Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

The latter are included in free cash flow whereas the former are excluded, since they’re one-time in nature and it’s possible stock is used instead of cash for acquisitions. If Groupon’s growth rate drops by 80% they’ll still be nearly tripling top line sales in 2012. What’s Your Favorite Future? And Why 20%?

North America 100

North America Chicago Boston .Net 100

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 27, 2014

In January, activist investor Carl Icahn acquired around 2 percent of eBay’s stock. Thanks to its mature and lucrative eBay business, PayPal has the ability to keep its margins as low as possible in the areas where it is undertaking its greatest expansion efforts – namely mobile payments and retail payments.

Silicon Valley 57

Silicon Valley Software Review Stock Due Diligence 57

Steve Blank

JUNE 17, 2011

My esteemed colleague Ben Horowitz essentially makes four arguments : 1) look at how relatively cheap Apple, Google and Amazon stock is compared to their growth; 2) Major technology cycles tend to be around 25 years long with the bulk of the purchases occurring in the last five-to-ten years. Know when to run. Kenny Rogers – The Gambler.

Investment Bankers 310

Investment Bankers Stock Valuation Venture Capital 310

ConversionXL

MARCH 28, 2014

On the eCommerce side, a 2012 report by invodo showed that over half of eCommerce buyers report feeling more confident in a purchase decision after watching a product video, and high quality videos can increase cart sizes by an impressive 174 %. While these may seem like sturdy benchmarks, don’t put too much stock in them.

Video 122

Video Software Review Cofounder Metrics 122

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

February 2, 2012. Filing Date : February 1, 2012. How They Do It : Operate a social network at Facebook.com, through Facebook’s mobile apps, and the Facebook Platform which lets other websites extend Facebook’s tools for authentication and social sharing. They don’t even run ads in the FB mobile apps.

IPO 100

IPO South Korea Venezuela Revenue 100

searchengineland.com

MAY 30, 2012

Mobile Search. May 30, 2012 at 1:06pm ET by Conrad Saam. SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 30, 2012 Google Sending 51% Less Traffic To Facebook Pages Since "Search Plus Your World" Launch; Bing Drops, Too Peter Carl Fabergé Google Egg Logo Google Says Knowledge Graph Has Led To More Searches SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 29, 2012.

SEO 54

SEO SEM Social Media Search 54

Agile VC

MAY 21, 2012

May 21, 2012. Here in 2012 you’ve already seen the first $100M+ acquisitions for LinkedIn (Slideshare), Zynga (OMGPop, Draw Something), and Facebook (Instagram) and it’s probably only a matter of time before Groupon does one. 10 July 2012, 7:05 pm Why Do VC’s Have Ownership Targets? How To Think About The Future.

Acquisition 162

Acquisition Silicon Valley B2B Seed Stage 162

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. Facebook stock is trading at 57 times projected earnings (compared to 14 for Google and 12 for Apple). Both stocks have enjoyed strong growth this year.

South Korea 88

South Korea IPO Russia Stock 88

Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

March 8, 2012. Hardly the only one but Pandora was the latest to experience it this week with their earnings announcement for Q4 2011 , the stock price dropping about 25% and well below the original IPO price of $16. ==. 10 July 2012, 7:05 pm Why Do VC’s Have Ownership Targets? How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. So now what?

IPO 100

IPO Silicon Valley Revenue Seed Stage 100

Up and Running

JANUARY 5, 2018

Many of its patents explore methods around automating the checkout process, shelf stocking, and customer service. By acquiring Boxed, Walmart would strengthen its focus on mobile commerce for millennials — comparable to its acquisition of Jet.com.

Acquisition 94

Acquisition Hawaii Partner Non-Compete 94

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 8, 2017

Use Images but Avoid Stock Photos. You’d be surprised but most users are able to recognize a generic stock photo in a website that they’ve seen before. Using stock photography can decrease trust and also stand out as generic and non-unique, attributes that carry over to your business as well. Use Inlinks. Use Bullets.

Stock 51

Stock Mobile Design Differentiation 51

abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

As a result, most models are used as a rough guide to see if you are “in the ball park,” or to see if a particular stock is either wildly under-valued or over-valued. What Professor Damodaran thinks, or what anyone who is not a buyer or seller of stocks thinks, is fairly immaterial. So here is the objective of this post.

San Francisco 111

San Francisco San Jose Marketing Technical Review 111

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2012

In June 2012, Fanning and fellow Napster co-founder Sean Parker launched a new live social video mirco-sharing platform called Airtime. While at Santa Barbara’s University of California, Allison Perry teamed up with classmates Brenton Taylor and Bryon Myers to build a better, more mobile device to deliver oxygen.

Intellectual Property 118

Intellectual Property New York City Pennsylvania Virginia 118

www.businessweek.com

JUNE 18, 2012

By Olga Kharif on June 14, 2012. In 2009, Nuance Communications ( NUAN ) , one of the largest players in voice recognition software, licensed its technology for use in a small mobile app. In September, Nuance started offering free tools to mobile developers for building applications using Nuance’s speech recognition software.

Ukraine 45

Ukraine Greece New Hampshire China 45

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. MySpace would liked to have owned YouTube but didn’t have the public stock valuation to purchase them at the price that Google did. Social Networking is Becoming Mobile: FourSquare and Skout. I predict this will come before the end of 2012.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Is 2012 going to be 2000 all over again? stock market." We're also just seeing the beginnings of how online and mobile services can create opportunities for the labor supply--how services like Uber and Taskrabbit can help create more liquid markets for services where previously people had limited options for monetizing their time.

Angel Investor 104

Angel Investor Valuation Startup Revenue 104

Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Had I begun this tradition earlier, for those wondering, it would’ve been Airbnb in 2012, and Uber in 2011.). You may look at this and think to yourself “well, of course, how controversial is those?” ” This year, however, is like any other year in which I’ve tracked these and tried to single out one.

Technical Review 127

Technical Review Open Source Software Review Venture Capital 127

Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

Facebook will likely go public in 2012 and be valued in the $50-75 billion range. They are gobbling up mobile devices, PCs, routers and other technology gear at a rapid rate. See the chart below, which will only explode further when updated for more recent figures that will take into account Internet access via mobile phones.

IPO 48

IPO IRR Brazil Government 48

Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

One of the panelists mentioned that they have gotten very valuation sensitive (nothing wrong with that) and like to purchase preferred stock rather than invest in convertible notes. ► 2012. (1). The Most Obvious Mobile Ad Unit and What the New York Times Got Wrong. November 22, 2009 2:03 AM. Post a Comment. Newer Post.

Pre-Money Valuation 28

Pre-Money Valuation Angel Investor Angel Groups Valuation 28

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 12, 2012

This post is a translation of the article: « Pigeons » : le cri d'alarme d'un fonds américain published on LaTribune (12/10/2012) and is a response to the proposed tax law proposed by the government of Francois Hollande, suggesting to tax all capital gain at the same level than salaries or 60%.

France 71

France Europe Capital Gains Dilution 71

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Virtual Stock Exchange. Updated July 10, 2012, 7:57 p.m. Stock Quotes. Facebook went public in May with two classes of stock that give founder and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg about 57% of the voting power even though he only owns about 28% of the shares. Zynga went public last December with three classes of stock.

Silicon Valley 42

Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

allthingsd.com

JULY 16, 2012

Virtual Stock Exchange. 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. ATDmobile (Mobile).

Venture Capital 71

Venture Capital Technical Review RSS Charlotte 71

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Don't make a deal with the devil, stock photos are evil. Second, between 2012 and 2013. You are comparing 2012 and 2013, add a row of data at the top that shows your computation of the size of the opportunity for 2014. Don't make a deal with the devil, stock photos are evil. Make performance comparisons easier!

Stock 60

Stock Conversion Matching Audience 60

Professor VC

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

A stock acquisition is a bet that would provide significant upside (and possible downside) opportunity. He obviously has a founders common stock stake along with cash invested. ► 2012. (1). The Most Obvious Mobile Ad Unit and What the New York Times Got Wrong. August 24, 2011 4:13 PM. Post a Comment. Newer Post.

Acquisition 31

Acquisition San Jose Angel Investor IPO 31

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 26, 2019

Between 2012 and 2017, the number of craft breweries in the US jumped from 2,420 to 6,266 – that’s an increase of 159%! We started with a 3 barrel brewhouse, and that barely made enough beer to keep our tap room stocked. Other breweries hire in mobile canning services like The Beer Monks of Southern California.

Small Business Administration 94

Small Business Administration LLC Distribution Small Business 94

Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

In corporate finance, students are taught that capital markets are efficient and this is an underlying assumption for valuing stocks, bonds and other financial instruments. However, you never know, you might find a start-up that has a cool mobile app to fix your leaky faucet. ► 2012. (1). Steve Bennet. at 11:54 AM.

Angel Investor 28

Angel Investor Angel Groups San Jose Venture Capital 28

thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Consider the stock exchange, knowing something that will effect the price of a stock before it is well known allows you to make the right move with the stock. You’d have to look at your stock options contract. Which triggers are very common when someone want to sell a few stock? Copyright © thinkspace 2012.

Equity 62

Equity Employee Founder CTO Hire 62

Professor VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

I recall that the WSJ used to run a contest in stock picking between investment analysts and selection by darts. ► 2012. (1). The Most Obvious Mobile Ad Unit and What the New York Times Got Wrong. Social-Mobile-LOCAL: “Local” Will Be The Biggest of the Three. No comments: Post a Comment. Newer Post.

San Jose 28

San Jose Silicon Valley Venture Capital Angel Investor 28

blog.teamtreehouse.com

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Dec 3, 2012. CSS frameworks have gone responsive, squeezing content into a spectrum of desktop and mobile browsers with varying degrees of success. They also have varying definitions of “mobile,” which I found while reviewing 15 responsive grid systems. Stock Photograph Set - 25 stunning photographs by Mike Kus.

Framework 54

Framework HTML Software Review Widget 54

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 10, 2012

Good look at how Facebook’s stock price impacts the company and its employees (beyond the obvious) – [link]. 15 Mobile UI Splash Screens For Inspiration – [link]. Top 15 Web Design Trends of 2012 – [link]. Real estate can be a great investment if you invest in it for the right reasons – [link].

Social Media 94

Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

So when the market started showing good signs (iPhone, Facebook, Zynga, Twitter, stock market growth) it was happy days again. Risks of these two factors to the stock market. Stock market declines would bring back dog days of VC. Maybe the stock market drop will bring some clarity to congress. It’s your job.

Stock 305

Stock Technical Review Marketing Greece 305

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Virtual Stock Exchange. September 19, 2012, 9:32 p.m. Stock Quotes. which makes a mobile app that rewards shoppers for creating a personal shopping mall and following their favorite stores. Copyright 2012 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. stock quotes reflect trades reported through Nasdaq only; comprehensive U.S.

Venture Capital 107

Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island South Dakota 107

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The estimated annual GMV of GOAT and its leading competitor Stock X is already over $1B per year (on a combined basis). Popular categories include web developers, mobile developers, designers, writers, and accountants. In 2015, Eddy Lu and Daishin Sugano launched GOAT , a marketplace for the exchange of sneakers.

Internet 88

Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

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. We are already invested in these companies; we can’t sell our stock. We don’t have to sell our stock.

Software Review 22

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 10, 2007

Apparently not if you trust the stock market. blackberry, goodlink or exchange) and neither RIM, nor Microsoft nor Motorola has any interest in pushing the Apple mobile platform. blackberry, goodlink or exchange) and neither RIM, nor Microsoft nor Motorola has any interest in pushing the Apple mobile platform. ► 2012. (1).

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Video Europe 48

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

2012-2015 were boom times in tech startups as prices were always moving up leading to FOMO leading to higher than normal multiples driven by a massive entry of new investors in the market. .” forward revenue for public comps (comparable stocks). I feel safe in knowing that I was one of the few who publicly called b t.

Balance Sheet 150

Balance Sheet Burn Rate Valuation Forecast 150