Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

SEEING THINGS FROM THE VC SIDE OF THE TABLE While I was a VC in 2007 & 2008 those were dead years because the market again evaporated due the the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). Almost no financings, many VCs and tech startups cratered for the second time in less than a decade following the dot com bursting.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2021

billion gamers worldwide will help the global games market generate revenues of $189.3 ” Let’s meet in the virtual world – Even as IRL events return, expect these virtual destinations to continue as a way to make events more accessible to a global audience, according to Ketchum. Fortnite alone made $1.8

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

According to Adena Friedman, CEO at Nasdaq, “through this effective integration of blockchain technology and global financial systems, we can realize greater operational transparency and ease of reconciliation, which can have profound implications for outdated administrative functions in the capital markets.” Underwriting. And they’re trying!

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

Today the rate of startups going public (IPO – Initial Public Offering) is up from the dead zone, but is still less than half the rate of 15 years ago. According to a recent Ernst & Young global report , 2014 was a strong year with IPOs actually outperforming other indices by 10 percent. Going public is an expensive process.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Corporate transactions including mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and initial public offerings (IPO) bring necessary capital and resources to a growing company. Do IPOs also necessitate an additional policy? In 2014, IPO activity grew substantially until it reached its current rate – the highest in the last six years.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

Cheap, mobile, social, global, massive, always-on, one-click-purchase has led to the most successful companies of our era hitting unprecedented scale early in their development and has massively shifted the value captured from post-IPO investors to pre-IPO investors as is demonstrated in the chart above. more than 5 years ago?—?and

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 31, 2020

Every expert agrees that VC investing faced a huge setback last year with the IPO flops of major companies such as WeWork, Uber, Slack, and Lyft as the facts show. The focus of the world is now being directed at critical issues such as global warming, climate change, education, poverty, gender activism — and of course, COVID-19.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Society’s newfound reliance on virtual interactions reduced the importance of location: geography is no longer a limiting factor for companies to access the best talent and raise capital from the best possible investors (and consequently, we officially announced that we are now investing globally ).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2015

For financial reasons alone, an IPO is a statistically rare phenomenon, happening just 275 times in 2014 , out of almost 500,000 startups. As an advisor and mentor to startups, I try to make sure entrepreneurs understand both the pros and cons of an IPO as an exit strategy.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Technology is, like water, flowing and seeping into nearly every sector and eventually into most of the global economy. More and more angels will be minted as the 2019 IPO class emerges. 4/ Global Trade Wars Are For Real. 6/ Venture Capital In Expansion Phase. Hundreds of new micro funds somehow keep getting into the market.

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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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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2021

We can trace the Midwest’s renaissance to Sprout Social’s successful initial public offering (IPO) , which saw the company debut on public markets at a price of $17 per share and rise to over $120 per share today. So much has gone right for the industry and it goes to show how one successful IPO can bring focus to a region.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 11, 2023

It might ‘exit’ again at a later point (anything from a sale to an IPO), but it’s no long dependent on VC funding. My dad had a medical practice and my mom founded an HR company at the kitchen table and grew it into a global powerhouse in their industry.

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deal architect

JANUARY 16, 2019

Congratulations to Infor for the new funding and potentially more when they go IPO. Here is today’s announcement: “Infor, a global leader in business cloud software specialized by industry, today announced an agreement to receive a $1.5 billion investment from.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

When he founded Netflix as a DVD rental service in 1997, Hastings had already led one company, Pure Software, from its birth to an IPO. You’ve IPOed two companies. Doing an IPO can be a great thing, but there are always consequences. How can we optimize for global distribution. Even to me that is still an amazing thing.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 3, 2019

Three years later their IPO valued the company at more than $2 billion. By delivering a new story centered on the concept of “modern malware risk,” the company re-launched with an integrated campaign themed around “Modern Malware Exposed.”

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

For startups and entrepreneurs, awareness of the stock exchanges will help prepare you for a potential public financing of your company through an initial public offering, known as an IPO. It is first on the global list of the largest stock exchanges for a reason. To get involved, there have been many trading platforms for 400 years.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2019

Global expansion. Yes, you should be going for global expansion. If you are already in the global market, then search for markets that you have not tapped into, or go for partnerships that you haven’t made yet. There is a complete process to go for an IPO. So, what you should be doing during the maturity stage, let’s see.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 24, 2017

Moreover, the company’s performance in global markets (last year the unit sell-through increased 90% in China) could work well in favor of investors. Snap Inc’s stock SNAP increased 44% from the initial IPO rate on the first trading day. Profits should rise to 7% this year, up from the 4% of the last two years. and $24.48

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

This method was perfected by Gil Elbaz and his team at Applied Semantics in LA and in what some have called “ the most important acquisition ever made by Google ” they acquired the company for $102 million before Google had even IPO’d. Deflationary Economics now favors us. Stuff you may not know about LA?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2023

In fact, the latest figures show that crowdfunding globally is expected to grow from USD 1.41 Very few successful startups need only one funding round, and venture firm offerings, as well as the IPO process, will go up in cost, complexity, and risk, as the number of current investors goes up. billion to USD 3.62 Risk is increased.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

And this is happening in mezzanine (pre-IPO) deals as well. And post IPO deals, although these tend to correct more quickly. If everybody is over-paying for early-to-mid stage deals you’d imagine that these all need to feed into a frenzied M&A and IPO market that will garner big returns for these risks investors are taking.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 30, 2017

Some companies choose an IPO path, acquisition offers or a “recap” to bring in new investors to buy out earlier investors. Since 2012, the company has received the highest possible score on the Global Impact Investment Rating System assessment of social and environmental impact. What is your plan for capital and growth?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

In fact, the latest figures show that crowdfunding globally is expected to reach $114 billion by 2021, exceeding the amounts contributed by either angel groups or VCs alone. Early crowdfunding successes have been undeniable. Way back in 2015, the Kickstarter Pebble smartwatch raised $20.3 million, smashing the prior Kickstarter record of $13.3

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

With the pandemic, climate crisis, global economic shifts and rapidly changing consumer markets, it is clear that many businesses of today will no longer be relevant tomorrow. Generating liquidity usually entails either selling the venture or an IPO. Our world is changing, and fast. pivot the business. change the CEO.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2021

Especially for entrepreneurs who have not built and sold companies before, and need this startup to be an attractive acquisition or IPO target in a few years, I can’t think of a better way to enlist outside experts and keep them motivated to help you meet the challenges of a startup. In my view, nothing could be further from the truth.

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Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

Tech IPOs Are Back – So Now What? Three of the five “blockbuster” tech IPOs I predicted have happened (LinkedIn, Groupon, Zynga) and the biggest of all (Facebook) has filed and will likely go public within the next 90 days. I see several dynamics at work in today’s IPO markets. March 8, 2012.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2014

The opportunity set is much bigger than ever (50x more users, 10x time online, mobile, social, credit-card enabled, global) … when things work they work faster and at an unprecedented scale. When companies DO IPO they are worth much more at IPO time than in the past. More value is captured more by VCs prior to an IPO.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 30, 2011

It doesn’t feel like that now because we’ve entered a mini bubble in pre IPO valuations for a segment of the tech market but this, too, shall pass. A normalization of the venture capital market will bring more rational valuations over time but should produce more stable companies and better returns for VCs and LPs.

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thebarefootvc

JANUARY 27, 2014

Last week, a chart in the Wall Street Journal listed private companies globally that have raised capital at $1 billion-plus valuations from venture capital firms. Globalization and resulting economic prosperity has created more wealth around the world. Suddenly, everyone’s worth a billion dollars. Or so it seems. Which leads to….

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 3, 2014

In advance of the IPO I reconnected with their SVP Product & User Experience Alex Kinnier, whom I know from our days together at Google. I couldn’t ask Alex specifically about the IPO or future plans but wanted to get some more info on a company that gets less press than your typical social app but is poised for an amazing run.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Unlike traditional initial public offerings (IPOs) that could take years to unfold, you may only have a couple of months before you’re public. According to global research and advisory firm Gartner, the average cost of downtime is $5,600 per minute or $336,000 every hour. Out of 111 IPOs listed in 2020, 88 of them were SPACs.

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View from Seed

MAY 3, 2022

The first is environmental – the fashion industry alone contributes to more than 10% of global carbon emissions, so being able to save millions of items from ending up in landfills and recirculating them is fundamental. Beyond that, however, are economic and even social causes.

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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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Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Pursue Global Markets 2. Pursue Global Markets. If you don’t have a business that can scale globally, then either don’t bother or just content yourself with staying small. In that same time frame, United States IPO volume declined 75% in real terms and now accounts for less than 11% of the global total. In the U.S.

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Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

In 20 years we will look back at the first few elections of the global Internet age the way we remember the smoky backrooms of elections past. Sequoia Capital recently made headlines with the NASDAQ IPO of Mecox Lane, a Chinese Internet retailer and the seventh IPO by a Chinese company backed by Sequoia in the last 18 months.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Bitmain, the world’s largest crypto mining company, filed for its IPO on the Hong Kong stock exchange. Binance and Huobi Global did not reply (Huobi’s US subsidiary did), while Kraken responded in opposition to the inquiry. Coinbase’s move is likely part of its international growth plans as well a move to stay ahead of the market.

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