Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Smart entrepreneurs are just now starting to look at this option again, due to its unpredictability and the challenges of running a public company. According to a recent Ernst & Young global report , the first half of 2017 was the most active first half by global number of IPOs since 2007.

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JULY 20, 2015

Shopzilla was then sold, and I worked for a couple of years at the acquirer, Scripps, until 2007. So, in September of 2007, I got back into it, and we got a group of people going on a new startup, DotSpots. We have enough money to last until February of 2014, but here are the options. That was a pivotal moment. Cheerful Inc.

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JULY 20, 2015

Shopzilla was then sold, and I worked for a couple of years at the acquirer, Scripps, until 2007. So, in September of 2007, I got back into it, and we got a group of people going on a new startup, DotSpots. We have enough money to last until February of 2014, but here are the options. That was a pivotal moment. Cheerful Inc.

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APRIL 14, 2010

It’s a bit like if you bought a $1 million home in 2007 and want to sell it for $1 million today. One is slightly better and priced at $1 million, which you know from Zillow is what they paid for it in 2007. Another is slightly worse but priced at $700k and was bought in 2007 for $1 million. So what option do you have?

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JUNE 12, 2010

Launched in 2007 in Los Angeles by Adam Bernhard and Konstantin Glasmacher. Premium experience ($36/yr) offers a desktop application option, unlimited listening, no ads, higher quality audio and more skips. Formed in 2007 by UPenn students, Nat Turner, Scott Becker, Michael Provenzano, and Zach Weinberg, in Philadelphia.

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MARCH 1, 2010

I had an offer to sell my company to Salesforce.com in 2007. If you raise $2 million you preserve your options. At each step you preserve your options. I had an offer to sell my company to Salesforce.com in 2007. Keep options on the table : I believe in my bones that entrepreneurs shouldn’t “over raise” capital.

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AUGUST 4, 2015

Option pool — the key determinant here is size. The larger the option pool the lower your valuation. 409A valuations = the value of the business’ common stock (utilized for issuing stock options). 409A valuations = the value of the business’ common stock (utilized for issuing stock options).

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FEBRUARY 28, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Wednesday, February 28, 2007 Google Maps Mobile I recently downloaded Google Maps Mobile for my Treo. My only minor complaint is that it doesnt have a menu option to disconnect the phone from the data connection. Its works great. And there was a big surprise. It includes traffic!

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JANUARY 24, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : FindTheBest is: “An objective, socially curated comparison engine that allows you to find a topic, compare your options and decide what’s best for you.”. Copyright © 2007-11 by J. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for. free weekly Infochachkie articles! from the Wharton School.

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MAY 7, 2012

building Fine Art America in 2006 as a part time project, and launched the web site in 2007. I grew it from 2007 through. The others options to selling like Fine Art America are sites like Art.com, whose. AS I was working my engineering job, I got obsessed with programming and building a business for the web.

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JANUARY 26, 2010

In December 2007, I described how I commonly take on an Acting CTO Role in a Start-up. What options do we have? How do we balance those options? I’ve been having discussions with several people recently about the role of the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) in very early stage companies. What makes the most sense for us?

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

In all of my startups, every employee owned a portion of the pie factory via Option Grants and thus we all were motivated to build a company that created the tastiest pies we could make. Copyright © 2007-10 by J. Instead of fighting over a single pie, everyone benefits when they join forces to create a pie factory. Meredith Publishing.

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JUNE 5, 2011

2007, 2011) and for the hottest of companies and in bad markets for fund raising (2003, 2008) prices test the bottom end of the range. I saw this kind of pricing when I first entered the VC market in 2007. They get a cheaper price, they wipe out much founder stock value and they reissue you new options. It was early 2000.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Their only option is an IPO. If you rate the market on a one to ten scale, with one being 2002 and ten being 2007, we''re probably at around five or six. For the more questionable ones, ones with less sustainable differentiation, this time it''s a little tougher than a couple of years ago, and certainly much more so than 2006 and 2007.

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JANUARY 6, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : FindTheBest is: “An objective, socially curated comparison engine that allows you to find a topic, compare your options and decide what’s best for you.”. Copyright © 2007-11 by J. You can fool me on an interview, but two months from now we’ll know.”. free weekly Infochachkie articles! “I

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

In all of my startups, every employee owned a portion of the pie factory via Option Grants and thus we all were motivated to build a company that created the tastiest pies we could make. Copyright © 2007-10 by J. Instead of fighting over a single pie, everyone benefits when they join forces to create a pie factory. Meredith Publishing.

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OCTOBER 27, 2010

In addition to taxes, a number of factors will chisel the proceeds from the sale of your young company, including: transaction fees, escrow amounts, splits with other Co-Founders, option-holding employees, and investors’ participating preferred provisions. As described in What The Heck Are My Stock Options Worth? , Meredith Publishing.

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OCTOBER 27, 2010

In addition to taxes, a number of factors will chisel the proceeds from the sale of your young company, including: transaction fees, escrow amounts, splits with other Co-Founders, option-holding employees, and investors’ participating preferred provisions. As described in What The Heck Are My Stock Options Worth? , Meredith Publishing.

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JANUARY 31, 2011

The free job boards now generate (in aggregate) MILLIONS more job seekers per month than either of those sites, but few employers have the patience to figure out how to create an account and copy an ad across each of the free job board options. Copyright © 2007-11 by J. We don’t claim to have re-invented the wheel. Meredith Publishing.

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DECEMBER 22, 2009

We'd like to see these options added in the future. Club Cooee was founded in 2007, and has received an undisclosed round of seed funding from Aurelia Private Equity. The client installs at just 3MB, but the downside is currently that the service does not support incoming text messages or Web interfaces.

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JANUARY 31, 2011

The free job boards now generate (in aggregate) MILLIONS more job seekers per month than either of those sites, but few employers have the patience to figure out how to create an account and copy an ad across each of the free job board options. Copyright © 2007-11 by J. We don’t claim to have re-invented the wheel. Meredith Publishing.

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JULY 29, 2009

As part of your launch, we can integrate Google or Paypal payment options into the login page. That became our company Hit the Ground Running, which we launched in 2007 to help a number of Fortune 500 clients with our technology and methodologies. Milo Sindell: It's a monthly subscription, ranging from $24.00

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DECEMBER 12, 2012

Being the smart and determined businessman that he is, Mike regrouped and really began to study the “Social Gaming” market that had been gaining significant traffic since 2007. Although he got over 100 calls from eager homeowners wanting to sell their properties, Mike realized that this skill game model was just not going to work.

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AUGUST 10, 2009

We have since raised a friends and family round in 2007, pretty modest--enough to get to our first milestone. In August, the entire economy collapsed and we started thinking about our other options are. Babette Pepaj: When we first started, we were totally self-funded. We're making money from our advertising, and doing really well.

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AUGUST 20, 2015

The industry did that in 2007. You are building a one-option startup. 10 is the new 3. And yes, I mean $10 million. My friend in the Valley said to me, “$10 on $50 is the new Silicon Valley A round.” ” Well. Until it didn’t. “Well, do you guys do that?”

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JUNE 17, 2009

Similar, only sellers who have held shares for one year, inclusive of options holding periods, are allowed to post shares. Greg Brogger: I founded BrightHouse in the middle of 2007, along with Scott Painter. Towards early 2007, Scott and I had taken Zag to a level of some measure of stability, and we were thinking about the next thing.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. The more you burn the higher your investor’s leverage relative to you is if you start to run out of money and don’t have options.

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MARCH 16, 2010

Although this option was not attractive to the management team, it was a viable alternative circa 2005 and it would have allowed our institutional investors to liquidate their investments. Copyright © 2007-10 by J. Open up a “sales process” and solicit bids from multiple companies. Do nothing – continue to run our business “as is”.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

The express train might get you there faster but there are no options to get off along the way. At GRP we sat out 2007 and much of 2008 for that reason and we’re now looking pretty smart for doing so. The express train represents raising a large VC round before you’ve figured out whether you can be big.&# I agree.

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MARCH 1, 2011

A certain number of points could be required for certain access, so Hashable might offer an option to pay for points or charge for access if you don’t have points. They sold in December 2007, but he started selling Quigo in 2004. Users gain points every time they use Hashable. Final Lesson: How Do You Know When It’s Right To Sell?

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OCTOBER 29, 2015

The Index of Consumer Sentiment found in mid-October that “personal financial expectations rose to their highest level since 2007.” The study also found that 66% of retailers will be increasing their digital budgets in the coming year, focusing on mobile technology, faster delivery options, and easier purchase methods (e.g.,

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JULY 20, 2009

We give them options and advice on the best course to reach their goals, such as responding quickly and getting to market faster. When I joined Webtide from IBM in 2007, I also discovered that the basic costs of running a company is a lot lower than running a company was in 2003. It gives them an escalation path only dealing with us.

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JULY 26, 2016

Democrats: Clinton said back in 2007 that the U.S. Clinton has said that every student should have “options after high school, whether it’s a four-year degree, free community college, an apprenticeship or other forms of higher education.” should increase the number of H-1B visas, which has long been capped at 65,000 per year.

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JUNE 22, 2011

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. Still, market amnesia by ordinarily rational actors always surprises me. I spoke about a lot of things during the keynote. If you are interested the Vimeo is here.

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DECEMBER 2, 2009

For example, RevUpNet , an online marketing agency I Co-Founded with Ben Kiblinger in 2007 and currently act as an addVisor , prides itself in establishing revenue sharing relationships in which it is rewarded when it drives incremental revenue for its clients. Copyright © 2007-9 by J. Direct Response (DR) Radio. Meredith Publishing.

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OCTOBER 1, 2010

Once I proved that I could add value to the team’s efforts, they were happy to pay me a modest salary supplemented by meaningful stock options. Copyright © 2007-10 by J. As described in Turn Of The Screw , I began my career at an adVenture by offering to help and not asking for any compensation. Be sure you do the same. _.

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MARCH 1, 2010

But emerging entrepreneurial hubs around the country are giving startup aspirants options. www.goodandgreen.biz Microsoft Office Buy Office Small Business 2007 now. Los Angeles By: Laura Rich February 26, 2010 It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. Okay, maybe not Pauly Shore.

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