Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2021

Bank loans provide medium to long-term finance for your business. The goal is to gain equity, help the company grow and then sell it or when it goes very well, do an IPO. Here are some options that you may consider when sourcing funds to expand your business. Bank loans. Crowdfunding.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The data showed that trademarks often helped obtain better terms when raising finance, and were generally a good predictor of future success, both as a private firm and later on when they go public.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

It can involve investors, the public in the form of an IPO, or even, family members that are backing you. Well, it is, and it isn’t. Many people believe that entrepreneurism is all about private ventures, that don’t necessarily involve a bank. But why not a bank?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

And despite all of Facebook's user support, investors should be skeptical of the company's pricey IPO. There is a lot of emotion behind the Facebook IPO. Whether Facebook IPOs for 80B or 100B, the venture funds that invested prior to 2011 will have plenty of capital to return to their limited partners. Facebook is not Groupon.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

Lending Club, a San Francisco-based peer-to-peer lending start-up, filed for an IPO yesterday, hoping to raise half a billion dollars at a $5 billion valuation. Finance Small/medium business Technology' But as of earlier this year, the company has expanded into the world of commercial loans , specifically for small businesses.

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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. 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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

I had a front row seat to one of the most successful IPO's of the dot-com boom. On day one, because we did not yet have a general counsel, the company told me — the only ex-lawyer then on staff — to manage the IPO. So what actually happens inside a company on IPO day? The screen flickered. We cheered! Just like that.

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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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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

The forthcoming Facebook IPO gives us lots to talk about. The first order explanation is that the founding CEO didn't have the wealth to keep the revenue stream and so had to sell the claim to finance the company's expansion: they gave up a large share of the claim on revenue but kept control. So why IPO?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2011

Microfinance has come under fire in the past 18 months, triggered in part by SKS Microfinance's IPO. The IPO, the new regulations, and a call for Dr. Yunus's retirement from Grameen Bank have led some to doubt the whole notion of microfinance. When you deny access to education, finance, housing, and health care, the poor remain poor.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

is generating plenty of high-potential startups, they argued, yet there is a problem: These companies don’t seem to be scaling or reaching an exit, such as an IPO or an acquisition. In theory, more financing should mean better terms for startups, though it’s not clear that that’s how it always works in practice.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

The trio (respectively, a finance professor at Cornell, an applied-math Ph.D This is the kind of thing that can drive people outside of quantitative finance a little crazy ; there's no reference to company fundamentals, just "sophisticated volatility estimation techniques combined with the method of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces."

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

Finally, reaching profitability quickly ensures that when outside financing dries up, the venture can succeed on its own. Now, the venture capital markets cannot supply more capital and the company must depend on the IPO market to finance its money-losing operations.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

He studied the relative importance of management teams in 106 venture capital-financed firms from early business plan to IPO. He found that although 50% of venture capital investors described the management team as the most important factor at the business plan stage, this emphasis had dropped markedly by the IPO stage.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

So four years ago, when I was CEO of GE Capital Retail Finance and tapped to lead a mega change initiative — splitting off our unit into a new, publicly traded company, Synchrony Financial — I’ll admit I viewed it as a huge challenge. ” This ended up being the “true north” our employees rallied around.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

After all, isn’t the customer’s voice relevant if you are going to finance a plumber or restaurant? In August, OnDeck announced an IPO valued at $1.5 Others have even gone as far as to use data from social media sites like Yelp in their predictive formulas.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

It was one of the world’s highest-grossing IPOs in a year when the market was otherwise in chaos due to the mortgage lending crisis. In 2010, in India, the microfinance institution SKS also went through an IPO that generated millions in profits — along with an impressive amount of scandal and intrigue.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

also has a vibrant IPO system to take companies public. That's why most investments in Africa are in mature industries like oil & gas, real estate, and finance, among others. It's something that U.S. tech entrepreneurs may not need to be overly concerned about, since the tech ecosystem in the U.S. and run it from your own country.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Dara Khosrowshahi, the CEO of Uber, the ride-sharing giant, proudly declared on September 10 that “very few brands become verbs” The same week Upwork, a platform for hiring freelancers, filed for an IPO, as did Fiverr , which boasts that it offers a “freelance services marketplace for the lean entrepreneur.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

It is incredibly hard to hold an IPO. Entrepreneurship Finance' For as long as it has been an industry, these have been the only two ways for a venture capital-backed company to succeed. There has to be a better way. And the “exit,” at least in its current incarnation, is the best place to start brainstorming solutions.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2014

If the finance person frets about keeping expenses under control, discuss expense numbers,” says Sheen. “If Mason decided to pitch a total rebranding — a new logo, new tagline, and new copy and photography for ads and communications — to the new executive team brought in to prep the company for an IPO. Address your audience’s concerns.

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Decker Communication

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

It means being an excellent communicator in every facet of business life, from short rides on the elevator to IPO roadshows, from team meetings to industry events, and everything in between. Every communication experience is an opportunity to influence. .

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2017

market , and still has a large cash hoard for investment from its last financing round at a valuation of $68 billion, making it the highest-valued unicorn in the history of business. However, after its IPO, Amazon’s losses were in the millions, not the billions.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

The current innovation model in the finance sector is designed to generate the highest possible short-term returns. Startups alone won’t fill that vacuum: Stewards must emerge from the old guard of financial services. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide. Sponsored by DXC Technology. How the best companies get up to speed.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2013

But if in reaction to Pandora, SiriusXM would instead have launched a free, advertising-supported version of their content for online and mobile, they might have permanently delayed Pandora''s IPO by denying them the ability to grow users. They neutralized the threat and entered the market with "free" all in one move.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Many small businesses don’t require the sort of financing required by firms in pursuit of s-curve growth. For founders thinking about launching companies outside of New York, Massachusetts, or California, that means your odds of pre-IPO success are automatically lower before you’ve even started. It takes longer to raise money.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2012

Individual investors should be disabused of the notion that investing in IPOs like Groupon's is a safe and responsible path to financial security. This did come at a significant cost in legal and accounting fees that weigh heaviest on smaller companies trying to go public — offering some backup for the JOBS Act.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

After all, isn’t the customer’s voice relevant if you are going to finance a plumber or restaurant? In August, OnDeck announced an IPO valued at $1.5 Others have even gone as far as to use data from social media sites like Yelp in their predictive formulas.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

Organizations that entered when VC fundings were booming were increasingly likely to fail, and those financed in a VC funding boom were unlikely to make it to an IPO. By contrast, those (fewer) firms that entered markets during bad times were then increasingly likely to prevail.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

So Puerto Rican entrepreneurs hire consultants to badger government procurement to pay up, and in parallel they jack up their prices to finance the long receivables cycle. For example, it is nearly impossible for scaling ventures in many countries, including Brazil and Denmark, to count on an IPO for a successful exit.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

entrepreneurs, just over $50,000) they typically seek more modest amounts of outside investment and are not typically working towards an acquisition or IPO. The most successful accelerators identify the respective entrepreneur’s specific financing needs rather than assuming that there is one path to success and scale.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Before the IPO in 1999, partners of Goldman Sachs owned equity in a private partnership. Ethics Finance Risk management' At Goldman Sachs, one element that was different in the lead up to the financial crisis was not the amount of leverage but the constraints and incentives faced by partners.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Booming public equities and a recovered IPO market generated record portfolio company exits and distributions from VC funds. Finance Venture capital' 2013 had all the signs of being a comeback year for venture capital. The industry realized its highest returns since the Internet boom.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

content (news, finance, weather) into two Chinese languages, and directory access to 20,000 web sites, an approach that the company had adopted elsewhere. On the finance and deal side, we also felt a strong kinship with Tsai. Only legal, finance, and human resources still reported back to headquarters.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

So Shai Bernstein, an assistant professor of finance at Stanford’s GSB, and Arthur Korteweg of USC’s Marshall School of Business devised an experiment to identify what characteristics do distinguish startups.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

I see people building personal finance software who have never heard of Ramit Sethi's extremely effective six-week personal finance program described in his New York Times best-selling book. And this has implications for the whole ecosystem because, "then everyone loses. No 20,000 tech jobs.

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