Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

The biggest technology IPO in history has rightfully captured the imagination of both the general and investment public. As a private company, Facebook has been not obligated to disclose the exact prices at which it sold shares in its early financing rounds. The first lesson is sector. Folks, we're just getting started.

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Angel Investor IPO Private Equity Early Stage 76

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

If you don’t know Montgomery & Co it is one of the premier technology & media focused investment banks in the country (and as Michael corrected me they also have a strong Healthcare / Med tech practice). What does the market look like for IPO’s and is this likely to improve? We discussed: 1. 1 party = low price.

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IPO Venture Capital Private Placement Cofounder 242

Scalable Startup

AUGUST 26, 2014

Red Hat was one of the first of these types of companies bridging open source with big finance, leveraging Linux support into a profitable business, also leveraging the enterprise. It gained recognition during the 2004 presidential campaign when Howard Dean’s IT director decided to use it as a platform for community and campaigning.

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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.

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Private Equity Merger IPO Equity 68

500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

Mega VC has focused on the challenges of the post-SarbOx IPO market in the US, and has discovered opportunity in offering larger amounts of growth capital ($10-100M+) to private companies with reduced access to public markets. These two divergent groups have optimized for very different market conditions and behaviors.

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Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Technology. Loading… Personal Finance. Personal Finance. Personal Technology. TECHNOLOGY. Craig Walker, co-founder and CEO of Firespotter Labs, a technology incubator, said it feels unnatural to bestow so much voting power on one executive. WSJ Classroom. Ran gold Resources Ltd. Welcome, Logout.

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Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

Election years tend to be good for technology diffusion. 2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. (PS.there are various companies in this article I have or have had business involvements with. Reader beware.). Open Government.

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Technology Valuation Community Restful 116

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. Less than 1% are currently in IPO registration. Finance, Banking, Loans, etc.

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Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

He’s personally led more than 50 financing rounds. Scott left the company, which eventually IPO’d and became Internet Brands. Danish VOIP technology company founded in 2006 by entrepreneur Tanveer Sharif. Based in Palo Alto and founded in 2004 by PayPal alumni. It’s part of what makes him so likable.

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San Francisco Venture Capital Analytics Government 248

www.theverge.com

JUNE 20, 2012

After Facebooks IPO flub, value of tech startups falls back to earth. Over three nights and two days of drinking, schmoozing, and panel discussion, many of the industries insiders spoke their minds plainly, and the bumbled Facebook IPO was a frequent topic of conversation."Excuse By Ben Popper 06.19.2012.

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IPO Stock Switzerland Valuation 48

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. Blitzscaling is a strategic technique for moving faster, not a reckless gamble.

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Cofounder Business Model IPO Non-Compete 28

David Teten

MARCH 12, 2012

The feature, titled “ Fitness Financed: Motion, Margin, Risk & Reward ,” offers an inside look into our office.). 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.

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Product Portfolio Venture Capital Vesting 166

Ben's Blog

MAY 30, 2010

This includes matters of personnel, matters of financing, matters of product strategy, matters of goal sizing, matters of marketing. We have great technology, but need marketing help.”. So I put my head down and focused on operation, focused on technology, focused on the user’s experience, and I delivered.

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Prospectus Architecture Leadership Employee 78

Austin Startup

MAY 11, 2011

Austin is about to witness a wave of financial liquidity in the technology community not seen since 1999. Back in 2006 and early 2007 Austin had seen a positive upswing in investment, consumer spending, and a generally healthy economy since about 2004. Just enough time to get sales up, profits up, growth rates back in [.].

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Austin Community Sales Technology 83

Ben's Blog

AUGUST 17, 2020

While both earnings and EBITDA multiples are widely used, we often see investors in public and private technology companies resort to revenue multiples (enterprise value / revenue). When Salesforce went public in 2004 as a new kind of CRM provider, its S-1 indicated the CRM applications market was $7B. Not too shabby!

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Valuation Balance Sheet Cofounder Forecast 36

BeyondVC

AUGUST 23, 2006

According to Phil Wainewright : Acquired as Expertcity in February 2004, the Citrix Online division is an on-demand giant in its own right, with trailing twelve month (TTM) revenues of $121.6 That makes it even bigger than the number 2 on-demand CRM vendor RightNow Technologies, which reported a TTM of $99.3

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AJAX Balance Sheet Vertical Demand 60