Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Eventually, Reddit became wildly popular and was bought by Condé Nast, the owner of 20 other brands and media like Vanity Fair, Vogue, and The New Yorker. 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 Raven Cobb, Clearstep, Inc ! #6-

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Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 12, 2016

It’s actually hard to find an investment thesis that was hot in 2014 that hasn’t had a corresponding disillusionment today. Why should a public market downturn determine an investment in a startup that has seven to 10 years to go before it can even think about an IPO?

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View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

Ellie Mirman was the first marketer hired by the CMO of HubSpot, the Boston-based marketing software startup that IPOed in 2014. NextView Ventures: Thinking back to before anyone knew HubSpot or the company was headed towards an IPO, where did you even start to market the company? NVV: How did you adjust?

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 2, 2014

Well, if you don’t, try on these IPO, M&A, and financing stats from 1st Quarter 2014: Initial Public Offerings: 72 companies went public in the U.S. And, as of Monday 54 of the 72 of them were trading above their IPO price. in the 1st quarter - the largest number of new issuers since 2000 -raising a total of 11.1

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

Hunter Walk: Ok, so we first met when you were leading comms at enterprise software company Box, a startup you joined when they were still pretty early and stayed at until post-IPO. HW: Anyone who’s been through an IPO, I always like to ask about the experience because it’s such a classic, if statistically rare, startup milestone.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. That is a 65% increase in the number of IPOs over 2012, and the highest proceeds raised since the year 2000. Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups. business entrepreneur investment IPO social media startup' It’s not too late to start.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

The rate of new entrepreneurs increased about 10 percent, from 280 out of 100,000 adults in the 2014 Startup Activity Index, to 310 out of 100,000 adults in the 2015 Index. 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.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2014

One of the more fun things I’ve been asked to do lately was give the commencement speech at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in June 2014. Here’s the speech: 2014 University of Chicago Commencement speech ‘Your Great Adventure’. My first IPO wasn’t until 1995—the VC business takes patience. Find Your Obession.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

He was previously VP Product at Runkeeper (sold to Asics), a General Manager and Director of Product at Zynga (IPO), and Director of Product at Conduit Labs (sold to Zynga). Responsibilities included TV advertising, consumer media channels, creative, PR, research, UI/UX, photography, and brand strategy. Jared Cluff, CMO at Blue Apron.

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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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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 11, 2017

The only difference is, our high-quality content is shot by the leading social media creators, crowd-sourced from around the globe, at a fraction of the cost a client would traditionally pay. This is a paid media buy on Facebook or Instagram through the influencers’ accounts vs. a brand’s account. Think; custom stock photography.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 11, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Google, Apple or IPO: What’s Next for Square? | Good reminder from Seth Godin that in social media, what matters is to matter - crowdspring.co/1gnu0ee. Re/code - crowdspring.co/1embSqM.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 13, 2016

Was this simply a shift in sentiment among the tech & business media? 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. People started thinking of startup unicorns like this: Illustration for WSJ: Chris Silas Neal. What happened?

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K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

One of the people I respect the most in the VC/PE media ecosystem is Dan Primack. On April 10, 2014, I published a blog post, titled The New Venture Landscape , which explained why and how the venture ecosystem was shifting. I’ve been an avid reader of Dan’s Term Sheet while he was at Fortune , and now Pro Rata at Axios.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Every successful technology company raises money throughout its lifecycle, perhaps starting with a seed investment and progressing through Series A, B, C, late-stage investments, and, for the most successful companies, an IPO. Lost in this conversation are the dramatic differences between a high priced private round and an IPO.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Leaders (company is leaving China, our IPO is next week, 1,800 new stores are being opened in 180 days, our new IRR is 8%). In my case I'm looking at Social Media (boss LOVES social!), It is pretty interesting that while bluenile kissed kay in Sept 2013, it never comes close to Kay, who is pulling way in 2014.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Anodot (2014) – a real-time analytics and automated anomaly detection system that discovers outliers in vast amounts of data. Fraugster (2014) – Technically based in Berlin, the company uses AI to predict malicious attacks before they happen. Logz.io (2014) – Logz.io Raised $8M in series B in September 2016.

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Start Up Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

I wish I made bigger bets on cryptocurrency when I discussed it in my first book in 2014 and blogged about it here in 2015. Any IPO touting the word ‘ com’ had investors lining up. There are many cryptos aiming to be the currency of an industry sector – like energy, social media, data storage or logistics.

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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. Bubble 2.0 $4.2

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2023

Many exited or IPO’d (and subsequently lost much of their value in the recent downturn), but new success stories have also emerged. Israeli B2C champions Back in 2018, when I last published the state of Israeli B2C startups on VC Cafe, I included success stories like Fiverr, Gett, Lemonade, MyHeritage, Houzz, Bizzabo and others.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

It continues to worm its way into innumerable agency and media company presentations. Additionally, the study did not note whether the small businesses that didn’t have a website had an active social media presence (e.g., According to a 2014 study, still the only study on the topic as of November 2020…). Image source ).

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 5, 2022

Who knew it was his first step toward building an empire that holds the record for the largest IPO. Thanks to Shane McEvoy, Flycast Media ! #19- After a career in High St retail banking, she launched mobile only Starling in 2014. He first learned about the internet on a trip to the U.S. Thanks to Radhika Gupta, 365Solutions ! #15-

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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. Bumble Fund (founded 2014) – the popular dating app, Bumble , launched a fund aimed at supporting women led startups with an average check size of $25K-$50K.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

In 2012 I penned an article called “ It’s Morning in VC ” that highlighted many of these trends and in 2014 I published a series of data in this VC SlideShare presentation of “ Why VC is Much More Compelling ” now, which updated many of our earlier analysis. None of these. It’s just a market. The response?

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 1, 2017

Susan Lyne founded BBG Ventures in 2014, just a year after we started Homebrew. Hunter Walk: After a successful career on the operating side, what prompted starting BBG Ventures in 2014? Are IPOs and long-term thinking incompatible? Look at Amazon—Bezos still plays the long game 20 years after the IPO. Do you agree?

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Start Up Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2019

The fact that we have a single ‘media’ organisation – and yes they are a media company – with massive influence over 2.4 What happened: Edward Snowden’s NSA revelations + Facebook goes public with IPO. To date, its market capitalisation has now increased fourfold since the IPO.

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Technical Review China IPO Vesting 105

Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

From Boom Summer 2014, Vol 4, No 2. Governor Jerry Brown, State of the State speech, January 2014. The graphic is a map of “Tech Hot Spots” printed in the San Francisco Business Times (21-27 February 2014). A Wired article entitled “Will 2014 Be the Year the Tech Bubble Bursts?” The view from our window.

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VC Cafe

MAY 21, 2021

We at Remagine Ventures completed a new investment deal, continued working with our portfolio companies and in general saw IPOs, startups fundraising and succeeding at unprecedented levels. Israel’s high-tech industry did the same back in 2014, during the last major conflict with Hamas.

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