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MAY 9, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Unfortunately, SaaS Start-Up Valuations Are About To Fall by 50% | saastr – crowdspring.co/1j3n4bO. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

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. 275 IPOs were completed in 2014, topping the 2013 total of 222 by more than 23%. Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

There is additional encouraging news for aspiring entrepreneurs on many fronts, just in case you are thinking about joining the existing ranks: Valuations of successful startups have hit an all-time high. Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups. business entrepreneur investment IPO social media startup'

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IPO Entrepreneur Social Media Startup 273

VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

billion valuation) to invest in the Metaverse and build the future of digital entertainment Epic owns Fortnite, one of the most popular multiplayer games, enabling users to interact with each other online in an immersive way to play, socialise, attend to virtual concerts. In April 2022, the company announced it has raised $2 billion (at $31.5

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IP Cofounder Valuation Acquisition 206

Start Up Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2013

Social media just is: It’s becoming a bit like general chit chat between any group of friends. It might also be that my email address is mine, where social media has the who owns this data issue hanging over it. Here’s hoping for 2014. Tech valuations & bubblenomics: Crazy company valuations continue to astound.

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Technical Review Valuation Software Review Social Media 100

Agile VC

JANUARY 13, 2016

Was this simply a shift in sentiment among the tech & business media? A realignment of valuations by late stage investors? 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. What happened? The beginning of a tech downturn?

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Technical Review .Net Revenue Software Review 157

Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 3, 2019

We had a chance to invest in a $500K round at a $12M valuation in 2015. We met Ryan Holmes in 2009 as he was just about to spin Hootsuite out of Invoke Media, a development agency. Ryan and his co-founders proved us wrong big time and built one of the largest social media management companies. Eight years and $49.9B

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Portfolio Cap Table Early Stage Valuation 202

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 Why it mattered: An open and fair internet took a massive hit when Facebook bought Instagram. billion constituents should make all of us us lose sleep at night.

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Technical Review China IPO Vesting 105

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

It’s worth noting that everything from the Internet, to electric cars, genomic sequencing, mobile apps, and social media — were pioneered by startups, not existing companies. Look at the valuations of companies like Tesla, Illumina, and Twitter. Congratulations class of 2014: Embrace change and lead the way.

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Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 325

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

He started it in 2009 with 10 employees and sold it to Susino Umbrella in 2014. This company’s valuation peaked at $10 billion in 2013/2014. This company’s valuation peaked at $10 billion in 2013/2014. In 2014, the company raised $28 million in shareholder equity. This sale turned him into a billionaire.

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Cofounder Venture Capital India Valuation 142

View from Seed

APRIL 30, 2019

All three have different business models… SaaS, media/ad, and consumer transactional. In the last decade or so, high profile consumer IPOs have often gotten lofty valuations. I don’t follow the Chinese startup market as closely as I follow the US, but Alibaba’s 2014 IPO was a similar watershed moment.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

billion valuation led by Andreessen Horowitz. Stripe (founded 2010) – at over $35 billion valuation, nothing seems to slow Stripe down on their quest to become the top payments solution online. ” What can companies expect apart from funding: Carta Ventures (founded 2012) – Carta recently raised $300 million at a $1.7

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Balance Sheet Startup IPO Venture Capital 201

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2014

Should they focus on increasing revenues and profitability, or entice more and more users with free services to increase their valuation. Martin Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 8/1/2014. Traditionally, it was simple. A business only achieved critical mass by becoming cash-flow positive.

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Revenue Entrepreneur Valuation Viral 246

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. Don’t you just love these booming markets? in the 1st quarter - the largest number of new issuers since 2000 -raising a total of 11.1 And beyond the numbers, there are some great stories.

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Private Equity Merger IPO Initial Public Offering 69

VC Cafe

JANUARY 20, 2014

New data from research firm Pitchbook makes it official: valuations are at an all-time high. Across all investment stages, median pre-money valuations last year rose dramatically. We see opportunities for cross-media content engagement, such as integrating mobile gaming and online magazines. Seed-stage deals now require $5.1

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Venture Capital Pre-Money Valuation IPO 155

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

For much of 2014 and 2015, I banged my head against a plane window flying back and forth between Austin and Silicon Valley while trying to raise institutional VC money for Localeur. startups with billion-dollar valuations) in recent years. Meanwhile, several others, like Vice Media (which has raised more than $1.3 but it’s true.

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Silicon Valley Technical Review Venture Capital San Francisco 48

Agile VC

APRIL 30, 2019

All three have different business models… SaaS, media/ad, and consumer transactional. In the last decade or so, high profile consumer IPOs have often gotten lofty valuations. I don’t follow the Chinese startup market as closely as I follow the US, but Alibaba’s 2014 IPO was a similar watershed moment.

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IPO B2B B2C Institutional Investors 100

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Billion valuation. Personally, I think it was kind of a bad idea--not necessarily because of the valuation, but because it seems like $120mm is way too much money for a software company at this stage, especially one that might even be cashflow positive right now. — Charlie O''Donnell (@ceonyc) November 1, 2014.

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Venture Capital Marketing Valuation Lead Investor 151

Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 10, 2014

As we enter the time of year where every media-related thingy publishes it’s “best of 2014″ and “predictions for 2015″ lists, I simply pass on participating in all of them and read none of them. I’m not a predictor.

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Later Stage Syndicate Syndication Portfolio 142

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2015

For financial reasons alone, an IPO is a statistically rare phenomenon, happening just 275 times in 2014 , out of almost 500,000 startups. Even perceived weaknesses can dramatically impact company valuations. Many of these may still fail spectacularly, such as Webvan and Pets.com. Control moves to external directors and the public.

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IPO Initial Public Offering Entrepreneur Private Equity 120

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

If you’re interested in learning more about how this happened as well as stories of what went on in Iceland and other places there’s a great book called Boomerang by Michael Lewis , which also serves as a cautionary reminder to all of us in the tech industry about assuming that our recent big boom in valuations will continue. It will not.

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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? Part of the avoidance right now is that private valuations have gotten ahead of the market. ” when facing a weird one-off situation.

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IPO Cap Table NDA Vietnam 75

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

The SEC expects to finalize its equity crowdfunding rules by the end of 2014. Understand Your Business’s Value: Additionally, you must set your business’s strategic funding goals in conjunction with your business’s valuation and share price. The investors. What is your business worth? That is the essential question.

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Equity SEC Technical Review Security 125

The Startup Magazine

MAY 4, 2017

All of this comes after startup activity reached its lowest point in the last 20 years in 2014. From graphics and other media to a polished startup pitch template, you can capture your audience’s attention. million valuation ($150,000 for 10 percent equity) in 2008. Design is critical to a startup pitch.

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Silicon Valley Startup Maryland Angel Investor 63

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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Seed Stage Finance Later Stage Equity 82

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

The ability to search through all the data in social media is thought by many to be the next technological “golden goose.” ” Social search is often referred to as the “next Google,” and it is why Facebook’s current income revenues are so disproportionate to their high valuation. Topic of Interest.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

So assume that in 2012 the company would do $20 million in sales and $2 million in profits (10%) and 2013 they would do sales of $25 million and $4 million in profit (16% net margin) and then slow growth in 2014 to $30 million and $6 million in profit (20% profit). That is $12 million in profits over 3 years. A few problems arise.

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Silicon Valley IP Dividend Finance 332

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

By focusing on branding even before construction had begun on the brewery, ColdFire has been building a local following through social media and building buzz for their grand opening. According to the Brewers Association, in 2014 Ninkasi was the thirty-sixth largest brewery in the U.S.,

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Oregon Jordan SBA Cofounder 60

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

An unprecedented 80 private companies have raised financings at valuations over $1B in the last few years. Ironically, 2014 was a record year for IPOs, so the suggestion that these “extra” companies were supposed to be public does not really make sense – the companies that were supposed to go public went public.

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IPO Liquidation Preference Valuation Technical Review 40

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.

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IPO Venture Capital LP SEC 150

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Long before that, the company engaged in anti-competitive practices and antagonized critics, especially female journalists like Sarah Lacy, who called out years of the company’s toxic issues as early 2014. The media certainly seems to have decided which group they’d rather work for. I continue to emphasize that as an investor today.

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Cofounder Founder Employee Silicon Valley 216