Start Up Blog

MARCH 6, 2012

I’ve decided to post the Project Prospectus here: The Super Awesome Micro Project Prospectus. Due to overwhelming demand. Cheers, Steve. entrepreneurship project Startup

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Start Up Blog

MARCH 6, 2012

I’ve decided to post the Project Prospectus here: The Super Awesome Micro Project Prospectus. Due to overwhelming demand. Cheers, Steve. entrepreneurship project Startup

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

The greatest liability for D&Os during an IPO comes from the prospectus document that discloses the company’s risks and financials to the public. Traditional D&O coverage will include prospectus liability although a stand-alone prospectus liability policy can be purchased as well. If organizations stick with a traditional D&O policy they will want a broker to negotiate adequate endorsements to cover IPO & SOX exposures, including prospectus liability.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 13, 2019

VC backed startups value growth above all else (search for “blitzscaling”), but as the recent IPOs showed (Uber, Peloton, WeWork’s prospectus, etc), business fundamentals, and margins in particular, say more about the health of the business than VC-dollar fuelled user growth (see Fred Wilson’s seminal post, The Great Public Market Reckoning ): If the product is software and thus can produce software gross margins (75% or greater), then it should be valued as a software company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2019

Startups are typically run by a couple of executives who are reluctant to disclose via the prospectus and SEC reports all the decision-making criteria, operational financial details, and compensation formulas. In the old days, every entrepreneur dreamed of easily taking their startup public, and making it big. Today the rate of startups going public (IPO – Initial Public Offering) is up from the dead zone, but is still half the rate back before 2000.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Everybody has known that for awhile, even without perusing a prospectus. Airbnb’s public S-1 dropped Monday afternoon. One of the most highly anticipated startup IPOs of recent years, we now get a peek inside Airbnb’s business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Startups are typically run by a couple of executives who are reluctant to disclose via the prospectus and SEC reports all the decision-making criteria, operational financial details, and compensation formulas. In the old days, every entrepreneur dreamed of easily taking their startup public, and making it big. Today the rate of startups going public (IPO – Initial Public Offering) is up from the dead zone, but is still half the rate of 15 years ago.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Startups are typically run by a couple of executives who are reluctant to disclose via the prospectus and SEC reports all the decision-making criteria, operational financial details, and compensation formulas. In the old days, every entrepreneur dreamed of someday taking their startup public, and making it a multi-national powerhouse.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 14, 2018

If you like to read IPO prospectuses, here’s the final S-1 filing after INIT went effective and started trading on July 8, 1999. While it’s easy to tell people things, it’s much more powerful to learn things. And, as I get older, I see the same lessons being learned by subsequent generations. While this isn’t a post that says “everything is the same as it was before”, there are foundational lessons in life that play out over and over again.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 18, 2019

No one is asking the Mayor to tweet their fund prospectus, but hosting informal meetings with members of community economic development boards, looking into small baskets of endowment funding that can go into local early stage funds, and just generally being willing to help because they understand that we can’t fund your local startups unless someone funds us would be enormously helpful

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Scott Edward Walker

DECEMBER 5, 2011

vp68LI Facebook To Bankers: Hands Off Our $10 Billion IPO – “Facebook has gone so far as to craft its own prospectus.” I’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting blog posts, articles and podcasts relating to entrepreneurship and startups, M&A and legal issues. Below are my five most popular tweets (via bit.ly ) for the past week and a couple of blog-related tweets.

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Up and Running

JULY 16, 2015

People in Eugene loved it,” Red Wagon says in a funding prospectus (more on that in a bit). “In By the end of 2014, we were scooping from our shop, supplying ice cream to three other scoop shops in Eugene, and wholesaling pints to Market of Choice, Zupans Markets, the University of Oregon, and ten other grocery stores,” says the Red Wagon funding prospectus, noting retail, wholesale, and catering sales growth of over 1,100% since their first year of operation.

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VC Adventure

JULY 6, 2011

Reading (or trying to read, at least) and mark up a prospectus. A friend recently sent me a link to a talk John Mack gave at Wharton that I think is absolutely fascinating. I’ve read a number of books and articles about the key events surrounding the financial crisis but I find these sorts of first person accounts so much more interesting. And I think Mack is an extremely engaging person.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Prepare a detailed prospectus. The prospectus will lay out the story and details of your business and help generate interest in it before listing, so it’s important that you get this right. Neil Helm is Chief Executive Officer at OzForex , a global provider of online international payment services. In October 2013, OzForex listed.

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Gust

APRIL 11, 2014

If you read the “ Dilution ” section of an IPO prospectus , you’ll see that the opposite happens to investors in the new public shares. Back from a hiatus, it’s time to venture forward once more. I appreciated hearing from those who asked about upcoming posts. Thanks in particular to the reader who reminded me that Part II of “Bored” of Directors Can Become Clash of Titans is still in the queue.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

This is why formal investment prospectuses always have a “Risk Factors” section, and also why I told my former girlfriend (now wife) about some of my idiosyncrasies before she had made any life commitments to me. I’m surprised at how many funding pitches I get which lack some of the basic information which investors require before funding. I think this stems from two causes: 1) Lack of basic knowledge of the information investors require.

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Gust

JANUARY 31, 2013

Before the commercial Internet, the primary tools of disclosure included: Prospectus and related registration statement (“S-1″) for an IPO. Last month, the SEC announced it was taking action regarding Netflix’ (NFLX) securities compliance based on a Facebook status update posted by CEO Reed Hastings. The move came as a shock to many in the tech business community, in which we’ve become accustomed to real-time disclosure by company executives through social media.

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VC Adventure

JULY 6, 2011

Reading (or trying to read, at least) and mark up a prospectus. A friend recently sent me a link to a talk John Mack gave at Wharton that I think is absolutely fascinating. I’ve read a number of books and articles about the key events surrounding the financial crisis but I find these sorts of first person accounts so much more interesting. And I think Mack is an extremely engaging person.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Investor prospectus . Does the traditional VC financing model make sense for all companies? Absolutely not. VC Josh Kopelman makes the analogy of jet fuel vs. motorcycle fuel. VCs sell jet fuel which works well for jets; motorcycles are more common but need a different type of fuel. . A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

The Securities Act of 1933 requires that any type of securities offered to the public be registered with the SEC, involving a major undertaking to prepare and file a registration statement on Form S-1 – known to many as an IPO prospectus. Talented entrepreneurs are nothing if not resilient in the face of change: Market forces, competitive threats, technological shifts, you name it.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 24, 2011

How about the Analyst for Ohio State University who does a great job of measuring online donations but not the value of campus tours scheduled, prospectuses downloaded, online applications, course registrations, job applications, etc., Regular readers of this blog will recognize that I suffer from OOD. Outcomes Obsession Disorder. I am seeing a therapist for it.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

But for all this to happen, a really key point is to have a really good prospectus. A prospectus is what gets the initial interest from people. A prospectus is actually very easy to put together. The response to the video I shared of my presentation – How I Made $180,000 Profit Buying And Selling Websites Part Time – was awesome, and as I promised, here is the text transcript for you.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 30, 2010

And as they say in the mutual fund prospectuses, “past performance is no guarantee of future performance.&# “I mean damn, did you even see the test. You got D’s, motherf*$@%&, D’s! Rosie Perez”. Kanye West. No position in a company is more important than the CEO and, as a result, no job gets more scrutiny. Sadly, little of this analysis benefits CEOs as most of the discussions happen behind their backs. This post is a step in the opposite direction.

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