Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Explain exactly which marketing/advertising strategies will be used and why. Depending on the type of business, these may include sales of products/services, referral revenues, advertising sales, licensing/royalty fees, and/or data sales. The most common exits are IPOs or acquisitions. Promotions.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

When I started investing the US advertising market was $300 billion with only 10% of it ($30 billion) of it being online and measurable. One recession later and the US advertising market is about $245 billion – but still only 10-12% is online and measurable. And it turns out that we click a lot.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2019

For many companies, the long game is choosing the right strategic partners and acquisitions. A focus on looking good as an acquisition or IPO candidate has undermined many startups. But never take your eye off today’s customer. Getting acquired or going public should be a result, not an intent.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 31, 2012

Mobile advertising is a hot market right now. Evidenced most recently by the IPO of mobile advertising network Millennial and Singtel’s $321m acquisition of Amobee. Mary Meeker just released her annual 100+ page slide deck of internet trends, and three of those show why everyone is so excited about mobile advertising.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

In the last decade, Israeli high-tech companies raised approximately $15 billion from investors, compared to more than $37 billion received in M&A and IPO exits, according to the latest IVC report. At the same time, only $126 million was raised in five IPOs, down five percent from $133 million raised in 11 IPOs in 2010.

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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. How They Make Money : Facebook’s primary revenue stream is of course selling advertising on Facebook.com, which in total accounts for 85% of revenue. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC.

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VC Adventure

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

The graph below shows the trend of exits – IPO vs. M&A over the past handful of years (side note here that Foundry, like many firms, considers an IPO a financing event, not an exit in and of itself; although obviously it can be a path to an exit shortly thereafter).

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 18, 2011

If you like this kind of advice, check out my coverage of a talk by Paul Palmieri, Co-Founder and CEO of mobile advertising service Millennial Media, titled " Investing in Your Influencers. ". Kedrosky: "In the 90's I was an analyst through all this [tech investment and IPO] madness. You want to build your own IPO and exit.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. And obviously all the liq prefs went away in the IPO when pref stock converted to common. We have a long way to go baby! A lot has changed.

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The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 18, 2012

VatorTV had an article this morning reporting on the growth in mobile advertising. I wouldn’t argue with that, but the interesting thing is that the landmark mobile adtech acquisitions happened three years ago when Google acquired Admob for $750m in Nov 2009 and Apple followed with the acquisition of Quattro Wireless for $275m in Jan 2010.

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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.

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The Equity Kicker

APRIL 20, 2012

Looking at the mobile advertising industry over the last few years suggests that tipping point is around 3-5%. Their success led to a $750m acquisition by Google towards the end of 2009 and Apple responded by acquiring Quattro , the second player in the market for $250m at the beginning of 2010.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 27, 2022

This figure only includes studios, and doesn’t include gaming infrastructure and supporting services (advertising, payments, distribution etc) which serve the gaming industry. Israel’s proliferation of “social casino” companies has created a strong talent pool in the areas of monetisation and user acquisition.

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Up and Running

JULY 10, 2019

Meanwhile, Soulcycle, the spinning obsession of every trendy New Yorker, filed for IPO in 2018 only to withdraw at the last minute. Doing the right kind of advertising and marketing. However, good old fashioned word of mouth marketing will always be the most powerful acquisition strategy as you grow. .

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

I find it amusing when a journalist writes an article about a prominent startup (either privately held or preparing for an IPO) and decries that, “They’re not even profitable!” The advertiser who bought the ads might pay the ad network in 60 days. One of them is profitability. ” Quick examples: 1.

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venturebeat.com

JULY 12, 2012

Acquisition. Additionally, he’s looking for companies that have a long-term potential to be Microsoft partners or acquisitions. It was fiercely independent, and was, until its HP acquisition, one of the few PC makers still assembling computers in North America. Advertise on VentureBeat. From $1.5B Featured stories.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Zynga Leans On Some Workers to Surrender Pre-IPO Shares – [link]. From Deadpool to Acquisition: Lessons From Sprouter’s Almost Fail – [link]. Report: Search To Dominate Mobile Advertising By 2015 – [link]. How Little Brands Land Big Bang for Their Buck – [link]. Very shady, if true. – [link].

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

In the last decade, Israeli high-tech companies raised approximately $15 billion from investors, compared to more than $37 billion received in M&A and IPO exits, according to the latest IVC report. At the same time, only $126 million was raised in five IPOs, down five percent from $133 million raised in 11 IPOs in 2010.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 27, 2023

So if we look at the first five years of investing, all of the companies I picked were marketing and advertising, right? Whereas the initial investments in marketing and advertising, there were some benefits there, but I wasn't learning as much. I looked at it, I was like, I would never invest in that company.

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Foundry Group is an advertising start-up "bull" it would appear. We think of these investments as part of our “Glue” theme – meaning that they’re all essentially connective technologies that help increase the velocity, accuracy, transparency and availability of online advertising. Do you see a window developing?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2017

For many companies, the long game is choosing the right strategic partners and acquisitions. A focus on looking good as an acquisition or IPO candidate has undermined many startups. But never take your eye off today’s customer. Getting acquired or going public should be a result, not an intent.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 23, 2013

Marketo filed for IPO with impressive 80% year-over-year growth in 2012, with almost $60m in revenue. time to earn back the revenue to cover all your customer acquisition expenses) 75% annual retention. Drastically reduce the cost of customer acquisition. Except, they lost $35m. It’s not impressive when you spend $1.60

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

is an elegant way to model any service-oriented business: Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue We used a very similar scheme at IMVU, although we werent lucky enough to have started with this framework, and so had to derive a lot of it ourselves via trial and error. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?)

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allthingsd.com

JULY 16, 2012

It’s clear that factors like the greater American economy and the bumpy tech IPO market don’t necessarily have a direct and/or timely correlation with venture capital spending. Twitter’s Pitch Deck for Big Advertisers (Slides). ATDacquisitions (Acquisitions). venture capitalists put $8.1 Featured Reviews.

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Venture Capital Technical Review RSS Charlotte 71

thebarefootvc

MAY 20, 2013

Given that Tumblr is a VC backed company, the two options for exit were IPO or acquisition. As the Facebook IPO has shown, this is not an easy task and few companies have made the transition. Theoretically, this is a great combination.

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www.theverge.com

JUNE 20, 2012

After Facebooks IPO flub, value of tech startups falls back to earth. Over three nights and two days of drinking, schmoozing, and panel discussion, many of the industries insiders spoke their minds plainly, and the bumbled Facebook IPO was a frequent topic of conversation."Excuse By Ben Popper 06.19.2012.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Advertising. In early 2011 an acquisition by a Fortune 500 company fell apart. Less than 1% are currently in IPO registration. Advertise Locally on WSJ.com. DJVentureWire : Friday IPOs Fail to Price as Thursdays Rally Doesnt Carry [link]. Advertise Locally. » More. Loading… Asia. Management.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

They’ve had a total of 12 deals that have IPO’d. ReachLocal – we discussed this deal at length including what amount of revenue does it take to get to an IPO (Jim’s view, sub $100 million in fine as long as you have good margins and a strong growth rate). Raising $75mm in IPO, values company at $515mm.

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The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Facebook has mostly moved via bold acquisitions, starting with $1bn for Instagram six weeks before their IPO, moving the through $24bn for WhatsApp, before paying $2bn for Oculus. That said, they also have a track record of making radical changes to their product, often in the face of user protest.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Questions I ask Mike Evans: [1:46] Could you give us a high-level overview of the startup of Grubhub to IPO to what you’re doing now? 7:52] Was there competition that you had to buy up, and/or what type of acquisitions did you feel like you had to make? [9:19] What type of acquisitions did you feel like you had to make.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

This attention is valuable to yet another set of people: namely, the traditional businesses (see above) who are using marketing to grow, and are looking to advertise to new prospects. In the old days, these media companies would then themselves plow this profit back into marketing and advertising, and grow.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Meanwhile, the rash of early liquidity and recent IPOs — unsatisfying as they were — gave liquidity to thousands of employees at large companies, and a subset of those made very real money. This time around, there has been an explosion at the early stages, and the very late pre-IPO growth stages. Source: AllThingsD ]. -

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Scott left the company, which eventually IPO’d and became Internet Brands. Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook. A demand side advertising platform which allows advertisers to bid on individual ad impressions in real time, based on the site and who would see it. Foursquare. -A

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 30, 2011

As an entrepreneur it can be dizzying to watch Groupon and Living Social grow so quickly, raising huge venture rounds at massive valuations while contemplating multiple billion dollar acquisitions and IPOs. However, that was an outlier relative to the majority of tech companies focused on online advertising.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

2007 was a turning point for the SaaS industry with the successful IPOs of NetSuite, SuccessFactors, DemandTec, Salary.com, Aprimo and Constant Contact. or What do I need to do to get ready for an IPO. Save Asia for post-IPO. How can I best partner with the large public saas vendors? One Datacenter.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

For a pursuit that largely revolves around silent time spent at a computer by one person then, slowly at first, a few more people, a bit more talking, and on and on until failure, acquisition, or IPO, it may seem inconsequential to consider where it all goes down.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

For a pursuit that largely revolves around silent time spent at a computer by one person then, slowly at first, a few more people, a bit more talking, and on and on until failure, acquisition, or IPO, it may seem inconsequential to consider where it all goes down.

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New York City New York Entrepreneur Seed Stage 120