Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 11, 2018

I spent almost 30 years as a lawyer in private practice, advising business leaders on Delaware corporate law issues – addressing matters like preferred stock financings, IPOs, mergers, hostile takeovers, proxy contests, corporate governance and fiduciary issues. My own story is an interesting backdrop.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2023

You should also prepare some insights about your market and competition. Corporate partnerships and sponsorships that provide funding in exchange for marketing or other benefits To prepare for raising money, it is essential to be clear on your business plan. How can I make my business more attractive to potential investors?

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 19, 2019

“We hypothesized that trademarks play two important roles: a protective role, leading to better product market performance; and an informational role, signaling higher firm quality to investors,” the researchers say.

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Women on Business

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Facebook jobs saw 11% growth, which is a big change from the 14% drop in Facebook jobs experienced during the second quarter or 2012 following the company’s poor IPO. Internet marketing jobs were up 12%. Social networking jobs grew 15% overall after stagnating at just 1% growth during the second quarter of 2012.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 14, 2014

Geoffrey Moore is Managing Director, Geoffrey Moore Consulting; a venture partner with Mohr Davidow Ventures, Chairman Emeritus, TCG Advisors, The Chasm Institute and The Chasm Group; and a member of the Board of Directors, Akamai Technologies and several pre-IPO Companies.

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 13, 2013

In his IPO letter Mark Zuckerberg wrote: “I started off by writing the first version of Facebook myself because it was something I wanted to exist. She sits on a Board of Directors of Word of Mouth Marketing Association (WOMMA). Walter was named among 25 Women Who Rock Social Media in 2012.

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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. Private Market Valuations aren't Great Indicators of Public Returns The final reason for trepidation is probably the most important. There is a lot of emotion behind the Facebook IPO. Venture investors look for home runs.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 1, 2022

Technology: This is a quote I came across recently in a business publication: “… of 53 tech-related companies that went public last year through an IPO or direct listing, all but three are now trading well below their offer or opening price … more than half have tumbled by at least 50%.”. Everyone is a coach.”. Is coaching a “good thing?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2014

As you may know, King Digital, the company behind the blockbuster game Candy Crush Saga , is about to IPO. Jim Surowiecki in the New Yorker and Felix Salmon at Reuters (and many, many others) have analyzed the IPO. King Digital is hoping the market will overlook these complications, and perhaps it will.

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Mark Sanborn

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Neumann came under fire after the company’s prospectus filing for the IPO revealed heavy losses and a wide discrepancy in the distribution of power between him and the company’s other shareholders. Consider the roller-coaster summer that WeWork had and the news that CEO Adam Neumann has stepped down.

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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. The company’s original focus was personal lending – individuals borrowing a few thousand dollars here and there to pay off credit card bills or fund a home improvement project.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2012

— from private equity to hedge funds to IPOs. In today's see-saw economy, just as important as the timing of your IPO is being prepared and spot-on with your messaging. I've never met an IPO team that couldn't talk for days about their business and their industry — that's what makes them the experts. The lesson here?

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Pinterest today engages more than 200 million users and this fall reached a pre-IPO market value of over $12 billion.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2019

Youngme, Felix, and Mihir talk about the Beyond Meat IPO and whether plant-based meat alternatives like Beyond Burger and Impossible Burger will become mass-market products. They then discuss Facebook’s announcement that it is pivoting to put greater emphasis on user privacy.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Yelp's IPO filing comes hot on the heels of successful IPOs and high valuations for Angie's List and Groupon. Yelp's timing reflects both a tech-friendly market and the company's current position as the dominant consumer-review web site.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2024

This article argues that markets in crypto-assets such as Bitcoin are maturing. But there is also evidence that innovative moves by crypto-asset issuers to create new vehicles for investment in crypto-assets have improved price efficiency and market liquidity, making investment in crypto-assets safer for investors.

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Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 14, 2014

You bring more value in the marketplace (and market it right) the marketplace will bring more value back into your life. You are a serial entrepreneur that has taken a couple of companies to IPO and you have your tongue pierced. The marketplace operates on a simple principle – exchange of value. It becomes interesting again.

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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 came up with an awesome idea. Your singular focus has been to make it real. You started a company.

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The Practical Leader

JANUARY 25, 2012

“ Structural cohesion is an employee-generated synergy — essentially a close-knit, high-energy culture — that propels the company forward.” ” “In announcing the arrival of “the ethical consumer,” Time magazine noted: “We are starting to put our money where our ideals are.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

In addition, given their quest for organization leanness, digital startups seek investors who have the expertise to help outsource their noncore business functions, such as production, distribution, marketing, and payroll processing. 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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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.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Venture capitalists are increasingly interested in emerging markets, and in working with local funds based in those markets (despite the fact that reverse innovation in venture capital seems counterintuitive). In contrast, emerging-market VCs such as Nadathur Holdings (established in 2000 by N.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

billion in its 2013 IPO) that investors have plowed into it. Could Twitter have chosen not to follow the standard VC-to-IPO path that has brought it to this pass? The company has piles of money — $3.6 But the priority is instead growing fast enough to generate adequate returns on the $4 billion-plus (the company raised another $1.8

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2018

Because the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. Tech IPO prices and subsequent trading prices were disconnected from revenue and profits. IPOs dried up. It’s the antithesis of the lean startup. And it may work.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

billion market valuation. In addition, with little differentiation and a bevy of rivals, marketing costs are skyrocketing. After a barrage of Hollywood-worthy hype, shares of Groupon started trading last Friday. Priced at $20 per share, the stock ended the day at $26.10, resulting in a $15.7 Consumers, of course, love big discounts.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

When it comes to fulfilling this end, the usual route to going public involves an initial public offering , also known as an IPO. IPOs can confer great benefits on companies that are able to go through them. But IPOs also come with some steep costs and excessive risks. IPOs have huge costs and risks.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2016

When financial services company Square priced its IPO at $9 a share last November, well under the $15+ price that private investors paid the year before, it was a cold shower of reality for the 6-year-old company. Until the IPO, Square had been one of more than 130 unicorns: privately owned tech companies valued at $1 billion or more.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2018

The age finding is similar using firms with the fastest sales growth instead, and founder age is similarly high for those startups that successfully exit through an IPO or acquisition. Jeff Bezos and Amazon have moved far beyond selling books online, and Amazon’s future market cap growth rate was highest when Bezos was 45.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

In particular, we have gathered data on every board appointment and resignation filed with the SEC for all public companies with more than $75 million in market capitalization since April 1, 2018. When we focus on companies with a market capitalization of $5 billion or more, interestingly, the male tilt goes the other way.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

This is especially true in hotly contested markets where fast growth can be the difference between success or failure. As a next step, we correlated replacement with whether the startup achieves an IPO or an “attractive” exit, defined as the company being sold for more than 150% of capital raised.

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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

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

On February 13, 2018, the New York Times reported that Uber is planning an IPO. Twitter reported a loss of $79 million before its IPO, yet it commanded a valuation of $24 billion on its IPO date in 2013. Uber’s value is estimated between $48 and $70 billion, despite reporting losses over the last two years.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

’” Later, Intralinks decided to try to IPO. Stock markets were tanking as the dot-com bubble was bursting. We decided not to price due to falling markets: we had a book, but it wasn’t considered strong enough to withstand the selling that would occur. So we decided not to IPO.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

Impact investors over the past decade largely focused on proving that impact investments could achieve a “market rate” or above return profile. Making something wildly profitable will of course attract the attention of financial markets, and thus increase the chances it will scale effectively. By 2010, they had succeeded.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

The M&A markets are frothy, corporations are investing in Silicon Valley labs, and even PhDs looking for jobs in business schools are finding it tough to find homes without “innovation” somewhere in their background. But it’s an idea that demands attention, investment, and a long view of the market.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2013

To a person, they look astonished when I ask whether their dedication comes from anticipation of the money they could make in the event of an IPO. One person says that he can’t let himself think about an IPO. For these professionals, a future IPO is outweighed by today’s OPI — the opportunity for positive impact.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2014

Is there a market opportunity the company is overlooking? Erik Mason, the marketing communications manager for an aesthetic skin laser company in the Northeast, felt the firm needed a new image. Other companies with slicker marketing were gaining market share even though they had inferior technology,” Mason says.

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