advisors who have connections with the venture community. The number of new ventures that successfully navigate the path to a public offering (IPO) with big numbers is still small.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

APRIL 12, 2013

Mostly these folks are writing in Barrons, Forbes, and other publications, the same sort of places where people were calling Facebook a failure because prices dropped after the IPO. Facebook built $65bn of value in 9 years, so what happened since the IPO is missing the point. Many in the Bitcoin community have noted that Mt.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Was about a billion dollars on the IPO” and “was one of the first web analytics companies. I do something I now call community hours. And so that is a steady import of talent but even more interestingly what it really did is it re-energized the entrepreneurial community.”. So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996.

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Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Since then, the debate over IPOs has continued, with a particular focus on allegedly underpriced offerings that jump shortly after opening — the dreaded “pop.” ” As some criticism has it, this supposedly deprives companies of millions of dollars that should have been theirs if not for underpricing the IPO.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 8, 2012

With close to 900 million users and an upcoming IPO , Facebook is ruling the web as the social network of choice. Providing truckloads of tips, hints and useful advice, it shares how companies should behave themselves on social networks and what they can do to build communities, strengthen their reputations, and increase sales.

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Start Up Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

The upcoming Facebook IPO is a very interesting scenario. There are a lot of facts and figures being thrown around, but from my point of view I’m interested in just a few of them and what they mean for tech entreprepreneurs: 100 Billion Valuation: If the IPO is successful the expected valuation is 33 times their current revenue.

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View from Seed

JULY 24, 2015

Over the past few years, the tech community has absolutely exploded locally (and if you’re new here or just want to take it all in, here’s our Hitchhiker’s Guide to Boston Tech microsite). Here is some of the best commentary from the community… For starters, why does Boston get a bad consumer rap anyway?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

It seems that most of you entrepreneurs I meet in my role as business advisor are convinced that starting a new business requires equity investors, exponential growth, and a plan to go public via IPO.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

There are hundreds of paragraphs I could write about all of the amazing things Rally Software has done for the Boulder Startup Community and for the extended city of Boulder. Million To The Boulder Community after their IPO. Million To The Boulder Community after their IPO.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

We believe it’s important to have our partners all based in one location so our starting point is wanting our partners to be based in LA and be committed to making this city a vibrant startup community that is now the third largest in the country. billion IPO), Envestnet (Chicago, $1.25 billion IPO), Envestnet (Chicago, $1.25

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Genuine VC

DECEMBER 3, 2014

It’s official: now two months after the IPO, HubSpot has surpassed the $1B market cap threshold and has become that “pillar” company that the tech ecosystem long anticipated. It’s becoming obvious that HubSpot marketing instincts span both B2B and consumer, and these are spilling into our entire community of companies following the IPO.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 25, 2011

Interesting perspective on LinkedIn’s IPO – arguing that the IPO price was reasonable – [link]. And here’s another side – suggesting that LinkedIn shareholders might have been scammed in the IPO – [link]. Excellent tips for startups on hiring product managers – [link]. – [link].

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 28, 2016

If you disagree with any, or have any to add, please toss them in the comments as I evolve this as a list of “ways government can help startup communities.” Fix Venture Capital by Fixing the IPO Market. So I decided to create an outline of the policies and the recommendations. They follow.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

In the former case many people scoffed at paying up for Google at IPO. Quirky - Platform facilitating collaborative design of consumer products through an online community. money off the table) given the dearth of IPO’s and M&A over the past few years? - Time will tell. So far it seems the former.

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 10, 2020

With Airbnb’s IPO, I thought the time was right to take a look back at the past decade (Greylock led Airbnb’s Series A in November 2010) and reflect on what I learned from the journey. Even though the company had been on track for an IPO, it retrenched and laid off 25% of the team. HOW GREYLOCK INVESTED IN AIRBNB.

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Gust

JANUARY 31, 2013

The move came as a shock to many in the tech business community, in which we’ve become accustomed to real-time disclosure by company executives through social media. Before the commercial Internet, the primary tools of disclosure included: Prospectus and related registration statement (“S-1″) for an IPO.

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Seeing Both Sides

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Last week''s successful IPO of e-commerce giant Wayfair (market cap $3B) and this week''s impending IPO of Hubspot (if it prices in the range, market cap $600m) has many in the Boston tech community celebrating. 2013 was the best year for IPOs since the tech bubble of the 90s and 2014 looks to wrap up even stronger this quarter.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

This is because these days it’s a trendy word, conjuring up images of youthful exuberance, all-night coding parties, and developing revolutionary apps that transform into mind-boggling IPOs. Participate in community events to expose people to your business. Brian Morgan focused on sharing his love of exotic travel destinations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2011

Even though the Initial Public Offering (IPO) alternative for a successful startup seems to be coming back into vogue, it is still extremely rare. companies made the IPO transition in 2009, out of thousands of startups. Only about a dozen U.S. Loss of control.

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Seeing Both Sides

JUNE 27, 2013

Today''s IPO by Tremor Video is seen by many as a harbinger for the adtech community (full disclosure: Tremor Video is a Flybridge portfolio company). Tremor is the first public offering of an adtech company since Millenial Media''s IPO in April 2012. So, the lesson that may get loss in the Tremor IPO hoopla? Rightly so.

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Up and Running

JULY 10, 2019

And while traditional health clubs, big-box gyms, and personal training focus on the individual, boutique puts a big emphasis on community and training together. . Meanwhile, Soulcycle, the spinning obsession of every trendy New Yorker, filed for IPO in 2018 only to withdraw at the last minute. Why is boutique fitness booming?

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

Hunter Walk: Ok, so we first met when you were leading comms at enterprise software company Box, a startup you joined when they were still pretty early and stayed at until post-IPO. When I learned they were hiring a community manager, I threw everything I had at the interview process. The second moment was the IPO itself.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). And obviously all the liq prefs went away in the IPO when pref stock converted to common. We’re a how-to site and community for small business on marketing. . is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO. We have a long way to go baby!

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

The collapse of the IPO market and dysfunctional math in the venture capital community has stacked the odds against you. Startup lifecycle in an IPO Market. Netscape’s 1995 IPO changed the rules. Depending on your industry, in this decade it’s 5 to 10x less likely that your company will have an IPO as an exit.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 1, 2021

That’s the phrase which stuck with me from Erin Griffith’s NYTimes article this spring about the latest set of wealth creating events in the tech community. I never heard about giraffes after Google’s IPO, although reportedly one early engineer did buy a carnival-size ferris wheel. Giraffe money.” 18 was “giraffe money” day.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

BMW introduced subscription fees for their cars, creating revolutionary changes in the conservative automotive community. One of the top five largest IPOs in the world was done by the reformed General Motors in 2010, and the company generated a profit. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community. Photo Credit: Jason Baker.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 2, 2018

Not since it’s pre-IPO days has the company looked so vulnerable. What I would argue is that companies should think more about building their own communities—and that, while easier, the mantra of meet the people where they are may have, to quote Batman Begins, “sacrificed sure footing for a killing stroke”.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 3, 2022

That’s the tweet sent by the venture capitalist after a big IPO by a startup they decided not to back years earlier. But everyone who isn’t BVP should find a different way to retroactively ‘think in public’ that adds some value to the community at large. Why Investors Touting Their Mistakes Is Still Just Content Marketing. “Ha

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

– Encourage founders to turn to other founders and their broader community as resources, not just the VC’s own staff. Prominent investor Chamath Palihapitiya recently announced he is launching a blank-check public VC fund, hoping to raise $500 million in an IPO. This evolves the VC from a server to a router.

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