Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

Tech IPOs Are Back – So Now What? Three of the five “blockbuster” tech IPOs I predicted have happened (LinkedIn, Groupon, Zynga) and the biggest of all (Facebook) has filed and will likely go public within the next 90 days. I see several dynamics at work in today’s IPO markets. March 8, 2012.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

Or if you want to go back to 2004 and 2005 when I was really learning about Agile, well before it had become a household name, you could read my posts Agile Software Development with SCRUM or Do You Develop Software For A Living? Million To The Boulder Community after their IPO.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Facebook S-1: The Most Anticipated IPO in a Decade. Here’s my first look at Facebook viewed through the lens of their IPO filing. Founded : Spring 2004, incorporated July 2004. Plus Facebook has ample cash on hand today and will get a huge slug more from the IPO. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC.

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A Crowded Space

OCTOBER 3, 2018

A huge congratulations to the entire Upwork team on a successful IPO! I remember when I made that first flight out to San Francisco from Boston to meet the team in 2004, the company was down to its last $20K in the bank. I was fortunate enough to be on the founding team of oDesk (now Upwork).

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). conference happened at the end of 2004). And obviously all the liq prefs went away in the IPO when pref stock converted to common. We ultimately had a good outcome with our Series A but I assure you it required some hard work and we faced plenty of skepticism.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 1, 2021

I never heard about giraffes after Google’s IPO, although reportedly one early engineer did buy a carnival-size ferris wheel. But that was back in 2004 and the trillions of dollars of wealth created since in startups, big tech companies and crypto makes earlier questions of extravagance seem quaint.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 24, 2017

Not only are the downsides of overcapitalization problematic for founders, but FC also examined overcapitalization in upside scenarios by studying the data from the last five years of tech IPOs. When Union Square Ventures’ 2004 fund was on fire, Fred and Brad raised their next fund at the same size.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 14, 2012

Because golly, when it comes to the IPO market and public market returns in general, help is needed in a big way. Since the Internet bubble burst in 2001, the number of IPOs hasn’t recovered to even 1980s levels. For the period from 2004 to 2010 a mere 324 did. Hopefully, it will help. How bad is it? That's 30 years ago, folks.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

The biggest technology IPO in history has rightfully captured the imagination of both the general and investment public. Most famous among them is Peter Thiel, who we know in 2004 invested $500,000 into Facebook at a valuation of approximately $4.9 This points to a second Facebook IPO lesson for investors, namely liquidity “signaling.”

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

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. With a new CEO in 2004, the toy company shifted gears and introduced new lines of some of the most popular LEGO sets in history. Thanks to Christopher Andrew, 420 expert advisers ! #18-

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. Was about a billion dollars on the IPO” and “was one of the first web analytics companies. RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996.

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Up and Running

JUNE 16, 2014

In 2004, Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman launched Reddit. This may include planning for an IPO, a strategic acquisition or for management buyout. If your investor is a match with your industry, believe it or not, the next most important thing is YOU and your TEAM. To illustrate this point, there’s no better story than Reddit’s.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 17, 2012

Facebook is picking up a lot of criticism as it heads into its IPO. And to top that an increasing number of insiders are deciding to vote with their feet and cash in on the IPO. As you may have seen Facebook just raised its IPO price and will be worth over $100bn if it goes out at the top of the range. Twitter is second with 11.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Google reportedly turned down buyout offers from Microsoft shortly before the 2004 IPO. Google’s value has grown from $23 billion at the time of the IPO to over $200 billion today. In lieu of the sale, they elected to go public and the $20 IPO share price initially valued Groupon at $13 billion. Highly profitable.

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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. the 1990s.

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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. What does the market look like for IPO’s and is this likely to improve? Founded by Matt Rutledge in 2004 and based in Dallas. TechCrunch.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 26, 2014

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. Will Amazon try to acquire all of Acquia before the inevitable IPO? But Drupal has succeeded way beyond it’s original expectations. What will come next?

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

I am not sure if you saw the news , but Salary.com recently filed for an IPO to raise up to $50 million. During the years ended March 31, 2004, 2005 and 2006, we achieved positive operating cash flows of $0.3 million for 2004, $1.9 million for 2004, $1.9 The post Is the bar lower for a tech IPO? million, $0.9

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Gust

MAY 24, 2012

Dual-class voting structures are receiving a lot of attention these days along with intense publicity related to the Facebook IPO , following in the wake of other recent tech IPOs with a similar structure such as Zynga and LinkedIn.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 3, 2020

Anyone involved in Internet related high-tech businesses at the time learned much from the loss of easy to raise capital with high valuations and quick IPO/RTO exits. That business was sold in 2004 and provided JAMCO with its first profitable exit which resulted in the creation of a sizeable pool of capital to use going forward.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

The early history of MySpace is inextricably intertwined with that of Intermix, a small-cap publicly traded Internet company in Los Angeles where I worked as corporate counsel from 2004-06. Intermix was in a turnaround situation when I arrived in mid-2004, having been delisted from Nasdaq and nearly bankrupt.

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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. ► 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Scott left the company, which eventually IPO’d and became Internet Brands. Based in Palo Alto and founded in 2004 by PayPal alumni. They realized through the process that regulations would make this a very costly business and one that they couldn’t build as he had envisioned. Competitors: Skype. Total raised: $22mm.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

It was fall 2004, and the presidential election was in full swing. ► 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. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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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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BeyondVC

JULY 5, 2004

Russell Beattie has a thorough post on Jamdat Mobile’s IPO filing. Just look at Jamdat’s numbers: $90k revenue in 2001 with a $5mm loss and $7mm revenue in Q1 2004 with $740k profit which is an annualized revenue runrate of $28mm-not too bad in a few years. The post Jamdat Mobile files for IPO appeared first on BeyondVC.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2012

When Google went public in 2004 that $250,000 investment translated into 3.3 At Google’s IPO that represented a stock share position worth over $280 million. In 1998 when Larry Page’s and Sergey Brin’s Google offices were a Menlo Park, California garage, Bezos invested $250,000 of personal funds into the fledgling startup.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

There was talk of an IPO in 12 months. 2001-2004 were very humbling but we built a real company. We headlined at the Red Herring Europe conference (they were the equivalent of TechCrunch today). Gartner, Forrester, Jupiter and AMR Research all had good things to say about us. Goldman release a report on us. We were hot.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 27, 2010

When Google went public in 2004, that $250,000 investment translated into 3.3 At Google's IPO that represented a stock share position worth over $280 million! Sure, it would have been great to get into Google at its IPO price of $85/share, especially as the shares are up over 535% since then. million shares of Google stock.

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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. (note: apologies in advance for the west coast bias; i’m in silicon valley).

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BeyondVC

OCTOBER 25, 2003

Just one word of caution for us venture capitalists and entrepreneurs-let’s not equate this to a return to the mid-to-late 90s IPO boom. If you assume a 2004 IPO for Google and Salesforce.com, both would have taken 5 years from their first round of venture capital. Yes, this is old news and much anticipated.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

What I’ve honorably been able to do, however, is share the deck I used to pitch LinkedIn to Greylock for a Series B investment back in 2004. the consumer internet landscape in 2004 vs. today. In 2004, the consumer internet was just beginning to rebound. In 2004, investors regained interest in the consumer internet again.

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The Equity Kicker

APRIL 13, 2012

Throughout our evolution, from privately held start-up to large, publicly listed company, we have managed Google for the long term — enjoying tremendous success as a result, especially since our IPO in 2004. I wanted to quote all that because these were the clear, well-publicized expectations we established for investors in 2004.

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Austin Startup

MAY 11, 2011

Back in 2006 and early 2007 Austin had seen a positive upswing in investment, consumer spending, and a generally healthy economy since about 2004. Please join me in wishing and hoping that unforeseen circumstances don’t disrupt a hallmark in the chapter of Austin history.

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David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

Geleerd also co-managed the IPO of Manufactured Home Communities, LLC, now Equity LifeStyle Properties, LLC which owns and operates the highest quality portfolio of resort communities in the United States. Prior to joining Boeing, Mr.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

When Google went public in 2004, that $250,000 investment translated into 3.3 At Google’s IPO that represented a stock share position worth over $280 million! Sure, it would have been great to get into Google at its IPO price of $85/share, especially as the shares are up over 535% since then. million shares of Google stock.

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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? With growth rates reduced, IPOs would be even tougher to come by--but companies would survive.

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