The Equity Kicker

APRIL 24, 2014

The data points below show that in terms of the IPO market at least the heat is nothing like what it was in 1999. Median sales of company at time of IPO — $12m in 1999 vs. $106m in 2013. Median price/sales ratio at time of IPO — 26.5x Total # of tech IPOs — 369 in 1999 vs 45 in 2013. billion in 2013.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 11, 2013

And to capitalize on its meteoric challenge to Silicon Valley as the alternative location to startup up in the United States, the New York Venture Capital Association (NYVCA) will be presenting its annual INGENUITY conference on October 15, 2013. Coinsetter.

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VC Adventure

AUGUST 31, 2017

At IPO only 7 of 39 companies that have gone publics since 2013 had positive EBITDA. The average SaaS company is now 12 years old and has over $100M in revenue at the time of their IPO . Companies who went public after 2011 are less efficient with their capital and growing more slowly than their pre-2011 IPO peers.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 5, 2013

Forbes released the 2013 Midas List for Venture Capital today, proving that to be successful in VC, all you need is one big hit. Five of the top ten names on the list invested in Facebook, the largest tech IPO of 2012. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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SiliconHills

JULY 23, 2021

By Krishna Srinivasan, Chairman of the Board, DISCO and co-Founding Partner, LiveOak Venture Partners In October 2013, we received a cold email – it had all the elements on first glance that begged to be ignored. The email came from a person named “CeCe” who talked about a founder called “Kiwi” and a company called “DISCO” […].

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Growthink Blog

MARCH 13, 2014

Last week, I shared how between 2011 and 2013, Sequoia Capital invested approximately $60 million in WhatsApp – the instant messaging subscription service bought last month by Facebook for $19 billion. And how Sequoia’s return on that $60 million was close to $3 billion, or more than 50 times its original investment.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

I was wondering what ever ultimately happened to that group of OG unicorns, so I looked back at her original post in TechCrunch from November 2013. 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.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2013

Thanks To Facebook, Strongest Year For IPOs Since 2000 With $21.5 8 Major Mistakes Entrepreneurs Will Make In 2013 | Forbes – [link]. Creative Forecast: How Marketing Will Change In 2013 | Co.Create – [link]. Design Trends 2013 – Flat and Minimal | Abduzeedo – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2012

20 Tech Trends That Will Define 2013, Selected By Frog|Co.Design – [link]. Inside the IPO pipeline: It’s all B2B, all of the time | GeekWire – [link]. Webbmedia Group 2013 Tech Trends – [link]. The Can’t-Miss Social Media Trends For 2013 | Fast Company – [link].

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David Cohen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

I served on the board of directors until the IPO, and during that time we were able to recruit great firms like Foundry Group, SoftTech VC (now Uncork Capital), Bessemer Venture Partners, and Bain Capital Ventures. In 2019, SendGrid become the first ever company from any accelerator program to IPO, valued at over $1 billion.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2017

It is fitting that 2012 is the year that Snapchat really took off in Los Angeles and raised its first venture capital and began a five year ascent to becoming LA’s most recognizable startup company and largest IPO alongside LAs other great startup brands such as Riot Games and Tinder. link] The Snap IPO Happened. What Next LA?

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

GameFly filed in 2010 and remains in registration, though 2011 has seen a positive start for VC-backed IPOs with 14 in Q1 2011. Now that Google’s acquisition of ITA is closed, following lenghty FTC review, it would appear Kayak is poised to proceed with their IPO in the coming months. =. Quinstreet priced at $15.00/sh

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 3, 2014

In advance of the IPO I reconnected with their SVP Product & User Experience Alex Kinnier, whom I know from our days together at Google. I couldn’t ask Alex specifically about the IPO or future plans but wanted to get some more info on a company that gets less press than your typical social app but is poised for an amazing run.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

billion 2013 figure) have been massive financings at Honest Company ($70mm), JustFab ($85mm), ZipRecruiter ($63mm) and lord only knows how much SnapChat has actually accumulated. But many people forget that we have 2 relatively recent IPOs that are substantive companies: TrueCar (Upfront backed) & Cornerstone OnDemand.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

The story starts in 2007 with the founding of EFCO , which Ryan and I spearheaded and had a huge punch line in 2013 when Rally Made a Gift of $1.3 Million To The Boulder Community after their IPO. But I’ll end with one of them – the creation of the Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado (now Pledge 1% ).

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Facebook S-1: The Most Anticipated IPO in a Decade. Here’s my first look at Facebook viewed through the lens of their IPO filing. Without knowing more details about the employee equity plans, it’s unclear how much more cash of this nature could come in during 2012 or 2013. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 7, 2014

million from 2009-2013. million from 2009-2013. After the IPO, they can recover those losses. News Hubspot Initial public offering IPO Moz Software as a service Unbounce' Moz spends $131 to acquire a new customer. Hubspot’s average revenue per customer: $8,670 per year. Moz’ average revenue per customer: $1,295 per year.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 29, 2014

The IPO market for financial technology companies will start to heat up. According to Accenture, this investment has grown from $930 million in 2008 to almost $3 billion in 2013, and 27 percent of which was early stage capital. Omnichannel payments” are here to stay. Bill Clerico is CEO of WePay.

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Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 25, 2014

I was excited to see Care.com''s successful IPO yesterday for multiple reasons. . First, it augurs well for 2014 as another strong IPO year in genearl and for technology companies in particular. This happened in my first company, Open Market (IPO''96), which spawned a dozen CEOs/founders in the area (e.g.,

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Seeing Both Sides

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Last week''s successful IPO of e-commerce giant Wayfair (market cap $3B) and this week''s impending IPO of Hubspot (if it prices in the range, market cap $600m) has many in the Boston tech community celebrating. 2013 was the best year for IPOs since the tech bubble of the 90s and 2014 looks to wrap up even stronger this quarter.

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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? Rightly so.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In 2001 companies IPO’d very quickly if they were working, by 2011 IPOs had slowed down to the point that in 2013 Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures astutely called billion-dollar outcomes “unicorns.” How little we all knew how ironic that term would become but has nonetheless endured.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 27, 2023

Looking Back At My Own Departure in 2013. Leading up to my departure in 2013, and after, I too feared the impact of losing that part of my self-worth. Originally Published June, 2013 [and lightly edited/updated] hunter@google.com: From 2003–2013, it was a pretty powerful email address for me.

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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 Next Web

JUNE 6, 2014

Announced in late 2013, the Future Fifty, a selection of the finest 50 tech companies the UK has to offer, is a government initiative to create a “solid pipeline of British tech IPOs”. The UK government has been keen to champion the UK as a hub for technology and innovation.

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The Next Web

MARCH 13, 2014

Dropbox and Box are following Twitter and Facebook into celebrity IPO territory. Venture capital returns for 2013 were at a 10-year high. Kraig previously was the Chief Marketing Officer at salesforce.com. We’re in the midst of the biggest technology boom in a decade.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 13, 2013

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' 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.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 21, 2013

Mark Cuban Says Dead IPO Market for Small Firms Hurts Competition – [link]. New Web Design Trends: Try And Succeed in 2013 | DJDESIGNERLAB – [link]. These VC funds are pouring millions into the Midwest – [link]. We’re All Too Busy…Missing Amazing Opportunities | by Daniel Burrus – [link].

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

This lesson was first shared at Lucky7 on December 7, 2013. HomeAway is another one of our five tech IPOs in the last five years. And Josh Kopelman and First Round Capital were among the seed investors in Uber, the blockbuster IPO-to-be of 2019. This wasn’t his first rodeo, as we say in Texas. It is just four-years old?—?for

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

We’ve confidentially submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a planned IPO. Twitter (@twitter) September 12, 2013. After four days of chatter about this, Dan Primack wrote the first definitive article I saw that made sense of all of this titled Twitter’s IPO will not be done in secret. Financing ipo JOBS Act s-1 sec twitter'

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 7, 2014

million from 2009-2013. million from 2009-2013. After the IPO, they can recover those losses. News Hubspot Initial public offering IPO Moz Software as a service Unbounce' Moz spends $131 to acquire a new customer. Hubspot’s average revenue per customer: $8,670 per year. Moz’ average revenue per customer: $1,295 per year.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Facebook’s IPO was obviously a debacle, and in the private investment sphere valuations from the seed through late stage have declined for the most part from their peaks in late 2011 through early 2012. IPO Market Is Strong - All the companies I just mentioned in cloud computing have gone public within the last 12 months.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

In October 2013, OzForex listed. It was the biggest IPO the Australian market had seen all year , and sparked a flurry of subsequent listings – but ‘going public’ was not the only option we considered, and until we had progressed our exit strategy to near completion, it also seemed the most unlikely. Engage good IPO advisers.

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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. 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. Thanks to Jen Wan, Soteri Skin ! #5-

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Haystack

JANUARY 28, 2019

At that time, back in 2013, Docusign was known to be a well-performing company. In early 2014, Docusign became a unicorn and eventually went IPO in 2018 at a whopping $4.5B I took Joseph out for lunch, told him about me and Haystack, and asked to invest in the company. Ultimately, Joseph invited me into the seed round.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 11, 2017

As Jason Lemkin says in his post from early 2013: Inevitability in SaaS comes around $10m in ARR, plus or minus. Is an IPO in your future? Once you hit this point, you have a brand, you have a fully baked team, you have a robust product, and you have a self-generating stream of new leads and new business. I don’t know. Not sure.

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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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