Growthink Blog

JUNE 4, 2012

Why the full future for Facebook and the performance of its stock is yet to be written, as of today it is selling at prices significantly less than at which it traded on popular, private secondary markets like SharesPost and Second Market as recently as three months ago. Compare that to today's financial markets. read more.

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Private Equity Stock IPO Equity 72

abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

On June 18, Aswath Damodaran , a finance professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business, published an article on FiveThirtyEight titled “ Uber Isn’t Worth $17 Billion. As a result, most models are used as a rough guide to see if you are “in the ball park,” or to see if a particular stock is either wildly under-valued or over-valued.

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San Francisco San Jose Marketing Technical Review 111

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. For example, Amazon’s market is, well, everything.

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ithacaVC

DECEMBER 14, 2011

As most of you probably know, LP is one of the fundamental economic attributes of preferred stock that preferred shareholders enjoy. Yes, it is possible to issue preferred stock without liquidation preference, but that is rarely done. Series B round = $5mm and the Series B preferred stock is participating with a 2x LP.

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Liquidation Preference LP Preferred Stock Liquidity Event 49

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

It’s meant to support and grow a business until an “exit” in the form of an IPO, a merger or acquisition, or in less than ideal scenarios, a company shutdown. And, if you’re a public company, you get daily real-time feedback on at least the perception of your progress, as measured by the stock price. What about in the public markets?

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Lean Venture Capital Conversion IPO 108

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

As the parlance goes, it’s the quiet ones you need to watch; Supply@ME Capital PLC (LSE: SYME) has done the unthinkable and produced a blockchain-powered offering that could truly upend capital financing. The process works via a “true sale” of a client company’s stock inventory to special purpose vehicles (SPV) incorporated by SYME.

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Balance Sheet Stock Europe IPO 290

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

Why the Unicorn Financing Market Just Became Dangerous…For All Involved. The pressures of lofty paper valuations, massive burn rates (and the subsequent need for more cash), and unprecedented low levels of IPOs and M&A, have created a complex and unique circumstance which many Unicorn CEOs and investors are ill-prepared to navigate.

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IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Virtual Stock Exchange. Loading… Personal Finance. Personal Finance. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Stock Quotes. MarketWatch. SmartMoney. SmartMoney.

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Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Virtual Stock Exchange. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Stock Quotes. Less than 1% are currently in IPO registration. Finance, Banking, Loans, etc. AllThingsDigital.

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Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

Austin Startup

AUGUST 1, 2017

TL;DR: In a market that has historically idolized huge, splashy financings and exits, an increasing number of entrepreneurs are realizing that everyone else’s definition of success — particularly among certain large VCs — isn’t necessarily aligned with their own. And large checks require very large exits to achieve good returns.

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Liquidation Preference Common Stock Valuation Silicon Valley 48

Scott Edward Walker

JUNE 9, 2011

As many of you know, VC investors are typically issued shares of preferred stock, not common stock. Indeed, preferred stock, as the name suggests, is preferable to (and more valuable than) common stock because it grants certain key rights to the holders, one of which is a conversion right.

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Term Sheet Conversion Rights Venture Capital Liquidation Preference 60

Professor VC

DECEMBER 8, 2015

I think we will see more of these in 2016 and beyond as IPOs are still far and few between and unicorns struggle to justify their stratospheric valuations. Obviously, Musk and Thiel both did fine off the eventual Paypal IPO (and even better subsequently with Facebook and Tesla). At the IPO, Musk held a 14.2%

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

It was one of the year's most successful IPOs so far, and has been heralded as a "landmark moment" for cryptocurrency's entrance into mainstream investing. Just before the IPO, I had a far-reaching conversation with co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong as he approached this major milestone for the company he co-founded back in 2012.

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IPO Cofounder Technical Review Government 113

The Next Web

AUGUST 14, 2013

But we had a solid product, strong weekly revenue growth (10% week over week), and two distribution/marketing channels that were already paying dividends. A convertible note is actually a debt instrument that converts to equity upon certain events occurring (usually a series A financing event). Surviving Until You Are Ready to Raise.

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Founder Incubator Cofounder Accredited Investor 142

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 1, 2020

Even if they were, startup employees usually don't hold more than 10% of the company's overall stock and less than 10% of the company's employees were black at the time of the IPO. I don't have to tell you what the racial distribution of the group benefitting looks like relative to those doing the work. And investors?

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Michigan Deal Flow Accredited Investor Equity 117

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

free, distributed source code control management system. easy business finance software. YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents. Y Combinator : They provide a series of AA equity financing documents that are written with simpler words so start-up companies will have an easier starting point. Startup Threads.

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Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Meanwhile, the rash of early liquidity and recent IPOs — unsatisfying as they were — gave liquidity to thousands of employees at large companies, and a subset of those made very real money. This time around, there has been an explosion at the early stages, and the very late pre-IPO growth stages. November 29, 2012.

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Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93