Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2011

Usually a small company can sell about 20 percent of its stock in an IPO. The timing of an IPO is driven heavily by the state of the economy in general and the stock market in particular, in concert with your profitability. Of course, you’re going to have to perform well to make that stock useful in the acquisitions process.

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IPO Social Media Media Exit Strategy 223

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. It’s more reference material. Thus, these pages. I’ll add more as time goes on.

Software Review 110

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

The 2011 Inc. The 2011 Top Lists. Before Roving Software could receive its first round of financing from professional investors, in early 1999, he had to put all the stock arrangements in writing. Any stock grants you issue have to qualify for exemption under state and federal securities laws. Telecom and Wireless.

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Fractional CTO Equity Iowa Technical Cofounder 40

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

The 2011 Inc. The 2011 Top Lists. Why Arizona Bay started taking stock from its customers instead of cash. During the first Internet boom, companies that provided services to tech start-ups were all too happy to work for stock. CDW your 1-stop resource for configuration, activation & distribution. 500|5000 List.

Arizona 40

Arizona Equity Iowa Venture Capital 40

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Hershey just bought Krave Jerky, a team in our 2011 Berkeley Lean LaunchPad class, for >$200 million. —– Jon Sebastiani and his team came into the 2011 Berkeley Lean LaunchPad class with several key observations: Snack foods were a large ~$35 billion but the moribund food category was starving for innovation and modernization.

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North America Lean Customer Development Distribution 120

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Virtual Stock Exchange. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Stock Quotes. In early 2011 an acquisition by a Fortune 500 company fell apart. AllThingsDigital. AllThingsDigital.

Venture Capital 107

Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

The team practically lived in the office, worrying about server capacity, during that period, with Livingston regularly heading out to pick up McDonalds, coffee and other food and drinks to keep the troops stocked and focused. “At Kik took its first step into the platform play when it launched an SDK for iOS developers in July 2011.

Entrepreneur 167

Entrepreneur CTO Hire Startup Mobile 167

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The New Bubble : (2011 – 2014): Here we go again…. (If The goal was to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share – because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits.

Internet 334

Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 334

www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Index vs. Concentrated Investing In the traditional stock market an index is a small sample of the market that represents the stock market as a whole. Dave argues that instead of providing connections you should let founders do 95% of the work and offer support with operational areas of expertise like design, data and distribution.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Startup Angel Investor 50

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Virtual Stock Exchange. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Stock Quotes. Zynga went public last December with three classes of stock. MarketWatch. SmartMoney. SmartMoney.

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Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

Term-sheets for preferred stock offerings are designed to protect the investor in case things don’t go as well as planned. A liquidation preference means that the investors receive their investment back (plus dividends) prior to a distribution of the proceeds to stockholders.   Why is this fair?

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Term Sheet Valuation Dividend Liquidation Preference 68

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 6, 2012

When you have limited distribution, the costs of distributing media are so prohibitive that only the largest of media producers (and distributors) are relevant. When you had physical stores selling books, the bookseller would have to stock the shelves with those books most likely to sell so consumer choice was more limited.

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Media South Korea Distribution Technical Review 302

SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Hate mail started streaming in from everywhere - including emails directly to Bill Gates who would forward them on to the team with messages like "this is depressing MSFT's stock price. Legal wasn't used to distribution via IP enabled devices. In the year 2011, Lea was leading product for Adobe’s Creative Suite.

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Product Technical Review Software Review Engineer 60

Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

The opportunity cost of the money I have not made on crypto is insane because I first was talking about crypto in 2011 as I’ve been in financial services for a long time. But then again, I’m not a gold bug, I don’t trade stocks, I don’t go to casinos. In general, I am not very long crypto.

Silicon Valley 88

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Cofounder Africa 88

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

The answer is, they couldn't make any money trading, [or on] giving analyst support for small stocks because the spread got too small.". stock market: The change led by NASDAQ in early 2001 to valuing stocks in increments from one-eighth of a dollar down to one cent. When small fluctuations in stock value changed from 12.5¢

IPO 115

IPO Stock San Francisco Lean 115

Scott Edward Walker

MAY 15, 2012

What Happens If a Startup is Acquired Prior to the Note’s Conversion to Shares of Preferred Stock? As discussed in part 1 , in the context of a seed financing, a convertible note is a loan that typically automatically converts into shares of preferred stock upon the closing of a Series A round of financing.

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Finance Founder Accredited Investor Preferred Stock 64

Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

In 2011, it accounted for approximately $2.3 So, if I were going to invent something, I’d probably start by creating an affordable jeweler’s workbench, not least because I’d be able to test it, and because I already know all the distribution channels I’d need to hit in order to sell it. billion in total industry sales.

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Non-disclosure Agreement NDA Non-Compete Naming 60

Up and Running

JULY 16, 2015

Beginning as a small red cart in Eugene, Oregon, today Red Wagon Creamery has a downtown storefront, local retail distribution, and online ordering. From the beginning and all along the way, careful planning has guided the business from revenues of $35,000 in 2011, to $400,000 in 2014, and estimates of $700,000 for 2015. No kidding.

Oregon 60

Oregon Prospectus Southern California California 60

VC Cafe

APRIL 23, 2012

A $125 million grant made in 2011 to K12 , a company developing educational software for online schooling and testing, led that week to the company’s highest stock price in an entire year. When those services and products are being distributed for free, it makes paying the bills even harder.

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Venture Capital Michigan Seed Capital Programming 96

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

free, distributed source code control management system. Crunchies 2011. Journey 2011. Github -Â Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs. Pivotal Tracker â?? Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Mercurial â?? Preceden â?? Celle Brite.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

Up and Running

JANUARY 5, 2018

Many of its patents explore methods around automating the checkout process, shelf stocking, and customer service. Everlane raised seed funding in 2011, but has been revenue-funded since. Allbirds’ expanding appeal, range of products, and distribution channels could attract Walmart. Madison Reed. Disclosed funding: $70M.

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Acquisition Hawaii Partner Non-Compete 94

abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

As a result, most models are used as a rough guide to see if you are “in the ball park,” or to see if a particular stock is either wildly under-valued or over-valued. What Professor Damodaran thinks, or what anyone who is not a buyer or seller of stocks thinks, is fairly immaterial. So here is the objective of this post. New Use Cases.

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San Francisco San Jose Marketing Technical Review 111

finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

The information is based on part of a confidential year-end 2011 investment report distributed to investors in a fund-of-funds that made commitments between 1999 and 2001. The percentage is the 12/31/11 portfolio value (including cumulative distributions) divided by the called capital. Stocks end lower. Most Popular.

Naming 49

Naming Term Sheet Private Equity Equity 49

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

She is an award winning journalist and author of two critically acclaimed books, "Once Youre Lucky, Twice Youre Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0" (Gotham Books, May 2008) and "Brilliant, Crazy, Cocky: How the Top 1% of Entrepreneurs Profit from Global Chaos" (Wiley, February 2011). Open Sesame! (A By Richard Nieva.

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. In November 2011, David Rosenblatt took over as CEO and has been scaling the company ever since. Poshmark was founded by Manish Chandra in 2011.

Internet 88

Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

And then, in 2011, they announced this plan to split as mail and streaming services. The churn rate increased, and then the stock plummeted by 70 percent. We believed this thing would be able to unlock a multi-product distribution and really strengthen the business mode. Netflix was originally a DVD mail-to-home business.

Partner 132

Partner Cofounder Retention Acquisition 132

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. They controlled distribution to the masses. MySpace would liked to have owned YouTube but didn’t have the public stock valuation to purchase them at the price that Google did. AOL was closed, the Internet was open. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65

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Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Typically it goes one lead: $200K+, couple medium pro’s: $50-$100K, then strategic guys at $25K (sometimes $10K for ultra strategic / domain expertise / distribution / etc). for most seed investments, investors will put more stock in the person and the traction they get with the resources at hand. © Copyright 2011 Maple Butter.

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 28, 2011

For this year end post I thought I would rummage through the entire stock of posts from the year and pick 11 for 2011. Top 11 Posts of 2011. The creation and distribution of content has become such a significant aspect of effective marketing that it requires a high place in the strategy conversation in most every business.

Social Media 59

Social Media SEO Small Business Media 59

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

But with the introduction of Apple TV, Google TV, the Boxee Box & other initiatives it’s clear that this battle will heat up in 2011. “Over the Top&# video distribution – Apple TV comes out in November and is priced at $99. This is where the digital media puck is going. The device itself will have no storage.

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Distribution Audience Video Internet 386