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. And in the last few years, these cases have prompted D&O insurers to put specific M&A retentions into their policies. Do IPOs also necessitate an additional policy?
Hunter Walker
DECEMBER 18, 2020
[I originally published this on Medium pre-IPO, so the tense is outdated, but I think the framework holds]. Every big tech IPO results in predictable Twitter chatter. The early trading performance and expectations set during the pricing and road show need to align with a post-IPO strategy. I was at Google for their IPO.
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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. Going public implies that a business is subjected to new federal, state and local regulations.
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 16, 2011
It has been at least a decade since going public via an Initial Public Offering (IPO) has been considered a credible exit strategy for startups. Usually a small company can sell about 20 percent of its stock in an IPO. In 1999, there were 486 IPOs nationwide; just 10 years later, in 2009, there were only 63. How’s the timing?
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 3, 2021
It still amazes me that some entrepreneurs seem totally at a loss on this question, or customer retention rate, or even margin expectations. Equity investors realize that they won’t see any real return until an exit occurs, such as a sale, merger, or IPO. Show that you have to ability to move the ball forward.
Up and Running
JULY 10, 2019
Meanwhile, Soulcycle, the spinning obsession of every trendy New Yorker, filed for IPO in 2018 only to withdraw at the last minute. Why referrals and retention are the keys to long term growth. For any fitness business, be it big box or boutique, the best way to succeed in the long term is through referrals and retention.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 8, 2014
This method was perfected by Gil Elbaz and his team at Applied Semantics in LA and in what some have called “ the most important acquisition ever made by Google ” they acquired the company for $102 million before Google had even IPO’d. Many of the early winners sold for north of a half a billion dollars.
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