Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 31, 2019
In the old days, every entrepreneur dreamed of easily taking their startup public, and making it big. Smart entrepreneurs are just now starting to look at this option again, due to its unpredictability and the challenges of running a public company. Startup founders don’t fit in a public company.
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 11, 2017
In the old days, every entrepreneur dreamed of easily taking their startup public, and making it big. Smart entrepreneurs are just now starting to look at this option again, due to its unpredictability and the challenges of running a public company. Startup founders don’t fit in a public company.
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David Teten
AUGUST 19, 2019
Though RBI will displace some traditional equity VC, its much bigger impact will be to expand the pool of capital available for early-stage entrepreneurs. . John Borchers, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Decathlon Capital, claims to be the largest revenue-based financing investor in the US. of founders raise VC; the other 99.4%
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 1, 2015
In the old days, every entrepreneur dreamed of easily taking their startup public, and making it big. Smart entrepreneurs now avoid this option like the plague, due to its unpredictability and the challenges of running a public company. Startup founders don’t fit in a public company. Marty Zwilling.
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 29, 2022
In the old days, every entrepreneur planned on taking their startup public, and making it big. Smart entrepreneurs are now starting to look at this option again, as well as the challenges of running a public company. Startup founders don’t fit in a public company. Startups going public are laid open to competitors and critics.
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. In my view, the key reasons that IPOs have lost their luster from an entrepreneur and investor perspective include the following: The US IPO process seems broken. Startup founders don’t fit in a public company.
Feld Thoughts
AUGUST 14, 2018
I spent the weekend with a friend from the last 1990s who was the lead banker on the Interliant IPO (I was a co-founder and co-chairman.) If you like to read IPO prospectuses, here’s the final S-1 filing after INIT went effective and started trading on July 8, 1999.
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