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 20 of the Best Photoshop Tutorials of August 2012 – [link]. 30 Fresh and Useful CSS3 & Jquery Effects with Tutorials from 2012 – [link]. – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

To analyze what’s become of the OG Unicorns, it’s first worth noting that at the time of the 2013 post about 2/3rds of the 39 on the list had already been realized via IPO or $1B+ acquisitions. Most startups that hit this level did so via IPO or acquisition value. IPO value, $2.8B IPO value, $1.5B IPO value, $31.2B

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IPO Valuation San Francisco Silicon Valley 120

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 5, 2012

Some Thoughts On The IPO Market For Web Companies (by @fredwilson) – [link]. Marc Andreessen: Predictions for 2012 (and beyond) – [link]. The State of Social Marketing 2011 – 2012 – [link]. Web Design Trends in 2012 – [link]. Web design predictions for 2012 – [link]. – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

NZ Entrepreneur

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The IPO did not proceed. It is estimated that trade secret theft cost the US economy $300 billion in 2012. This aspect is really important—being IP savvy and ready for the sale and purchase process, or whatever the next phase in the startup’s life may be. The shotgun approach. Anton Blijlevens is a Partner at AJ Park.

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Intellectual Property IP Software Review New Zealand 45

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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Software Review Technical Review IPO Cloud 48

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

A 1997 vintage is likely to perform much better than a 2000 vintage because the former got to ride the dot com bonanza and likely saw some quick IPOs and crazy trade sales while the latter is more likely filled with many companies that never reached the promise land (or are still trying). Why does vintage matter to you?

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Venture Capital Balance Sheet Early Stage Software Review 269

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 23, 2013

Marketo filed for IPO with impressive 80% year-over-year growth in 2012, with almost $60m in revenue. of revenue, force-feeding sales pipelines with an unprofitable product. I know the argument: The pay-back period on sales, marketing, and up-start costs is long, but there’s a profitable result at the end of the tunnel.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

What types of things might happen in 2012, as opposed to needing another 3-5 years to come to fruition. The thing you need to be careful of, however, is only paying attention to big trends, because you never know when you're thinking big data and you miss the awesome direct sales jewelry company. What areas need to be disrupted?

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Technology Valuation Community Restful 116

The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 21, 2014

billion, 2012. Wildfire – $450 million, 2012. This re-enforces the old truism that the most reliable path to a massive exit is to head for an IPO, even with all the difficulties that come with that route. Additionally it makes clear that getting above $400m in a trade sale is a bit of a crap shoot. Nest Labs – $3.2

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Acquisition IPO Mobile Internet 103

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

by Christopher Wallace, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Amsterdam Printing. Google reportedly turned down buyout offers from Microsoft shortly before the 2004 IPO. Google’s value has grown from $23 billion at the time of the IPO to over $200 billion today. The deal closed only four months later in August of 2012.

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IPO Exit Strategy San Francisco Startup 162

Tim Keane

MARCH 9, 2011

How to prepare a sales forecast for a business plan » March 09, 2011.   His entire income is based on his personal output and he’d like to hire several woodworkers, expand his sales to existing customers, and generate a profit in addition to his contributed labor.  Startups and angels: Along the way to success.

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Finance Bootstrapping Startup Equity 83

Austin Startup

AUGUST 24, 2019

But I have put in hundreds of hours writing my blog, Lucky7, since 2012. We were the hot new movement in the industry and led to better sales results for our customers that any prior eCommerce plug-in we had measured during our Coremetrics’ years (and we had measured them all). All of this would help fuel our growth to come.

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Software Review Cofounder eCommerce Austin 48

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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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

sales and marketing. (10). ► 2012. (1). Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Building Your SaaS Sales Compensation Plan. Measuring sales and marketing effectiveness of Saa. Favorite Podcasts. (1). internet. (6). McKinsey highlights. (1). Online Gaming. (1). Portfolio. (3). software. (10).

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Software Review Partner United States Venture Capital 48

Agile VC

AUGUST 9, 2012

The company’s lost nearly 80% of its value from the peak earlier this year, in the run up to Facebook’s IPO, and currently trades below $3/share… a fraction of it’s IPO price of $10. Facebook, LinkedIn, Yelp, etc) Zynga has to spend substantially on sales & marketing to acquire players.

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Stock LBO .Net Valuation 160

Steve Blank

JUNE 24, 2013

The banks lobbied regulators in Louisiana , New York , California, and Idaho and soon they were issuing injunctions forcing PayPal to delay their IPO. The bill came due two decades later as the American auto industry spiraled into bankruptcy and its market share plummeted from 75% in 1981 to 45% in 2012.

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North Carolina New Jersey New York Government 335

View from Seed

JUNE 13, 2019

Chewy sells tens of thousands of products from many 3rd party brands, as well as its own private label brands (though latter remains <10% of sales). I know some of the investors in Chewy prior to the PetSmart acquisition, but I am not a shareholder nor do I intend to purchase shares in the IPO. Annual Net Sales By Customer Cohort.

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Leadership .Net Revenue Acquisition 214

www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

S&P 500 NASDAQ NYSE Gainers Losers Most Active Wikinvest data is provided as-is, delayed, and subject to Terms TOP VIDEO PICKS 1 of 13 Unimpressive growth for U.S.

CTO 43

CTO CTO Hire PHP Cofounder 43

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

As vibrant as the China venture business has been, 2012 was a different story. The number of deals in Technology, Media and Telecommunications more than doubled in 2011 over the previous five years and slowed back down dramatically in 2012. Car sales in China went from 1 million in 2001 to 14 million in 2011.

Silicon Valley 267

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 267

The Equity Kicker

JUNE 9, 2016

Perhaps the biggest story in venture capital from 2012-2015 was the rise in late stage valuations. The dynamics are very different to IPOs or public market investing. The catalyst will be when public and private price/sales ratios come back into line. However, they are still learning how to invest in our sector.

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Valuation Venture Capital Limited Partner IPO 60

Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

It also assumes the entire value of the investment is captured for investors at a sale of the company in the time specified in the term-sheet. Next, they carefully consider the range of multiples being used today to value companies being acquired or doing IPOs in the market that the business is in. Let’s start at the end.

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Term Sheet Valuation Dividend Liquidation Preference 68

Up and Running

APRIL 4, 2014

In a move that can be described as gross negligence, Hummer Winblad didn’t bother to do any independent market research in its push for an IPO. Gayle Warnock, got wind of the decision, he sent a one-line memo to project head Richard Krafve: “We have just lost 200,000 sales.” Who cares?! But then the backlash began.

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Sales IPO Texas Advertising 126

Steve Blank

JUNE 24, 2013

The banks lobbied regulators in Louisiana , New York , California, and Idaho and soon they were issuing injunctions forcing PayPal to delay their IPO. The bill came due two decades later as the American auto industry spiraled into bankruptcy and its market share plummeted from 75% in 1981 to 45% in 2012.

North Carolina 227

North Carolina New Jersey New York Government 227

Rob Go

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

The title of the report is “Top 20 Tech Venture Capital Firms of 2012″ The chart in the main body is titled “PrivCo’s Ranking of the Most Successful Venture Capital Firms (2012)” The giveaway is in the subtitle below that: “ranked by total number of private tech co. The report is here.

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Venture Capital IPO Stock Portfolio 61

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

As vibrant as the China venture business has been, 2012 was a different story. The number of deals in Technology, Media and Telecommunications more than doubled in 2011 over the previous five years and slowed back down dramatically in 2012. Car sales in China went from 1 million in 2001 to 14 million in 2011.

Silicon Valley 159

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 159

abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

According to this NADA report , total dealership sales (including service) is about $730 billion annually. In this video recorded in October of 2012 (about 20 months ago), Uber’s CEO, Travis Kalanick, notes that when Uber launched its services in 2010 there were about 600 total black cars in San Francisco. Undiscovered Clues.

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San Francisco San Jose Marketing Technical Review 111

Agile VC

JUNE 13, 2019

Chewy sells tens of thousands of products from many 3rd party brands, as well as its own private label brands (though latter remains <10% of sales). I know some of the investors in Chewy prior to the PetSmart acquisition, but I am not a shareholder nor do I intend to purchase shares in the IPO. Annual Net Sales By Customer Cohort.

Leadership 100

Leadership .Net Revenue Acquisition 100

Gust

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Angel investors don’t expect to get repaid, nor do they really want to get repaid; the return on their investment, if the startup proves a success, will come in conversion to equity followed by an eventual liquidity event (sale or IPO of the company), with a return of at least 5x or 10x the initial investment if all goes well.

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Finance Convertible Security Equity Seed Stage 134

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2007

Attendees included Blue Nile , Postini , LinkedIn , Lifelock , Wize , Sparter , Zopa , Revver , Wikia , Flock , Vimo , Delivery Agent , Gerson Lehrman Group , Pure Networks , Zensys , Summit , T3Ci , Endeca and Nominum - a wide spectrum of companies, both in terms of stage (very early to pre-IPO) and sectors (consumer internet, software, chipsets.).

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Software Review SEM Marketing Las Vegas 48

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

As Wes Bush details, you have three options for a SaaS go-to-market strategy : sales led, marketing led, or product led. Will you still need sales support for some enterprise accounts? Lincoln Murphy cites a 3% conversion rate for SaaS and B2B web apps; a 2012 article on several leading platforms suggested a range between 1 and 10%.

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Customer Conversion Acquisition B2B 119

Startup Company Lawyer

MAY 26, 2012

President Obama signed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (known as the JOBS Act) into law on April 5, 2012. One highly anticipated provision of the JOBS Act, Title III, is entitled ”Capital Raising Online While Deterring Fraud and Unethical Non-Disclosure Act of 2012” or the ”CROWDFUND Act.”

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SEC Securities and Exchange Commission Accredited Investor Private Placement 58

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 25, 2012

The Inside Story Of What Happened On The Facebook IPO – [link]. Facebook IPO, and How to Build a Social Network for $389 – [link]. Q1 saw the most tech IPOs in four years, but funding amounts are down – [link]. Facebook IPO Post Mortem – Killer – but not for the reasons you think ! – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

Scalable Startup

JANUARY 19, 2015

I originally wrote it in late 2012 when asked the question – What does it feel like to be a start-up mentor? Raising Money – you are constantly doing this, preparing for this and thinking about this, whether it’s pre-seed, seed funding, debt, revenue, partnerships, IPO or other. link to original post).

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Angel Investor Early Stage Startup Venture Capital 20

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. Labels: design , internet , sales and marketing. ipo process. ► 2012. (1).

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Software Review Cloud IPO Jordan 74

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. Skip to secondary content. what’s hot? Ouya Console. MobileBeat. Singularity University. Primary Menu. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Newsletters. 22 hrs ago. FreedomPop raises $7.5M

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Detroit Incubator Technical Review Venture Capital 69

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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Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Michael was the lead research analyst for the IPOs of Internet companies like UUNET, Yahoo!, Tuesday, Jan 17th, 2012. eBay, DoubleClick, Webex, Real Networks, Exodus, Equinix, amongst many other pioneering companies, as well as covering companies like America Online and Netscape. Moderator: Robert Savage, CEO, Track.com.

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Technical Review Technology North Carolina Switzerland 128