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Yahoo! vs Facebook: Lame Lawsuit, Good Timing ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

March 13, 2012. 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). Leader on Mar 5 2012. 10 July 2012, 7:05 pm Why Do VC’s Have Ownership Targets?

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Why Do Consumer IPOs and B2B IPOs Get Treated Differently?

View from Seed

All three have different business models… SaaS, media/ad, and consumer transactional. Google was a one such company when they went public in 2004 and Facebook was too at their 2012 IPO. In just the last month or so we’ve seen Lyft go public ( my analysis of the company’s S-1 here ) and more recently, Zoom and Pinterest.

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Why Do Consumer IPOs and B2B IPOs Get Treated Differently?

Agile VC

All three have different business models… SaaS, media/ad, and consumer transactional. Google was a one such company when they went public in 2004 and Facebook was too at their 2012 IPO. In just the last month or so we’ve seen Lyft go public ( my analysis of the company’s S-1 here ) and more recently, Zoom and Pinterest.

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[Singapore] Shopify Partners SingTel To Grow Presence In Singapore

YoungUpstarts

Online commerce has seen explosive growth in the region – data from PayPal, from example, revealed that merchants based in Singapore saw an increase of online export sales on average by 68% to China, 55% to Hong Kong, 22% to Japan and 20% to Australia in 2012 alone. “So, in 2005, we launched our very own platform.

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The Golden Age of the Boston Internet Entrepreneur

Genuine VC

I was in my early 20’s just barely out of school when four of us (peers) started Sombasa Media (aka BargainDog ) here in Boston beginning in 1998. Today the landscape is very different from 2004. And that certainly wasn’t the case when I moved back here in 2004.

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Facebook S-1: The Most Anticipated IPO in a Decade ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

February 2, 2012. Filing Date : February 1, 2012. Founded : Spring 2004, incorporated July 2004. Facebook admits as much that the ad business, which again accounts for the vast majority of revenues (85%), has seasonality in line with the media industry generally with a strong Q4 and weak Q1. Facebook, Inc.

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The Best Books for Marketers (New and Old)

ConversionXL

One of the first books to explore the challenges of an increasingly fast-paced media and marketing landscape, you’ll learn how to position yourself to remain top of mind. Unconscious Branding by Douglas Van Praet (2012). Mauborgne (2004). . – Al Ries. – Douglas Van Praet. Blue Ocean Strategy by W.

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