The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

As you move from startup to scaleup, and then to a corporate entity preparing for an IPO for your exit, you learn how to stay focused. Then when the building is done, there is the hiring of employees, getting in touch with vendors and suppliers. Preparing for an IPO. Starting a business is complex, time consuming, and stressful.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 4, 2021

This will be Version One’s first prospective IPO! Manny Medina of Outreach was named to Comparably’s Top 50 list for Best CEOs in 2020 as rated by employees. . Let’s ride this momentum into 2021! . Announcements. Coinbase submitted their draft registration statement on Form S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 14, 2022

Organisations in our country now trust their employees with remote and hybrid work, improving their productivity and boosting morale. Group mediclaim policies provided by startups to their employees attract hard-working talent to these entities. After doing the requisite due diligence, investors can select their preferred companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

A reverse merger is the acquisition of an already public company (usually a dormant shell) to avoid the Initial Public Offering (IPO) process and cost, to quickly get your startup on a public exchange for fund raising through visibility and selling stock.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 1, 2015

If you’re thinking about extending equity to an employee or a vendor (as in the example above), you should know that the topic is multi-faceted. If however you are giving a “normal employee” an incentive stock option plan (more on that later), that’s entirely different. Finding great employees first. What is equity compensation?

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2018

We only have work-from-home employees outside of our home state; we aren’t subject to tax in other states.”. These tax liabilities, which many companies believe don’t exist, can turn into a heavy burden in the event that a company seeks investors, financing, IPO or sale. The sale of software isn’t subject to sales tax.”.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

IPO market is broken”, positioning their offering as an alternative to capitalize on the dwindling supply of smaller IPOs, pointing out that only 18 companies completed IPOs that raised less than $50M last year, versus 557 in 1996. Revisiting our components let’s see why.

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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. Usually a small company can sell about 20 percent of its stock in an IPO. In 1999, there were 486 IPOs nationwide; just 10 years later, in 2009, there were only 63. How’s the timing?

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Common exit strategies include being acquired by another company, the sale of equity, or a management or employee buyout. Initial Public Offering (IPO). Management buyout: If you’ve built a business whose legacy you want to see continued long after you’re gone, you may want to consider turning to your employees. Liquidation.

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Start Up Blog

MAY 13, 2019

Last Friday night, I did a TV interview on ABC regarding Uber’s long awaited IPO. An IPO is when a company first becomes a publicly traded stock that anyone can buy and hold. To be clear, the founders, early investors and many employees ended the day very rich indeed. Amazon IPO 1997 – 2 years after it was founded.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2021

Many entrepreneurs never get past their first-stage focus on their innovative product, to scaling the business globally, organizing a structure to handle thousands of employees, and concentrating their focus “on the business” rather than working “in the business.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2019

A reverse merger is the acquisition of an already public company (usually a dormant shell) to avoid the Initial Public Offering (IPO) process and cost, to quickly get your startup on a public exchange for fund raising through visibility and selling stock.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 27, 2020

Well-maintained deal rooms enhance a company’s image with a buyer, quicken the pace of the deal, help maintain secrecy from employees while due diligence is in process, and lower the stress levels of all parties during the process. When to start a data room? The payoff. The post What’s a “data room” and how do you use it?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

In theory when you went public, everyone’s shares were now tradable on the stock exchange, but usually the underwriters required a six month “lockup” when company insiders (employees and investors) couldn’t sell. The IPO Bubble – August 1995 – March 2000 In August 1995 Netscape went public, and the world of start ups turned upside down.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

GameFly filed in 2010 and remains in registration, though 2011 has seen a positive start for VC-backed IPOs with 14 in Q1 2011. Now that Google’s acquisition of ITA is closed, following lenghty FTC review, it would appear Kayak is poised to proceed with their IPO in the coming months. =. Quinstreet priced at $15.00/sh

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2014

VCs like acquisitions as much as IPOs because the acquiring companies often can rationalize paying large multiples over the current valuation of the startup. It helps if the acquirer has incentives for its existing employees that tie the new acquisition’s success to those that help them.)

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 21, 2016

This way, employees, partners, and board members will all be on the same level with the understanding that information security plays a major role in the success of a company. When are we looking for funding, investors, or going IPO? Bring awareness to employees with social engineering, training, and positive reinforcement tactics.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 18, 2012

3) It will get much harder for Facebook to recruit talent, since the promise of the pre-IPO stock pop is gone. 5) Stories of how much money people made as early employees will trickle down to students, who will be more likely to join big companies and start there own businesses. 7) Expect more competition to Facebook. Entrepreneurs.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Facebook S-1: The Most Anticipated IPO in a Decade. Here’s my first look at Facebook viewed through the lens of their IPO filing. 3) Employee Stock Purchases Are a Near-Term ATM - Facebook has issued a combination of stock options and more recently restricted stock units (RSUs) as compensation to employees.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2021

You need to talk about partnerships, employee roles, distributors, and strategic alliances. Equity investors realize that they won’t see any real return until an exit occurs, such as a sale, merger, or IPO. Most entrepreneurs underestimate the resource and time requirements for scaling, and overestimate their own range of capabilities.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 16, 2016

This happens when you either sell your company ( M&A ) or go public (an IPO.) As the company goes from searching for a business model to growth , only then will they bring in a new “professional” management team to scale the company (along with a business development executive to search for an acquirer) or prepare for an IPO.

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Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Since then, the debate over IPOs has continued, with a particular focus on allegedly underpriced offerings that jump shortly after opening — the dreaded “pop.” ” As some criticism has it, this supposedly deprives companies of millions of dollars that should have been theirs if not for underpricing the IPO.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2022

The right motivated employees dilemma. If you take investor money, expect a push for hockey-stick growth and a liquidity event, like going public (IPO) or sale (M&A), to get the payback. No one wants to put in money until you have a product, and you need money to build the product. Later you need specialists and managers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2018

A reverse merger is the acquisition of an already public company (usually a dormant shell) to avoid the Initial Public Offering (IPO) process and cost, to quickly get your startup on a public exchange for fund raising through visibility and selling stock.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

More and more angels will be minted as the 2019 IPO class emerges. Influenced by the rapid growth of the bike-sharing craze in China, a savvy Uber employee spun out to create Bird. Traditional seed funds have gotten bigger, many armed with opportunity funds on top. Hundreds of new micro funds somehow keep getting into the market.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 26, 2011

In the “you knew this was coming&# category, Bazaarvoice filed for an Initial Public Offering (IPO) of it’s stock today. The company is one of the fastest growing in Austin, going from 70 employees in April 2007 to over 600 today. The news is being covered by TechCrunch and The Statesman.

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 10, 2020

With Airbnb’s IPO, I thought the time was right to take a look back at the past decade (Greylock led Airbnb’s Series A in November 2010) and reflect on what I learned from the journey. Even though the company had been on track for an IPO, it retrenched and laid off 25% of the team. HOW GREYLOCK INVESTED IN AIRBNB.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2019

By offering the advantages of your company, you will be able to find some great employees. There is a complete process to go for an IPO. After an IPO, you can retire and get a new management to work for the company. After an IPO, you can retire and get a new management to work for the company. Entering the Market.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 10, 2018

You’ll find exceptions to this rule, like Snapchat, which was operating at a loss at its IPO, when it experienced high initial trading prices due to its huge popularity and untapped monetization capabilities. There are some cases where owners end up staying on as employees, but those situations are rare.

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Berkonomics

MAY 31, 2018

It is tough to lose your best employees wanting to advance their careers. And, as in today’s story, sometimes it can mean the beginning of an amazing journey leading to a story for the ages… We’d all like to retain our best managers and employees forever or at least for as long as possible. Celebrate the transition.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2019

VC’s have just changed the ~50-year old social contract with startup employees. For most startup employee’s startup stock options are now a bad deal. As Venture Capital emerged as an industry in the mid 1970’s, investors in venture-funded startups began to give stock options to all their employees. Here’s why.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2014

A reverse merger is the acquisition of an already public company (usually a dormant shell) to avoid the Initial Public Offering (IPO) process and cost, to quickly get your startup on a public exchange for fund raising through visibility and selling stock. entrepreneur funding IPO reverse merger Stock Exchange' Marty Zwilling.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Failing at that business, terminating my employees, and shutting the doors was the most challenging thing I had done. I admire Howard Schultz for using his thinking skills in taking over a company name where he previously worked as an employee. Photo Credit: Ryan Niddel. This included health insurance and making them domestic partners.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2016

Despite the fact that the number of IPOs (Initial Public Offerings) for startups have continued to decrease, I still hear it touted often as the preferred exit strategy. I suspect the exuberance for an IPO is still being driven by the highly visible successes of several companies a few years ago, including Facebook, Yelp, and Twitter.

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Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

Attachment is what binds the employees to the organization. Selection is the primary judgment criteria for how employees are hired. But since the goal of a startup isn’t to “not fail,” but rather to succeed, here’s the correlation between these org models and IPO. BUT what happens post IPO?

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 12, 2023

And second, there is no excitement in such a company to retain employees looking for advancement. Employees who leave are replaced with people who are likely not “A” players, often causing future levels of customer service to decline. So, the decision to “go into maintenance mode” is known as “milking the cash cow” for a reason.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

To analyze what’s become of the OG Unicorns, it’s first worth noting that at the time of the 2013 post about 2/3rds of the 39 on the list had already been realized via IPO or $1B+ acquisitions. Most startups that hit this level did so via IPO or acquisition value. IPO value, $2.8B IPO value, $1.5B IPO value, $31.2B

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