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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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). Pierre Valade is the Co-Founder & CEO of Sunrise , a mobile calendar app that was acquired by Microsoft in 2015 for more than $100 million. Back to Top).

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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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VC Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2022

Israeli tech investments 2015-2021 (source: IVC ). There are two main forms of exits for startups: trade sale/M&A or IPO. SPACs had their moment in the sun in 2021, with a record number of companies choosing to go public using the SPACs in favour of traditional IPOs. Exits of Israeli startups in 2021 reached $82.4

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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. A follow-up post, titled The Seeds Have Changed: An Epilogue , on June 5, 2015, explained this further: Pre-Seed is the New Seed. 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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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! PR is mostly ineffective when companies step on social media landmines – [link]. 26 Promising Social Media Stats for Small Businesses – [link]. Very shady, if true.

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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

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Orcam was created by the founders of Mobileye (NYSE: MBLY and one of Israel’s largest IPOs ), Prof. Chorus.ai (2015) – Chorus uses AI to analyze sales calls by joining the conference calls, transcribing the data and extracting important action items. Media and e-commerce sites are prime customers of this.

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K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Manu Kumar (@ManuKumar) October 13, 2015. This includes, but is not limited to money from China, India, Middle-East and also from “retail” investors (or otherwise unsophisticated investors who are attracted to a market simply because of the amount of press/media attention it gets). Earlier today I tweeted: Calling #PeakVC.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

What is less obvious is the growing number of Unicorns that grew in the consumer space in Israel and how diverse they are: consumer health, consumer insurance, media, music, gaming etc. Unicorns often attract media attention, as it’s not trivial to build a business valued at $1 billion.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 1, 2019

All the important SEO tools that you need for pay traffic, social media, PR and of course, SEO. I had Mike Stelzner on recently and he’s a social media examiner. ” That just kept coming up when I was doing this in-depth study back in early 2015. Check it out at semrush.com/partner/ducttapemarketing. I do go back.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

iRidium narrowed their audience into five segments: Best customers; Members of the target account buying community; Thought leaders ; Partners; Media and industry publications. How do you sustain growth that precedes the highest IPO in history for a software company? Results from Snowflake’s ABM efforts post-IPO.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Back in 2015, the consumer insight team at Microsoft Canada released a report called “Attention Spans,” which appears to be where the attention span myth was born. It continues to worm its way into innumerable agency and media company presentations. Use click-baity headlines. Break your content into single-sentence paragraphs.

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Austin Startup

MAY 3, 2017

Texas is embracing that as we see the impact of the internet being increasingly applied in Texas’ substantial industries of old: education, health, agriculture, real estate, energy, media, and more. Through the series of funding rounds, companies do not need to go through an IPO to obtain capital or a higher valuation. Imagine that.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

As the virus spread and the world went into a state of work from home, the media questioned whether “New York is dead.” Union Square Ventures raised its first fund in NYC in 2004 and it wouldn’t see the first local IPO from that fund, Etsy, until 2015.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

It’s like blaming the media for incessantly covering Donald Trump and then watching the ratings when Donald Trump is at a debate and being surprised that the media gives him so much coverage. They must either eventually IPO or they must be bought by larger companies who almost certainly themselves are public. The response?

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Hunter Walker

JULY 29, 2017

This was before the Facebook IPO. I was really interested in Second Market and idea of a market to trade pre-IPO shares. HW: When you dove into the world of anti-vaxxers you encountered some really interesting conclusions about how extreme groups use social media effectively, and how traditional voices are getting drowned out.

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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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Austin Startup

MAY 29, 2019

This lesson was first shared at Lucky7 on January 15, 2015. In contrast, our definition of social commerce meant social media, or word of mouth, applied in a commerce environment. It is going to make writing this chapter a little more difficult as I can only unveil so much about data.world at this time, but I’ll do my best!

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

Currently located in the historic Southern Pacific building at One Market Street, Salesforce has plans to occupy a twenty-seven-floor tower at 350 Mission across from the new Transbay Terminal in 2015. A large cluster of red spots resembling a measles outbreak runs along either side of Montgomery Street in the Financial District.

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