Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round). link] leehower. A lot has changed.

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

In addition to having my company acquired, I worked with them on the diligence team for a number of other acquisitions. The Feld Group grew rapidly during this time period until it was acquired in 2004 by EDS. ” After Len and Jerry bought my company, the two of them took me under their wing and exposed me to doing deals.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

At the same time, his partner at his previous company – Tim Miller – was doing an entrepreneur-in-residence at a local Boulder VC firm (Boulder Ventures). I met Ryan via Young Entrepreneurs Organization – we were both in the same YEO forum. About a year after he got started, he was ready to raise a venture financing.

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Software Technology Agile SCRUM 70

Gust

MAY 24, 2012

This is nothing new; long favored by family-controlled media empires such as Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation , among Internet firms alone, Google took a dual-class approach when going public in 2004. In the case of an acquisition, the shares are tendered for cash and/or stock in the acquiring company.).

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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). Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. All the other stuff Yahoo! Read More ».

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Software By Rob

MARCH 17, 2010

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Free Website Feedback, Custom Card Designs, Finding Good Domain Names, and more… Paying the Price of Success → Joel on Software is Shutting Down. Long Live the King.

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Up and Running

JUNE 16, 2014

In 2004, Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman launched Reddit. Starups.co, a company founded with the intention of connecting entrepreneurs and investors, advises business owners on what will attract an investors attention. This may include planning for an IPO, a strategic acquisition or for management buyout.

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Exit Strategy Advisory Board Business Plan Portfolio 91

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2013

What inevitably follows is that the price for corporate acquisitions is pretty high and integrating the different teams is, to say the least, interesting – verging on impossible. So all talk of risk-free growth via controlled corporate acquisitions is usually bull.

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Finland Bankruptcy Cofounder Leadership 150

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 29, 2015

For a short time I was connected into GE via their acquisition of AmeriData (I still have my GE business card with the “ meatball logo ” on it.) They hadn’t done anything illegal, but they had damaged their reputation with me and with many VCs and entrepreneurs I knew. And very, very little got done.

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Software By Rob

JULY 13, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. It wasn’t until the past decade that a designer or developer could leave the safety of a salaried position in pursuit of a career as a solo entrepreneur. You don’t even need to register. From their FAQ: ChangeThis is a new kind of media.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 12, 2013

In my traditional career prior to becoming an entrepreneur, I was a typical “top-down” type leader who set the vision, laid out the strategies, and delegated execution to team leaders and their subordinates. For me, the biggest challenge has been the long stretches of time (weeks) between major feature builds or consumer acquisition spikes.

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Cofounder Leadership Startup Founder 160

Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Entrepreneurs and investors who have spent any time dealing with convertible debt seed financing transactions are likely to have encountered the subject of valuation caps. Intermix was in a turnaround situation when I arrived in mid-2004, having been delisted from Nasdaq and nearly bankrupt. Read on for a fuller explanation.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

3) Customer Acquisition Cost. Your budgetary number for how much you spend to acquire a customer is known as the “ customer acquisition cost ” (CAC). If you are entrepreneur planning your next business, you can’t afford to ignore the cost of customer acquisition. Customer Acquisition Cost. It’s hard.

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Metrics Acquisition Conversion Revenue 121

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

For entrepreneurs who want to learn about how to work with investment banks, how to position yourself to be acquired and what the IPO markets look like this is the episode to watch. They have relationships that are hard for entrepreneurs to build. How to investment banks help with the M&A (mergers & acquisitions) process?

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IPO Venture Capital Private Placement Cofounder 242

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

However, for many successful entrepreneurs, weighing all of the personal and financial issues that go into this decision can be gut-wrenching. Each one can provide valuable lessons to the entrepreneur. Google reportedly turned down buyout offers from Microsoft shortly before the 2004 IPO. Here are a few to consider.

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IPO Exit Strategy San Francisco Startup 162

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

After a few acquisitions they offered many of the services you think about as foundations to social networks today. It did not have the same success as Google’s acquisition and MySpace sold Photobucket 2 years later to a relatively unknown Seattle-based startup called Ontela for a reportedly $60 million. Enter Facebook.

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Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. His findings are based on data from more than 2,000 companies that received venture funding, generally at least $1 million, from 2004 through 2010. In early 2011 an acquisition by a Fortune 500 company fell apart. Stock Quotes.

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Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

He didn’t tell it in the video but, ever the entrepreneur, Scott started a business to take couples up on a “mile high club&# flight on airplanes as a way of getting all of his miles logged to get his next class of airplane license that required a certain number of hours logged. It’s part of what makes him so likable.

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San Francisco Venture Capital Analytics Government 248

This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 11, 2014

I started reading a great blog called Business Pundit in 2004. In his note to users, Rob talked of a good future for their combined effort: "In most acquisitions, technology gets neglected, falls behind, or worse, gets shut down. It was written by a guy about my age down in Louisville, Kentucky. None of that will happen here.

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Louisville Term Sheet Kentucky Ukraine 102

Software By Rob

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Memorable Postcard from a New Mechanic My Report on StackOverflow DevDays → Are Twitter and Facebook Killing Blogs? Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Founded : Spring 2004, incorporated July 2004. These companies report gross ad revenue but then subtract out “TAC” (Traffic Acquisition Costs) which is basically accounting-speak for the revenue share they pay to the partner sites where the ads actually appear. Facebook, Inc. Filing Date : February 1, 2012.

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IPO South Korea Venezuela Revenue 100

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The entire US economy was booming (in an unsustainable debt binge, in retrospect) from 2004 through much of 2008, and the tech world was booming along with it. In the mid 2000′s VC’s were largely prospering. So I appreciate that for most, both inside and outside the VC industry, this shakeout is taking a long time.

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LP Portfolio Venture Capital IRR 154

David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

Historically the dream of many entrepreneurs has been to go public. Daniel Confino, Founder, MergerID Is a qualified lawyer who has 30 years of experience in mergers and acquisitions with a strong international element. Click here to make a reservation. He was responsible for international M&A at Hill Samuel Bank, Close Bros.

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Private Equity Merger IPO Equity 68

Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

But even during the macroeconomic boom of 2004 to early 2008 (inflated by various credit bubbles – housing, sovereign debt, LBOs) tech IPOs were extremely rare and then the global economic crisis of late 2008 – 2010 only further dampened hopes for a recovery. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC.

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IPO Silicon Valley Revenue Seed Stage 100

Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 12, 2012

The entrepreneurs I speak to are feeling it every day. Thus, if you are an entrepreneur, your competitors - not necessarily market-based competitors but simply other entrepreneurs who are pursuing capital - are that much more sophisticated and advanced than ever before. When they build the prototype, they go get customers.

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IPO Metrics Venture Capital Social Media 44

Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

Since the iControl system chronicles all meetings, I was able to find the automatic picture snapped from my first meeting with the founders, Reza Raji and Chris Stevens on April 22, 2004. I took a look back at our original financial model we presented to VCs in 2004. Before the $52M Series D , the $23M Series C , the $15.5M

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San Jose Angel Investor Term Sheet Venture Capital 28

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

In 2004 I began blogging. If you decide to follow a blog acquisition strategy, you’re not going to write the blog yourself, not very likely. After I made some good money with the Small Business Branding site and the Magic site, I started to look for acquisition targets. I like to write, but not that much.

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Technical Review Software Review Prospectus Audience 76

Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. This says a lot about the pitfalls of having a free plan for entrepreneurs with limited resources. Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. Do they ever make sense? 16 Amber Shah on 08.18.10

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Software Review Software Revenue Cofounder 78

www.theverge.com

JUNE 20, 2012

Things have really picked up in terms of mergers and acquisitions. Microsoft, Google, and Apple are all hoarding mountains of cash, and Mark Zuckerberg has shown that he isn’t afraid to put his newfound riches to work, with numerous acquisition in the past few months (Instagram, Glancee, and Face.com to name a few).

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IPO Stock Switzerland Valuation 48

thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

Entrepreneur. Chris had been working on creating a better desktop search since early 2004, knowing that no existing solutions were any good. But even with this acquisition, Loopt remains ahead of the curve. Use your left/right keys to browse stories. Next story. Previous story. Like us on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter.

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Cofounder San Francisco Programming Founder 70