Agile VC
MARCH 13, 2012
In the early days of LinkedIn we jointly acquired an issued patent of the defunct SixDegrees.com which directly pertains to social networking as well as acquiring a nascent startup in part for its in-process patent filings. And at PayPal we were hit with a couple patent disputes while in the midst of our IPO process.
Agile VC
MAY 26, 2011
Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round). Congrats! . link] leehower.
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Hearpreneur
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
The company didn’t turn a profit until 2003, but by 2005 business was booming – Netflix was shipping out a million DVDs daily. Reddit, a popular website for news and discussion, was founded in 2005 by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian. Photo Credit: Jen Wan. Thanks to Jen Wan, Soteri Skin ! #5- Photo Credit: Raven Cobb.
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. As of today, RetailMeNot is worth $1.33 It is worth $3.4
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 Unique social networking product. Highly profitable.
crowdSPRING Blog
JANUARY 5, 2012
Some Thoughts On The IPO Market For Web Companies (by @fredwilson) – [link]. Social network addiction around the world (Israelis are the most addicted) – [link]. 41 billion has been lost or is likely to go unspent in gift cards issued since 2005 – [link]. The ideal product manager – [link].
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. Notice that I didn’t say “social networking.”
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