Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

It seems that most of you entrepreneurs I meet in my role as business advisor are convinced that starting a new business requires equity investors, exponential growth, and a plan to go public via IPO. Take pride in your leadership role in the local environment. Use flexibility to match your lifestyle.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 25, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Interesting perspective on LinkedIn’s IPO – arguing that the IPO price was reasonable – [link]. Where are the women? – [link].

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2021

If this is personally your first startup, it’s very important to highlight prior leadership experience in school, business, or public life, and your ability to attract skilled people for your team, as well as advocates from your industry, social media, or prior relationships. Present a viable exit strategy for investors to cash out.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Additional defensibility elements that unicorn investors look for include speed of implementation, rate of revenue and user growth, and exceptional team strength and leadership. The number of new ventures that successfully navigate the path to a public offering (IPO) with big numbers is still small. Credible yet flexible exit strategy.

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Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

And at PayPal we were hit with a couple patent disputes while in the midst of our IPO process. With Facebook in the late innings of its IPO process, Yahoo! That being said, it wouldn’t surprise me in the least if Facebook’s leadership takes a scorched earth approach to fighting Yahoo! deems valuable.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

To assist his consulting firm clients with attracting investors willing to fund an unknown business, Luke Lazarus uses an IPO or acquisition model to ensure the highest possible value for his client’s organization.

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View from Seed

MAY 3, 2022

These two “Forbes 30 Under 30 List” entrepreneurs have spent their entire careers focused on building marketplaces within the secondhand resale economy, including product & leadership roles at Mercari, which went on to IPO.

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View from Seed

JUNE 13, 2019

I know some of the investors in Chewy prior to the PetSmart acquisition, but I am not a shareholder nor do I intend to purchase shares in the IPO. Much of the press on the company’s IPO highlights this fact, which is easy to discern from a casual read of the S-1. I’ll break down Chewy’s business based on their recent S-1 filing here.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 2, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Hottest Pre-IPO Adtech Startups | Business Insider – crowdspring.co/1k6cUmV. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week! Who Gets Into Accelerators?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2019

This Advisory Board is a good test drive for the more formal Board of Directors required later, when going public (IPO) or the entrance of venture capital investors. Lack of involvement and leadership by the CEO. These considerations include the following: Are you looking for advice or a boss?

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 9, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! With IPO Hopes Fading, Square And Box Face Reality Of Commodity Products | TechCrunch – crowdspring.co/1rWbako.

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View from Seed

MAY 31, 2023

For example, in the Lerner’s and Scharfstein’s study the “success” benchmark was completing an IPO. Prior to his graduate studies, Ash held operations and leadership roles across startups such as Blue Apron, Peloton, and most recently served as Director of Operations at Burrow. Ash was NextView’s 2022-2023 MBA Associate.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 21, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Mark Cuban Says Dead IPO Market for Small Firms Hurts Competition – [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 5 Leadership Lessons From Tim Cook | Business Insider – [link]. Inside the IPO pipeline: It’s all B2B, all of the time | GeekWire – [link]. Losers exist.

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 10, 2020

With Airbnb’s IPO, I thought the time was right to take a look back at the past decade (Greylock led Airbnb’s Series A in November 2010) and reflect on what I learned from the journey. Even though the company had been on track for an IPO, it retrenched and laid off 25% of the team. HOW GREYLOCK INVESTED IN AIRBNB.

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View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

Ellie Mirman was the first marketer hired by the CMO of HubSpot, the Boston-based marketing software startup that IPOed in 2014. NextView Ventures: Thinking back to before anyone knew HubSpot or the company was headed towards an IPO, where did you even start to market the company?

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Austin Startup

MAY 10, 2021

three companies he previously worked for had successful exits including two acquisitions and one IPO. Georgoff also held senior positions during critical growth periods for both Redbox and RetailMeNot, where he helped drive increased revenue growth through his leadership roles in strategy, marketing, and product.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Thanks To Facebook, Strongest Year For IPOs Since 2000 With $21.5 Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week! Billion Raised | TechCrunch - [link].

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2017

This Advisory Board is a good test drive for the more formal Board of Directors required later, when going public (IPO) or the entrance of venture capital investors. Lack of involvement and leadership by the CEO. These considerations include the following: Are you looking for advice or a boss?

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Agile VC

JUNE 13, 2019

I know some of the investors in Chewy prior to the PetSmart acquisition, but I am not a shareholder nor do I intend to purchase shares in the IPO. Much of the press on the company’s IPO highlights this fact, which is easy to discern from a casual read of the S-1. I’ll break down Chewy’s business based on their recent S-1 filing here.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

Hunter Walk: Ok, so we first met when you were leading comms at enterprise software company Box, a startup you joined when they were still pretty early and stayed at until post-IPO. And then take your experience and turn it into a piece of thought leadership career advice to share with people reading this. First, congrats!

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In 2001 companies IPO’d very quickly if they were working, by 2011 IPOs had slowed down to the point that in 2013 Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures astutely called billion-dollar outcomes “unicorns.” How little we all knew how ironic that term would become but has nonetheless endured.

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

These valid observations may be drawn from primary research sources such as the work published by the National Academies, whose most recent report, Assessing the Impact of Changes in the Information Technology R&D Ecosystem: Retaining Leadership in an Increasingly Global Environment , was released several months ago. More on this below.

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Generating liquidity usually entails either selling the venture or an IPO. Your big decisions will be when and how to : raise capital. pivot the business. scale – this may include the need to go offshore. change the CEO. generate liquidity.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Facebook Handled their IPO Exactly Right – [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week! – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 24, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Groupon’s Andrew Mason Talking About Daily Deals Site’s Stock Smack, Future Plans and IPO Regrets (Or Lack Thereof) – [link]. The Facebook distribution dilemma – [link].

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Hunter Walker

MAY 11, 2022

Think Of Your First Non-Investor Board Member As a Senior Hire, And Not Your IPO Board. When instead it should be thought of initially as “who is a senior outside voice who for the next three years or so can help advise this company’s leadership team.”. Being a CEO and running a startup is hard! And for the most part they do.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

It will likely IPO in the coming years. HR Leadership Startup Lessons' That company is now doing more than $50 million a year in sales, has negative churn, is growing at > 50% year-over-year and we believe will be worth more than $1 billion at exit. I know it’s rare, and it’s hard, but it happens.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

It was the biggest IPO the Australian market had seen all year , and sparked a flurry of subsequent listings – but ‘going public’ was not the only option we considered, and until we had progressed our exit strategy to near completion, it also seemed the most unlikely. An IPO requires special preparation of its own, some of it complex.

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

The CEOs on the panel were (from left to right): Michael Simon, CEO/founder of LogMeIn (2009 IPO) . Scott Griffith, CEO ZipCar (2010 IPO). Gail Goodman, CEO Constant Contact (2007 IPO). Colin Angle, CEO/cofounder of iRobot (2005 IPO). Niraj Shah, CEO/cofounder of Wayfair ($500m revenue).

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Four decades later, and thanks to sound financial decisions and clear leadership, Disney is one of the most successful brands and companies in the world. One of the top five largest IPOs in the world was done by the reformed General Motors in 2010, and the company generated a profit. Thanks to Rob Greene, Price of Meat. #13-

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 5, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Some Thoughts On The IPO Market For Web Companies (by @fredwilson) – [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 25, 2015

I asked Jason one important question before he made up his mind: Do you really want to IPO this company? But he went on run North American sales for Legent where they grew from $28 million to $700 million under his leadership and helped sell the company to CA for nearly $2 billion.

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Run & Grow Run and Grow Your Business Home Human Resources Leadership Innovation Growth Strategies Business Management Travel Innovation Play Video Docstocs Jason Nazar on Fostering Innovation (Video). Unique contribution: Does he or she bring specialized knowledge, skills, leadership ability or experiences that you don't have?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

The past year saw startups on the rise, an increase in venture capital funding (both in real dollars and numbers of companies funded), a resurgence of IPOs, and the rise of David against Goliath, as best represented by Groupon’s spurning of a $6 billion offer from Google.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. Blitzscaling is a strategic technique for moving faster, not a reckless gamble.

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