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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Private Equity Merger IPO Equity 68

Up and Running

JUNE 16, 2014

Simply leave a comment below or get in touch on any of our social media accounts – Twitter , Google+ and Facebook. In 2004, Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman launched Reddit. This may include planning for an IPO, a strategic acquisition or for management buyout. Also, how safe is it to pitch my business idea to an investor?

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Exit Strategy Advisory Board Business Plan Portfolio 91

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. TechCrunch.

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IPO Venture Capital Private Placement Cofounder 242

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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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Never missing an opportunity for a good war story, I’d like to revisit one high-profile transaction, the $650 million acquisition of MySpace by Fox Interactive Media in 2005, on which I spent many sleepless nights along with the rest of the deal team. Part of the deal was bringing in a new CEO, Richard Rosenblatt.

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Merger Vesting 98

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Around this time B2C eCommerce had been dominating the media but the wheels were starting to come off. There was talk of an IPO in 12 months. It kind of reminds me a bit of how “social media experts&# are talking to customers today). 2001-2004 were very humbling but we built a real company. We were hot.

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South Africa Europe Disintermediation Poland 310

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. Competitors: Google (Invite Media) , MediaMath , X+1. Competitors: Skype. Current round: $16.5mm in Series-B. Total raised: $22mm. See: TechCrunch. Total raised: $6.0mm. See: TechCrunch.

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San Francisco Venture Capital Analytics Government 248

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.

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IPO Mobile Distribution Revenue 60

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

Silicon Valley and the media industry that surrounds it values youth. This “overnight success” was first financed in 2004. innovated in social media advertising and for a variety of reasons wasn’t ultimately successful and went to zero. This is true in consumer but it’s also true in enterprise software. The second “exit”?—?Adly?—?innovated

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Venture Capital LP Valuation Later Stage 363

Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 12, 2012

Isn't there plenty of euphoria and "animal spirits" to go around with the IPO market returning, marquee acquisitions (e.g., Instagram at $1 billion) and the impending earth-shattering Facebook IPO? Why is the new investment bar so high today?

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IPO Metrics Venture Capital Social Media 44

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

It represents the triumph of learning, over the naive startup creation myths we read about in the media. What happened when we got early press (circa 2004) in violation of our own no-PR rule. The customer is unknown, the product is unknown, and startups must be built to learn. IMVU learned to learn. Please do try this at home.

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Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment DC 74

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

In the 1990s Internet boom, easy money helped founders maintain more control early in a companys evolution, but founder CEOs without voting control often got replaced by a professional manager ahead of an IPO. ignited the current trend by adopting a dual-class voting structure before its IPO in 2004. Enlarge Image Close.

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Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

VC Cafe

JULY 9, 2010

Legolas Media – Currently in stealth mode, The Legolas Media team is focused on innovating digital display media. Co-founded by Yiftah Frechter, Yoav Arnstein and Ran Cohen, all former execs of recently IPO-ed Eyeblaster. The company is headquartered in London, UK, with satellite offices in the US and Israel.

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Media Stealth Venture Capital 109

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Media & Marketing. Media Agencies. 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. Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., Management. Small Business.

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Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

As the virus spread and the world went into a state of work from home, the media questioned whether “New York is dead.” Union Square Ventures raised its first fund in NYC in 2004 and it wouldn’t see the first local IPO from that fund, Etsy, until 2015.

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New York New York City Miami Cofounder 88

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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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

It’s unclear how the fund has been affected in the recent restructuring following WeWork’s failed IPO and series of divestments of non-core assets. The trend is in full swing since the IPOs of Slack, Uber , Lyft , Postmates and others. Okta Ventures (founded 2009) – Okta has a market cap of $16 billion.

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Balance Sheet Startup IPO Venture Capital 201

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 16, 2014

by Jonathan Sellers, social media strategist at EMSI Public Relations. It seems nothing changes faster than the big social media platforms – Facebook, Twitter, Google+. Even Google+, owned by Google, which went public way back in 2004, is constantly tweaking.

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Social Media Tennessee Marketing Miami 180

Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

While the global financial crash of 2008 and the resulting Great Recession initially slowed job growth in Silicon Valley, the meteoric rise of smart phones and social media helped the tech industry as a whole to power ahead despite the near collapse of the global economy. First Street and Market Street by Leo vanMunching.

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San Francisco Silicon Valley California Oakland 20

This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 17, 2021

I started posting in February of 2004 and by the time 2007 rolled around, it seemed like everyone had a blog. Automattic went on to raise hundreds of millions of dollars and is now seemingly on the verge of an IPO. Each new social media platform enables users to do slightly different things, with the various features, limitations, etc.

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Audience Social Media Media IPO 88