Reid Hoffman

JULY 20, 2022

If, for example, you’re a photographer, then you probably have deep knowledge about film stocks and camera types and the effects they produce. Typically, people end up using stock imagery or imagery they create themselves in such instances, or they simply forgo imagery altogether.

Warrant 44

Warrant Artificial Inteligence Social Media Early Stage 44

View from Seed

APRIL 30, 2019

All three have different business models… SaaS, media/ad, and consumer transactional. Google was a one such company when they went public in 2004 and Facebook was too at their 2012 IPO. In just the last month or so we’ve seen Lyft go public ( my analysis of the company’s S-1 here ) and more recently, Zoom and Pinterest.

IPO 180

IPO B2B B2C Institutional Investors 180

Kodorra

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Here are some great free stock photo sites divided between 100% free photos under the Creative Commons (CCO) license (free as long you don’t say the photos are yours) and those under different Creative Commons licenses (usually they just want you to give them credit, that’s all). Unsplash is among the leading free stock image sites.

Stock 40

Stock Curation Architecture Search 40

allthingsd.com

AUGUST 24, 2012

Virtual Stock Exchange. Still, it is the highest amount increase since Fenwick began compiling the numbers in 2004. Internet/digital media and software was the biggest beneficiary of the rise. Peter Kafka in Media. AllThingsD.com is a Web site devoted to news, analysis and opinion on technology, the Internet and media.

Valuation 45

Valuation Technical Review Silicon Valley Software Review 45

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Virtual Stock Exchange. Media & Marketing. Media Agencies. Stock Quotes. 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. AllThingsDigital. AllThingsDigital. Financial News. Professor Journal. SmartMoney. Management.

Venture Capital 107

Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

Agile VC

APRIL 30, 2019

All three have different business models… SaaS, media/ad, and consumer transactional. Google was a one such company when they went public in 2004 and Facebook was too at their 2012 IPO. In just the last month or so we’ve seen Lyft go public ( my analysis of the company’s S-1 here ) and more recently, Zoom and Pinterest.

IPO 100

IPO B2B B2C Institutional Investors 100

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.

Valuation 98

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Merger Vesting 98

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.

Private Equity 68

Private Equity Merger IPO Equity 68

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2011

Having said that, Empire Avenue is something that is primarily for those that already have a decent amount of involvement in social media. Critics of the recent hype suggest this is little more than an ego boosting toy for social media gurus and wanna be gurus and on the surface you can certainly see why this claim is pretty easy to level.

Social Media 57

Social Media Stock Media RSS 57

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Founded : Spring 2004, incorporated July 2004. Facebook admits as much that the ad business, which again accounts for the vast majority of revenues (85%), has seasonality in line with the media industry generally with a strong Q4 and weak Q1. Facebook, Inc. Filing Date : February 1, 2012. Headquarters : Palo Alto, CA.

IPO 100

IPO South Korea Venezuela Revenue 100

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Virtual Stock Exchange. Stock Quotes. Facebook went public in May with two classes of stock that give founder and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg about 57% of the voting power even though he only owns about 28% of the shares. Zynga went public last December with three classes of stock. MarketWatch. SmartMoney. SmartMoney.

Silicon Valley 42

Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

This will only become more true as DVRs and media-sharing reduce revenues and pay-for-performance ads eliminate inefficient ad spend, of which there is a lot. Thus, the process of negotiating taking back stock from founders is not rational and inherently very difficult. Company: Wolff New Media. Company : SubMat. We like data.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2015

In this article on stock photos , I described a study illustrating that power: “ Bateson, Nettle, & Roberts (2006) provided customers with an unsupervised ‘honesty box’ to pay for their lunch. And they want to be seen displaying compassion because they want to be loved themselves.” ( West, 2004 ). Look into the Video Camera.

Campaign 48

Campaign Reputation Metrics Naming 48

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

Venture Capital 363

Venture Capital LP Valuation Later Stage 363

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. Options and warrants, when issued, are also typically exercisable for shares of Common Stock.

IPO 159

IPO Equity Common Stock Stock 159

Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

The secondary wave of VC-backed IPOs has also come to fruition… both consumer facing (Yelp, Demand Media, Pandora, Carbonite, HomeAway, Angie’s List, et al) and B2B (Jive Software, Brightcove, Imperva, Responsys, etc). The pipeline of companies in registration has continued to grow. So now what?

IPO 100

IPO Silicon Valley Revenue Seed Stage 100

www.theverge.com

JUNE 20, 2012

Thirteen promising young companies had just taken the stage, and Silicon Alley’s tech community was abuzz with the news of Single Platform being acquired by Constant Contact for $100 million, hot on the heels of Buddy Media being purchased for $800 million. "A Notice the handwringing, the failure. June 19, 2012.

IPO 48

IPO Stock Switzerland Valuation 48

ConversionXL

APRIL 24, 2019

Economic moats remain tethered to investing: A bigger moat makes a stock a better bet. The network of stores allows Walmart to limit its stock in any given store and share managerial expenses across the network. Until 2004, when the U.S. But the implications are broader, for companies large and small.

Non-Compete 122

Non-Compete United States Networking Acquisition 122

thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

Social Media. That idea became ClickFacts, a malware solutions company for buyers and sellers of online media to identify and combat “click fraud”. Chris had been working on creating a better desktop search since early 2004, knowing that no existing solutions were any good. was born and generated a lot of media interest.

Cofounder 70

Cofounder San Francisco Programming Founder 70

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

MySpace would liked to have owned YouTube but didn’t have the public stock valuation to purchase them at the price that Google did. It had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 Enter Facebook.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 7, 2022

So your Figma, your stock footage, library, you know, your tools for managing ads and things of that nature. This is what companies like media monks for example are doing. John Jantsch (22:27): The, my longest running client, uh, has been a client since 2004. I'm gonna lease you this, you know, cross-functional development team.

Cofounder 76

Cofounder Hosting Networking Software Review 76

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Mike passed up an offer from Ross Levinsohn of Fox Interactive Media ( around $175 Million ). They sold in December 2007, but he started selling Quigo in 2004. As an angel investor, Mike stays away from uncapped convertible notes – says whoever invented them “ should be spanked ” and that he prefers to buy stock.

Semantic 302

Semantic Acquisition Valuation Angel Investor 302

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

And you know what – this was mostly in 2012 (+ Moneyball came out in 2004). So yes – companies spend ALL that money to get traffic to their site via SEO, PPC, social media and what not. Cheesy stock photos. These are four cases when data-driven approach kicked traditional thinking in the butt, hard.

PPC 123

PPC Analytics Conversion SEO 123

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. There is no E in the P/E.

San Francisco 20

San Francisco Silicon Valley California Oakland 20

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Any perusal on Netcraft.com will show the (vast) majority of major Media companies, Internet Services Providers (ISPs), Web hosting companies and Mobile communications firms use UNIX/Linux as core OS and technologies. Look at what happened with Microsoft’s attempt to get the London Stock Exchange onto.NET – a total failure.

Java 107

Java PHP Software Review Coder 107