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WeWork Bankruptcy Filing—What Does This Mean for Employees?

HR Digest

The startup had been well on its way to initiating an IPO back in 2019 but the pandemic drove the idea completely out of the works. After its first failed IPO attempt, the company struggled to bring its valuation up at all. After the company’s initial launch in 2010, WeWork has faced many uphill battles in its journey.

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Early Exits - CEO Blog - Time Leadership

CEO Blog

CEO Blog - Time Leadership Monday, November 15, 2010 Early Exits Angel investors and VCs all like to sell one of their portfolio companies. And it tends to be the big exits that leave meaningful marks on an industry and change the way things are. And he has succeeded in a very tough industry in growing a $100M+ company.

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How Google Has Changed Management, 10 Years After its IPO

Harvard Business Review

But back in 2010, Chris Trimble criticized 20% time both for being expensive and for emphasizing ideas over execution. Schmidt himself recounted part of his experience at Google in a 2010 article , which describes at length the company’s “quirky” Dutch auction IPO. Tech industry'

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Can Impact Investing Avoid the Failures of Microfinance?

Harvard Business Review

The impact investment industry is growing rapidly, a fact that many of us in the field celebrate. In 2010, J.P In 2010, J.P Impact investing can learn from the history of microfinance — the provision of debt and other financial services to the poor — an industry that was at a similar stage 15 years ago.

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A simple cure for the Buzzword Bingo | Rajesh Setty

Rajesh Setty

In terms of exit strategy , our goal is an IPO but at the right price and the right partner, we won’t exclude the acquisition option. © 2005 - 2010 Rajesh Setty Podcast Powered by podPress (v8.8) There is actually a simple cure for this Buzzword Bingo.

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A Quiet Revolution in Clean-Energy Finance

Harvard Business Review

A star example is Google, which raised a mere $40 million in private funding before its IPO at a $23 billion valuation. While there has not been a defining exit in clean energy akin to the "Netscape moment" for the internet, there have been numerous recent IPOs in the biofuels sector.

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Why GM's Gratitude Is Worth Sharing

Harvard Business Review

billion auto industry bailout. Two years have now passed, GM has repaid part of the bailout, and it just executed a successful IPO. Post-IPO, GM isn't seen as spending taxpayer money on advertising. The fact is, this is 2010 and the bailout happened. Emotions were still high and nerves frayed over the decision.

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