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2010 VC Funding Outlook for Startups – Prepare for Winter (Part 3/3)

Both Sides of the Table

I obviously don’t have a crystal ball so the economy could fare better than my gut, but here’s why I’m cautious for some time in 2010 or early 2011: Why is the future still so unpredictable? Unemployment coupled with a stock market drop will stop this spending cold IMHO. Consumer spending is where I’m dubious.

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The $100M+ Club: A New Universe of Buyers ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

On the B2B SaaS side or enabling services (e.g. Included are some of the large companies above like Google and Microsoft but also active on the B2B/enabling side have been acquirers like Salesforce.com (Radian6, Heroku notably) and Apple (Quattro Wireless, Siri). © 2011 GenuineVC - All rights reserved. Previous Entries.

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Tech IPOs Are Back ? So Now What? ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

The secondary wave of VC-backed IPOs has also come to fruition… both consumer facing (Yelp, Demand Media, Pandora, Carbonite, HomeAway, Angie’s List, et al) and B2B (Jive Software, Brightcove, Imperva, Responsys, etc). © 2011 GenuineVC - All rights reserved. I see several dynamics at work in today’s IPO markets.

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April 4-Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO

David Teten

Successful private companies such as Facebook and Zynga now have active secondary markets in their stock, blurring the meaning of their ‘private’ status. Confirmed Panelists David Weild, formerly Vice Chairman of The NASDAQ Stock Market (moderator) Barry Silbert, CEO, Secondmarket. Monday, April 4th, 2011.

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Is There a Valuation Bubble for Social Media Companies (and if so, is it Bursting)?

Pascal's View

The former includes the Twitters, Facebooks, Linkedins, Tesla Motors of the World and the latter is the 95% of companies (B2B SaaS, Semiconductors, Cap Equipment, Biotech, MedTech, etc) that need to be marketed (Supply Push) by legions of brokers. And I agree with Mike Arrington that what is going on now is different.

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Recruiting: 12 Questions For Uncomfortably Hands-On SEO Interviews

searchengineland.com

B2B Search Marketing. Google Disapproved 134M Ads And Disabled More Than 800K AdWords Accounts In 2011. Some stock images used under license from Shutterstock. PRO Guides. Search Week Newsletter. Search Month Newsletter. News & Features. SearchCap Daily Newsletter. All Columns. All Things SEO. Enterprise SEM. Enterprise SEO.

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Analyzing Boston's Reindeer (Not Unicorns)

Seeing Both Sides

Pretty good performance as a whole compared to other tech stocks that have gotten pretty beat up (e.g., The others are all B2B, including a few perennial IPO watch list companies who are believed to be unicorns (i.e., Seven of the nine companies saw price gains (as of 12/15) ranging from 6% (athenahealth) to 134% (Wayfair).

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