Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

This method was perfected by Gil Elbaz and his team at Applied Semantics in LA and in what some have called “ the most important acquisition ever made by Google ” they acquired the company for $102 million before Google had even IPO’d. In fact, 1 in 7 or nearly 15% of Angelinos are employed in a creative field.

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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!” There are certain topics that even some of the best journalists can’t fully grok. One of them is profitability. ” Quick examples: 1.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability. With Netscape’s IPO , there was suddenly a public market for companies with limited revenue and no profit. The New Bubble : (2011 – 2014): Here we go again…. (If

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Austin Startup

MAY 10, 2021

Georgoff has more than 15 years of experience as a growth-stage executive focused on strategy, product and design. three companies he previously worked for had successful exits including two acquisitions and one IPO. Georgoff’s scorecard with growth-stage startups speaks for itself?—?three

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

While poised with a limited number of transactions this year, the world of public Cloud Computing and SaaS companies has been marked by two events in the past few months: the acquisition of Omniture by Adobe and the high profile IPO of LogMeIn, a leading provider of PC remote access and support with a very interesting freemium model.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 18, 2011

He says that one is too lonely, two is good and three is a great number if they can combine their skills to cover design, development and distribution. 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. How to Hack the Investment World.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round). A lot has changed. link] leehower.

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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?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

For entrepreneurs who want to learn about how to work with investment banks, how to position yourself to be acquired and what the IPO markets look like this is the episode to watch. How to investment banks help with the M&A (mergers & acquisitions) process? Should you use investment banks to raise venture capital?

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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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View from Seed

MAY 28, 2020

Beyond Meat’s successful IPO last year proved that plant-based meat companies can thrive in the public markets, leading to massive funding rounds in other alternative animal product companies. alternative seafood), action from large incumbents (pivots or acquisitions), and other types of technology-driven innovations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

The options here include going public (IPO), merger/acquisition, liquidate, or no exit, just paying off investors. As a hardware designer, I’m sure you do the same thing as you document your product specifications and pass them on to other members of your team for implementation. Most investors don’t want long-term commitments.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

Pierre Valade, Co-Founder of Sunrise & Mobile Designer at Microsoft. Some of our portfolio companies will rely on great design to create loyal usage like Sunrise Calendar. As VP of Product at Artsy, Fatma oversees the product organization responsible for product strategy, design, and development of its web and mobile platforms.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

For instance, if your company is only a few weeks old and you have zero customers and your product offering is still in design, don’t expect someone to hand over $10 million to fund your efforts. If your startup is at the wrong stage for the investor you are approaching, fishing for money is a waste of time for both of you.

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Investment Bankers Venture Capital Startup Initial Public Offering 241

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 2, 2008

Its the same with acquisitions. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. No one wants to buy you till someone else wants to buy you, and then everyone wants to buy you.

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thebarefootvc

JANUARY 15, 2020

acquisition of Plaid by Visa, in a highly competitive deal, shows how even the largest incumbents are feeling pressure to innovate and need to think outside of their current business models. Along those lines, I have been spending time thinking of the the continued digitization of the financial services sector. The recently announced $5.3B

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Gust

MAY 24, 2012

Dual-class voting structures are receiving a lot of attention these days along with intense publicity related to the Facebook IPO , following in the wake of other recent tech IPOs with a similar structure such as Zynga and LinkedIn. In the case of an acquisition, the shares are tendered for cash and/or stock in the acquiring company.).

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Tim Keane

MARCH 9, 2011

  He sells entirely locally and bids his own work and often provides design assistance for cabinets purchased by homebuilders.  Example two:  Explosive market share growth and revenue in an expanding market with acquisitive players available.   He needs $250,000 of expansion capital. .  five years.).

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Sales (and/or customer acquisition in a multi-sided market) becomes achievable by a sales force (or network effect or virality) without heroic efforts from the founders. Customer acquisition and activation are understood and Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) and Life Time Value (LTV) can be estimated for the next 18 months.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2010

For instance, if your company is only a few weeks old and you have zero customers and your product offering is still in design, don’t expect someone to hand over $10 million to fund your efforts. If your startup is at the wrong stage for the investor you are approaching, the courting is a waste of time for both of you.

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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. It was only as their search business began to face existential risks that they started making moves designed to open up whole new areas.

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Mucker Lab

APRIL 6, 2023

What's the best way to do design? You engage the marketing team and you do a lot of acquisition and people are coming. You can begin to work on position a little bit, but the early acquisitions are there to give you more users to work on to continue to build out the product. The other thing is called the “PLG native.”

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Gust

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

For instance, if your company is only a few weeks old and you have zero customers and your product offering is still in design, don’t expect someone to hand over $10 million to fund your efforts. If your startup is at the wrong stage for the investor you are approaching, fishing for money is a waste of time for both of you.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 27, 2023

They both run on open AI's GPT model, and both are designed to help you get more done and to grow your business faster. You just wake up one morning, you get an email and say, yeah, yeah, we're excited that later today there'll be a press release announcing our acquisition through this company. And you're like, dividend.

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David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

Kevin Barhydt, Head of Acquisitions, RPX. Geleerd began his career at Arthur Andersen in tax consulting before leaving to join Sam Zell’s Equity Group where he underwrote the acquisition of over $2 billion of real estate acquired by the Zell-Merrill Lynch Opportunity Funds (which ultimately went public as Equity Office Properties, LLC).

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

In a subscription business, maybe your attrition starts matching your acquisition, balancing like magic. Or your cost of customer acquisition just magically floats up to match your customer lifetime value. Nothing seems to matter. In an eyeballs business, you just cant seem to acquire or activate that next step-up of customers.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 5, 2013

B: Because the business was designed with some very heavy constraints in place. Talent acquisition. The other 5% of non-dev I deal with in about 20 minutes a day. Every few weeks I’ll have a big dev day. A: How can you scale the business without a team? A: Like what? A: That’s absurd. B: 5 figures in profit a month. Make a sale.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

We do not work for Uber or Facebook, and we are not even trying to work with the future Ubers or Facebooks, or other IPO-seeking companies of the world. Most of those firms are in Silicon Valley, because most of those companies are in Silicon Valley.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

What characterized the majority of these companies was that they were looking to grow fast and then exit with a big payout in the form of an acquisition or an IPO. Amy is also the co-founder of Artists & Fleas , a weekly marketplace for artists, designers and vintage collectors in Brooklyn.

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Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

There was a team in NYC that built the spreadsheet app (they were another acquisition), and that team now runs all of GDocs today. More recently I’ve written about some research on stock performance post IPO, and how our experience is fairly typical. My team also did the Google Apps/domain builds/integration.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Their product development team is hard at work on a next-generation product platform, which is designed to offer a new suite of products – but this effort is months behind schedule. Since were offering a complete solution, which involves the development of a new product, there is design, prototyping, etc.,

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Scalable Startup

JUNE 22, 2017

It looks at all areas of a business launch to uncover areas of innovation, differentiation, design thinking. He has extensive experience in funding, mergers, acquisitions and IPOs. Hacking The Core is based on principles of common sense, honesty vs. “fake it ’til you make it” and humility in success.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

In 1995 Netscape IPO’d and browsers started to become more prevalent. IdeaLab has created 75 companies, leading to 8 IPOs, 35 or so acquisitions and more than 5 companies worth in excess of $1 billion. His first “real&# business came in college where he designed audio speakers.

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The Equity Kicker

APRIL 13, 2012

Throughout our evolution, from privately held start-up to large, publicly listed company, we have managed Google for the long term — enjoying tremendous success as a result, especially since our IPO in 2004. We have a structure that prevents outside parties from taking over or unduly influencing our management decisions.

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Scott Edward Walker

JULY 7, 2011

Redemption rights are principally designed to protect investors from a situation where, after a period of time, their portfolio company is just moving “sideways” and, accordingly, is not an attractive acquisition target or IPO candidate.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 21, 2010

A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty. To see proof of this, simply observe the results of the large majorities of corporate acquisitions of startups. Startups are designed to confront situations of extreme uncertainty.

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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! Zynga Leans On Some Workers to Surrender Pre-IPO Shares – [link]. From Deadpool to Acquisition: Lessons From Sprouter’s Almost Fail – [link].

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