2004 IPO Management Marketing 
Harvard Business Review
MAY 15, 2012
When I logged into the site for the first time in the spring of 2004, I was prepared to hate the service. And despite all of Facebook's user support, investors should be skeptical of the company's pricey IPO. Over the past couple of years, I've become close with a handful of web product managers.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 15, 2018
While most of the private equity companies are private, a few like Blackstone Group, KKR, Carlyle Group, and Apollo Global Management are traded on stock exchanges. Gone is the heyday of the 1990s when firms with simply an idea and little or no revenues could do an IPO.
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Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 6, 2014
At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 15, 2013
And last year, he decided that the answer was to take the company private, to escape the hectoring of the public market. Competitors like IBM and Compaq struggled with the politics of managing their various channel partners and lagged Dell in inventory management. For more background on the potential deal, click here.)
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 16, 2014
Icahn later reduced his buyback request to $50 billion, and in April 2014 Apple’s board approved a $30 billion program to be carried out by repurchasing its shares on the open market — either by just buying shares outright or doing it indirectly via accelerated share repurchases. trillion on buybacks (51% of net income) and another $2.3
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 9, 2011
mortgage borrowers got into this situation from about 2004 through early 2007. It's okay for you if asset prices stop rising, but if they fall dramatically — or if the market for them simply stops functioning — you're in big trouble. A lot of U.S. As you may have heard, it ended badly.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 25, 2014
After five years, in 2004, Tickle was profitable with more than $20 million in revenue; it received an acquisition offer for $100 million, as well as IPO entreaties. The most important way to mitigate risk is to become excellent at either engineering, product, selling, or operations and management.
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