The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2014

Secondly, because he had single-handedly managed to achieve something that my adopted startup hometown of London (despite a fair amount of wailing and hand-wringing) has not yet achieved; namely, an incredibly successful public flotation of a homegrown tech company listing on the local market. Companies to watch. 99designs.

Australia 146

Australia San Francisco IPO Cofounder 146

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. had its initial public offering, raising $33.8 But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. He later changed the name to Facebook.

Initial Public Offering 148

Initial Public Offering California .Net Business Plan 148

YoungUpstarts

MAY 31, 2016

In attempts to help ensure success is achieved for this next generation of potential house-hold names and industry trend setters, while at the same time showing the relevance and applicability to the spirit of these foundational principles.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Leadership Early Stage Initial Public Offering 100

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2018

It never hurts to start networking personally with all levels of investors early, but sending out teasers and business plans to every name you can find on the Internet is a waste of your time and theirs. Obviously, maturity and growth are a continuum, so the rules are never absolute.

Angel Investor 184

Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers Private Equity 184

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. had its initial public offering, raising $33.8 But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. He later changed the name to Facebook.

Entrepreneur 263

Entrepreneur Initial Public Offering California .Net 263

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. had its initial public offering, raising $33.8 But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. He later changed the name to Facebook.

Initial Public Offering 295

Initial Public Offering California .Net Business Plan 295

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

The name “investment bank” somehow always sounded like a place where I could deposit my investments, and maybe even earn a little interest. So unless your business is well established, and ready to sell or go public (Initial Public Offering - IPO), you should steer clear of investment banks.

IPO 205

IPO Silicon Valley Private Equity Initial Public Offering 205

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2014

It never hurts to start networking personally with all levels of investors early, but sending out teasers and business plans to every name you can find on the Internet is a waste of your time and theirs. Obviously, maturity and growth are a continuum, so the rules are never absolute.

Angel Investor 232

Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers Private Equity 232

ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

For most startups, it’s no secret that a significant part of their long-term plans is to go public and become the next market darling for investors. If you use history as a guide, I’m afraid you’ll find no real consensus on the matter of when to go public with your startup.

IPO 147

IPO Startup Stock Initial Public Offering 147

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

NAME Comcast. NAME Verizon Communications. NAME Yahoo. NAME Shikhar Ghosh. NAME Toby Stuart. NAME Daniel Dreymann. NAME Charles Holloway. NAME David Cowan. Domain Name/Basic Site. Why use your real name? We require the use of your full name to authenticate your identity.

Venture Capital 107

Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

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%. The concept of The Black Swan was popularized by the great Lebanese thinker and writer Nicholas Taleb in his bestseller of the same name.

Africa 104

Africa Brazil China India 104

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2010

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. had its initial public offering, raising $33.8 But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. He later changed the name to Facebook.

Initial Public Offering 221

Initial Public Offering Startup California .Net 221

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2016

It never hurts to start networking personally with all levels of investors early, but sending out teasers and business plans to every name you can find on the Internet is a waste of your time and theirs. Obviously, maturity and growth are a continuum, so the rules are never absolute.

Matching 120

Matching Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers 120

Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

Today, the signs of the new bubble are the Linked-In initial public offering (IPO), Facebook’s stratospheric valuation and the rapid rise of early-stage startup valuation. And in the last decade, we have had the dot.com bust and the housing bubble. This tech bubble is unfolding just like all the other bubbles before it.

Silicon Valley 327

Silicon Valley Stealth Valuation Mississippi 327

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2011

The name “investment bank” somehow always sounded like a place where I could somehow deposit my investments, and maybe even earn a little interest. So unless your business is well established, and ready to sell or go public (Initial Public Offering - IPO), you should steer clear of investment banks.

Silicon Valley 211

Silicon Valley Private Equity Initial Public Offering Startup 211

Berkonomics

JULY 8, 2021

The title of this insight happens to be the name of a CEO roundtable organization I belong to and have been a member since 1989 (Adaptive Business Leader Organization – or ABL).

Initial Public Offering 62

Initial Public Offering Angel Investor Stock Email 62

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). Is your name clearly associated with a powerful value proposition? Do you have strong name recognition in your market? They are not bankable!

IPO 154

IPO Initial Public Offering Naming Reputation 154

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Almost immediately, people started to dig what we were doing: Digital Trends named Localeur one of their favorite new apps of SXSW 2013 and other press followed. Those who tried to buck the conventional method experienced harsh trade-offs.”

Silicon Valley 48

Silicon Valley Technical Review Venture Capital San Francisco 48

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The reward for doing so was a liquidity event via an Initial Public Offering. For a specific startup this list is probably a few hundred names. VC’s worked with entrepreneurs to build profitable and scalable businesses, with increasing revenue and consistent profitability – quarter after quarter. Wide Adoption.

Internet 334

Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 334

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

First Name. About 14% of the technology firms that have held initial public offerings between January 2011 and the end of June 2012 went public with at least two share classes—more than twice the 6.4% Your question to the Journal Community Your comments on articles will show your real name and not a username.

Silicon Valley 42

Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 31, 2014

The title of this insight happens to be the name of a CEO roundtable organization I belong to, and have been a member since 1989 (Adaptive Business Leader Organization – or ABL).

Initial Public Offering 70

Initial Public Offering Angel Investor Stock Email 70

Scott Edward Walker

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Big firms are great for huge, complicated corporate projects – like an initial public offering, a tender offer or a public company merger. I saw all this first-hand as an associate for nearly eight years at two major law firms in New York City. Don’t Use a Big Law Firm.

Los Angeles 85

Los Angeles San Francisco New York City Silicon Valley 85

Pascal's View

MARCH 24, 2010

The notion that “posterity doesn’t matter” has unfortunately taken root in our country, and this has led to fragmented approaches to public policy solutions across the board, corroded leadership among our elected representatives, and contributed to an entitlement culture and a lack of accountability that permeate much of American society.”

Intellectual Property 52

Intellectual Property Global San Francisco Technical Review 52

Growthink Blog

MAY 10, 2012

The name is derived from the class of preferred stock investors receive in return for their capital. Stage #5: Mezzanine Financing Mezzanine capital, often provided by private equity firms, is capital provided either as equity, debt, or a convertible note that is provided to a company just prior to its Initial Public Offering.

Equity 88

Equity Mezzanine Later Stage Venture Capital 88

Growthink Blog

JULY 23, 2012

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%. The concept of The Black Swan was popularized by the great Lebanese thinker and writer Nicholas Taleb in his bestseller of the same name.

Africa 76

Africa Brazil India China 76

Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

2000: Regulation FD was passed to create a “level playing field”, reacting against whisper numbers, favored research analysts, and the “hedge fund information advantage”—all in the name of giving everyone simultaneous access to the same corporate disclosures—which absolutely did not happen. cents or 6.25

Equity 31

Equity Securities and Exchange Commission IPO Marketing 31

Pascal's View

AUGUST 22, 2009

While today these companies are household names, when they went publicthey were largely unknown. How many companies are unable to go public today because they aren’t big enough to merit the attention of the large investment banks who cater to short-term traders?

IPO 40

IPO Merger Institutional Investors Venture Capital 40