The Startup Magazine

JULY 29, 2021

Soundtrack Your Brand , founded in 2013 as a joint effort with Spotify, offers businesses world-class tech to provide a valuable all-in-one solution for streaming music in commercial settings, importantly that is properly licensed and ensures correct royalty flow to artists.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

One of the company’s smartest moves was introducing “Netflix Original” movies and TV shows, first launching House of Cards in 2013 to much success. Thanks to Keith Terrell, Backpacks Global ! #14- One of the top five largest IPOs in the world was done by the reformed General Motors in 2010, and the company generated a profit.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 13, 2013

We are fortunate to be early investors and partners to the company, having made our initial investment during the depths of the global financial collapse in late 2008. Nimble successfully completed its IPO on the NYSE today – a testament to the team’s vision and execution. 2013 startups Storage IPO Nimble Storage startup'

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Neil Helm is Chief Executive Officer at OzForex , a global provider of online international payment services. In October 2013, OzForex listed. If you’re planning to sell your business or are considering an IPO, think about running both paths to exit with what is sometimes called a ‘dual track’ process. Engage good IPO advisers.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2013

And the JOBS (Jumpstart Our Business Startups) Act, which should go into full effect by the end of 2013, will make it even more of a game-changer by opening the door for businesses to market ownership stakes in their ventures to people over the internet. Despite this, crowdfunding has a pretty big gap to fill.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 7, 2019

The global financial crisis served as a wake-up call to investors: few investments are immune to panicked selling activity. We’ve seen significantly fewer IPOs pre-and post the financial crisis ( 213 in 2007, 31 in 2008, and 222 in 2013). Of course, they can fall too as was the case during in global financial crisis.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. in 2013, with aggregate proceeds of over $38 billion. That is a 65% increase in the number of IPOs over 2012, and the highest proceeds raised since the year 2000. Entrepreneurs now can think globally about the opportunity, from day one but start locally.

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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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thebarefootvc

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

On September 19, Ma led Alibaba to the largest IPO in history, listing the company on the New York Stock Exchange. The world has watched government policies and infrastructure spur unprecedented economic growth – from 1978-2013, China’s economy grew at an average of 9.5%

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 20, 2013

Simon Cook , CEO of DFJ Esprit on the 2013 UK Budget. A reduction on stamp duty on AIM shares and their allowance into ISA’s will also help kickstart growth finance through IPOs for our fastest growing companies. We knew this was going to be a tough budget. UK vs. rest of the world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. Last year was the most active year for IPOs in the United States since 2000. 275 IPOs were completed in 2014, topping the 2013 total of 222 by more than 23%. Entrepreneurs now can think globally about the opportunity, from day one but start locally.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

As I was about to hit “send” on the newsletter this morning, a piece of news came through: Circle, founded by serial entrepreneur Jeremy Allaire (with two successful IPOs under his belt), announced its acquisition of crypto exchange Poloniex for a reported $400M. as well as Bittrex and Kraken, the runner-ups.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

It’s meant to support and grow a business until an “exit” in the form of an IPO, a merger or acquisition, or in less than ideal scenarios, a company shutdown. but globally. At its most basic form, venture capital is a source of funding for companies that are too risky to be ideal candidates for other forms of funding, like a bank loan.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 13, 2016

Potential for instant global distribution (mobile app stores, Facebook, etc). Many of the current crop of unicorns raised capital in 2013 and 2014, so the investor and entrepreneur ecosystem was seduced by growth for 2+ years. Large & liquid supply of human capital as more and more talented people want to work for startups.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The world is experiencing a global economic crisis of a proportion most living people have never witnessed. Companies are retrenching, VC firms are going through their own upheavals, and IPOs are non-existent. Facebook goes public in 2012 and Twitter in 2013. 2009-2011: Retrenchment. Good Times” presentation (Oct 2008).

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 11, 2017

To start, our team is made up of media and technology experts who have sold companies or been a part of acquisitions/IPOs. Milestones: June 2013 – Ronnie becomes famous and we think of the idea for “InstaElite”. November 2013 – InstaElite launches first-ever influencer affiliate network for Instagram.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

The Future of Startups 2013-2017, beginning of a series. Sunday, January 27th, 2013. And now all of a sudden you have got this global market of all these early adopters that have smartphones connected to the Internet, and they can just pick up their things and run with them. Marc Andreessen On The Future Of Enterprise.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 2, 2019

This lesson was first shared at Lucky7 on June 12, 2013. And I guess it seems appropriate that I’m writing this post from Edinburgh, Scotland here at TED Global. And speaking of capitalism, George Papandreou’s, the former Prime Minister of Greece and the poster child for the European economic crisis, TED Global talk is already live.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The world is experiencing a global economic crisis of a proportion most living people have never witnessed. Companies are retrenching, VC firms are going through their own upheavals, and IPOs are non-existent. Facebook goes public in 2012 and Twitter in 2013. 2009-2011: Retrenchment. Good Times” presentation (Oct 2008).

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The global rise in venture capital didn’t skip Israel, which has been breaking new records the amount of venture capital raised by companies in 2021. According to CB Insights there are currently 832 unicorns globally, valued at a total of $2,702 billion. Global unicorn breakdown by category (Source: CB Insights ).

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The Israeli tech ecosystem has made its mark globally since its early days somewhere in the 1990s. What’s less discussed, is that Israel also, has one of the highest number of unicorns, aka privately owned startups worth more than $1 billion, globally. billion raised in 2019 and $9.9 Lucent acquired Chromatis for $4.8b

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 20, 2014

last year, more than any other major index), and the IPO market is booming. While there were IPOs (notably Wix in November), most of the acquisitions were made by global technology companies with R&D Centers (and their corporate M&A teams) in Israel, including Apple, Google, EMC, AOL, Cisco, IBM and now Facebook.

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Cracking the Code

JULY 23, 2021

By comparison, the US had seen around 60 SaaS IPOs with a combined market cap of close to $140 billion. Not long after this - and hot on the heels of its crowning as Europe’s first SaaS decacorn last summer - UiPath’s IPO in April saw it become the largest public cloud company born in Europe, with a market cap of over $40 billion.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

UiPath broke that milestone this summer, in just nine months, establishing Europe as a major global center for software innovation. Before jumping into the list, let’s have a quick look at what’s been a very special year in many ways for the cloud ecosystem globally and in Europe. 2020 Cloud Market: Is The Sky the Limit?

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

As a result, tech-sector employment has declined as a percent of the workforce, from 11% in 2006–2008 to 9% in 2013. For the first time in history there are Israeli companies scaling up successfully as global market leaders, and the ecosystem is evolving to support them. In 2014, for example, 18 IPOs raised a record-breaking $9.8

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

12 cloud IPOs in the past 2 years: One from Europe SaaS companies are thriving in the public markets, with their aggregated market cap grew 350% since 2011, and 12 cloud companies going public in the past 24 months. Out of the 12 IPOs, Mimecast is the only company from Europe. in SaaS companies globally. in the US, $2.6B

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.” Kauffman Fellows Report (2020): “Diverse Founding Teams generate higher median realized multiples (RMs) on Acquisitions and IPOs]. What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male.

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Austin Startup

MAY 3, 2017

Today’s economy is substantially more freelance for one, but as it pertains to technology and innovative entrepreneurship, we find ourselves in an era that is bringing tech to traditional industries that have yet to have fully embraced what the internet has caused: data, connectivity, globalization, scalability, and efficiency. Imagine that.

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Agile VC

MAY 7, 2014

I believe this may be the most anticipated tech IPO of all time… some may argue Facebook was a bigger deal, but Alibaba’s offering has been “in process” for a long time and may very well be the largest IPO ever both in terms of size of offering and initial market cap of the company. USD in revenue for 2013.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

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. Harry’s Ventures (founded 2013) – the direct to consumer razor brand, Harry’s , recently raised $112 million at a $1.3

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Global SaaS revenues are expected to grow by $19 billion in 2016, an increase of 22% from 2015, while traditional software revenues are shrinking by $10B. Two dollars in SaaS revenues are created for every $1 of software revenues eaten – an impressive stat, but where does Europe stand on the global SaaS map?

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

While the global financial crash of 2008 and the resulting Great Recession initially slowed job growth in Silicon Valley, the meteoric rise of smart phones and social media helped the tech industry as a whole to power ahead despite the near collapse of the global economy. A Variation on the Global Economic Crash of 2008?

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Added – March 2013* Startup Intelligence tools. Read post Why Learning should be your top 2013 new year’s resolution  for a full list. New on VC Cafe: The Ultimate Startup Intelligence Tools List 2013 bit.ly/14ztpRb

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VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

“Because COVID is shaking our habits and beliefs it opens the door to discussion to whether we should change our whole system,” says veteran investor Sir Ronald Cohen, chairman of the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment and the man known as “the father of British venture capital” . A Global Impact Tech Alliance.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 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. Open Sesame! (A

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