Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

I don’t believe that search is the only answer in 2010 as it was in 2000. In the former case many people scoffed at paying up for Google at IPO. On the first point – think of Steven Blank’s customer development but for physical products. There is also another inherent weakness. Time will tell.

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Venture Capital Affiliate Valuation San Francisco 271

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2013

Thanks To Facebook, Strongest Year For IPOs Since 2000 With $21.5 Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. 5 Design Tips Every Developer Should Know | Treehouse Blog – [link]. Why You Should Give Yourself Permission to Screw Up - [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. And obviously all the liq prefs went away in the IPO when pref stock converted to common. is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO.

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2014

Institutional venture capital dispensed thus far in 2014 has been up significantly over the last few years, but is still less than half of the peak hit way back in the year 2000 (over $100 billion). VCs tend to carry their partners much longer, in hopes of a big public offering (IPO) that could produce a windfall.

Angel Investor 260

Angel Investor Silicon Valley Startup Portfolio 260

Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

The cover story of the September 7 issue of Business Week reports on the “ Radical Future of R&D “, focusing on the internationalization of research and development led by global corporations such as IBM and Hewlett Packard. But from 2000 to the end of 2007, the rate plunged to 900,000 a year. In the 1990s the U.S.

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IPO Venture Capital America Marketing 38

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2012

Initial Public Offering (IPO). But since the Internet bubble burst in the year 2000, the IPO rate has declined every year until 2010, and is now at about 15%. For bigger companies, it’s a more efficient and quicker way to grow their revenue than creating new products organically. You retain ownership and enjoy the annuity.

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Exit Strategy Initial Public Offering IPO Startup 241

Version One Ventures

JULY 22, 2014

More money is flowing in from a new crop of angels, newly wealthy from a number of tech IPOs. We have all heard about the Series A crunch in the Valley (there might actually be up to 2000 companies in the Series A pipeline right now), and perhaps there’s a Series B crunch now too.

Finance 167

Finance Seed Money Bootstrapping Angel Investor 167

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. invested, IPO’ed in 2000 for $32/share — stock price now $2. from an IPO under a year ago of $10.

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IPO Flash Bootstrapping Private Equity 240

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2011

Initial Public Offering (IPO). But since the Internet bubble burst in the year 2000, the IPO rate has declined every year until 2010, and is now at about 15%. For bigger companies, it’s a more efficient and quicker way to grow their revenue than creating new products organically. You retain ownership and enjoy the annuity.

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Exit Strategy Initial Public Offering Startup IPO 231

thebarefootvc

JANUARY 15, 2020

I had seen the beginning of this evolution during the Internet boom…my first venture investment, in 2000, was in a company called Yodlee, which later went on to IPO and was eventually bought by Envestnet.

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Disintermediation Aggregator China API 69

Scalable Startup

DECEMBER 15, 2011

amazing shining examples of success and IPOs, even though they a 1 in a thousand. many more people are learning software development. when many vaporware and vapor-businesses crash or fade away they leave damage, possibly fueling the recession (remember 1999-2000? micro funding ($25K). millionaires.

Angel Investor 24

Angel Investor Startup IPO Software Developers 24

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. By 2000 the total LP commitments had mushroomed to more than $100 billion. IPO markets had burned an entire cycle of retail stock investors and many institutional investors to boot. So of course returns from 2000-2010 were subpar on average for the industry.

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

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

500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

While a flood of new VCs came into existence during the late 90’s internet boom, many had difficulty raising new funds after the crashes of 2000-2001 and 2008 , and as a result significantly fewer fund managers exist now compared to a decade ago. In the past ten years there have been several dramatic changes in venture capital.

Silicon Valley 74

Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Recently the market demand has been outpacing their ability to keep up, so they turned to OneTrueFan as a means of accelerating their product development and overall growth. When there is a great fit, I love seeing our portfolio companies make acquisitions. Todd and Eric have been friends of mine for a long time.

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San Francisco Acquisition Cofounder IPO 115

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. Amazon saw that the internet would change retail. Uber and Lyft blitzscaled.

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Cofounder Business Model IPO Non-Compete 28

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it.

Software Review 144

Software Review Technical Review San Francisco Continuous Deployment 144

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

I freely admit this (along with nearly everything between 1999-2000) was a mistake. We set our sites on our IPO price and then worked back to our current valuation and showed potential employees what we thought they could earn (with all legal caveats) if the company was successful. I think they believed it, too.

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Stock Options Stock Valuation Liquidation Preference 294

David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

Geleerd also co-managed the IPO of Manufactured Home Communities, LLC, now Equity LifeStyle Properties, LLC which owns and operates the highest quality portfolio of resort communities in the United States. Mr. Geleerd has been a member of YPO since 2000. In addition Geleerd was recognized by Crain’s Business Chicago 40 Under 40.

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Naming Government Intellectual Property LLC 122

www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

Dont be afraid of developing a contrarian viewpoint on what type of person is perfect for your company as CTO, and how youre going to find that person. Hiring the best developers is essential because a great developer is easily 3 times as productive as an average developer, yet their salaries are usually similar.

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CTO CTO Hire PHP Cofounder 43

Hearpreneur

MAY 15, 2016

I developed the idea for Goalposte during my time as an attorney working on a case defending Major League Baseball. Throughout the course of the lawsuit I was expected to interact with high-level baseball executives and attend sports business development events. I am also an avid music fan and concert go-er. The Bagtique was born.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur SEO Web Merger 48

Gust

OCTOBER 17, 2012

It is not highly concentrated geographically, or in the bubble of 1998-2000, or in any industry. Many other approaches develop all of the time. A little less than one-third of IPOs are of venture capital-backed firms. The distribution of returns from the different U.S.

Angel Investor 152

Angel Investor Venture Capital Seed Stage Silicon Valley 152

Pascal's View

AUGUST 21, 2011

This time, the debate centers on the “favored few” Social Media venture backed companies that have brought tremendous windfalls to a select group of venture funds and management teams, both pre- and post-IPO. For me Bubble will always be inexorably linked to what went down in 1999 and 2000 in the internet sector. It is intentional.

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Valuation Social Media Media IPO 50

Up and Running

APRIL 4, 2014

million ad featured in the 2000 Superbowl. In a move that can be described as gross negligence, Hummer Winblad didn’t bother to do any independent market research in its push for an IPO. Do your market research and develop a business plan before you open your doors. And…the company was out of business later that year.

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Sales IPO Texas Advertising 126

BeyondVC

JULY 5, 2004

Russell Beattie has a thorough post on Jamdat Mobile’s IPO filing. For those of you that don’t know, Jamdat is a provider of global wireless entertainment applications and enabling technologies that support multiple wireless platforms to wireless carriers, handset manufacturers, media companies, and independent content developers.

IPO 60

IPO Mobile Distribution Revenue 60

Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

He believes the structures originally developed in the U.S. IPO issues: Possibly the biggest problem for German venture-backed companies is the very low number of IPOs in Germany. The boom years of 1998 (79 IPOs), 1999 (175 IPOs), and 2000 (142 IPOs) are long gone. German Startups Association).

Germany 165

Germany Liquidation Preference Option Pool Advisory Board 165

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Facebook and Google would be obvious choices for this, but so much has been written about each of them and they represent such special business models, I worried that it would be both hard for entrepreneurs to relate and hard for me to develop new insights. But the second year (2000) was simply astounding: nearly $90 million!

Distribution 49

Distribution Lean Massachusetts Cofounder 49

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Within a year, by late 2000 / early 2001 consulting firms were firing people en masse. On July 27th, 2001 Accenture IPO’s and many of the partners grew fabulously wealthy. “Reality is, at the seed stage, most rocketships look more like the cardboard variety you’d make as a kid than something NASA developed.

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Turkey Differentiation IP Technical Review 302

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 13, 2012

It is not highly concentrated geographically, or in the bubble of 1998-2000, or in any industry. Many other approaches develop all of the time. A little less than one-third of IPOs are of venture capital-backed firms. The distribution of returns from the different U.S.

Angel Investor 103

Angel Investor Venture Capital Seed Stage Silicon Valley 103

Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

The development of Azure and the shift to the cloud has propelled the company to new heights. The cloud IPO market has also been very active with 32 IPOs vs. 17 in 2020. It’s worth noting though that while the number of IPOs increased, the companies were smaller and raised less capital than those last year. in Sept 2020.

Global 62

Global Europe Software Review 62

Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

ii. Bubble period 1996-2000 totals $243.6 Number of IPO’s has shrunk while average size has increased. i. Pre-bubble average 520 IPO’s per year. 80% of IPO’s <$50MM. And let’s remember that, at the time of these IPO’s, few if any of these companies were household names. cents or 6.25

Equity 31

Equity Securities and Exchange Commission IPO Marketing 31

Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

In the great bubble of 1998-2000, the boom in public valuations mirrored the boom in private valuations. The inflation-adjusted data from the last bubble tells the story: In the 3-year period from 1998-2000, venture capital firms raised more than $200 billion, which represented about 0.55% of the national GDP. Much better.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Venture Capital Valuation Database 78

Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

The names of these once great, now defunct firms may not be terribly familiar today but here are just a few examples: American Research & Development [Boston] –> Founded by George Doriot and depending how you count it, either the first or second formal VC firm in the US.

Silicon Valley 240

Silicon Valley Carried Interest Cofounder Boston 240

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

The big enterprise software companies almost all bootstrapped their way to profitability before they got their first external investors (typically via an IPO). It is equally true for the brilliant developer who has to migrate to becoming a leader of managers. Mark Suster writes very well about this trade-off/dilemma.

Software 127

Software Startup Architecture Bootstrapping 127

Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

It was still a year away from its IPO. Instead of bemoaning the demise of an old company we should be celebrating new companies that develop new helpful technologies. DO NOT develop a computer!&# But first some background.) Its latest product was an oscilloscope, the HP 150a. What is a company anyway?

Silicon Valley 164

Silicon Valley RSS California Agile 164

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

After more than 15 years leading Sales and Marketing teams in the Media & Publishing spaces, he’s developed a unique passion for helping creators become more successful by leveraging books as a catalyst for opportunities and sustainable revenue. So, Matt, welcome to the (01:22): Show. Most of your listeners probably know what it is.

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Audience Revenue Distribution Differentiation 88

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

The newest development phase dubbed “TMC3” will lead the world in life sciences research commercialization. Research Institute, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, and several public universities and Department of Defense research and development programs. In Houston, we are not just running, we are sprinting?—?in

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Texas San Antonio Houston Dallas 90