Last week''s successful IPO of e-commerce giant Wayfair (market cap $3B) and this week''s impending IPO of Hubspot (if it prices in the range, market cap $600m) has many in the Boston tech community celebrating. Executive teams need to focus their staff post-IPO on a new mission. MORE
Even though the Initial Public Offering (IPO) alternative for a successful startup seems to be coming back into vogue, it is relatively rare. IPOs in 2008, the market was up to a still trivial 159 in 2011. entrepreneur startup liability risk IPO business MORE
MindBody, Inc, launched an IPO today, the first Pasadena Angels company to achieve that milestone. Blog General News Product/Technology Alumni Angel Angel Capital Angel Groups Angel Investing Angels Exit Strategies Exit Strategy Fundraising Intellectual Property IPO MindBody Mindbody Software Pasadena Angels Public Rick Stollmeyer Startup Companies MORE
The graph below shows the trend of exits – IPO vs. M&A over the past handful of years (side note here that Foundry, like many firms, considers an IPO a financing event, not an exit in and of itself; although obviously it can be a path to an exit shortly thereafter). MORE
Despite the fact that the number of IPOs (Initial Public Offerings) for startups have continued to stay low, I still hear it touted often as the preferred exit strategy. million spent directly on their IPO, in addition to underwriter fees of 5 to 7 percent of proceeds. MORE
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, July 15, 2010 Some IPO speculation Inspired by Steve Blank’s post today about the “lost decade&# of IPO’s , I’d like to make some predictions. The fact that IPO’s are disappearing makes intuitive sense to me. MORE
If the company was successful, this quickly led to an IPO – a very happy ending for the entrepreneur, the angels, and the venture capitalists. The two major differences in the exit environment in the past decade are (1) the disappearance of the IPO market and (2) the rapidly increasing size of the average VC fund. Larger VC rounds and the lack of early IPOs have also resulted in substantially longer pre-exit waiting periods for venture capitalists. MORE
The graph below shows the trend of exits – IPO vs. M&A over the past handful of years (side note here that Foundry, like many firms, considers an IPO a financing event, not an exit in and of itself; although obviously it can be a path to an exit shortly thereafter). MORE
The post Xeris Pharmaceuticals Files to Raise $75 Million in an IPO appeared first on SiliconHills. MORE
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? MORE
The upcoming Facebook IPO is a very interesting scenario. There are a lot of facts and figures being thrown around, but from my point of view I’m interested in just a few of them and what they mean for tech entreprepreneurs: 100 Billion Valuation: If the IPO is successful the expected valuation is 33 times their current revenue. Which means there will be more startups being funded by the FB IPO gold rush. MORE
What do you think of the Groupon IPO? That sandwiches it right between Google and Webvan as the largest IPOs in term of valuation. I considered the Groupon IPO pricing to be a little expensive. The Groupon IPO also demonstrated that investors see value in the deal space. MORE
If you are banking on college orders you need to have made a serious ding in the wholesale promo market Pre-IPO, and since that has not occurred yet, I bet it will never occur. equity going public Investment Banking IPO IPOs q3 2016 ipo q4 2016 ipo rants Yeti Holdings MORE
Every successful technology company raises money throughout its lifecycle, perhaps starting with a seed investment and progressing through Series A, B, C, late-stage investments, and, for the most successful companies, an IPO. This was the recent case with the Box.com IPO. MORE
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. MORE
Dual-class voting structures are receiving a lot of attention these days along with intense publicity related to the Facebook IPO , following in the wake of other recent tech IPOs with a similar structure such as Zynga and LinkedIn. MORE
Like most people, I had the opportunity to review Facebook’s IPO filing yesterday and admit that, like Apple’s recent earnings announcement, this is pretty damn impressive. Entrepreneurship Facebook IPO Silicon Valley VCHere are a couple of lessons worth reinforcing: 1) People’s view of what is normal and acceptable in emergent online activities is constantly evolving. MORE
Square filed its S-1 several weeks ago and is now in the middle of its IPO road show process. Anyone who’s familiar with the IPO process knows that companies state an “initial” range as they begin their road show. MORE
SEPTEMBER 11, 2013
Today the rate of startups going public (IPO – Initial Public Offering) is at an all-time low, and most entrepreneurs avoid this option like the plague, knowing the process is painful, and public company executives are seen as greedy sharks. MORE
Based on the final report for 2012 from Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), it may appear that IPOs are back as a viable startup exit strategy. billion from 49 listings, and represented the strongest annual period for IPOs since 2000. MORE
The NYSE recently published a book – The Entrepreneur’s Roadmap – From Concept to IPO that I’ve been involved in. The post Book: The Entrepreneur’s Roadmap – From Concept to IPO appeared first on Feld Thoughts. I wrote a chapter and made a number of introductions to the team working on the book that resulted in a number of other chapters. The book covers a variety of stages of company development, including: The Seed Stage: Starting a Company. MORE
He suggests that the lack of NYC tech IPOs compared to Boston is a result of: The IPO culture hasn’t fully permeated NYC? Perhaps Boston CEOs, CFOs and boards feel more pressure to go public sooner and/or are comfortable with the IPO process because they community has done it so many times. Perhaps the poor performance of the Facebook IPO soured Wall Street on the consumer sector and advertising-based business models? MORE
As a follow up to yesterday's pos t on this topic, here's another chart from Mark Suster : So using the math I laid out yesterday (roughly 1,000 startups funded each year by VCs), this means that on average between 1% and 3% of venture funded startups get to an IPO. MORE
Startup IPO Market: A Fickle Mistress. The IPO market, she is a fickle mistress. In the first half of 2011, the IPO markets were looking strong for VC-backed companies. What will happen for the startup IPO market? How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. MORE
According to the filing, the company expects revenue of nearly $1 billion for 2017, and has been profitable since 2015. Going Public MORE
The social media platform's parent company Snap confidentially filed for an IPO that could fetch a valuation of up to $40 billion MORE
" Current IPO activity feedback seems to support their excitement. IPO market showed more activity than any other first quarter since 2000, with 64 companies raising $10.6 That is more than double the number of IPOs in the first quarter of 2013. MORE
Bill Gurley penned a fantastic post about IPOs yesterday. Bill presents a very compelling case that IPOs still have a role to play in the startup ecosystem and he also puts forth some strong data suggesting that the IPO market is coming back and good companies are taking advantage of it. Bill writes: One recent argument knocking the IPO is as follows: Wall Street is too short-term focused, and that if you want to run your company for the long-term you should remain private. MORE
Twitter’s IPO has garnered a ton of attention in the tech and popular press. So their revenue figures, pre IPO financing and ownership, and other info is all widely available. Growth IPOs Are Back. MORE
If you are banking on college orders you need to have made a serious ding in the wholesale promo market Pre-IPO, and since that has not occurred yet, I bet it will never occur. equity going public Investment Banking IPO IPOs q3 2016 ipo q4 2016 ipo rants Yeti Holdings MORE
Enterprise tech is driving an IPO renaissance, and a whole bunch ofmarket debuts are still to come. Going Public MORE
Finance Grow fast business growth hostile takeover investors ipo money raising capital selling stockGoing public is much more involved than the prestige of seeing your company name in lights on the NASDAQ or NYSE ticker. Such a momentous decisions has to come with a huge amount of forethought. MORE
The name is too long so I call it the "sub $1bn IPO bill." Will Sarbanes-Oxley Changes Help The IPO Market? There's a bill in Congress to reduce the regulatory burdens for public companies that have less than $1bn in revenues and/or have been public for less than five years. " This is a good bill. This undoes some of the bad stuff done to smaller public companies in Sarbox. It should become law. I hope it will. Here are some blog posts on this topic. MORE
Lotte Group indicated it will shelve what may have been a $4.5 billion initial public offering for its hotel unit, the world’s biggest so far this year, after widening investigations pushed the South Korean conglomerate deeper into crisis. BBERG MORE
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 But overall the IPO market in the U.S. IPO Market is Seeing a Slowdown in 2016 appeared first on SiliconHills. At times, I think it’s been dormant or hidden,” he said. September has been a great month.” is on track to have the […] The post The U.S. MORE
It is fitting that 2012 is the year that Snapchat really took off in Los Angeles and raised its first venture capital and began a five year ascent to becoming LA’s most recognizable startup company and largest IPO alongside LAs other great startup brands such as Riot Games and Tinder. MORE
It is planning to list its stock on Nasdaq. Going Public MORE
Even though the Initial Public Offering (IPO) alternative for a successful startup seems to be coming back, it is relatively rare. IPOs in 2008, the market was up to a still trivial 128 in 2012 (compared to 675 in 1996). business entrepreneur exit founder IPO startup MORE
With IPOs like this European venture funds must be performing better, and that will bring more money into the market. These are two great charts! It has taken us a long time to get over the 1999/2000 bubble and build a sustainable ecosystem. MORE
Where has the initial public offering (IPO) gone? But this question matters beyond those interested … policy IPOsThat’s a question the capital markets have been asking for some time, and is a leading concern of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), too. MORE
The post Thoughts from Mulesoft and AppDynamics IPO Filings appeared first on BeyondVC. Enterprise Software enterprise software ipoI finally had a chance to take a quick read of the respective S1 filings for AppDynamics and Mulesoft. MORE
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OCTOBER 25, 2016
If you are banking on college orders you need to have made a serious ding in the wholesale promo market Pre-IPO, and since that has not occurred yet, I bet it will never occur. equity going public Investment Banking IPO IPOs q3 2016 ipo q4 2016 ipo rants Yeti Holdings
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 26, 2018
Despite the fact that the number of IPOs (Initial Public Offerings) for startups have continued to stay low, I still hear it touted often as the preferred exit strategy. million spent directly on their IPO, in addition to underwriter fees of 5 to 7 percent of proceeds.
Chaganomics
OCTOBER 25, 2016
If you are banking on college orders you need to have made a serious ding in the wholesale promo market Pre-IPO, and since that has not occurred yet, I bet it will never occur. equity going public Investment Banking IPO IPOs q3 2016 ipo q4 2016 ipo rants Yeti Holdings
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.
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 6, 2014
" Current IPO activity feedback seems to support their excitement. IPO market showed more activity than any other first quarter since 2000, with 64 companies raising $10.6 That is more than double the number of IPOs in the first quarter of 2013.
Gust
DECEMBER 28, 2011
If the company was successful, this quickly led to an IPO – a very happy ending for the entrepreneur, the angels, and the venture capitalists. The two major differences in the exit environment in the past decade are (1) the disappearance of the IPO market and (2) the rapidly increasing size of the average VC fund. Larger VC rounds and the lack of early IPOs have also resulted in substantially longer pre-exit waiting periods for venture capitalists.
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 7, 2013
Based on the final report for 2012 from Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), it may appear that IPOs are back as a viable startup exit strategy. billion from 49 listings, and represented the strongest annual period for IPOs since 2000.
Gust
MAY 24, 2012
Dual-class voting structures are receiving a lot of attention these days along with intense publicity related to the Facebook IPO , following in the wake of other recent tech IPOs with a similar structure such as Zynga and LinkedIn.
Feld Thoughts
NOVEMBER 18, 2017
The NYSE recently published a book – The Entrepreneur’s Roadmap – From Concept to IPO that I’ve been involved in. The post Book: The Entrepreneur’s Roadmap – From Concept to IPO appeared first on Feld Thoughts. I wrote a chapter and made a number of introductions to the team working on the book that resulted in a number of other chapters. The book covers a variety of stages of company development, including: The Seed Stage: Starting a Company.
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. IPOs in 2008, the market was up to a still trivial 159 in 2011. entrepreneur startup liability risk IPO business
SiliconHills
MAY 25, 2018
The post Xeris Pharmaceuticals Files to Raise $75 Million in an IPO appeared first on SiliconHills.
A VC : Venture Capital and Technology
JUNE 23, 2011
As a follow up to yesterday's pos t on this topic, here's another chart from Mark Suster : So using the math I laid out yesterday (roughly 1,000 startups funded each year by VCs), this means that on average between 1% and 3% of venture funded startups get to an IPO.
VC Adventure
NOVEMBER 20, 2014
The graph below shows the trend of exits – IPO vs. M&A over the past handful of years (side note here that Foundry, like many firms, considers an IPO a financing event, not an exit in and of itself; although obviously it can be a path to an exit shortly thereafter).
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 6, 2017
It is fitting that 2012 is the year that Snapchat really took off in Los Angeles and raised its first venture capital and began a five year ascent to becoming LA’s most recognizable startup company and largest IPO alongside LAs other great startup brands such as Riot Games and Tinder.
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 11, 2013
Today the rate of startups going public (IPO – Initial Public Offering) is at an all-time low, and most entrepreneurs avoid this option like the plague, knowing the process is painful, and public company executives are seen as greedy sharks.
BeyondVC
MARCH 21, 2017
The post Thoughts from Mulesoft and AppDynamics IPO Filings appeared first on BeyondVC. Enterprise Software enterprise software ipoI finally had a chance to take a quick read of the respective S1 filings for AppDynamics and Mulesoft.
Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 15, 2010
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, July 15, 2010 Some IPO speculation Inspired by Steve Blank’s post today about the “lost decade&# of IPO’s , I’d like to make some predictions. The fact that IPO’s are disappearing makes intuitive sense to me.
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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?
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MARCH 29, 2018
It is planning to list its stock on Nasdaq. Going Public
Agile VC
SEPTEMBER 15, 2011
Startup IPO Market: A Fickle Mistress. The IPO market, she is a fickle mistress. In the first half of 2011, the IPO markets were looking strong for VC-backed companies. What will happen for the startup IPO market? How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC.
A VC : Venture Capital and Technology
MARCH 8, 2012
The name is too long so I call it the "sub $1bn IPO bill." Will Sarbanes-Oxley Changes Help The IPO Market? There's a bill in Congress to reduce the regulatory burdens for public companies that have less than $1bn in revenues and/or have been public for less than five years. " This is a good bill. This undoes some of the bad stuff done to smaller public companies in Sarbox. It should become law. I hope it will. Here are some blog posts on this topic.
Ask the Angels
JUNE 19, 2015
MindBody, Inc, launched an IPO today, the first Pasadena Angels company to achieve that milestone. Blog General News Product/Technology Alumni Angel Angel Capital Angel Groups Angel Investing Angels Exit Strategies Exit Strategy Fundraising Intellectual Property IPO MindBody Mindbody Software Pasadena Angels Public Rick Stollmeyer Startup Companies
A VC : Venture Capital and Technology
AUGUST 2, 2012
He suggests that the lack of NYC tech IPOs compared to Boston is a result of: The IPO culture hasn’t fully permeated NYC? Perhaps Boston CEOs, CFOs and boards feel more pressure to go public sooner and/or are comfortable with the IPO process because they community has done it so many times. Perhaps the poor performance of the Facebook IPO soured Wall Street on the consumer sector and advertising-based business models?
Agile VC
NOVEMBER 6, 2013
Twitter’s IPO has garnered a ton of attention in the tech and popular press. So their revenue figures, pre IPO financing and ownership, and other info is all widely available. Growth IPOs Are Back.
Inc Startups
FEBRUARY 27, 2017
So does its 35-minute IPO presentation Snapchat represents the intersection of communication, creativity and storytelling.
The Equity Kicker
JANUARY 28, 2015
With IPOs like this European venture funds must be performing better, and that will bring more money into the market. These are two great charts! It has taken us a long time to get over the 1999/2000 bubble and build a sustainable ecosystem.
Seeing Both Sides
OCTOBER 6, 2014
Last week''s successful IPO of e-commerce giant Wayfair (market cap $3B) and this week''s impending IPO of Hubspot (if it prices in the range, market cap $600m) has many in the Boston tech community celebrating. Executive teams need to focus their staff post-IPO on a new mission.
YFS Magazine
MAY 3, 2016
Finance Grow fast business growth hostile takeover investors ipo money raising capital selling stockGoing public is much more involved than the prestige of seeing your company name in lights on the NASDAQ or NYSE ticker. Such a momentous decisions has to come with a huge amount of forethought.
abovethecrowd.com
FEBRUARY 24, 2015
Every successful technology company raises money throughout its lifecycle, perhaps starting with a seed investment and progressing through Series A, B, C, late-stage investments, and, for the most successful companies, an IPO. This was the recent case with the Box.com IPO.
A VC : Venture Capital and Technology
NOVEMBER 16, 2010
Bill Gurley penned a fantastic post about IPOs yesterday. Bill presents a very compelling case that IPOs still have a role to play in the startup ecosystem and he also puts forth some strong data suggesting that the IPO market is coming back and good companies are taking advantage of it. Bill writes: One recent argument knocking the IPO is as follows: Wall Street is too short-term focused, and that if you want to run your company for the long-term you should remain private.
Ben's Blog
JUNE 19, 2017
Where has the initial public offering (IPO) gone? But this question matters beyond those interested … policy IPOsThat’s a question the capital markets have been asking for some time, and is a leading concern of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), too.
Start Up Blog
FEBRUARY 20, 2012
The upcoming Facebook IPO is a very interesting scenario. There are a lot of facts and figures being thrown around, but from my point of view I’m interested in just a few of them and what they mean for tech entreprepreneurs: 100 Billion Valuation: If the IPO is successful the expected valuation is 33 times their current revenue. Which means there will be more startups being funded by the FB IPO gold rush.
Force of Good: a blog by Lance Weatherby
NOVEMBER 16, 2011
What do you think of the Groupon IPO? That sandwiches it right between Google and Webvan as the largest IPOs in term of valuation. I considered the Groupon IPO pricing to be a little expensive. The Groupon IPO also demonstrated that investors see value in the deal space.
Inc Startups
OCTOBER 19, 2017
According to the filing, the company expects revenue of nearly $1 billion for 2017, and has been profitable since 2015. Going Public
Inc Startups
NOVEMBER 15, 2016
The social media platform's parent company Snap confidentially filed for an IPO that could fetch a valuation of up to $40 billion
Venture Chronicles
FEBRUARY 2, 2012
Like most people, I had the opportunity to review Facebook’s IPO filing yesterday and admit that, like Apple’s recent earnings announcement, this is pretty damn impressive. Entrepreneurship Facebook IPO Silicon Valley VCHere are a couple of lessons worth reinforcing: 1) People’s view of what is normal and acceptable in emergent online activities is constantly evolving.
VC Adventure
NOVEMBER 20, 2014
The graph below shows the trend of exits – IPO vs. M&A over the past handful of years (side note here that Foundry, like many firms, considers an IPO a financing event, not an exit in and of itself; although obviously it can be a path to an exit shortly thereafter).
Agile VC
NOVEMBER 9, 2015
Square filed its S-1 several weeks ago and is now in the middle of its IPO road show process. Anyone who’s familiar with the IPO process knows that companies state an “initial” range as they begin their road show.
Inc Startups
APRIL 11, 2018
Enterprise tech is driving an IPO renaissance, and a whole bunch ofmarket debuts are still to come. Going Public
Chaganomics
JUNE 12, 2016
Lotte Group indicated it will shelve what may have been a $4.5 billion initial public offering for its hotel unit, the world’s biggest so far this year, after widening investigations pushed the South Korean conglomerate deeper into crisis. BBERG
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 But overall the IPO market in the U.S. IPO Market is Seeing a Slowdown in 2016 appeared first on SiliconHills. At times, I think it’s been dormant or hidden,” he said. September has been a great month.” is on track to have the […] The post The U.S.
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