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6 Risks For Taking A Side Door Into A Public Exchange

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Thus I’m getting more questions on new mechanisms, like crowd funding, or going public through the side door as a reverse merger. Being a public company isn’t cheap or easy. Of course, they can be renamed and moved, but that may negate the cost and time advantages originally sought. It takes real money to get into the game.

Merger

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6 Considerations For Going Public Via Reverse Merger

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Thus I’m getting more questions on new mechanisms, like crowd funding, or going public through the side door as a reverse merger. The cost of the shell, plus the cost of navigating the process, can add up to a half-million dollars, depending on the shell company, according to LawCast , a law firm based in West Palm Beach, Florida.

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6 Hurdles For Going Public Through A Reverse Merger

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2018

Thus I’m getting more questions on new mechanisms, like crowd funding, or going public through the side door as a reverse merger. Being a public company isn’t cheap or easy. A PwC survey averages the burden of public companies at $1.5M It takes real money to get into the game.

Merger

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Is A Reverse Merger The Way To Fund Your Startup?

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2014

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. Being a public company isn’t cheap or easy.

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Most Investors Bite Only at Specific Startup Stages

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

At this stage, your startup better be selling a commercial offering, have price and cost validated, with significant customer sales and a real revenue stream. This normally means more then 30 employees, and more then $1 million in revenue. Lesser amounts remain in the angel realm. Growth stage. Exit stage.

Investment Bankers

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6 Challenges In Going Public Through The Backdoor

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2015

Thus I’m getting more questions on new mechanisms, like crowd funding, or going public through the backdoor as a reverse merger. Being a public company isn’t cheap or easy. Experts estimate the burden of public companies at up to $1M a year. It takes real money to get into the game.

Merger

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How to Select the Right Investors for Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2010

At this stage, your startup better be selling a commercial offering, have price and cost validated, with significant customer sales and a real revenue stream. This normally means more then 30 employees, and more then $1 million in revenue. Lesser amounts remain in the angel realm. Growth stage. Exit stage.

Investment Bankers

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2011 May be the Year of the IPO for Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2011

It has been at least a decade since going public via an Initial Public Offering (IPO) has been considered a credible exit strategy for startups. If you have been giving stock options, employees will want you to be a public company, to exercise their rights to buy the stock and sell it at a profit.

IPO

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The right investors for the right stage

Gust

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

At this stage, your startup better be selling a commercial offering, have price and cost validated, with significant customer sales and a real revenue stream. This normally means more then 30 employees, and more then $1 million in revenue. Lesser amounts remain in the angel realm. Growth stage. Exit stage.

Venture Capital

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Why Uber is The Revenge of the Founders

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

— Unremarked and unheralded, the balance of power between startup CEOs and their investors has radically changed: IPOs/M&A without a profit (or at times revenue) have become the norm. 20th Century Tech Liquidity = Initial Public Offering. Hire a CEO to Go Public. Here’s why it generates bad CEO behavior.

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JOBS Act to Change Startup Funding Landscape

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 2, 2012

IPOs by year, 1980-2011, with pre-IPO last 12-month sales less than (small firms) or greater than (large firms) $50 million (2009 purchasing power). The real truth is, since the "Internet bubble" burst in 2001, initial public offerings have not resumed the vitality levels of the late 1980s, let alone the boom years of the '90s.

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8 Key Elements To Make Your Social Venture Profitable

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

It probably had more to do with the fact that they had doubled their sales annually for several years, and still managed to squeeze out a profit of $11M in their year of acquisition. They are looking for solutions that will reduce their costs by 20%, or double productivity, or cut traffic accidents by a third. billion a few years ago.

Intellectual Property

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Startup Stock Options – Why A Good Deal Has Gone Bad

Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2019

We slept under the tables, and pulled all-nighters to get to first customer ship, man the booths at trade shows or ship products to make quarterly revenue – all because it was “our” company. Essentially the company sells them the stock at zero cost, and they reverse vest. Today that’s less true.

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5 Ways to Make Your Startup a Choice Investment

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2013

The single most important ingredient of success is not the idea, but having a team in place that has impeccable integrity, can iterate the product quickly, pivot the business model as necessary, and keep costs down in the process. This requires a visible focus on the company’s revenue model, the costs to get there, and cash on hand.

Cram Down

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Startup Fairy Tales and Other Tall Tales That Venture Capitalists Tell

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. Technical progress and market traction are much slower and cost a lot more than anticipated. There are a lot of dark, hard days.

Angel Investor

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. These companies didn’t blitzscale; they scaled sustainably.”.

Cofounder

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Think Long To Succeed In The Immediate

YoungUpstarts

MAY 31, 2016

In order to be successful as an innovative company, never mind a start-up or small entrepreneurial company, it’s essential to be able to identify the few truly strategic initiatives that will most favorably impact the top revenue line. Develop and evolve your company’s product brands through your customer’s eyes. Celebrate small wins.

Technical Review

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EyeBlaster’s Second Shot at IPO: Will it Work This Time?

VC Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

T aking a company through an initial public offering (IPO) is not an easy task. Revenue inched up only two percent to $65.1 By contrast, sales had jumped 43 percent the year before. million in 2009. Net income did however increase to $9.8 million last year, from $6.2

IPO

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

If failure is defined as failing to see the projected return on investment—say, a specific revenue growth rate or date to break even on cash flow—then more than 95% of start-ups fail, based on Mr. Ghoshs research. Businesses For Sale |. Businesses For Sale |. Low Cost Franchises. Businesses For Sale |.

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