Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 23, 2016

“This merger will launch the next Internet revolution,” said Steve Case, America Online’s chairman and chief executive, told a news conference Monday. It spans the time frame from 1985 – 2015 which you can just lay down on the Gartner Hype Cycle. At the peak, AOL bought Time Warner for $162 billion.

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Reid Hoffman

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In 2015, Michael architected a deal that enabled Dell Technologies to buy EMC and its subsidiary VMware for $67 billion. It was the largest pure tech deal in history, a merger that meant two very large and successful companies, with their own long-standing cultures and legacies, had to start functioning as a smoothly integrated entity.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JUNE 28, 2018

2015 = $70,000. 2015 = 40%. A merger with another business? Historically the business has achieved: 2014 = $50,000. 2016 = $100,000. Then they start planning sales goals for the future: 2017 = $200,000. 2018 = $550,000. 2019 = $1,200,000. On the surface these figures may look reasonable, just a few $100,000 here and there.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And yet Uber and Lyft are the market leaders, with a combined 98% of the US market , while Sidecar shut down in 2015. But unless Airbnb agreed to a merger, it had only two options. The Samwers gave us a gift,” Chesky admitted many years later in the Blitzscaling class we taught at Stanford University in 2015. The difference?

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 3, 2018

By the spring of 2015, we were playing around with a couple different book concepts, when Reid came to me with the idea of writing about “scaleups” instead of startups. The following is a guest post from Chris Yeh, the co-author of Blitzscaling (available everywhere next week on October 9) and The Alliance.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 10, 2015

As of 2015, experts value it at $40 billion. YouTube was then a market leader but did not have a dominant status. Thanks in large part to the acquisition, it has achieved market dominance and greatly increased its value and, therefore, Google’s value.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 2015, Eddy Lu and Daishin Sugano launched GOAT , a marketplace for the exchange of sneakers. Benchmark is an investor in Rover through a merger with DogVacay in 2017). The most noteworthy of these is likely Upwork (*), a company that formed from the merger of Elance and Odesk. Julie Wainwright founded The Real Real in 2011.

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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. 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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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 27, 2015

This December I’m looking forward to spending time with family, taking a break to review 2015’s results and struggles, and prepare a strategic plan for my business in 2016 based on what I learned from 2015. Image Credit : Mike McRitchie.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

billion a 125% increased compared to the equivalent period in 2020, the number of Unicorns, private companies valued at $1 billion or more has grown significantly, with several companies achieving “Decacorn” status – achieving valuations of $10 billion and up, including eToro , soon to complete a SPAC merger, and Rapyd payments.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Finance, Market cap as of Oct 2009 and Oct 7, 2019 This public market momentum is continuing to accelerate with 24 SaaS IPOs in 2018-19 compared to 17 in 2015-17. The 2018-19 cohort were valued at a combined $126 billion in market cap on their IPO day, which is 4.3x billion collectively.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

By 2015 we see more than 50 million femtocells being shipped annually with WCDMA femtocells making up the bulk of the market,&# Aditya Kaul, of Mobile Networks, ABI Research, said. Ernst & Young (E&Y), one of the “Big Four&# global auditors, forecasts Israel will have 24 mergers and acquisitions in 2010, worth about $1.75

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