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. And, you operate in a fishbowl. You came up with an awesome idea. You started a company. Others do not.

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Delegation Maturity CEO Execution 243

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

They therefore seek investors who understand their initial losses and can facilitate secondary rounds of funding when their operations grow. Gone is the heyday of the 1990s when firms with simply an idea and little or no revenues could do an IPO. By the time, those opportunities reach public markets, if at all, they are fully priced.

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Venture Capitalist IPO Company Kleiner 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Then, via price dynamics determined by market supply and demand, the value is settled on by the network of participants, rather than by a central authority or government. ICOs are the Wild West of financing — they sit in a grey zone where the U.S. Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain.

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Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 11