Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2013

One of the biggest in this decade was the merger of America Online (AOL) with Time Warner, engineered in the early 2000’s by Time Warner CEO Jerry Leven and AOL CEO Steve Case for a whopping $164 billion. They all forget or ignore the high-profile failures that have resulted from some single-handed business decisions.

Merger 239

Merger Entrepreneur Analytics Open Source 239

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). Individual angel investors have been filling the gap, and now match VCs in total amount invested.

Angel Investor 260

Angel Investor Silicon Valley Startup Portfolio 260

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

In April of 2000 there were fears that the AOL / Time Warner merger would create a monopoly on the Internet. People feared they were going to have a monopoly over the Internet due to “bunding&# Internet Explorer with their operating system. As you know, Time Warner eventually spun off AOL for peanuts.

Social Network 297

Social Network Networking Internet EC2 297

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

One of the biggest in this decade was the merger of America Online (AOL) with Time Warner, engineered in the early 2000’s by Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin and AOL CEO Steve Case for a whopping $164 billion. Time Warner was forced to take a $99 billion loss only two years after the merger, and Levin was forced out.

Merger 120

Merger Analytics Open Source America 120

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Thankfully, most mistakes won’t be as spectacular as the America Online merger with Time Warner for $350 billion, back in 2000, engineered by then superstar entrepreneurs Stephen M. These can trip up even the best, often at the cost of more than a good night’s sleep. Case and Gerald M.

Leadership 265

Leadership Founder Startup Merger 265

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2012

One of the biggest in this decade was the merger of America Online (AOL) with Time Warner, engineered in the early 2000’s by Time Warner CEO Jerry Leven and AOL CEO Steve Case for a whopping $164 billion. They all forget or ignore the high-profile failures that have resulted from some single-handed business decisions.

Merger 235

Merger Analytics Open Source America 235

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2017

Thankfully, most mistakes won’t be as spectacular as the America Online merger with Time Warner for $350 billion, back in 2000, engineered by then superstar entrepreneurs Stephen M. These can trip up even the best, often at the cost of more than a good night’s sleep. Case and Gerald M.

Leadership 158

Leadership Merger Affiliate America 158

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2019

The company has been in operation since the year 2000 with its headquarters in New York City. The company was formed as a result of a merger between Bell Atlantic Corp. This happens to be one of the largest telecommunication companies in the United States. As of February 2019, it had a market value of $221.39 And GTE Corp.

United Kingdom 113

United Kingdom United States China France 113

Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

The two decades from 1979 when pension funds fueled the expansion of venture capital to 2000 when the dot-com bubble burst were the Golden Age for entrepreneurs and venture capital firms. During the decade between 1991 and 2000, nearly 2000 venture backed companies went public. Here’s why. Take a look at the chart below. (It

Venture Capital 297

Venture Capital IPO Liquidity Event Entrepreneur 297

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2013

Thankfully, most mistakes won’t be as spectacular as the America Online merger with Time Warner for $350 billion, back in 2000, engineered by then superstar entrepreneurs Stephen M. These can and will trip up even the best, often at the cost of a good night’s sleep. Case and Gerald M.

Entrepreneur 264

Entrepreneur Merger Leadership Affiliate 264

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2012

So here are the most common exit strategies and considerations these days for planning purposes: Merger & Acquisition (M&A). 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%. Initial Public Offering (IPO).

Exit Strategy 241

Exit Strategy Initial Public Offering IPO Startup 241

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability. August 1995 – March 2000: The Dot.Com Bubble. Tech IPOs were a receding memory, and mergers and acquisitions became the only path to liquidity for startups.

Internet 334

Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 334

Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 23, 2016

“This merger will launch the next Internet revolution,” said Steve Case, America Online’s chairman and chief executive, told a news conference Monday. 2000 was the Peak of Inflated Expectations. 1995 – 2000 was the climb up to the Peak. At the peak, AOL bought Time Warner for $162 billion.

Merger 70

Merger Stock Internet America 70

Pascal's View

AUGUST 12, 2009

Between 2001 and 2008 mergers and acquisitions (M&A) accounted for 87% of venture-backed company exits, up from an average of 44% in between 1992 and 2000. Large corporations are generally not known for being innovative and even less for creating new jobs after acquiring other companies (merger “synergy” is code for firing people).

IPO 28

IPO Silicon Valley Merger Sweat Equity 28

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2011

So here are the most common exit strategies and considerations these days for planning purposes: Merger & Acquisition (M&A). 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%. Initial Public Offering (IPO).

Exit Strategy 231

Exit Strategy Initial Public Offering Startup IPO 231

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. the 1990s.

Private Equity 68

Private Equity Merger IPO Equity 68

Growthink Blog

APRIL 2, 2014

in the 1st quarter - the largest number of new issuers since 2000 -raising a total of 11.1 Mergers & Acquisitions: Global mergers & acquisition activity totaled $710 billion (Thomson Reuters), up 54% from last year. And, as of Monday 54 of the 72 of them were trading above their IPO price. Private Equity.

Private Equity 69

Private Equity Merger IPO Initial Public Offering 69

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Jumpstart was one of Grahams first clients; it signed on shortly after he founded Arizona Bay, in 2000. Even with the turmoil in the capital markets in the second half of 2007, it was another record year for merger and acquisition activity. Jumpstart wasnt much at the time, just four employees working from home offices.

Arizona 40

Arizona Equity Iowa Venture Capital 40

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

And in order to compete against the big guys, the Deloittes, the McKinseys, the Accentures, our niche became large scale change projects, anything from mergers and acquisitions to large scale system integration work. We started off with Gangbusters in 2000. It really got our stride in 2010 and had some great clients and big clients.

Leadership 73

Leadership Developer Curation Hiring 73

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Wintegra, founded in 2000, has 165 employees with the majority of its R&D development team located in Ra’anana, Israel, and Austin, Texas. Ernst & Young (E&Y), one of the “Big Four&# global auditors, forecasts Israel will have 24 mergers and acquisitions in 2010, worth about $1.75

Bandwidth 79

Bandwidth Framework Forecast 79

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

I remember having a merger called off at the last minute and having a planning meeting at a pub to figure out how to run a bankruptcy process (luckily, we never had to do it). There are many VCs who have been made partner since 2000 and haven’t previously had an exit of their own. What do you tell somebody in that situation?

Entrepreneur 384

Entrepreneur Startup Salary Egypt 384

Hearpreneur

MAY 15, 2016

Prior to founding Rukkus, I was a quantitative analyst at Goldman Sachs where I was a member of the advisory team for the Ticketmaster/Live Nation merger as well as the Groupon IPO. We currently carry over 2000 products from more than 50 designers and have served over 30,000 happy customers. Photo Credit: Manick Bhan.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur SEO Web Merger 48

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

O’Reilly unwittingly illustrates this point by telling the story of Sunil Paul, a friend and a successful serial entrepreneur who filed a patent on the core elements of GPS-enabled ride-hailing in 2000. Yet despite literally patenting ride-hailing in 2000, his own venture, Sidecar, lost out to the more aggressive scaling of Uber and Lyft.

Cofounder 28

Cofounder Business Model IPO Non-Compete 28

abovethecrowd.com

AUGUST 23, 2020

Below is a marketing email sent around by one of the participating investment banks after the recent nCino IPO (which was underpriced in record-setting fashion, 195% first day “pop” – “the biggest first-day surge since the 2000 tech bubble”). Door #3: The SPAC Merger.

IPO 118

IPO Silicon Valley Warrant Matching 118

Pascal's View

AUGUST 21, 2011

For me Bubble will always be inexorably linked to what went down in 1999 and 2000 in the internet sector. I will post separately on valuation metrics and the implications of the dichotomy between recent public company valuations and merger & acquisition statistics. It is intentional. I do not think we are in a Bubble per se.”.

Valuation 50

Valuation Social Media Media IPO 50

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

I remember having a merger called off at the last minute and having a planning meeting at a pub to figure out how to run a bankruptcy process (luckily, we never had to do it). There are many VCs who have been made partner since 2000 and haven’t previously had an exit of their own. What do you tell somebody in that situation?

Entrepreneur 176

Entrepreneur Startup Salary Egypt 176

VC Adventure

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Since 2000, Springboard Enterprises has served as a resource hub of influencers, investors and innovators engaged in helping women build big businesses. I’m incredibly excited about this idea and the impact we can have across these important non-profits. I hope you’ll help me spread the word. SPRINGBOARD ENTERPRISES. ENDEAVOR.

Equity 48

Equity Community Programming Global 48

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 9, 2017

And I’m not a technical guy but I certainly — I am very much a strong advocate of consumer privacy and I think the recent congressional decision was just appalling.

Search 31

Search Technical Review SEO Small Business 31

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

There were over 2000 participants and around 100 speakers from all over the world. Larry: After attending a recent VC congress in Israel, he found out that merger exits are not as profitable as IPOs in terms of building VC returns. But if you are trying to get bought out, then do the more costly dual-path method.

IPO 92

IPO Cofounder Europe 92

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 2000, Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr founded StubHub , a secondary ticket exchange marketplace. Benchmark is an investor in Rover through a merger with DogVacay in 2017). The most noteworthy of these is likely Upwork (*), a company that formed from the merger of Elance and Odesk. The company was acquired by ebay in January 2007.

Internet 88

Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

We raised a seed round of capital in 1999 and our first venture capital round was the first week of March 2000 (e.g. But this was early 2000 and our US competitors had already closed rounds North of $45 million. We had a $40 million round lined up to close in the Autumn of 2000. Our first big institutional round was $16.5

Entrepreneur 308

Entrepreneur Silicon Valley San Diego Non-Compete 308

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

In April of 2000 there were fears that the AOL / Time Warner merger would create a monopoly on the Internet. A bit laughable in 2010, just 12 years later. These days people would sooner fear Apple than Microsoft, proving that reality is stranger than fiction. As you know, Time Warner eventually spun off AOL for peanuts.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318