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Good Times Ahead for VC-backed Tech Companies?

Both Sides of the Table

Projected IPOs for 2009 are an embarrassing 10 total deals, down from 86 just 2 years ago (it was 265 in the go-go years of 99-00) but at least up from 6 in 2008. Fred Wilson supports Montgomery’s view in this thoughtful post on the return of the tech IPO market. What have been your experiences in the past 6 months?

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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IPO markets had burned an entire cycle of retail stock investors and many institutional investors to boot. By 2010-2011 this had shrunk by half again, averaging under $15 billion. By the end of 2011 the Internet population was estimated at 2.3 As of January 2012 consumers were watching 4 BILLION video views per day on YouTube.

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The Changing Venture Landscape

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.” * I first wrote about the changes to the Venture Capital ecosystem 10 years ago and this still serves as a good primer of how we arrived at 2011, a decade on from the Web 1.0 The market today would barely be recognizable by a time traveler from 2011. dot-com bonanza. Ten years on much has changed. each with partners as the lead.

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

DeepMind beating the world’s best at Go and AI beating pro-poker players consistently, represent much more than a computer getting good at playing video games: The gaming world offers a perfect place to start machine intelligence work (e.g., YouAppi (2011)- YouAppi creates adtech to streamline mobile user acquisition.

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Twitter Link Roundup #115 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The green in the sky is the aurora borealis.

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The Decade in Tech

Start Up Blog

Why it mattered: For the uninitiated, Twitch is an online streaming service to watch people play video games. What happened: Edward Snowden’s NSA revelations + Facebook goes public with IPO. To date, its market capitalisation has now increased fourfold since the IPO. What happened: Twitch is launched + Steve Jobs dies.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

But a certain amount gets lost in the headlines – especially when not everybody actually heard the video and knows the nuance of the message. And this is happening in mezzanine (pre-IPO) deals as well. And post IPO deals, although these tend to correct more quickly. Fair enough. Why I believe we’re in a bubble.