Business Quote by David Cohen Download Open image “Going public is one step in the life cycle of a company; it's not the last step.” — David Cohen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Business Company Cycle Last Life Life Cycle Step
Going public for the sake of going public is not really an optimal thing. You're going public because as a company you believe it… — Jeff Weiner Copy Share Image
For some companies, going public makes the most sense. For others, remaining private is preferable. — Vivek Ramaswamy Copy Share Image
Even if a company is taken private, at some stage people want to make it public. — N. R. Narayana Murthy Copy Share Image
With a private company, you've got to get into who's investing and what's the balance sheet like. So going public is a positive thing… — David Duffield Copy Share Image
We're going to go public eventually, because that's the contract that we have with our investors and our employees. — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
We actually went public partly because we wanted companies to realise we were not going away. — Parker Harris Copy Share Image
Being a public company certainly doesn't stop you from taking a really long-term time horizon, but it does make it more difficult. — Patrick Collison Copy Share Image
I think going public should not be a goal and the more that we make it a goal, the less it will be a goal. It's kind of like, I have three young children and when I tell them to eat vegetables, the last thing they will ever do is eat vegetables. I think it's just this weird thing where… — Chamath Palihapitiya Copy Share
The reason to go public is that it is a massive branding, marketing, credibility, trust-building exercise with your customers, and then it allows you to consolidate power and scale and market share. Do we want to be a huge company with a huge impact? If the answer to that is yes, the only way that that happens is by going… — Chamath Palihapitiya Copy Share
Because Techstars is an intensely productive three-month program in which product development and iteration are primary goals, we're constantly looking to streamline our program… — David Cohen Copy Share Image
The best mentors present their opinions simply as data and not as direction. — David Cohen Copy Share Image
My attitude is there are at least hundreds of interesting startups that are going to get going in every year. — David Cohen Copy Share Image
We've been publishing the TechStars data fully since the beginning on TechStars.com. For every single company, you can see if it's a failure, success,… — David Cohen Copy Share Image
At TechStars, I have the privilege of working with hundreds of the best and brightest start-up mentors on the planet. We coach our mentors… — David Cohen Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that Boulder was a supportive and open-door community well before TechStars ever existed. But one of the things that I'm… — David Cohen Copy Share Image
San Francisco is a great startup community that you shouldn't even try to model yourself after because it's just special. — David Cohen Copy Share Image
Part of the thing that's magic about TechStars is it's about a community that wants to make itself better. — David Cohen Copy Share Image
If you're not working on something you're passionate about, it's a long, hard road. — David Cohen Copy Share Image
I'm most proud of helping so many others achieve their dreams as founders. — David Cohen Copy Share Image
When fundraising, your network is critical. Leveraging it early and often is the key. Don't make the mistake of waiting until you need money… — David Cohen Copy Share Image
Companies with cultures that celebrate diverse opinions and encourage the exchange of ideas have an advantage when solving difficult problems. A company that doesn't… — Doug McMillon Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I'm a business first and foremost so whatever my business is, it's separate from my personal. It's like whatever I do business wise, it's… — Snoop Dogg Copy Share Image
Many early-stage entrepreneurs make one simple mistake: Describing this 'big picture' in vague concepts and words. — Sunil Nagaraj Copy Share Image
Nobody has a crystal ball, and part of evolving a business plan is to say, 'I might have said we're going left, but I… — Ryan Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
“[S]ometimes, when you are a food person, the possible irrelevance of what you are doing doesn’t cross your mind until it’s too late. (Once,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
If you have a different mindset, you will have a different outcome: if you make different choices from your peers, your life will then… — Jack Ma Copy Share Image
“Some say the Earth is angry Because he wants no company; I say the Earth is angry Because he lives alone.” — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image