Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

And despite all of Facebook's user support, investors should be skeptical of the company's pricey IPO. While this is a surmountable problem, it puts the media company in a very different position than that of Google in 2004 - the company that Facebook is most often compared against. There is a lot of emotion behind the Facebook IPO.

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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. The company is seeking a valuation of up to $7.6 I’m not the only one using boldface italics and exclamation points.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Maybe you’re prepping for the IPO. When you advocate a position, whoever is listening is voting in their head. If you are tired, overworked or rushed, you are making mistakes and the power of your position amplifies the negative impact of those mistakes. You came up with an awesome idea. You started a company. You got funding.

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CEO Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

His thesis is that most businesses sell in the $10-30M range so it is best for angel investors to push for a sale at that point which can provide a great return for the angels and for the entrepreneurs rather than holding on, raising VC funds and trying for the big IPO or $100M+ sale. I am CEO between positions.

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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. First, the positives: Yelp works. But is Yelp really poised for long-run success?

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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

APRIL 20, 2015

As the CFO of a well-funded IPO-bound company, Dan had many years of experience and he had the results to show that he had outworked and out-delivered many of his internal and external counterparts. But now, with the impending IPO, the stakes were much higher. It does and executives shouldn’t be silent about it.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

As the CFO of a well-funded IPO-bound company, Dan had many years of experience and he had the results to show that he had outworked and out-delivered many of his internal and external counterparts. But now, with the impending IPO, the stakes were much higher. It does and executives shouldn’t be silent about it.

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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

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 14, 2018

Between 20% and 40% of founders do not remain in their original role ( according to several academic estimates ), typically replaced by a more-seasoned executive who might seem better positioned to scale the company and prepare it for the acquisition or IPO market.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

Often, however, the elements that make something profitable work counter to those that maximize positive social impact. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Its IPO is “ unusual.” ” The IPO will finally put a market value on Twitter—is it $10 billion? So does this mean Twitter is being overvalued as a new media brand as it approaches its IPO? You can actually see it in their positioning. There are already winners and losers. 100 billion?—and

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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

JUNE 8, 2012

Amid the flood of social media IPOs during the last 12 months, another "old guard" tech company has quietly built one of the most dominant, fiercely loyal and profitable social media businesses to date. I positioned it to my wife (who was less than enthusiastic) as a way of keeping up with my friends from home.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Two years have now passed, GM has repaid part of the bailout, and it just executed a successful IPO. Post-IPO, GM isn't seen as spending taxpayer money on advertising. And there is potential for positive spillover. Running it on Thanksgiving Day was appropriate. The fact is, this is 2010 and the bailout happened.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2012

Amid the flood of social media IPOs during the last 12 months, another "old guard" tech company has quietly built one of the most dominant, fiercely loyal and profitable social media businesses to date. I positioned it to my wife (who was less than enthusiastic) as a way of keeping up with my friends from home.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

With Facebook’s $115 billion market cap on its IPO day, Mark Zuckerberg created wealth nearly equivalent to half of Nigeria’s GDP in 2012. The value created by Facebook and a few other tech IPOs exceeds the GDP of most African regions. It will incorporate some evolving training paradigms like MOOCs and online programs.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

Strategic value, on the other hand, has little to do with any of those things and almost everything to do with how a company’s product and/or market position help or hinder another company’s (usually a bigger one’s) ability to be successful. In other words, Microsoft is not paying $7.5

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2014

Does a bar graph, table, or pie chart more effectively present your position? 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. Think carefully about the message you want to convey.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

An -er position is a dangerous one to adopt. A well-conceived brand platform and positioning can relegate competitors to irrelevance. There are several ways to position a brand as breakthrough. billion IPO valuation in 2013) can be attributed to its continued focus on that target.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2012

But the conventional position is nonsense; building new companies is far more sensible than the practical will admit. A quarter of first-time venture-backed firms are acquired for at least $50 million or file for an IPO.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

billion in cash and short-term investments — and my sense from looking at the numbers for the past couple of quarters is that it could probably be making some money, too (that is, generating positive free cash flow), if that were a priority. billion in its 2013 IPO) that investors have plowed into it.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

After enterprise tech start-up Box filed to go public last month, revealing founder Aaron Levie’s remaining stake to be just over 4% (plus stock options) , commentators seemed compelled to note just how much control the 28-year-old founder had given up on the road to an IPO. The data comes from a survey of 6,130 U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2017

A recent Washington Post investigation titled “The big problem for Uber now: Attracting talent” detailed the roots of this problem throughout the company and at the top, where 13 of the top 20 management positions remain empty, including the positions of COO and CFO.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

Yet, the company reported ASCOI of positive $80.1 Rather, Groupon felt the need to include a metric of profitability, no matter how contrived, that was actually positive. 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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Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 4, 2008

In terms of exit strategy , our goal is an IPO but at the right price and the right partner, we won’t exclude the acquisition option. Darren on Why MANY smart people think they deserve a better position at work? rajesh301 on Why MANY smart people think they deserve a better position at work?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

Tech bloggers had jumped all over the story; many speculated that SimplePay had begun to slow its hiring and scrimp on security investments in an effort to spiff up its balance sheet for a potential IPO. We’ve got an IPO to prepare for, after all.” Some of that was true. “We’ve got a strong team in place.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

Second, the company’s capital was spread uniformly across an extraordinary range of business types and competitive positions. The company’s success has made it one of the best-performing IPOs in Asia in the last decade. billion in annual revenues and more than $650 million in profits.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Unfortunately, mismatched goals between investors and entrepreneurs as well as a potential cultural bias may both prove to limit the positive effect that accelerators have in emerging market contexts. Regardless, accelerators still have an important role to play that can help position entrepreneurs for success. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

Before the company’s $155 billion IPO in 2014 — the largest initial public offering in history — he observed, “we want to help small businesses grow by solving their problems.” Payment platforms, for example, are in a far better position to identify and mitigate fraud than individual users.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

also has a vibrant IPO system to take companies public. Doing so positions you to legally tie your assets to highly-liquid funding environments, and your exit path will be expanded. It's something that U.S. tech entrepreneurs may not need to be overly concerned about, since the tech ecosystem in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2012

With the JOBS Act , the rise of international accelerators , the upcoming Facebook IPO , and the mind-blowing $1 billion Instagram acquisition , you can be sure that droves of young, ambitious founders will be jumping on the start-up bandwagon. In start-ups, you lose the vast majority of these positive reinforcement mechanisms.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

Lerner has another paper relevant to the Dell case, which looks at the performance of buyout companies'' stock prices after they IPO, including public firms taken private in the deal. As Lerner summed it up for me in an interview, "There seemed to be a pretty positive track record in terms of technology companies after buyouts.".

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

.” In a recent Strategic Management Journal study with a sample of more than 6,000 companies, Wasserman discovered that founders who keep a powerful central role in their startup as it grows — controlling the board or the CEO position, or both — can harm the firm’s prospects, reducing pre-money valuation by up to 22%.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Companies that separate the roles of CEO and chairman and appoint strong outsiders to the latter position may have one advantage: they are more likely to benefit from strong governance. The economies of scale such a position would deliver would enable the group to keep the jobs in Wolfsburg.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2018

On top of that, Digitas, where he was CEO, had just raised $223 million through its IPO in March of 2000, valuing the company at $1.4 billion, $100 million shy of its IPO valuation. They also stayed on in their respective executive positions, thus keeping their partnership alive. Kenny himself had already sold 1.5

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