Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. Statistica reports that almost 20 percent more companies went public in 2018 versus 2017. Cost of entry for a startup is at an all-time low. Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. According to a report just out, a record 156 operating companies went public in the U.S. Cost of entry for a startup is at an all-time low. Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups. It’s not too late to start. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2018

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. Bloomberg reports that forty-nine percent more companies went public in 2017 versus 2016. Cost of entry for a startup is at an all-time low. Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. Cost of entry for a startup is at an all-time low. Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups. Two of these, Uber and Xiaomi, are already above $40 billion. Thus a record number of entrepreneurs (and employees) are getting rich.

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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). Before social media connected billions of people, bad behavior stayed behind closed doors. The founders.

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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. Are you ready to answer to the new public stockholders and accept responsibility for both the good and the bad as it unfolds in an uncertain future?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Social media is littered with tales of companies that withered under the pressure of hypergrowth, were crushed by so-called ‘toxic V.C.s’ And at what cost? or were forced to raise too much venture capital? Those who tried to buck the conventional method experienced harsh trade-offs.”

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