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). Shame they didn’t like his suggested name for the company: DreamWorks SKG-MM. We discussed: 1. 1 party = low price.

IPO 242

IPO Venture Capital Private Placement Cofounder 242

500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

While a flood of new VCs came into existence during the late 90’s internet boom, many had difficulty raising new funds after the crashes of 2000-2001 and 2008 , and as a result significantly fewer fund managers exist now compared to a decade ago. Mega VC, Micro VC.

Silicon Valley 74

Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

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. INTERNET BUSINESSES.

Venture Capital 107

Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

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. Amazon saw that the internet would change retail.

Cofounder 28

Cofounder Business Model IPO Non-Compete 28

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.

Private Equity 68

Private Equity Merger IPO Equity 68

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

This was 2004, and we had never even heard of MySpace, let alone had any understanding of social networking. If youre just getting negativity from someone, they are more likely a internet troll - not an earlyvangelist. But the early customers all compared it to MySpace. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

San Francisco 131

San Francisco Customer Lean Continuous Deployment 131

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

BillSeitz - yes, but that was already true back in 2004. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. May 8, 2009 2:27 PM Eric said. Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

SEM 164

SEM San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 164

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

They raised around $350 million to try and sell cars direct over the Internet. 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. See: TechCrunch.

San Francisco 248

San Francisco Venture Capital Analytics Government 248

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Technology. The Wall Street Journal is phasing out support of the Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) browser. Internet Explorer. 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.

Silicon Valley 42

Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 30, 2015

Would you be surprised to know that almost half of the dot com companies founded when the boom started in 1996 were still around in 2004--four years after the peak of the NASDAQ? Most internet opportunities were of modest scale – often worth pursuing – but not usually worth taking public.

Hockey Stick 60

Hockey Stick Valuation Startup Maryland 60

VC Cafe

JULY 9, 2010

Co-founded by Yiftah Frechter, Yoav Arnstein and Ran Cohen, all former execs of recently IPO-ed Eyeblaster. as in Telecom, Internet, Media and Entertainment), an angel fund led by Ilan Shiloach and Nir Tarlovski among others. Miscellaneous. Investment Rounds. Soho OS raised $1 million from The T.i.m.e (as

Media 109

Media Stealth Venture Capital 109

David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

He then led the growth of the domain services division, expanded into the aftermarket business and built Oversee’s owned and operated portfolio of domain names into one of the worlds largest, firmly establishing the company as a leader in Internet real estate. Prior to joining Boeing, Mr.

Naming 122

Naming Government Intellectual Property LLC 122

BeyondVC

JULY 5, 2004

Russell Beattie has a thorough post on Jamdat Mobile’s IPO filing. For those of you that don’t know, Jamdat is a provider of global wireless entertainment applications and enabling technologies that support multiple wireless platforms to wireless carriers, handset manufacturers, media companies, and independent content developers.

IPO 60

IPO Mobile Distribution Revenue 60

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

When we started IMVU in 2004, we could rely on a staggering amount of open source software that jumpstarted our initial product offering. However, it made me remember that Im tired of technology arguments. There are also a host of community sites dedicated to perl, and equally as many for the other prominent internet languages.

PHP 166

PHP Software Review Ruby San Francisco 166

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

AJAX 60

AJAX Balance Sheet Vertical Demand 60

Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

Each circle represents one of the fifty largest technology companies in the city, the size of each circle determined by the number of the company’s employees. They begin on the eastern edge of the city near the Ferry Building and spread westward along Market Street. First Street and Market Street by Leo vanMunching.

San Francisco 20

San Francisco Silicon Valley California Oakland 20