techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. No wonder the platform is rumored to be raising a round at a $150 million valuation or more. Life360, A Family Networking App With More. Leena Rao is currently a Senior Editor for TechCrunch.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

One of the earliest and most well-known of the Micro-VC funds was First Round Capital , founded in 2004 by Josh Kopelman , a former entrepreneur who sold Half.com to eBay in 2000. However, while YC was growing in prominence & valuation, and scaling the # of companies it was funding every 6 months, something else happened.

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Start Up Blog

MAY 13, 2019

The Valuation: Uber was priced at $45 USD per share giving it a valuation of around $82 billion USD. Google IPO 2004 – 5 years after it was founded. The low barriers to entry aren’t just because of the simplicity of the software model, but counter to popular belief, there isn’t a dramatic network effect.

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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. This gave me an idea: I could help many more entrepreneurs by making the deck available not just to the Greylock network of entrepreneurs, but to everyone. the evolution of LinkedIn as a company.

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Jeff Hilimire

MAY 6, 2014

10 years ago (2004) I was 28 years old and my company, Spunlogic, was just starting to really grow. And while everything worked out, given that our valuation was based on profit margins it would have been smart to focus on profitability sooner. In 2004 we were largely project-based which is typical of smaller digital agencies.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 28, 2011

Multipliers for the brand Valuation experts rely on certain data, such as revenue, profit and market conditions to attempt to assign a value to business being bought or sold. The deal ends this Saturday April 30. Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : 5 Steps to Successful Fac.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Google reportedly turned down buyout offers from Microsoft shortly before the 2004 IPO. Just 18 months after this photo sharing program and social network was launched, Facebook offered to purchase Instagram for $1 billion in cash and stock. Unique social networking product. Highly profitable. . Unprofitable. Unprofitable.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. Credit cards "just work" and peer to peer transactions just aren't big enough to bootstrap a network. (PS.there are various companies in this article I have or have had business involvements with.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Most famous among them is Peter Thiel, who we know in 2004 invested $500,000 into Facebook at a valuation of approximately $4.9 However, both by pretty simple math and disclosures by the principals involved, we can pretty much deduce both the percentage and real dollar return of some of Facebook's earliest investors.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2016

After spending time in Silicon Valley (from 1999-2003), Boston, London and Chicago, I moved back to NYC in 2004 and have been fortunate to witness the technology and startup growth for the past 10+ years. FPV is well positioned in 2016 given the Fund’s discipline around valuations and terms through the past year. 2015EOY_FPV_v31.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Founded : Spring 2004, incorporated July 2004. How They Do It : Operate a social network at Facebook.com, through Facebook’s mobile apps, and the Facebook Platform which lets other websites extend Facebook’s tools for authentication and social sharing. Facebook, Inc. Filing Date : February 1, 2012.

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Start Up Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2022

When a top 10 company by valuation like Facebook, changes its name and focus to the MetaVerse – it is going to generate a lot of attention. Since its launch in 2004, Facebook was the clear winner of social networking with 3.6 Both in terms of revenue and profit. 97% of FB / Meta’s revenue comes from advertising.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

After spending time in Silicon Valley (from 1999-2003), Boston, London and Chicago, I moved back to NYC in 2004 and have been fortunate to witness the technology and startup growth for the past 10+ years. FPV is well positioned in 2016 given the Fund’s discipline around valuations and terms through the past year.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

After AltaVista, Mike spent a year doing business development for USA Networks ( now IAC – Interactive Corp ). They sold in December 2007, but he started selling Quigo in 2004. With an early, high valuation, eventually you will have to raise extra money because you will need time to grow into your valuation.

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

had mixed emotions when I read the the press release on the recent funding of iControl Networks. Since the iControl system chronicles all meetings, I was able to find the automatic picture snapped from my first meeting with the founders, Reza Raji and Chris Stevens on April 22, 2004. The last blogger in Silicon Valley. ► 2010. (7).

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thebarefootvc

MARCH 5, 2017

Roomba vacuums, launched in 2004, are an example. Amazon currently has over 15,000 of these robots across warehouses in the company’s network. Entry valuations for these teams were high, often bid up by the interest in the sector (and scarcity of talent). What used to take hours of walking can happen in minutes instead.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 5, 2017

Roomba vacuums, launched in 2004, are an example. Amazon currently has over 15,000 of these robots across warehouses in the company’s network. Entry valuations for these teams were high, often bid up by the interest in the sector (and scarcity of talent). What used to take hours of walking can happen in minutes instead.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

if your model requires a “network effect&# to get to where you’re product is useful — foursquare, multiplayer games, sharing apps in general — then freemium if for sure the way to go. Finaly, a correction: 37signals launched their first product (Basecamp) in 2004, before they had a huge following. The Rails 1.0

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

billion valuation led by Andreessen Horowitz. Stripe (founded 2010) – at over $35 billion valuation, nothing seems to slow Stripe down on their quest to become the top payments solution online. ” What can companies expect apart from funding: Carta Ventures (founded 2012) – Carta recently raised $300 million at a $1.7

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. Sometimes these loans have a valuation cap and/or a discount. The point, he says, is to avoid time-consuming valuation negotiations and allowing a variable amount of capital to be raised. The Funded.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

It even penciled for Google in 1998, and it still worked well enough that Facebook chose to establish its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, in 2004. And they just announced a new round of funding; $300 million from Salesforce Ventures, pegging the company’s post-funding valuation at over three-billion dollars.

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www.theverge.com

JUNE 20, 2012

The occasion was F.ounders , a networking event that has been dubbed the " Davos for Geeks ", after the elite conference of power brokers held in Switzerland each year. These firms are underwater on their valuations.". Check out this article from CNN back in August 2004 and the GOOG IPO troubles. Ben Popper. June 19, 2012.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

(there’s a great story from Jonah in the video but you have to watch to hear it :)) But it’s undeniable that it has become a digital media powerhouse having raised around $500 million in capital with a valuation reported at $1.7 billion and revenues likely exceeding $250 million (Wikipedia lists 2015 revenue at $167 million).

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