2005 Business Model IPO Social Network 
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. IPO markets had burned an entire cycle of retail stock investors and many institutional investors to boot. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! The Exit Problem. Bottom of the sales funnel.
Austin Startup
APRIL 27, 2019
HomeAway is another one of our five tech IPOs in the last five years. Cotter bucks the flavor-of-the-day entrepreneurial stereotype: the college dropout popularized by both our own Michael Dell and recently Mark Zuckerberg and the great movie The Social Network. Our pivot wasn’t a business model pivot?—?it
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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. The founders sold the two year old company to eBay in 2005 for $2.6 Questionable business model. Highly profitable. Unprofitable.
Agile VC
APRIL 13, 2012
And going even further back there have been a few random ones have been built before like Salesforce.com and e-tailer RedEnvelope (IPO’d in 2003 though now defunct as a company). If my memory serves me, <10% of our pre-IPO employees at PayPal lived in SF and literally 1 of the first 40-50 folks at LinkedIn were city-dwellers.
reidhoffman.org
NOVEMBER 12, 2013
Friendster’s valuation set the tone for the entire social networking space. Press and analysts characterized LinkedIn in one of two ways: “LinkedIn is an interesting niche that might be worth paying attention to” or “LinkedIn is the Friendster for business”. The general rule is one business model drives the business.
Professor VC
APRIL 11, 2008
In fact, for a good laugh, I just went back and checked our accounting system, and at the end of one quarter in 2005, we were down to $143 cash on the balance sheet. At times, I do miss being part of a team that takes a company from infancy all the way to IPO and beyond. A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal. ► January.
www.vccafe.com
MARCH 11, 2013
Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? Updated Business tools for Startups. Social networking. Social/Sharing. Create your own social network. free enterprise social network. broken vc model. Business Culture. Business Model Canvas.
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