allthingsd.com

JULY 16, 2012

It’s clear that factors like the greater American economy and the bumpy tech IPO market don’t necessarily have a direct and/or timely correlation with venture capital spending. Peter Kafka in Media. AllThingsD.com is a Web site devoted to news, analysis and opinion on technology, the Internet and media. AllThingsD.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

HomeAway is another one of our five tech IPOs in the last five years. Instead of crying in their beers about it, Cotter and Tom Ball at Austin Ventures decided what to do next and came up with Small Ponds, which later became Whale Shark Media and then RetailMeNot (named after its largest digital property). It is just four-years old?—?for

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 24, 2019

Believe it or not, there were only three retailers in 2005 that offered customer reviews, the most popular of them being Amazon. this was 2005. A tsunami of social media was about to hit society and commerce would never be the same. We were the right people at the right moment in history to found Bazaarvoice.

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

IPOs and M&A have returned – and with them the investment bankers have staged a rebound. There have been a number of high profile tech IPO s in the recent months including companies such as OpenTable and more recently LogMeIn. – IPO-able in any normal market. but I’ll save that for post 3/3).

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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. Redpoint, led by Geoff Yang , invested $11.5 of MySpace, Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

But knowing the right people and knowing a market only works well for angel investors in bullish tech markets in which IPO’s happen quickly (97-99) or where larger companies are actively scooping up little tiny companies at sub $50 million valuations to drive innovation (05-08, 10-?). Obviously I agree.

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www.businessinsider.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Tech/Media. Y Combinator is a startup funding firm that was founded in 2005 by Paul Graham. Media Jobs. After Long Startup Journey, Seesmic Is Bought By Social Media Management Service Hootsuite [Confirmed]. Remember me. Forgot username or password? Login with Twitter. Login with Facebook. Login with LinkedIn. Enterprise.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 23, 2010

In 2005, he and Keywell started Echo Global Logistics, a business-to-business online logistics and trucking firm that they took public in 2008. In 2007, they started Mediabank, a business-to-business media-buying technology firm whose platform powers over 40 percent of North American media spend across all media types.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? Media Temple. Social Media Tracking/Marketing. analytics for social media and online. social media and email marketing. Catch Media. VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

IPO markets had burned an entire cycle of retail stock investors and many institutional investors to boot. LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year. The Exit Problem. Money flowing into our industry has also massively downsized.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

March 2005 (This essay is derived from a talk at the Harvard ComputerSociety.) They didnt talkWall Streets language when they did their IPO, and Wall Streetdidnt buy. Want to start a startup? Get funded by Y Combinator. Most startups that fail do it becausethey fail at one of these. Im happy to see Google is bucking that trend.

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