Capital & Fundraising

To understand why the popular narrative around IPOs is wrong, you have to take apart the IPO process, how stock markets work, and what the “price” of a stock means.

While entry multiples are an input for valuing mature companies, in the high growth tech market, multiples are a byproduct of the valuation process. Investors really want to understand possible exit values.

We go in-depth on the emerging trend of Direct Listings, where no capital is raised, as opposed to a traditional IPO.

We delve into the lessons learned and go behind the scenes of the OpenTable IPO with then-CEO Jeff Jordan and then-banker on the deal, J.D. Moriarty.

16 tips for getting IPO ready from proving you can grow with revenue at scale to monitoring the competitive landscape.

What's the future of peer-to-peer collaborations and startups-as-"science experiments"? Can venture capital disrupt academia… and vice versa?