VC Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

T aking a company through an initial public offering (IPO) is not an easy task. It requires months of preparation from management and a tiring roadshow process, in order to convince potential investors on the viability of the company and its plans for growth.

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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. Product Differentiation : Develop innovative products that stand out in a crowded market, fueling growth and attracting investors.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

If and when a startup gets big enough, it can pursue an initial public offering (IPO) to get listed on the stock market, and raise funds publicly. At the same time, entrepreneurs could raise funds in an open public way without having to go through the complexities of an initial public offering (IPO).

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

Here is some data from Wikipedia: Microsoft – Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. Even still, it was another five years before Microsoft went public in 1986, making him an overnight success worth $350 million. had its initial public offering, raising $33.8

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Pascal's View

MARCH 24, 2010

My remarks explained the relationship between the long-term decline in America’s global competitiveness, the impact of the capital markets crisis on new investment in research and development, and specifically addressed Senate Bill 515 , the pending U.S. legislation that will transform the U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Here is some data from Wikipedia: Microsoft – Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. Even still, it was another five years before Microsoft went public in 1986, making him an overnight success worth $350 million. had its initial public offering, raising $33.8

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Campus Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Today MIT offers support to everyone from high-school students to retired alumni on everything from developing ideas to preparing for an initial public offering, in cities as far flung as Boston and Dubai.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Even though the Initial Public Offering (IPO) alternative for a successful startup seems to be coming back, it is relatively rare. In any case, an entrepreneur in one who likes to build new products or services, and works ON their company, while a public business executive works IN the company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

Here is some data from Wikipedia: Microsoft – Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. Even still, it was another five years before Microsoft went public in 1986, making him an overnight success worth $350 million. had its initial public offering, raising $33.8

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

So unless your business is well established, and ready to sell or go public (Initial Public Offering - IPO), you should steer clear of investment banks. For these fees, they will develop a business plan, solicit investors, and negotiate term sheets to a closing.

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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. In any case, an entrepreneur in one who likes to build new products or services, and works ON their company, while a public business executive works IN the company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

Here is some data from Wikipedia: Microsoft – Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. Even still, it was another five years before Microsoft went public in 1986, making him an overnight success worth $350 million. had its initial public offering, raising $33.8

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2012

Initial Public Offering (IPO). If you are in a stable, secure marketplace, with a business that has a steady revenue stream, pay off investors, find someone you trust to run it for you, while you use the remaining cash to develop your next great idea. This used to be the preferred mode, and the quick way to riches.

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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. According to an Ernst & Young report , the number of startups that have gone public in the US over the past decade is down about 75% from the previous decade, to about 10% of startup exits.

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SiliconHills

APRIL 7, 2016

Aeglea BioTherapeutics went public on the NASDAQ Stock Market Thursday at $10 a share with an Initial Public Offering bringing in $50 million. a share. […] The post Austin-based Aeglea BioTherapeutics Goes Public and Raises $50 Million appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

Of course, growth and development are really a continuum. This is the initial excitement period, the time when you dream of riches and fantasize the life of a business owner, but you have no real plan. Funding sources specialize in certain growth stages.

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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. In any case, an entrepreneur in one who likes to build new products or services, and works ON their company, while a public business executive works IN the company.

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SiliconHills

OCTOBER 3, 2015

The biopharmaceutical company, which is developing therapies for the treatment of liver cancer, filed an amended S-1 Registration document with the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission to offer 6.2 Mirna Therapeutics became Austin’s newest publicly traded company last week.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

Most have developed their own financial “rules of thumb” that will help them decide if your startup is fundable, in conjunction with their assessments of your team and your basic business concept.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2011

Initial Public Offering (IPO). If you are in a stable, secure marketplace, with a business that has a steady revenue stream, pay off investors, find someone you trust to run it for you, while you use the remaining cash to develop your next great idea. This used to be the preferred mode, and the quick way to riches.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2011

So unless your business is well established, and ready to sell or go public (Initial Public Offering - IPO), you should steer clear of investment banks. For these fees, they will develop a business plan, solicit investors, and negotiate term sheets to a closing.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The reward for doing so was a liquidity event via an Initial Public Offering. Startups built every possible feature the founding team envisioned (using “Waterfall development,”) into a monolithic “release” of the product taking months or years to build a first product release. Rules For the New Bubble: 2011 -2014.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Of course, growth and development are really a continuum. This is the initial excitement period, the time when you dream of riches and fantasize the life of a business owner, but you have no real plan. Funding sources specialize in certain growth stages.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2010

Here is some data from Wikipedia: Microsoft – Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. Even still, it was another five years before Microsoft went public in 1986, making him an overnight success worth $350 million. had its initial public offering, raising $33.8

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Gust

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Of course, growth and development are really a continuum. This is the initial excitement period, the time when you dream of riches and fantasize the life of a business owner, but you have no real plan. Funding sources specialize in certain growth stages.

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

The cover story of the September 7 issue of Business Week reports on the “ Radical Future of R&D “, focusing on the internationalization of research and development led by global corporations such as IBM and Hewlett Packard. ” Mr. Slywotzky makes an important assertion about venture capital that is incorrect.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 14, 2012

IPO stands for Initial Public Offering, and is the first sale of a private stock to the public. If your business deals with any type of product, tangible or not, developing QA/QC is vitally important to the longevity and health of any enterprise. What You Thought It Meant: Giant Awesome Animatronic Porcupine.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

For years, the most desirable exit strategy for startup companies was to go public through an initial public offering. This 10-year-old company offers shoes and other apparel on-line at competitive prices. They had a phenomenal obsession with customer service and offered free shipping and returns.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2010

So unless your business is well established, and ready to sell or go public (Initial Public Offering - IPO), you should steer clear of investment banks. For these fees, they will develop a business plan, solicit investors, and negotiate term sheets to a closing.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

selling the company or having it complete an initial public offering). Develop a list of VC firms. VCs earn returns for their investors by finding high growth companies, making investments in them at favorable terms, guiding and nurturing them, and enacting a liquidity event (e.g., So follow this plan: 1.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 10, 2012

Providing enough capital for 1 to 2 years of operations, funds obtained from the Series A round can be used for the full gamut of needs-from product development and marketing to employee salaries. The average Series A round is between $2 million and $5 million, with the expressed goals of funding early stage business operations.

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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). Your public value proposition may not define everything you do with clients, but it’s the tip of the spear that you’re best known for.

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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. Amazon saw that the internet would change retail. Sidecar didn’t.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

based companies initially funded by venture capital between 2006 and 2011, 84% now are closely held and operating independently, 11% were acquired or made initial public offerings of stock and 4% went out of business, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. DJVentureWire : Clinical Development News, Sept. 14 hrs ago.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

gave up 70% of the company to American Research & Development Corp. 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% In 1957, computer maker Digital Equipment Corp.

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Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

To be clear, the sum of all these parts means that, in the US, the public marketplace for companies with less than $500 million in market cap is a Ghost Town. The NVCA has developed research going back forty years showing that over 90% of the job growth created by venture-backed companies occurs AFTER their IPO.

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Pascal's View

MARCH 9, 2010

To address the broader point about accuracy in book valuation, I am concerned that the developing industry standard for venture capital is at risk of going too far while providing no real benefit to investors.

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