Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Raising capital remained difficult but possible and valuations were tied to underlying performance metrics and everybody accepted the the ultimate exit — whether through M&A or IPO — would also be based on some level of rational pricing.

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Valuation San Francisco Liquidation Preference Ratchet 466

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. Consider the recent example of Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg. After a record low of 39 U.S. Pressures to maintain growth pattern.

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Exit Strategy IPO Investment Bankers Entrepreneur 239

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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IPO Initial Public Offering Entrepreneur Private Equity 120

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Morgan Stanley predicts that Robo Advisors will manage $6.5 IPO market is broken”, positioning their offering as an alternative to capitalize on the dwindling supply of smaller IPOs, pointing out that only 18 companies completed IPOs that raised less than $50M last year, versus 557 in 1996. Transaction Processing.

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Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Software Review IPO 131

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. Let me be clear: Steve is the historian.

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IPO San Francisco Lean Silicon Valley 166

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2017

IPOs are difficult company transactions as it requires companies to go public. VDR provides the necessary channel through which such companies can survive and launch careful IPO document management and retention. IP Management. Going public implies that a business is subjected to new federal, state and local regulations.

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Software Review Technical Review Intellectual Property Due Diligence 60

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

Of course it’s much harder to identify “emerging managers” who it turns out have been some of the best performers over the past 5-7 years such as Union Square Ventures, Spark Capital, First Round Capital, True Ventures, Greycroft, Foundry Group, Thrive and Upfront Ventures. and the bigger funds can’t get in directly.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Valuation Pre-Money Valuation 398

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, October 5, 2008 The product managers lament Life is not easy when youre working in an old-fashioned waterfall development process, no matter what role you play. The product manager was clearly struggling to get results from the rest of the team. Lets start with what the product manager does.

San Francisco 158

San Francisco Management Software Review Product 158

Steve Blank

JULY 11, 2017

The belief then was that most founders couldn’t acquire the HR, finance, sales, and board governance skills rapidly enough to steer the company to a liquidity event, so they hired professional managers. In contrast, professional managers attempt to bring order to chaos and often kill the startup culture in the process. The founders.

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Part-Time VPE Liquidity Event Stock Engineer 308

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 14, 2022

Profitably managing and owning businesses with all the inherent risks have always defined the Indian entrepreneurial spirit. 5) Managing the operations. After England, it was India which was described by many as the “nation of shopkeepers”. And this has been the way of life here in India. 4) Forming a company identity.

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Technical Review Due Diligence India Startup 144

Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This means the company is predominantly owned by the management/team and TPG. It might ‘exit’ again at a later point (anything from a sale to an IPO), but it’s no long dependent on VC funding. It’s a different way of thinking and managing the business, but one that I believe helps any leader run a better business.

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Private Equity Equity DC Leveraged Buyout 78

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Common exit strategies include being acquired by another company, the sale of equity, or a management or employee buyout. Initial Public Offering (IPO). Management buyout. Having management or employees buy your business is a good idea if legacy matters most to you. Who needs an exit strategy? Types of exit strategies.

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Exit Strategy Lock-up Period Merger IPO 117

Hunter Walker

JUNE 25, 2021

Why Ken Norton’s Dual Product Management Career Path Can Also Encourage Innovation At Scale. Ken’s argument is that most tech companies treat product management careers in a very different way than they do engineering and design. And oh my does this concept speak to my own experiences as a BigCo product lead.

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Management Product Vesting IPO 98

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.

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IPO Venture Capital Entrepreneur Angel Investor 153

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 31, 2020

When anyone asks what investors look for in startups , typical answers include an experienced management team, a large market for their product or service, growth potentials, uniqueness. One of the fundamental conditions for picking a startup is that they have a stellar management team.

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Startup Term Sheet 175

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. This engineering manager is a smart guy, and very experienced.

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Software Review Engineer Management Technical Review 164

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, July 9, 2010 Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# theory of management At any given time, something like four percent of the US population is engaged in some form of new-company-creation. But I’m not convinced those labels are right at all.

San Francisco 161

San Francisco Management Founder Lean 161

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2021

Then there is the pressure to go public ( IPO ), and open your investment to thousands, maybe millions, of small investors. Explosive growth to an enterprise normally requires a scalable sales model, a well-documented process with incentives, training, and metrics for tracking and management.

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Merger Due Diligence SEC IPO 379

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

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. The details of these considerations are outlined in a classic book, “ The Board Book ,” by Board expert and founder of The Board Institute, Susan F.

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Advisory Board IPO Angel Investor Acquisition 348

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. September has been a great month.”

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IPO Initial Public Offering New York Marketing 92

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 7, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, January 7, 2010 Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? My explicit goal in working with HBR is to foster a dialog between entrepreneurs and more traditional general managers. Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? - Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Without further ado.

San Francisco 119

San Francisco Management Continuous Deployment Lean 119

View from Seed

DECEMBER 4, 2019

At the same time, despite some realizations in recent years through M&A, PE acquisitions, and IPOs, the general sense I get from LPs is that the level of distributions don’t quite line up with the unrealized performance. Most LPs are trying to manage some targeted asset allocation. LP Constraints.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 27, 2020

Because deal rooms have multiple applications, the best advice is to begin the process right after incorporation and make keeping it current a continuing job of your financial senior management. The payoff. The post What’s a “data room” and how do you use it? first appeared on BERKONOMICS.

Software Review 62

Software Review Due Diligence Intellectual Property IPO 62

YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2018

by Rebecca Stidham, Senior Manager – Tax Services at OUM & Co. These tax liabilities, which many companies believe don’t exist, can turn into a heavy burden in the event that a company seeks investors, financing, IPO or sale. Rebecca Stidham is Senior Manager – Tax Services at OUM & Co.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

This huge increase of capital is really just money that used to be invested post-IPO, so more value is captured by VCs who traditionally sold post-IPO In a way we see this late-stage capital as a different market segment than traditional venture capital but it gets lumped into the same classification. trillion in value. Still reading?

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Venture Capital IPO Mezzanine Early Stage 292

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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IPO Silicon Valley Revenue Seed Stage 100

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. People at Blockbuster and Kodak were smart, and they worked hard, but still didn’t manage to do that. You’ve IPOed two companies. It is really hard moving forward. I wouldn’t do it too early.

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Swaziland Entrepreneur IPO Netherlands 137

Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2014

Most large companies manage three types of innovation: process innovation (making existing products incrementally better), continuous innovation (building on the strength of the company’s current business model but creating new elements) and disruptive innovation (creating products or services that did not exist before.).

Acquisition 332

Acquisition Intellectual Property Silicon Valley Startup 332

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. Expect the board to always support management.

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Advisory Board IPO Government Acquisition 362

YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2019

by Arsalan Sajid, startup community manager at Cloudways. You might have to hire more team members because your initial team will be struggling to manage all those customers. There is a complete process to go for an IPO. After an IPO, you can retire and get a new management to work for the company. Acquisition.

Startup 104

Startup Technical Cofounder Merger Early Stage 104

Life Beyond Code

MAY 16, 2012

The profound lessons that startups can learn from Facebook IPO. Tomorrow is the Facebook IPO and I am not expert enough to predict what is going to happen. There are several people out there who are vying for your attention and stories like Facebook IPO is a great way to DEMAND that attention.

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IPO Startup Engineer Demand 96

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 25, 2011

Excellent tips for startups on hiring product managers – [link]. Interesting perspective on LinkedIn’s IPO – arguing that the IPO price was reasonable – [link]. And here’s another side – suggesting that LinkedIn shareholders might have been scammed in the IPO – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 86

NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

So managing risk in a startup is less about compliance, it’s more about being as brave and ambitious as you can without breaking things. This may mean straddling the line between governance and management when necessary. Generating liquidity usually entails either selling the venture or an IPO. And they need to do this at pace.

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Technical Review Software Review New Zealand Due Diligence 88

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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IPO Product Japan Australia 106

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2023

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. Risk is increased. Later funding rounds can’t deal with a thousand shareholders.

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Angel Groups Accredited Investor Due Diligence Equity 201

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2023

A few, like Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), despite recent failures, 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.

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Early Stage Silicon Valley Private Equity Initial Public Offering 182

Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Since then, the debate over IPOs has continued, with a particular focus on allegedly underpriced offerings that jump shortly after opening — the dreaded “pop.” ” As some criticism has it, this supposedly deprives companies of millions of dollars that should have been theirs if not for underpricing the IPO.

IPO 36

IPO Securities and Exchange Commission Demand SEC 36