Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2018

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. Investors call this the seed stage , where money is required to build a market and a real product. It’s time to scale up and I need money to keep up with demand.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

Companies at this stage must have a large market, good traction, and be focused on scaling infrastructure and market adoption. 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). Exit stage.

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Investment Bankers Venture Capital Startup Initial Public Offering 241

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2014

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. Investors call this the seed stage , where money is required to build a market and a real product. It’s time to scale up and I need money to keep up with demand.”

Angel Investor 232

Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers Private Equity 232

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. Violent market swings usually hit public companies first. Private companies in less-relevant market segments can often fly under the radar in turbulent times like the recent recession.

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IPO SEC Prospectus Startup 242

Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Pursue Global Markets 2. Pursue Global Markets. 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%. trillion, by 2020, equivalent to bringing a whole new market the size of Brazil online. These are fantastic new markets for U.S.

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Africa Brazil China India 104

Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

capital markets are essential and intimately linked to new funding commitments to basic scientific research. million just to replace losses from the current recession, then an additonal 10 million to keep up with population growth and to spark demand over the next decade. In the 1990s the U.S. million a year. ” FULL STOP.

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IPO Venture Capital America Marketing 38

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2012

Initial Public Offering (IPO). Shareholders are demanding, and liability concerns are high. There may be a natural catastrophe, like 9/11, or the market you counted on could implode. For bigger companies, it’s a more efficient and quicker way to grow their revenue than creating new products organically.

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Exit Strategy Initial Public Offering IPO Startup 241

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Companies at this stage must have a large market, good traction, and be focused on scaling infrastructure and market adoption. 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). Exit stage.

Investment Bankers 231

Investment Bankers Venture Capital Startup Initial Public Offering 231

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2016

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. Investors call this the seed stage , where money is required to build a market and a real product. It’s time to scale up and I need money to keep up with demand.”

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Matching Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers 120

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.

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Silicon Valley Stealth Valuation Mississippi 327

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2011

Initial Public Offering (IPO). Shareholders are demanding, and liability concerns are high. There may be a natural catastrophe, like 9/11, or the market you counted on could implode. For bigger companies, it’s a more efficient and quicker way to grow their revenue than creating new products organically.

Exit Strategy 231

Exit Strategy Initial Public Offering Startup IPO 231

Gust

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Companies at this stage must have a large market, good traction, and be focused on scaling infrastructure and market adoption. 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). Exit stage.

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Venture Capital Investment Bankers Angel Investor Initial Public Offering 171

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The Golden Age (1970 – 1995): Build a growing business with a consistently profitable track record (after at least 5 quarters,) and go public when it’s time. Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability.

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Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 334

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. When does a startup company need a business valuation?

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 20, 2012

And when you can become the George Clooney of your market, it will be great for business. Just like the Bankable Stars you see in Hollywood, there are advisors and service providers in every market, who like their West Coast brethren are highly sought after and bring in very high fees. that caters to a demanding New York clientele.

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IPO Initial Public Offering Naming Reputation 154

Growthink Blog

JULY 23, 2012

Well, for starters they a) pursue global Markets b) place company culture above all else and c) They embrace the Black Swan within and without. They Pursue Global Markets. 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%.

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Africa Brazil India China 76

Pascal's View

AUGUST 22, 2009

On Monday, August 10, Barron’s ran a story “Does the IPO Market Shun Smaller Companies?”, The collateral effect of this market reality is that the vast majority of emerging VC-backed companies are effectively barred from going public. jobs today. Mergers trigger job losses; IPO’s create jobs.

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IPO Merger Institutional Investors Venture Capital 40

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Loading… Markets. 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. Footnotes*.

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Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

Pascal's View

MARCH 9, 2010

Putting that point aside, for a moment, what is absent is a quoted liquid market in their equity and debt securities, which means that the determination of the book value of those private companies is necessarily subjective.

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