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. By focusing on revenue streams, cost management, and operational efficiency, tech companies can navigate the path to success.

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IPO Startup Initial Public Offering eCommerce 107

Berkonomics

JANUARY 7, 2021

How many of them, particularly in technology, were able to start a company, supply all the funding, and share no management tasks or equity with others, and still grow the company to any significant size, worthy of a multi-million-dollar opportunity to cash out at exit? Two: Co-management.

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Liquidity Event Pre-Money Valuation Cofounder Initial Public Offering 96

The Startup Magazine

MAY 4, 2018

Thus far, he has managed and operated multiple companies that attained enough success to serve as conversation-starting topics for other entrepreneurs. The Ever-Changing Nature of Business. An individual who has been around long enough to see almost every type of entity structure in person is Rusty Tweed. The Involved Parties.

Limited Liability Company 112

Limited Liability Company Initial Public Offering LLC Salary 112

SiliconHills

OCTOBER 2, 2016

The good news is there is an Initial Public Offering or IPO market, said Daniel Klausner, managing director of PricewaterhouseCoopers based in New York. “At At times, I think it’s been dormant or hidden,” he said. September has been a great month.” But overall the IPO market in the U.S.

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IPO Initial Public Offering New York Marketing 89

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2015

The visibility of Google, Facebook and a few others continues to propagate the myth that the ultimate objective of every entrepreneur should be to take their startups public via an initial public offering at the earliest opportunity. Everyone thinks this is the route to become the next billionaire like Mark Zuckerberg.

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IPO Initial Public Offering Entrepreneur Private Equity 120

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. 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 In April, 1996, Yahoo!

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Initial Public Offering Startup California .Net 297

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. 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 In April, 1996, Yahoo!

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Initial Public Offering California .Net Business Plan 148

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. Opening your company to the public will change the way you do business, from reinvesting returns for the future, to maximizing growth each quarter. After a record low of 39 U.S.

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IPO Founder Exit Strategy Investment Bankers 224

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. 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 In April, 1996, Yahoo!

Entrepreneur 263

Entrepreneur Initial Public Offering California .Net 263

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

A few, like Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), actually do provide management services to startups, invest in startups, or provide early-stage venture capital, but that is not called an investment service and is part of a function called Emerging Technologies, or sometimes Private Equity.

IPO 205

IPO Silicon Valley Private Equity Initial Public Offering 205

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. Opening your company to the public will change the way you do business, from reinvesting returns for the future, to maximizing growth each quarter. After a record low of 39 U.S.

Exit Strategy 239

Exit Strategy IPO Investment Bankers Entrepreneur 239

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. 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 In April, 1996, Yahoo!

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Initial Public Offering California .Net Business Plan 295

Berkonomics

JULY 8, 2021

The organization, like Vistage, manages roundtables of CEOs meeting monthly in small groups, where they discuss their mutual challenges and help solve each other’s complex problems, acting as an informal board of advisors. More importantly it is one requiring that you spend some amount of your time looking for signs of change.

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Initial Public Offering Angel Investor Stock Email 62

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. Opening your company to the public will change the way you do business, from reinvesting returns for the future, to maximizing growth each quarter. Only about a dozen U.S.

Exit Strategy 235

Exit Strategy IPO Investment Bankers Entrepreneur 235

Berkonomics

JUNE 15, 2017

From the moment such an investor looks seriously at your company, the investor or VC partner is thinking of the end game, the ultimate sale of the company or even of an eventual initial public offering. There is no middle ground. Taking money from these sources involves resetting priorities over time. That’s just the facts.

Liquidity Event 97

Liquidity Event Initial Public Offering Dividend Valuation 97

Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Try these statistics on for size, from 1999 to today Asia’s share of the world’s Initial Public Offerings grew from 12% to 66%. Each year, Growthink reviews hundreds of startup and emerging company opportunities and selects those with the best management teams, market opportunities, and financial prospects.

Africa 104

Africa Brazil China India 104

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. Statistica reports that almost 20 percent more companies went public in 2018 versus 2017. An unprecedented number of startups, 427 at last count, are now valued above $1 billion, according to CB Insights. The median deal size is back over $100 million.

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North America Incubator Initial Public Offering Exit Strategy 320

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2011

A few, like Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), actually do provide management services to startups, invest in startups, or provide early-stage venture capital, but that is not called an investment service and is part of a function called Emerging Technologies, or sometimes Private Equity.

Silicon Valley 211

Silicon Valley Private Equity Initial Public Offering Startup 211

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2010

Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. 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 In April, 1996, Yahoo!

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Initial Public Offering Startup California .Net 221

Berkonomics

JUNE 12, 2014

It is rare when one person starts a company, supplies all the funding, and shares no management tasks or equity with others, and still grows the company to any significant size, worthy of a multi-million dollar opportunity to cash out at exit. So co-management is the second group to share in the bounty upon a liquidity event.

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Liquidity Event Pre-Money Valuation Cofounder Initial Public Offering 85

Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 12, 2009

A C corp is also the easiest type of entity to take public in an initial public offering. Management is accountable to the board of directors and therefore has the ability to transact business without stockholder participation in each decision. Governance/Structure.

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LLC Stock Options Preferred Stock Stock 61

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 31, 2014

The organization, like Vistage, manages roundtables of CEOs meeting monthly in small groups, where they discuss their mutual challenges and help solve each other’s complex problems, acting as an informal board of advisors. More importantly it is one requiring that you spend some amount of your time looking for signs of change.

Initial Public Offering 70

Initial Public Offering Angel Investor Stock Email 70

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2010

A few, like Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), actually do provide management services to startups, invest in startups, or provide early-stage venture capital, but that is not called an investment service and is part of a function called Emerging Technologies, or sometimes Private Equity.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Private Equity Startup Initial Public Offering 120

Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

” Mr. Slywotzky is an “author of several books on profitability and growth” and currently a partner at the management consulting firm Oliver Wyman. The magazine includes a story written by Adrian Slywotzky , “How Science Can Create Millions of New Jobs.”

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IPO Venture Capital America Marketing 38

Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2019

Instead of a startup going public six to eight years after it was founded to raise capital to grow the company, today companies can to $50M+ funding rounds is a deferring the need for an Initial Public Offering to 10 or more years after a company is founded. And you’re working just as hard.

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Stock Options Stock Vesting Common Stock 333

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

It probably had more to do with the fact that they had doubled their sales annually for several years, and still managed to squeeze out a profit of $11M in their year of acquisition. However, that wasn’t the main reason they were acquired by Amazon for $1.2 billion a few years ago. Ends with a winning legacy for customers and investors.

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Intellectual Property Initial Public Offering Merger Acquisition 48

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

20th Century Tech Liquidity = Initial Public Offering. In the 20th century tech companies and their investors made money through an Initial Public Offering (IPO). A founder’s lack of credibility/experience in growing and managing a large company hindered a company that wanted to go public.

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Founder Technical Review CTO Hire IPO 245

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2013

I like the work just published by Bob Rice in “ The Alternative Answer ,” which does a great job of summarizing the investment universe, starting with the “conventional” stocks, bonds, and real estate, but moving on through more esoteric alternatives, including hedge funds, private equity, real assets, managed futures, and finally venture funding.

Cram Down 269

Cram Down Angel Investor Intellectual Property Venture Capital 269

Growthink Blog

MAY 23, 2011

With this capital, the company propels itself to $50 million+ in revenues, and to either a sale to a strategic acquirer or to an initial public offering. This venture capital financing - usually between $3 and $10 million - is the first of a number of rounds of outside investment over a period of three to five years.

Angel Investor 112

Angel Investor Venture Capital Sweat Equity Cram Down 112

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2018

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. Bloomberg reports that forty-nine percent more companies went public in 2017 versus 2016. An unprecedented number of startups, almost 200 at last count, are now valued above $1 billion, according to a recent Forbes article.

Entrepreneur 166

Entrepreneur Valuation Incubator Initial Public Offering 166

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. According to a report just out, a record 156 operating companies went public in the U.S. An unprecedented number of startups, easily 25 and possibly exceeding 40, are valued today at $1 billion or more, according to a recent NY Times article.

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IPO Entrepreneur Social Media Startup 273

Growthink Blog

MAY 10, 2012

With this funding, the company often perfects its business plan and starts building its management team in order to position itself for its next round of funding. Put everything else on your "wish list" to buy with revenues from sales or additional financing. Hopefully this lays out the different types of funding you can get and when.

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Equity Mezzanine Later Stage Venture Capital 88

Berkonomics

JANUARY 27, 2010

From the moment such an investor looks seriously at your company, the investor or VC partner is thinking of the end game, the ultimate sale of the company or even of an eventual initial public offering. There is no middle ground. Taking money from these sources involves resetting priorities over time. That’s just the facts.

Liquidity Event 67

Liquidity Event Initial Public Offering Dividend Valuation 67

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 2, 2012

The real truth is, since the "Internet bubble" burst in 2001, initial public offerings have not resumed the vitality levels of the late 1980s, let alone the boom years of the '90s. Doing so would reduce costs for companies while still adhering to the first principle of investor protection.".

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IPO Startup Florida Seed Capital 121

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). There are also individual Bankable Advisors who work inside Bankable Firms — a good example is Bain’s loyalty expert Fred Reichheld. The star is.

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IPO Initial Public Offering Naming Reputation 154

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. Conglomerates, which were the engines of growth and vitality in the twentieth century, have proven themselves unable to innovate, and have a tarnished public image due to financial woes and poor management. Women are a growing force as entrepreneurs.

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IPO Angel Investor Startup Incubator 120

Gust

DECEMBER 28, 2011

Without explaining why the average venture capital firm is managing larger funds today than a decade ago, let me describe how this change has impacted the startup funding landscape. With more money to invest per principal, venture capital has chosen to invest more money per round of investment.

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IPO Venture Capital Entrepreneur Angel Investor 153