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. To give you a sense, for 2002 the entire US online ad market was $6B and had shrunk year over year (it was $25B+ for 2010). Ok, now you have the context for early 2003.
Agile VC
MARCH 13, 2012
In the early days of LinkedIn we jointly acquired an issued patent of the defunct SixDegrees.com which directly pertains to social networking as well as acquiring a nascent startup in part for its in-process patent filings. And at PayPal we were hit with a couple patent disputes while in the midst of our IPO process.
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Campus Entrepreneurship
DECEMBER 23, 2010
The firm offers email subscribers a deal-of-the-day coupon at a local business, then encourages them to share it with their social networks. Lefkofsky launched InnerWorkings, a business-to-business online printing firm, in 2002 and took it public in 2006; it’s now run by CEO Eric Belcher, ’95.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 31, 2011
It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. before the really profitable years of social networking and when many in the industry were despondent. The days of quick flips, quick IPOs and astronomic returns had come to a close. They seem to have bounced back nicely.
David Teten
JANUARY 10, 2012
The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas. Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 22, 2011
It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. before the really profitable years of social networking and when many in the industry were despondent. The days of quick flips, quick IPOs and astronomic returns had come to a close. They seem to have bounced back nicely.
Austin Startup
APRIL 26, 2020
In honor of Netflix’s big beat today in the very unfortunate age of COVID-19, I decided to revisit my four-part Bazaarblog series while I was CEO of Bazaarvoice (from our inception in 2005 to our IPO in 2012). The name of the last part? Netflix vs. Blockbuster: Round Four (Lights Out?)” They didn’t listen to the power of word of mouth.
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