The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

In 1995 there were ~1,350 public hospitals representing ~27% of the industry. The buyers (or lessees) in these transactions are pension funds, insurance companies, or private equity representing other institutions. Later stage Private Equity buyers rely more on existing hospital management and employees than in other industries.

Private Equity 129

Private Equity New York City Chicago Investment Bankers 129

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

See how many you have personally experienced already, or are currently mentioned in your business plan: Crowd-sourcing equity. Sites like KickStarter have for years offered rewards and pre-sales for crowd investments, but real equity won’t be legalized until sometime this year for people other than accredited investors.

Entrepreneur 274

Entrepreneur Accredited Investor Silicon Valley Angel Investor 274

SiliconHills

MAY 22, 2016

Genstar Capital, a private equity firm, last week announced its acquisition of Austin-based Accruent, which makes real estate, facilities and asset management software. Accruent, founded in 1995 in California, had raised $32 million from two investors in two rounds, according to its Crunchbase profile.

Austin 69

Austin Private Equity California Equity 69

Feld Thoughts

MARCH 14, 2018

Dave Jilk turned me on to it when I was a freshman (he was a senior) and from 1983 to 1995 I read almost every issue cover to cover. From where I sit, it seems like similar rules to selling private equity should apply to ICOs. In addition, there are some rules associated with selling public equity that should apply.

Advertising 86

Advertising SEC Private Equity Equity 86

VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

The Tel Aviv center will support Barclay’s international finance operations and expand the British bank’s equities and prime services among others. Unemployment fell to 6.1% in January, as the number of Israelis out of work dropped to 189,300. Unemployment had dropped as low as 5.9% Before that, unemployment was last at 6.1%

Java 79

Java Database Argentina 79

David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

I hope that you can join us Monday night, April 4, midtown NYC, at a panel on “Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO” The program is sponsored by the HBS Club of New York and the HBS Angels of NY.

Private Equity 68

Private Equity Merger IPO Equity 68

Berkonomics

MAY 31, 2018

I keep that email in my leather note portfolio, carrying it with me wherever I go, pulling it out often to read portions to audiences during my workshops, or just for fun to fellow private equity investor friends. An email to preserve and show. Hello again, Dave,” it began. Good to hear from you. Keep me informed.”

Employee 90

Employee Private Equity Seattle IPO 90

Agile VC

OCTOBER 1, 2013

The last two weren’t traditional VC backed startups, but rather growth equity and a corporate spin out, but nonetheless innovative tech companies are clearly being welcomed by the public markets again. The US government last shut down in 1995 and 1996. And of course Twitter filed confidentially for their IPO in September.

IPO 147

IPO Cloud Valuation Mobile 147

OnlyOnce

OCTOBER 3, 2019

The last time I’d done that was when I started at MovieFone in 1995 (the first day of starting one’s own company doesn’t count!). That’s all good and well, but Tuesday morning, I was also a new employee walking into his office on the first day of a new job.

New York City 48

New York City New York Framework Equity 48

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

” Here’s the summary of his track record (excerpted from the Fast Company article): Forefront — IPO’ed in 1995 by CBT — CBT stock fell 85% in 1998 and prompted class-action lawsuits. After all, before the house of cards inevitably tumbles, private equity investors get a tidy return. And it is magic.

IPO 240

IPO Flash Bootstrapping Private Equity 240

The Equity Kicker

JULY 4, 2014

If you take the 1995 Netscape IPO as the start of the internet advertising market then that industry went from inception to decline in 19 years. Yesterday I noted that the desktop advertising has also peaked. There’s a similar story there.

IPO 110

IPO Advertising Revenue Internet 110

The Equity Kicker

APRIL 12, 2016

Overall that’s a 46x growth in the number of computers sold per quarter since 1995. PCs were shipping c10m units per quarter in the mid 1990s, peaking at around 100m per quarter five years ago before falling to c60m last quarter. Meanwhile iOS and Android have grown from nothing in 2007 to c400m per quarter.

Mobile 60

Mobile Sales Startup 60

Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

I met Jerry in 1995. NetGenesis got some of eShares equity, eShare got the net.Thread product, and I joined the eShare board. I was chair of NetGenesis, which was the first angel investment I’d made after selling Feld Technologies (my first company). Jerry had just invested in eShare.

Non-Compete 70

Non-Compete LP Venture Capital Affiliate 70

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Imagine you receive an email from your bank about refinancing and home equity loans. Secondly, the bank could have paid attention to what I was doing, which was perusing their site and others’ for home equity line options, risks and rewards. Personalization should touch on each. You’re interested, so you decide to click through.

Web 48

Web Software Review Jordan Technical Review 48

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 19, 2019

Andy Rachleff co-founded the venture capital firm Benchmark Capital in 1995. It was a lot less appealing to me to be a growth equity investor, but that's not why I retired. Was this happening while you were still at Benchmark? It was starting to happen as I was retiring.

Silicon Valley 159

Silicon Valley Lean Venture Capital Pre-Money Valuation 159

Berkonomics

MAY 7, 2011

I keep that email in my leather note portfolio, carrying it with me wherever I go, pulling it out often to read portions to audiences during my workshops, or just for fun to fellow private equity investor friends. Hello again, Dave,” it began. In one of the most understated several word paragraphs in history, I responded by email, “Gee, Tom.

Private Equity 66

Private Equity Seattle IPO Equity 66

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 17, 2019

Walmart, Amazon, Costco, Walgreens, and Home Depot have each built strong brand identities and all benefit from powerful household recognition and strong brand equity. In 1995 Costco consolidated all of their private label products under the Kirkland Signature brand. They must be doing something right.

Social Media 80

Social Media Curation eCommerce Channel 80

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

One investor played chicken with me by threatening not to approve my next-round financing unless I gave him more equity. Let’s say you became a partner in a VC fund in 1995 and started investing heavily in 1997-99. And I had all the VCs play head games with me. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0, They were envious.

Entrepreneur 384

Entrepreneur Startup Salary Egypt 384

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

One investor played chicken with me by threatening not to approve my next-round financing unless I gave him more equity. Let’s say you became a partner in a VC fund in 1995 and started investing heavily in 1997-99. And I had all the VCs play head games with me. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0, They were envious.

Entrepreneur 176

Entrepreneur Startup Salary Egypt 176

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

Founded in 1995, the menu consists of bowl options with a base of white or brown rice, or freshly blanched vegetables, the choice of either Angus beef, all-natural chicken or flame broiled tofu, and topped with vegetables and chopped green onions. In 2012 I had a VC backed company with 100+ employees that was struggling.

Entrepreneur 91

Entrepreneur LLC Cofounder Green 91

Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 20, 2013

When Tim Koogle came in as CEO in 1995, all four principles applied: The founders knew they wanted a CEO, Tim came in early, he formed a tight management triumvirate with the founders, and he had experience running large organizations from his time at Motorola. presents a particularly fascinating example of these principles at work.

Founder 78

Founder Hiring Cofounder Hawaii 78

Seeing Both Sides

MAY 26, 2009

.  At $20-30 billion per year, the venture capital industry as a whole remains a “drop in the bucket” in terms of capital deployed relative to the over trillion dollars sitting in private equity firms.    In the private equity world, the industry leaders hang around forever well past their 50s and 60s. 

Private Equity 20

Private Equity Boston Massachusetts IPO 20