Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

And at PayPal we were hit with a couple patent disputes while in the midst of our IPO process. While it was still a college-focused SNS, Facebook of course launched in 2004 and there were plenty of other examples of social networking already… Friendster (2002), LinkedIn (2003), MySpace (2003), Orkut (2004).

IP 100

IP IPO Social Network Silicon Valley 100

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The company didn’t turn a profit until 2003, but by 2005 business was booming – Netflix was shipping out a million DVDs daily. One of the top five largest IPOs in the world was done by the reformed General Motors in 2010, and the company generated a profit. #4- Netflix. Photo Credit: Jen Wan. 18- Adidas' Adi Dassler.

Entrepreneur 93

Entrepreneur Bankruptcy Southern California South Africa 93

Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

In 2003 – while Agile was known – it was largely limited to ISVs and a few leading IT organizations. Million To The Boulder Community after their IPO. It has been a rocket ship from there. SaaS was beginning to be talked about as Salesforce.com’s success (and leverage from the SaaS model) became apparent.

Software 70

Software Technology Agile SCRUM 70

BeyondVC

MARCH 25, 2004

So while I was at PC Forum, my partner, Ned Carlson, sent me an email on the recent IPO filing of Seven Networks. However, we still do not understand how it can go public with the following numbers: 2002 revenue of $6mm, net loss of $19mm and 2003 revenue of $7mm and a net loss of $13mm. Isn’t Visto already doing this as well?

IPO 60

IPO United States .Net Software Review 60

Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 28, 2023

John (11:25): Yeah, I actually, I started my blog in 2003 that I talk about being in the right place at the right time. No one's counting how many you're throwing the D, how many times you're throwing the dice. If you keep rolling, you're more likely to roll the double six. That was luck to spot that technology. Education, excuse.

Framework 71

Framework Cofounder Early Stage IPO 71

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession. Companies are retrenching, VC firms are going through their own upheavals, and IPOs are non-existent. VC funding for startups is drying up quickly.

IPO 100

IPO Early Stage Cofounder B2C 100

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Michael was the lead research analyst for the IPOs of Internet companies like UUNET, Yahoo!, Since 2003, Rumson has helped clients invest over $1.0 eBay, DoubleClick, Webex, Real Networks, Exodus, Equinix, amongst many other pioneering companies, as well as covering companies like America Online and Netscape.

Technical Review 128

Technical Review Technology North Carolina Switzerland 128

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Juno IPO’d while Joel was there, and it was the first “broken&# IPO of the dot-com era.

Software Review 285

Software Review Software St. Louis API 285

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Google bought Gil’s company in 2003 (pre IPO) for $100+ million and this business now represents about 30% of all of Googles revenue. Factual was created in 2007 by Gil Elbaz, the founder of Applied Semantics. In case you don’t know Applied Semantics it’s Google AdSense.

Cloud 343

Cloud Technical Review Database Semantic 343

Seeing Both Sides

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Last week''s successful IPO of e-commerce giant Wayfair (market cap $3B) and this week''s impending IPO of Hubspot (if it prices in the range, market cap $600m) has many in the Boston tech community celebrating. 2013 was the best year for IPOs since the tech bubble of the 90s and 2014 looks to wrap up even stronger this quarter.

IPO 39

IPO Turkey Churn Rate Stock 39

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Over a 25 year career, Baughman has gained experience in leading worldwide sales organizations, brings expertise in full life cycle product management, proven revenue creation and growth management including taking a start up from zero to $1.6B, and shepherding companies through all phases from start up launch to IPO to acquisition.

Naming 59

Naming Hiring Technical Review Virginia 59

Hunter Walker

JANUARY 27, 2023

Google was about 1,000 people when I started in 2003, which means last week’s layoffs were more than an order of magnitude larger than the entire company I’d originally joined. Originally Published June, 2013 [and lightly edited/updated] hunter@google.com: From 2003–2013, it was a pretty powerful email address for me.

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Chad IPO Email .Net 64

Hunter Walker

JANUARY 24, 2021

You see, it was for work I’d performed from 2001–2003 at a startup called Linden Lab, the company behind virtual world Second Life. The transaction size was small compared to the IPO and SPAC headlines from the past few months, but I had the benefit of being an early, single digit employee, and hence a stock value of around.04/share

Silicon Valley 83

Silicon Valley Equity Vesting Cofounder 83

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2023

John Jantsch (13:37): Yeah, I actually, I started my blog in 2003 that I talk about being in the right place at the right time. No one's counting how many you're throwing the dice, how many times you're throwing the dice. If you keep rolling, you're more likely to roll the double six. That was luck to spot that technology.

Audio 87

Audio Cofounder Framework Early Stage 87

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 29, 2014

4/11 and @pmarca on why the IPO is not what it used to be – [link]. ” Also, success was defined as a company having an IPO (the data range for the study was 1975 – 2003). The links are good, so here they are if you want to get in the headspace for what I really want to talk about. 9/11 I end with Haiku.

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Venture Capital IPO Syndicate Syndication 139

Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Last week , I wrote about the strong ambition across the globe to have a "Silicon Valley of One''s Own," and to replicate the otherworldly innovation of a region that has produced more than 75% of the World’s Unicorns - technology companies started since 2003 that now have valuations of more than $1 billion. trillion in cash held by big tech.

Silicon Valley 63

Silicon Valley Private Equity Venture Capital IPO 63

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

At an accelerator … Me: Raising convertible notes as a seed round is one of the biggest disservices our industry has done to entrepreneurs since 2001-2003 when there were “full ratchets” and “multiple liquidation preferences” – the most hostile terms anybody found in term sheets 10 years ago. Employment.

Venture Capital 417

Venture Capital Liquidation Preference Valuation Term Sheet 417

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

A cautious person wouldn’t try to pry people out of Twitter right before their IPO to” join my cause!!” It’s 2003 and VCs aren’t exactly lining up to fund startup businesses. You simply can’t afford to be overly cautious or you’ll never achieve anything. ” “Buy a house?

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Startup Dilution San Diego Stock Options 417

Gust

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Facebook, which did not exist in 2003, is now valued at nearly $100 billion. The law would have the effect of allowing companies to stay private longer, deferring the significant expense, management distraction and public disclosure of financial and operating data involved in the IPO process.

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IPO Prospectus SEC Intellectual Property 110

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 29, 2014

4/11 and @pmarca on why the IPO is not what it used to be – [link]. ” Also, success was defined as a company having an IPO (the data range for the study was 1975 – 2003). The links are good, so here they are if you want to get in the headspace for what I really want to talk about. 9/11 I end with Haiku.

Venture Capital 111

Venture Capital IPO Syndicate Syndication 111

Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

We were a profitable company at that point with nearly $200M annualized revenue, one of the first tech companies to IPO after the dot-com bubble. We started working nights and weekends in late 2002 when some of the founding team were wrapping up their prior day jobs and then everybody was full time on LinkedIn by January 2003.

Startup 188

Startup Cofounder Seed Stage IPO 188

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

In the late 90’s he saw the internet boom and helped start IronPlanet.com, a construction equipment marketplace that is nearing an IPO. In 2003 one of their first investments was Qiigo, Mike Yavondite’s company. How did the experience of pitching Iron Planet to investors affect you as a VC? (5:00 5:00 – 5:55).

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Vertical Curation Boston Burn Rate 265

View from Seed

JUNE 17, 2015

We were a profitable company at that point with nearly $200M annualized revenue, one of the first tech companies to IPO after the dot-com bubble. We started working nights and weekends in late 2002 when some of the founding team were wrapping up their prior day jobs and then everybody was full time on LinkedIn by January 2003.

Startup 120

Startup Cofounder Seed Stage IPO 120

Hunter Walker

JUNE 22, 2013

hunter@google.com: From 2003-2013, it was a pretty powerful email address for me. People would stop me on the street to tell me their Google search stories of triumph or failure, ask me about their website ranking, and, around the time of the IPO, make wild assumptions about my net worth. Obviously he’s an engineer).

Chad 104

Chad IPO .Net Email 104

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

There was a healthy amount of capital ($20-30B annually) invested in VC funds during the 2003-2008 timeframe. Yes, it was less than the $100B+ that came in ’99-00 but that was bubble driven aberration no matter how you look at it. In the mid 2000′s VC’s were largely prospering.

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LP Portfolio Venture Capital IRR 154

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Meanwhile, the rash of early liquidity and recent IPOs — unsatisfying as they were — gave liquidity to thousands of employees at large companies, and a subset of those made very real money. This time around, there has been an explosion at the early stages, and the very late pre-IPO growth stages. YY.com soars on opening.

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93

Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

We were a profitable company at that point with nearly $200M annualized revenue, one of the first tech companies to IPO after the dot-com bubble. We started working nights and weekends in late 2002 when some of the founding team were wrapping up their prior day jobs and then everybody was full time on LinkedIn by January 2003.

Startup 100

Startup Cofounder Seed Stage IPO 100

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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Silicon Valley San Francisco San Jose Startup 185

Up and Running

APRIL 17, 2013

Catch up on Part 1 of his “Playing with Glass” series, this is Part 2… It was 2003, 10 years ago, but I remember meeting Larry Page like it was yesterday. As for Google a decade later, after an IPO and billions upon billions in ad revenue later Google is one of the largest companies in the world. He said this.

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Michigan Boston Jordan Austin 96

Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

MySpace was incubated by a small team of employees within Intermix in 2003 (Chris DeWolfe, Tom Anderson and four others). VantagePoint Venture Partners came to the rescue in late 2003 with an infusion of $15 million in capital, adding Andrew Sheehan (now at Sutter Hill Ventures ) and David Carlick (now at Rho Ventures ) to the Board.

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Merger Vesting 98

David Teten

MARCH 12, 2012

According to a 2003-2004 U.S. Although we don’t do too many jetés in our work (except when a portfolio company IPOs ), these floors are a pleasure to use particularly when wearing minimal shoes. survey, Americans spend over half of their time awake sitting. They enhance performance and greatly reduce injuries.

Product 166

Product Portfolio Venture Capital Vesting 166

Gust

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Me: Raising convertible notes as a seed round is one of the biggest disservices our industry has done to entrepreneurs since 2001-2003 when there were “full ratchets” and “multiple liquidation preferences” – the most hostile terms anybody found in term sheets 10 years ago. Maybe an IPO – who knows? At an accelerator …. Employment.

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Liquidation Preference Valuation Term Sheet Stock 153

Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

2003: Spitzer’s Global Research Analyst Settlement, which had the unintended effect of depriving small companies from getting research coverage. The NVCA has developed research going back forty years showing that over 90% of the job growth created by venture-backed companies occurs AFTER their IPO. cents or 6.25

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Equity Securities and Exchange Commission IPO Marketing 31

reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Friendster was at its height, strongly battling MySpace after raising its premium round from Benchmark and Kleiner in the fall of 2003. Friendster raised a big round in 2003; MySpace started gaining traction. The journey from founding, to multiple rounds of financing, to IPO, was not easy. At LinkedIn, we had these moments.

Entrepreneur 111

Entrepreneur Revenue Viral Networking 111

Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 21, 2009

The IPO market remains completely irrelevant to VCs. Yes, Rosetta Stone had a successful IPO - the first one since March 2008 to be priced above the range. The IPO market may return modestly for some large, profitable companies will not return anytime soon for VC-backed companies. 2) Profitable, established business (i.e.,

IPO 22

IPO Revenue Stock Portfolio 22

BeyondVC

AUGUST 23, 2006

Back in 2003 when we were deciding whether or not to sell Expertcity (GoToMyPC and GoToMeeting) to Citrix or continue fighting the fight and attempt to take the company public 1 year later, it was quite a gut-wrenching decision. Everyone knows that hindsight is 20/20. million (for comparison, on-demand poster child salesforce.com posted $396.6

AJAX 60

AJAX Balance Sheet Vertical Demand 60

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Even though I had done it before, I had never heard the term sharding before joining Google (early 2003) so I always thought the term originated there. I dont think sharding came from the MMO world, we were using the term at Google before MMOs started becoming popular. January 7, 2009 9:28 PM Raph said. Eric, I stop by regularly!

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San Francisco Architecture Startup Database 151