crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 18, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! What Does Facebook’s $100 Billion IPO Mean for You? The Facebook IPO: A Note to Mark Zuckerberg; or, With “Friends” Like Morgan Stanley, Who Needs Enemies? – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 5, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! My advice to startups pitching the media – [link]. Some Thoughts On The IPO Market For Web Companies (by @fredwilson) – [link]. – [link]. – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 5, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! In the red: 73% of tech IPOs aren’t profitable when they debut – [link]. A Collection of 75 Beautiful Fonts from 2012 to Spice up Your Typography – [link].

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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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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Facebook Handled their IPO Exactly Right – [link]. 10 Steps to reinvent media strategy – [link]. 20 of the Best Photoshop Tutorials of August 2012 – [link].

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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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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 24, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Groupon’s Andrew Mason Talking About Daily Deals Site’s Stock Smack, Future Plans and IPO Regrets (Or Lack Thereof) – [link]. The Facebook distribution dilemma – [link].

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Start Up Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2019

The fact that we have a single ‘media’ organisation – and yes they are a media company – with massive influence over 2.4 The fact that we have a single ‘media’ organisation – and yes they are a media company – with massive influence over 2.4 This was that moment.

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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. I asked a panel of successful young entrepreneurs the following question: What tech trends are you watching closely in the second half of 2012?

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Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

March 13, 2012. And at PayPal we were hit with a couple patent disputes while in the midst of our IPO process. only notified them of potential IP infringement two weeks ago on February 27, 2012 (as described in the lawsuit) and Facebook heard about it through the media rather than in private. Yesterday Yahoo!

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The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2014

The story struck me as significant for three reasons – firstly, because Freelancer founder Matt Barrie had been very public leading up to the IPO about wanting to list in Australia over both London and NASDAQ. Finally, that this was not the first highly successful tech IPO in Australia in 2013 with OzForex raising AUD $439.4

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

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. the people who buy companies) in Q2 of this year of technology & media companies. Montgomery expects M&A to rebound to the normal recent levels at 450 deals by 2010.

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Gust

JANUARY 31, 2013

The move came as a shock to many in the tech business community, in which we’ve become accustomed to real-time disclosure by company executives through social media. Before the commercial Internet, the primary tools of disclosure included: Prospectus and related registration statement (“S-1″) for an IPO.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Voyager Labs (2012) – cognitive computing for understanding human behaviour. Beyond Verbal (2012) – understands people’s moods, attitudes and emotional characteristics (also known as personality) from their raw vocal intonations in real-time, as they speak. Media and e-commerce sites are prime customers of this.

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Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

Tech IPOs Are Back – So Now What? March 8, 2012. Three of the five “blockbuster” tech IPOs I predicted have happened (LinkedIn, Groupon, Zynga) and the biggest of all (Facebook) has filed and will likely go public within the next 90 days. I see several dynamics at work in today’s IPO markets.

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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. Plus Facebook has ample cash on hand today and will get a huge slug more from the IPO. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

It was one of the year's most successful IPOs so far, and has been heralded as a "landmark moment" for cryptocurrency's entrance into mainstream investing. Just before the IPO, I had a far-reaching conversation with co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong as he approached this major milestone for the company he co-founded back in 2012.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

This method was perfected by Gil Elbaz and his team at Applied Semantics in LA and in what some have called “ the most important acquisition ever made by Google ” they acquired the company for $102 million before Google had even IPO’d. He built & IPOd Demand Media. He built & sold iMall in Internet 1.0

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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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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. July 15, 2012 at 11:15 am PT. July 14, 2012 at 3:38 pm PT. July 14, 2012 at 10:27 am PT. July 14, 2012 at 5:00 am PT. Peter Kafka in Media.

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venturebeat.com

JULY 12, 2012

2012 Events. Streaming media. Social media. July 12, 2012 12:01 PM. July 10, 2012 6:59 PM. July 9, 2012 2:00 PM. July 9, 2012 11:40 AM. © Copyright 2012 VentureBeat. Skip to secondary content. what’s hot? Ouya Console. MobileBeat. Singularity University. Primary Menu. Newsletters.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Now at Bazaarvoice we have acquired Longboard Media, which in a way concludes our original vision in our first business plan. And even if somehow you avoid it until your IPO, remember that an IPO is a fundraising event itself. And there were other offers along the path to IPO that we also turned down.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

” What can companies expect apart from funding: Carta Ventures (founded 2012) – Carta recently raised $300 million at a $1.7 It’s unclear how the fund has been affected in the recent restructuring following WeWork’s failed IPO and series of divestments of non-core assets.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas. Michael was the lead research analyst for the IPOs of Internet companies like UUNET, Yahoo!, Tuesday, Jan 17th, 2012.

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Seeing Both Sides

JUNE 27, 2013

Today''s IPO by Tremor Video is seen by many as a harbinger for the adtech community (full disclosure: Tremor Video is a Flybridge portfolio company). Tremor is the first public offering of an adtech company since Millenial Media''s IPO in April 2012. So, the lesson that may get loss in the Tremor IPO hoopla?

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2017

Your business isn’t Facebook, but you certainly can learn from the social-media titan by examining how it operates — when things are going well, and not so well. In early 2012, Mark Zuckerberg had every excuse to be complacent: Facebook had 900 million monthly users and it had won the contest for how people chose to spend their time online.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 15, 2013

In 2012, as Israeli exits topped $5.5 Groucho Marx could have been talking about the Israeli hi-tech sector when he said “I made a killing on Wall Street a few years ago…I shot my broker”. billion, [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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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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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.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

July 9, 2012 at 10:21 am by John Cook Leave a Comment. It’s still the Pacific Northwest, and Dealmaker Media has assembled an eye-opening list of speakers. Voted “Next Tech Titan” at the 2012 GeekWire Startup Awards, Tableau Software is on a huge growth trajectory. Small tech firms outpace big counterparts with IPOs.

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Cracking the Code

MAY 25, 2010

One of his secret: "Incentivize your marketing team on sales not leads" Jeff Jordan, CEO of OpenTable speaking about his IPO process: " Build relationships with key public investors 2-3 years before going public (Morgan Stanley, Fidelity and T. ipo process. ► 2012. (1). Popular Media: the key to viral marketing.

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Seeing Both Sides

JUNE 1, 2012

Facebook's IPO brought their "hack" culture to the forefront of the world's conscience. Well it turns out, technologists are hacking everything - from advertising to media, from retail to health care, from education to banking. Ah, banking. This has not been a good few weeks for the banking industry.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

While poised with a limited number of transactions this year, the world of public Cloud Computing and SaaS companies has been marked by two events in the past few months: the acquisition of Omniture by Adobe and the high profile IPO of LogMeIn, a leading provider of PC remote access and support with a very interesting freemium model.

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Austin Startup

MAY 29, 2019

I encourage startup founders or anyone interested in social commerce to read it: [link] When you think about Big Data Applications (a term coined in 2012 by Raj De Datta in this TechCrunch article ), Bazaarvoice is one as Raj points out in his article. 8, which was released earlier this week. I’ve also heard BDAs called SaaS 3.0

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

Startups here are primarily in what they call the TMT (Technology, Media and Telecommunications) segment. About 1/3 of all China’s Venture Capital investment is made in Beijing and the majority of those investments are in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) sector I’ll describe shortly. Closed for You, Open For Us.

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The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 19, 2013

As you can see from the chart below the latest projections for 2013 revenues are 2x what they promised in their 2011 IPO, and EBITDA is forecast at over 2x. On the back of outstripping expectations LinkedIn has had an easy ride from Wall Street and the media and the share price has risen from $93 at the IPO to $227 today.

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