Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

As vibrant as the China venture business has been, 2012 was a different story. China has essentially closed its internal search, media and social network software market to foreign companies who wouldn’t play with the government rules on the Great Firewall. The numbers of mobile subscribers are staggering – 1.18

Silicon Valley 267

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 267

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. The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

As vibrant as the China venture business has been, 2012 was a different story. China has essentially closed its internal search, media and social network software market to foreign companies who wouldn’t play with the government rules on the Great Firewall. The numbers of mobile subscribers are staggering – 1.18

Silicon Valley 159

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 159

Steve Blank

JUNE 17, 2011

Smart Money are prescient angel investors and Venture Capitalists who started investing in social networks, consumer and mobile applications and the cloud 3, 4 or 5 years ago. But they don’t support his justification of the bubble valuations we are seeing for companies filing for IPO’s (Pandora Media just priced its IPO at $2.6

Investment Bankers 310

Investment Bankers Stock Valuation Venture Capital 310

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. For example, there are five major markets where Facebook is not the top social network : China, Russia, South Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. It’s not.

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South Korea IPO Russia Stock 88

Professor VC

APRIL 11, 2008

At times, I do miss being part of a team that takes a company from infancy all the way to IPO and beyond. ► 2012. (1). Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? The Most Obvious Mobile Ad Unit and What the New York Times Got Wrong. No comments: Post a Comment.

San Jose 28

San Jose Angel Investor Venture Capital Balance Sheet 28

mashable.com

JANUARY 13, 2012

World Featured in US & World Videos Featured: Facebook CES 2012 Awards. How to Plan Your Social Integration Strategy. January 13, 2012 by Brian Sullivan. Brian Sullivan is vice president of client services at Gigya , where he advises clients on implementing social technology. (My Trending Stories.

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Technical Review Social Media Social Network RSS 78

venturebeat.com

JULY 12, 2012

2012 Events. Social media. Social networking. Social games. July 12, 2012 12:01 PM. July 10, 2012 6:59 PM. July 9, 2012 2:00 PM. July 9, 2012 11:40 AM. Mobile Jetpac pulls in $2.4M Mobile Jetpac pulls in $2.4M Skip to secondary content. what’s hot? Ouya Console. MobileBeat.

Detroit 69

Detroit Incubator Technical Review Venture Capital 69

Professor VC

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

I began to wonder based on the "*a*" number comment that perhaps Linked-in had thrown in a sweetener to the investors, such as an opportunity to buy some secondary shares pre-IPO or an allocation in the IPO. Given the issues we had in the past around allocation of IPO shares, this would be a very sensitive issue. ► 2012.

Acquisition 31

Acquisition San Jose Angel Investor IPO 31

Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

I am no longer an insider, so dont have any view into current financials, but do know that total financing is now 10X the original plan and at the current accelerating growth rate, revenues will still not hit that $185M until 2012 or 2013, so double the time. ► 2012. (1). Is $120M enough capital to reach these exit goals?

San Jose 28

San Jose Angel Investor Term Sheet Venture Capital 28

Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

April 13, 2012. And going even further back there have been a few random ones have been built before like Salesforce.com and e-tailer RedEnvelope (IPO’d in 2003 though now defunct as a company). How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Urbanization of Startups.

Silicon Valley 185

Silicon Valley San Francisco San Jose Startup 185

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

You’ll often go down the sourcing rabbit hole only to discover that a statistic is from 2012 or that the study’s sample size consisted of just a few people—and that’s only after you make an effort to dig deeper. People did check their email right after waking up…in 2012. . Image source ). in the late 1980s.

Marketing 113

Marketing Retention Email Video 113

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?

Software Review 22

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22

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. Social networking.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

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.

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93