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It’s understood that startups raise money from VCs for the purpose of growing and scaling the company, possibly towards an exit down the road. It’s also no secret that VCs provide the capital to founders to help them grow and scale the company in hopes of that exit occurring at a faster and more lucrative …
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Negotiations, like taxes, are an inevitable part of life. People negotiate every day whether they realize it or not – what to get at a restaurant, where to fill up gas, who to delegate work to. These small negotiations are often not always conspicuous, which is why we don’t pay too much attention to them …
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There seems to have been a trend this year in the IPO market. It usually has gone along the lines of: Private company raises a few rounds of funding and has a high valuation Private company submits S-1 filings to the SEC Private company enlists the help of an investment bank or two to help …
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“The investor’s chief problem – and even his worst enemy – is likely to be himself” ~ Benjamin Graham Most people don’t stop for a moment and realize that the way we think, behave, or make decisions is linked to multiple fields of study. You can pick two completely different subjects and can tie them …
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“It is no secret that exercise makes us feel good. It’s simple science: exercising creates endorphins and endorphins make us happy…on the most basic level, Peloton sells happiness.” ~ John Foley, CEO of Peloton Overview Peloton likely needs no introduction. The self-labeled “tech / software / apparel / retail / media / social connection” company …
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I’m thinking of starting an ongoing series called “Front Page” where I do a high-level analysis of companies that have recently undergone an IPO. The purpose of this is to shed some light on the journey that companies embarked upon from their humble beginnings to the ultimate destination resort: the ticker of a stock exchange. …
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Imagine this scenario: it’s the weekend. You go to your usual grocery store and you see that there’s a sale on your favorite package of cookies. The angel on your left shoulder tells you that you’ve been doing good at the gym, you’ve been eating right, and you don’t need the cookies. Then the devil …
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Whenever a private company wants to go public, there are essentially two methods that they can follow in order to list shares on a public stock exchange: the company can file for an IPO, which most businesses do, or you can go the Direct Listing route, which is significantly less common. If you followed Spotify’s …
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OpenAI, the research company in San Francisco, California that is working on furthering development around artificial general intelligence, created a concept called “Learning Day“. Essentially employees here have an entire day of the work week dedicated to studying up on skills that will make them better at their job. This concept, developed by Wojciech Zaremba …
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Piggybacking from the previous post, one of the most refreshing things to me is when someone is transparent. For someone to say what’s on their mind, to not hold back when asked for feedback, and to just tell it like it is seems to be an endangered quality in people today. It used to be …
