The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

Though it’s incredibly valuable to be an early adopter of 2012′s tech trends, it won’t hurt your company to be right on time with everyone else who is just discovering them now. It’s not too late to set up a presence on Pinterest and Instagram, and mobile apps aren’t going anywhere anytime soon. Social Influence.

API 157

API Social Media Mobile Valuation 157

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

How They Do It: Aggregate data from travel data warehouses like ITA as well as indexing travel providers websites, provide this information to consumers in a highly customizable search engine. Mobile Usage: 8% of 2010 query volume (mobile app download growth of 344% YoY). Post-money valuation probably no higher than $12M (2).

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 1, 2012

In its quarterly filing yesterday Facebook disclosed that it spent $24m on ‘talent focused acquisitions’ in the first half of 2012. between them, making the aggregate exit value of these acqui-hires 4.2x, which tells us that if the investors on average had a 24% stake they would have broken even on these deals.

San Francisco 110

San Francisco Hiring Liquidation Preference Aggregator 110

Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

While currently free to angel groups, their business model revolves around aggregating the angel investment data. If my math is correct, this is approximately a 31% IRR, which has to beat individual angel investments on aggregate and venture capital returns over the period of the study (1990-2007). return on investment after 3.5

Pre-Money Valuation 28

Pre-Money Valuation Angel Investor Angel Groups Valuation 28

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

There is additional encouraging news for aspiring entrepreneurs on many fronts, just in case you are thinking about joining the existing ranks: Valuations of successful startups have hit an all-time high. in 2013, with aggregate proceeds of over $38 billion. Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy.

IPO 273

IPO Entrepreneur Social Media Startup 273

betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

If it’s done right, feedback and postmortems are regular activities and reviews are just the official aggregation of such feedback.?. The time to start thinking mobile first vs. web first was 6 months ago. At Fab, mobile is already 33% of our visits and sales and we just launched our mobile apps nearly a year ago.

Technical Review 108

Technical Review Technology Software Review Valuation 108

Cracking the Code

MAY 15, 2008

The top 10 trends this year were around the emergence of mobile platforms (thanks Apple for the iPhone!), The next wave of internet will come from companies aggregating these various data sets and leveraging them to provide more value to the user. Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation.

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review San Jose Venture Capital 48