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. It’s not like other software businesses, because every ride has a real and unavoidable marginal cost. So get ready for some finance meets tech nerdocity below.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 26, 2016

These are well known , so I won’t go into much detail but: The combination of the capital efficiency of early stage software companies, the increase in VC fund sizes, and the rise of institutional seed funds created a fairly different early-stage landscape in the following five years. (I Also, the stage of the company tends to be very early.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

This is true in consumer but it’s also true in enterprise software. Case in point, Procore just went public and is trading at an $11 billion valuation. This “overnight success” was first financed in 2004. sold to Disney for $670 million and since our first investment was at < $10 million valuation we did quite well.

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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. Sure, some of the Android devices are beautiful, but if they become obsolete in a year from a software perspective in less than a year , this is going to be a serious problem. Reader beware.). Open Government.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

They sold in December 2007, but he started selling Quigo in 2004. The secret to the software sales process. Advice on startups raising capital: if you raise your first round at a super high valuation and don’t grow into your valuation, it makes it very hard to live for the long game.

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 20, 2004

We did our own analysis of venture-backed software IPOs a couple of years ago (based on SEC filings, etc.) This week’s Plugged In column from Barrons has some great data on M&A in 2004 and how many of the companies that went public or were acquired were the very ones left for dead over the past few years.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? MySpace would liked to have owned YouTube but didn’t have the public stock valuation to purchase them at the price that Google did. Third-party software companies will start to offer features to websites to actually drive social features. The Present Era.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

About the Author Ruben Gamez is the founder of Bidsketch , web based proposal software for designers. When he’s not developing software, he’s furiously working towards becoming a better Micropreneur. I cover topics that affect software and web startups of all sizes, but mostly relating to startups you can fund yourself.

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thebarefootvc

MARCH 5, 2017

Roomba vacuums, launched in 2004, are an example. Both hardware (such as sensors that interact with the environment to collect data) and software (the algorithms that are able to intelligently interact with humans or other machines) have become more sophisticated. We’ve been using simplistic robots for years, often without knowing it.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 8, 2019

I waited for the ‘casino-like’ world of startup investing until I was 28 years old, putting $10,000 into a friend’s software distribution company – a tidy sum for me at that age. Valuations. A simple metric – when I registered my first company in 2004, the naming space was wide open.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 5, 2017

Roomba vacuums, launched in 2004, are an example. Both hardware (such as sensors that interact with the environment to collect data) and software (the algorithms that are able to intelligently interact with humans or other machines) have become more sophisticated. We’ve been using simplistic robots for years, often without knowing it.

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Artificial Inteligence Algorithm Valuation Aggregator 40

The Equity Kicker

APRIL 15, 2015

The beauty of M&A for examining valuation trends is that M&As reveal the dollar valuations of all assets at the time of the acquisition. These valuations include – among other assets – brands (trademarks) and customer relationships.

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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. Crunchboard.

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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. These are highly-skilled people that make up critical parts of your software development teams. Reason One: Software is Eating the World. Toyota is a software company.

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www.theverge.com

JUNE 20, 2012

These firms are underwater on their valuations.". A lot of companies, when you look at their value on the public markets, versus what they were worth on the secondary market when they were private, these firms are underwater on their valuations," said Benchmark Capital’s Bill Gurley. Ben Popper. June 19, 2012. June 19, 2012.

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allthingsd.com

AUGUST 24, 2012

Fenwick VC Survey: Q2 Funding Valuations Shoot the Moon. According to Fenwick & West’s latest Silicon Valley Venture Capital Survey , fundings in the second quarter of this year showed the highest valuation increases in more than five years. Internet/digital media and software was the biggest beneficiary of the rise.

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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 An obvious vector for me would be software for the media industry. Back then there were “email forwards.”

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