Development Finance IPO Marketing 
Strategy Driven
APRIL 4, 2023
Whether you need to raise money to fund a new startup or to expand an existing business, financing can be a complex process. With so many options available, it can be difficult to know where to begin or which financing option is best for your business. You should also prepare some insights about your market and competition.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 15, 2012
And despite all of Facebook's user support, investors should be skeptical of the company's pricey IPO. By dedicating a small amount of space on every page viewed and allowing companies to display ads, the social networking giant has developed a multi-billion dollar advertising business. Venture investors look for home runs.
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Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 26, 2011
A star example is Google, which raised a mere $40 million in private funding before its IPO at a $23 billion valuation. Despite these gloomy headlines, three developments in the sector give us hope that the revolution in clean energy production is far from dead: 1.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 2, 2017
For decades, we have heard that emerging markets are poised for huge growth that will yield even greater prosperity. Much like their famed Silicon Valley counterparts, emerging market accelerators aim to boost startups’ potential for raising growth capital.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 29, 2012
As a college student in Nigeria, I had wanted to master developing microcontroller-based systems, but had never had the opportunity in practice, because no company there offered it. So, at the end of the academic session, I developed a business plan and sent copies to potential investors in the U.S. As the first year of my Ph.D.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 7, 2018
More recently, it has gained attention as a way to finance new ventures, through what is known as an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Less noticed, though, is ICOs appear almost antithetical to the standard approach to financing a risky venture. In fact, ICOs have upended the conventional pattern of staged experimentation and fundraising.
Strategy Driven
SEPTEMBER 4, 2018
As a consequence, public firms often have access to many different credit facilities and financing options that private companies do not enjoy. When it comes to fulfilling this end, the usual route to going public involves an initial public offering , also known as an IPO. But IPOs also come with some steep costs and excessive risks.
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