ReadWriteStart

JULY 20, 2023

While venture-backed startups struggle to find relief amidst a backlog of richly priced ventures, some tech companies are defying expectations and going public with resounding triumphs. Why are software companies, especially smaller ones, struggling with profitability despite being in high-demand sectors like SaaS?

IPO 107

IPO Startup Initial Public Offering eCommerce 107

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

At this stage, you need investment bankers to negotiate a merger or acquisition (M&A), go private, or help you go public with an Initial Public Offering (IPO). Angels may be less demanding, but typically add less value. Friends and family hopefully believe fully in you, and just want you to show them success.

Investment Bankers 241

Investment Bankers Venture Capital Startup Initial Public Offering 241

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2014

It’s time to scale up and I need money to keep up with demand.” The new investors you need at this stage are investment bankers, private equity, or competitors, to buy you out via merger or acquisition (M&A), or to go public with an Initial Public Offering (IPO). Congratulations!

Angel Investor 232

Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers Private Equity 232

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2012

Initial Public Offering (IPO). Shareholders are demanding, and liability concerns are high. For bigger companies, it’s a more efficient and quicker way to grow their revenue than creating new products organically. This used to be the preferred mode, and the quick way to riches.

Exit Strategy 241

Exit Strategy Initial Public Offering IPO Startup 241

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

In the old days, every entrepreneur dreamed of someday taking their startup public, and making it a multi-national powerhouse. Public stockholders are more easily swayed by emotion and the activities of the crowd, than real market conditions. Startup founders don’t fit in a public company.

IPO 242

IPO SEC Prospectus Startup 242

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2010

At this stage, you need investment bankers to negotiate a merger or acquisition (M&A), go private, or help you go public with an Initial Public Offering (IPO). Angels may be less demanding, but typically add less value. Friends and family hopefully believe fully in you, and just want you to show them success.

Investment Bankers 231

Investment Bankers Venture Capital Startup Initial Public Offering 231

Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Try these statistics on for size, from 1999 to today Asia’s share of the world’s Initial Public Offerings grew from 12% to 66%. And an environment that encourages and demands learning and constant improvement of people and processes. 7 Companies in China have raised more than $1 billion in an IPO this year.

Africa 104

Africa Brazil China India 104

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2016

It’s time to scale up and I need money to keep up with demand.” The new investors you need at this stage are investment bankers, private equity, or competitors, to buy you out via merger or acquisition (M&A), or to go public with an Initial Public Offering (IPO). Congratulations!

Matching 120

Matching Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2011

Initial Public Offering (IPO). Shareholders are demanding, and liability concerns are high. For bigger companies, it’s a more efficient and quicker way to grow their revenue than creating new products organically. This used to be the preferred mode, and the quick way to riches.

Exit Strategy 231

Exit Strategy Initial Public Offering Startup IPO 231

Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

Today, the signs of the new bubble are the Linked-In initial public offering (IPO), Facebook’s stratospheric valuation and the rapid rise of early-stage startup valuation. It sent a signal that there is an irrational demand for tech IPOs. And in the last decade, we have had the dot.com bust and the housing bubble.

Silicon Valley 327

Silicon Valley Stealth Valuation Mississippi 327

Gust

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

At this stage, you need investment bankers to negotiate a merger or acquisition (M&A), go private, or help you go public with an Initial Public Offering (IPO). Angels may be less demanding, but typically add less value. Friends and family hopefully believe fully in you, and just want you to show them success.

Venture Capital 171

Venture Capital Investment Bankers Angel Investor Initial Public Offering 171

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 11, 2015

With the daily demands of running a business along with the financial pressures and challenges inherent in early-stage companies, a business valuation may not be the first thing an entrepreneur thinks of when he awakes each morning. by Janet Chase, Kaufman Rossin.

Valuation 100

Valuation Stock Options CPA Merger 100

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The reward for doing so was a liquidity event via an Initial Public Offering. But the bubble mantra of get “big fast” and “first mover advantage” demanded tens of millions more to create a “brand.” They taught you about customers, markets and profits. Startups still required millions of dollars of funding.

Internet 334

Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 334

Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

I believe that, if he understood the reality of the venture capital industry today and its inextricable link to the Initial Public Offering (IPO) drought, his otherwise well-written article would have taken a markedly different direction. Slywotzky makes an important assertion about venture capital that is incorrect.

IPO 38

IPO Venture Capital America Marketing 38

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 20, 2012

Examples of firms that historically have been Bankable Advisors could include Goldman Sachs (initial public offerings), McKinsey (strategy consulting), and IBM (computing). that caters to a demanding New York clientele. Executives eagerly await his calls and visits.

IPO 154

IPO Initial Public Offering Naming Reputation 154

Growthink Blog

JULY 23, 2012

Try these statistics on for size, from 1999 to today Asia’s share of the world’s Initial Public Offerings grew from 12% to 66%. And an environment that encourages and demands learning and constant improvement of people and processes. And with their capital and confidence, China and India are stretching their wings.

Africa 76

Africa Brazil India China 76

Gust

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Of course, you need to listen for biases, but local angel group leaders can quickly tell you who the bad angels and good angels are, and what kind of terms they typically demand. The investment community in any geographic area is not that large, and most investors have relationships or knowledge of most of the others.

Due Diligence 119

Due Diligence Entrepreneur Offshore Angel Groups 119

Pascal's View

AUGUST 22, 2009

Such market power allows bankers to shapes the profile of those companies worthy of going public to favor the natural demand from their largest clients: short-term trading focused hedge funds and large institutional investors that demand highly liquid public securities.

IPO 40

IPO Merger Institutional Investors Venture Capital 40

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

About 14% of the technology firms that have held initial public offerings between January 2011 and the end of June 2012 went public with at least two share classes—more than twice the 6.4% Founders cant demand such concessions unless their companies are doing well.

Silicon Valley 42

Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

Pascal's View

MARCH 9, 2010

There has been a multi-year move among auditors, driven by demand for greater transparency in understanding the process behind the book valuation of private, illiquid investments, to bring more of a “mark to market” approach in the way the general partners of private equity partnerships value their portfolios.

Government 31

Government Private Equity Institutional Investors Venture Capital 31