N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Maybe you’re prepping for the IPO. Missing the turn or making it too late can cause a company to stagnate or implode or can spell the death of the idea; or worse, the idea becomes someone else’s to bring to market without you. You’re not managing your energy well. Effective time management begins with good energy management.

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Delegation Maturity CEO Execution 243

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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Venture Capitalist IPO Company Kleiner 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

billion market valuation. As a price strategy consultant, it's common for managers and sales people to enthusiastically pitch me on a strategy of "let's get them in the door with a big discount, they'll love our product or service, and then return to pay full price." Will Groupon's current business model generate wild future growth?

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IPO Discount Price Business Model 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

Financial value is the stuff of business school and stock markets. It’s about multiples of revenue or earnings, sales growth, profit margins, and management theory. In Silicon Valley there are basically two ways of creating shareholder value: financial and strategic. In other words, Microsoft is not paying $7.5

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Price IPO Wilde Examples 10

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.)

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Rivkin Succession Short-term Case Study 15