Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Facebook S-1: The Most Anticipated IPO in a Decade. February 2, 2012. Here’s my first look at Facebook viewed through the lens of their IPO filing. Filing Date : February 1, 2012. They don’t even run ads in the FB mobile apps. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Facebook Handled their IPO Exactly Right – [link]. Mobile Advertising: Twitter Sales Are Double That Of Facebook In A Google-Ruled, $2.6B 40 Naughty Animals In Extremely Creative Advertisements – [link]. 20 of the Best Photoshop Tutorials of August 2012 – [link]. – [link]. – [link].

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Seeing Both Sides

JUNE 1, 2012

The simple notion is that the confluence of broadband, mobile and globalization in combination with Moore's Law have allowed the technology industry to innovate almost everything in existence. Facebook's IPO brought their "hack" culture to the forefront of the world's conscience. I think banks are now simply too big to innovate.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

Advertise with GeekWire. Mobile News. July 9, 2012 at 10:21 am by John Cook Leave a Comment. Voted “Next Tech Titan” at the 2012 GeekWire Startup Awards, Tableau Software is on a huge growth trajectory. Gist works the way you do – in your inbox, on a mobile device, or in a web browser. 07/06/2012.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

But in 2012 a visit to any major college in America will show you the massive increase in aspirations of our young talent to become the next Mark Zuckerberg and build a future Facebook. So it is unsurprising that an over-funding environment and the commensurate returns hangover would have lasted until about – well – 2012.

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Agile VC

MAY 23, 2012

May 23, 2012. Al Gore's 2012 Induction to the Internet Hall of Fame. In the wake of the undue frenzy leading up to and now ex post recriminations about Facebook’s IPO, the mainstream media and normal folks keep wondering if the non-existent “bubble” for internet companies has now popped. And Why 20%?

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 22, 2012

Although Facebook’s stock price has fallen well below its IPO price of $38 per share, many people agree that the stock is still significantly overpriced. Alarmingly, even the lead underwriter in the IPO, Morgan Stanley, recognized these trends and cut Facebook estimates just before the IPO. It’s not.

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Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

July 11, 2012. Burr, Egan, Deleage [Boston] –> Huge wins in the 1980s and early 90s included Continental Cablevision (sold for $5.3B – now a big chunk of what is Comcast), Qwest Communications, Cephalon (biotech IPO, acq by Teva), and Powersoft (Burr, Egan made 35x when it went public and then was acquired by Sybase).

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

In May 1996, Open Market completed a successful IPO and more than doubled on the first day of trading, ending with a $1.2 The Internet bull market continued to run for four more years after the Open Market IPO, finally ending in the spring of 2000. Facebook will likely go public in 2012 and be valued in the $50-75 billion range.

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 22, 2012

Over a year and a half ago, I did a two-part blog post on the East Coast IPO malaise – one focused on Boston (Massachusetts more broadly), another focused on New York. On the heels of the successful Kayak IPO, I thought I would do a retrospective look back. Meanwhile, not a single New York technology IPO has taken place.

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venturebeat.com

JULY 12, 2012

2012 Events. July 12, 2012 12:01 PM. July 10, 2012 6:59 PM. July 9, 2012 2:00 PM. July 9, 2012 11:40 AM. Advertise on VentureBeat. Mobile Jetpac pulls in $2.4M Mobile Jetpac pulls in $2.4M Skip to secondary content. what’s hot? Ouya Console. MobileBeat. Singularity University. Primary Menu.

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allthingsd.com

JULY 16, 2012

July 15, 2012 at 8:59 pm PT. billion into 812 deals in the second quarter of 2012, their single largest quarter in more than a decade, according to CB Insights. Social investments in the Internet sector are down, though mobile social is booming after the Facebook-Instagram deal. July 15, 2012 at 11:15 am PT. AllThingsD.

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mashable.com

JANUARY 13, 2012

World Featured in US & World Videos Featured: Facebook CES 2012 Awards. January 13, 2012 by Brian Sullivan. Let #Gigya drop some knowledge on you: January 13, 2012 15:15:23. January 13, 2012 15:51:33. January 13, 2012 16:20:18. January 13, 2012 16:43:56. January 13, 2012 16:45:27. Trending Stories.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Updated July 10, 2012, 7:57 p.m. In the 1990s Internet boom, easy money helped founders maintain more control early in a companys evolution, but founder CEOs without voting control often got replaced by a professional manager ahead of an IPO. ignited the current trend by adopting a dual-class voting structure before its IPO in 2004.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 5, 2012

In the red: 73% of tech IPOs aren’t profitable when they debut – [link]. 30 Unbelievably Awesome Print Advertising Examples – [link]. A Collection of 75 Beautiful Fonts from 2012 to Spice up Your Typography – [link]. Showcase of 46 Superb Movie Posters of 2012 – [link]. – [link].

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Advertising. September 19, 2012, 9:32 p.m. which makes a mobile app that rewards shoppers for creating a personal shopping mall and following their favorite stores. Less than 1% are currently in IPO registration. Copyright 2012 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. Advertise Locally on WSJ.com. » More. Management.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Hundreds of startups will succeed in this world over the next few years, like all the mobile app companies over the past 5 years. Alexia Tsotsis: Oh, the mobile –. Marc Andreessen: The mobile billing. Security, Cloud, NoSQL databases, etc. are all precursors, rumbles before the big boom. Are there any that I have missed?

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www.theverge.com

JUNE 20, 2012

After Facebooks IPO flub, value of tech startups falls back to earth. Over three nights and two days of drinking, schmoozing, and panel discussion, many of the industries insiders spoke their minds plainly, and the bumbled Facebook IPO was a frequent topic of conversation."Excuse By Ben Popper 06.19.2012.

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www.businessinsider.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Advertising. These Spooky Cinemagraphs Will Radically Change Online Advertising. 6, 2012, 1:09 AM. |. Y Combinator especially invests in Web or mobile. Mobile Insights. BII Mobile Insights. Heres What That Led To Explosive Growth For Chinese And Indian Entrepreneurs. Entertainment. Transportation.

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gigaom.com

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Nov 3, 2012 - 2:00PM PT. And everywhere you look, big data and data science are already being rolled into many web and mobile applications , from deciding which products to buy to figuring out your long lost relatives. Somewhere, somehow, everyone surfing the web or using a mobile app is benefiting from big data. Email This.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Startups for startups – the top B2B tools used by Startups – Includes the list of top 50 startup vendors in 2012 by Vendorstack , a reviews and Q&A platform on enterprise vendors for startups and mid-market companies. Seed Startups.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

On November 28, 2012. Meanwhile, the rash of early liquidity and recent IPOs — unsatisfying as they were — gave liquidity to thousands of employees at large companies, and a subset of those made very real money. This time around, there has been an explosion at the early stages, and the very late pre-IPO growth stages.

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