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. It’s a great business. It still serves just 60 customers per day.

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The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 24, 2012

Nic Brisbourne on why the technology start-up ecosystem will remain an important part of the global economy, despite some recent missteps. The reality is that we have been dealing with a market failure to provide liquidity to investors in late-stage companies for most of the time since the internet bubble burst in March 2000.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 2, 2014

Well, if you don’t, try on these IPO, M&A, and financing stats from 1st Quarter 2014: Initial Public Offerings: 72 companies went public in the U.S. in the 1st quarter - the largest number of new issuers since 2000 -raising a total of 11.1 And, as of Monday 54 of the 72 of them were trading above their IPO price.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2017

It seems obvious but strategic investment only makes sense when that corporate VC is providing technology, market access, or other aid that cannot be obtained through a simple business relationship or from a startup’s other investors or advisors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. That is a 65% increase in the number of IPOs over 2012, and the highest proceeds raised since the year 2000. Entrepreneurs now can think globally about the opportunity, from day one but start locally. business entrepreneur investment IPO social media startup'

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

For a technology startup company to launch an initial product and survive long enough to gauge its success, requires two-orders-of-magnitude less money today than at the start of the previous decade. There used to be the Four Horsemen of the IPO world, back in the '80s and '90s. Brown & Sons, Montgomery Securities. Number of U.S.

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David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

Joe Chernesky, Vice President and General Manager of Global Licensing Sales, Intellectual Ventures. Kupietzky held a variety of management roles in marketing, sales and product management at world-class technology companies: Digital Insight (Intuit), Loudcloud/Opsware (Hewlett-Packard) and Siebel Systems (Oracle).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. Last year was the most active year for IPOs in the United States since 2000. 275 IPOs were completed in 2014, topping the 2013 total of 222 by more than 23%. Entrepreneurs now can think globally about the opportunity, from day one but start locally.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

In May 1996, Open Market completed a successful IPO and more than doubled on the first day of trading, ending with a $1.2 If investors observing this extraordinary phenomenon in 1996 were to have concluded that the technology market was in the midst of an unsustainable bubble, they would not have been wrong. We had recorded $1.8

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www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

Minted.com is both a global design community and stationery retailer. Independent graphic designers from all over the world submit designs to our ongoing design competitions, and Minteds community votes to tell us what to sell. ­om migrated off Drupal.

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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.

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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). Bernard is based in New York, was born in Berlin, has lived in and started companies in Asia and Europe as well as America; he is comfortable with globalization.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Texas is the most promising technology market in the United States. Or are they running to a fresh perspective, a massive talent pool, and an innovation culture that balances social impact with global domination? Each major city has created physical technology hubs with strong public/private partnerships.

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Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

IPO market and simply dismiss the American equity markets for emerging growth companies today as “no longer engineered for brokers & bankers to make money via flipping over-valued startups to retail investors via institutional cronies” (from Paul Kedrosky’s blog). And then there are those who look at the broken U.S.

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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. This is a good example of technology driven market change being accelerated by new securities regulations). cents or 6.25 cents or 6.25

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Technology. Personal Technology. TECHNOLOGY. Craig Walker, co-founder and CEO of Firespotter Labs, a technology incubator, said it feels unnatural to bestow so much voting power on one executive. This time around, technology entrepreneurs are being more assertive. WSJ Classroom. Ran gold Resources Ltd. My Journal.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

So heres my simple question: What do folks in Washington need to know about the global community of entrepreneurs? Id like to see if we can come up with policy suggestions, concerns, or questions that might promote entrepreneurship generally - and globally. Ease the process for startups to get access to global talent.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 20, 2014

last year, more than any other major index), and the IPO market is booming. 222 firms held initial public offerings last year, raising $55 Billion, the most since 406 companies went public for $97 million in 2000. The bull market will celebrate its 5 th anniversary in March (NASDAQ grew 38.3% Seed-stage deals now require $5.1

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

And going even further back there have been a few random ones have been built before like Salesforce.com and e-tailer RedEnvelope (IPO’d in 2003 though now defunct as a company). If my memory serves me, <10% of our pre-IPO employees at PayPal lived in SF and literally 1 of the first 40-50 folks at LinkedIn were city-dwellers.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

UiPath broke that milestone this summer, in just nine months, establishing Europe as a major global center for software innovation. Before jumping into the list, let’s have a quick look at what’s been a very special year in many ways for the cloud ecosystem globally and in Europe. 2020 Cloud Market: Is The Sky the Limit?

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

IPO market. There are a number of trends concerning IPOs and capital formation to note: First, the raw number of IPOs has declined significantly: From 1980-2000, the US averaged roughly 300 IPOs per year; from 2001-2016, the average fell to 108 per year. In the first quarter of 2021 alone, SPACs raised $87.9

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says. Less than 1% are currently in IPO registration. Globaloney: Globalization Challenged. Globaloney: Globalization Challenged.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Marc Andreessen: So the computer industry started in 1950 and basically ran for 50 years with the same model, which was a model where all of the new computers, all the new technology, all the new software started out being sold for the highest prices to the biggest organizations. So originally the customer was the Department of Defense.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

Each circle represents one of the fifty largest technology companies in the city, the size of each circle determined by the number of the company’s employees. By all accounts, the first one burst in 2000 when the NASDAQ crash brought the first dot-com era to a close. The first page results of a search for “tech 2.0

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