Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

I think everybody heard about this acquisition. They bought distribution and engineering talent. On the founder’s side it’s about taking money off of the table and / or having strategic reserves for big acquisitions. In the former case many people scoffed at paying up for Google at IPO. No big surprise.

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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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VC Adventure

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

I wrote a post a few months ago based on some data from Correlation Ventures about the distribution of returns on venture deals (which revealed that outsized winners are, in fact, much more rare than most people think). This reached it peak in 2008, although that may in large part be due to the lack of a public market option at that time.

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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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View from Seed

MAY 28, 2020

Advances in technology and changing consumer preferences have long been transforming the way food is created, distributed, and consumed. The food supply chain has been rattled with distribution shifting from restaurants to grocery and with food production bottlenecks resulting from fewer employees at work.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 9, 2021

During this time, Downs also was a key part of the industry’s most successful IPO and played a key M&A role in a highly acquisitive environment. The entire team is looking forward to working with Matt as we move forward during an exciting period of intense growth and change at both Chargify and SaaSOptics.”

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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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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

The value ascribed by subsequent investors (in a secondary); buyers (acquisition); or the public markets (IPO). Flexible VC creates early liquidity which can be either reinvested or distributed to LPs. Yes, typically preferred equity. 15-20% sold per round. Volatile, uncapped. Flexible VC: Revenue -based. Early liquidity.

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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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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The large investment flows into entertainment fuel advanced in technology to produce, to distribute and monetise content that educates us, relax us, entertains us, and so on. Each category represents a large vertical on its own, which together comprise of Entertainment Tech across content creation, consumption, distribution and monetisation.

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Interestingly (and somewhat different than other markets) the Boulder start-up scene is both very distributed (there are a large number of leaders in the Boulder start-up community) and collaborative. What are your thoughts about M&A and IPOs – and a successful exit for ad tech startups?

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 8, 2020

Over that time period, this newsletter has emerged as a must read for the city’s startup community because of its aggressive coverage of investments, IPOs, launches, Central Texas re-locations, mergers, founder-related events and (more recently) COVID-related layoffs. In fact, the Beat now counts more than 10,000 subscribers.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

In 1980 Genentech became the first IPO of a venture funded biotech company. But these VC’s aren’t Lean because they fund startups with web-based distribution models. But scaling customer acquisition may take the same amount of dollars as a traditional software startup. ). Their capital needs are low at the front end.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

This doesn’t even yet account for a bear-case scenario of all the private Bay Area juggernauts which are primed to IPO next year — if those all hit, and assuming local investors and employees own at least a third six months after IPO. the cash windfall to the Bay Area will surge past the days of Facebook’s offering.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

They’ve had a total of 12 deals that have IPO’d. Provides application performance management (APM) software solution that helps web sites manage distributed applications in high-volume production environments; features include: application mapping, transaction flow monitoring, code-level diagnostics, and cloud orchestration.

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abovethecrowd.com

AUGUST 23, 2020

If you are looking past or through Covid — and why not, all of Wall Street is — the topic du jour in Silicon Valley is Special Purpose Acquisition Companies, or SPACs. So while the underpricing and true cost of capital of a traditional IPO is trending worse, the economics behind SPACs are actually improving.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

For this reason, we’ve partnered with Guild members who have experience across different kinds of customers, business models, and distribution channels. 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).

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

Is the revenue dependent on a concentrated set of distribution partners or platforms that put future revenue at risk? Amazon is continuing to grow at such a rapid pace that of course it should take some of today’s profits and reinvest them in growth (or acquisitions).

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 4, 2012

Fast, and high-volume computerized trading combined with the utilization of extremely high leverage has made Wall Street trading profits to be many multiples greater than those generated via traditional underwriting, promotion, and distribution of long positions in stocks. read more.

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Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

But it’s arguably even harder in a place where there aren’t ready distribution channels. The interesting thing about the US market is that customer acquisition these days is actually fairly straightforward online now for most customer audiences. This makes it easier to do customer acquisition for a consumer-based company.

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Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

But it’s arguably even harder in a place where there aren’t ready distribution channels. The interesting thing about the US market is that customer acquisition these days is actually fairly straightforward online now for most customer audiences. This makes it easier to do customer acquisition for a consumer-based company.

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Asia Indonesia B2B Singapore 48

K9 Ventures

APRIL 9, 2014

Threshold for an IPO is higher Ten years ago, if you had $20M in revenue you were ready to go public. Top engineering talent today has a bimodal distribution. 6M-$15M used to scale customer acquisition and revenue) Series B is the new Series C. Today, you need almost 5x or 10x that number to even be eligible.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2022

Too many choices confuse all customers, and make your job in marketing, distribution, and support much more difficult. 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. Less is more.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Our publisher distribution network reaches in the tens of millions of unique users and is comprised of “head end&# stars as well as many “mid tier&# and “long tail&# publishers. They already had a completed product and a distribution deal with the largest affiliate network company, Commission Junction.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Most notably, the ground-breaking development and rapid global distribution of mRNA vaccines highlighted the speed and scale of technological advances to outsmart humanity’s most dire threats. McLaren Technology Acquisition Corp, the SPAC focused on fintech recently closed a $ 201 million IPO at NASDAQ.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Global Technology 140

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

GoTo.com went on to ink huge distribution deals with Microsoft, AOL & Yahoo! Secondly, they had an owned & operated (O&O) website – Google.com – and Overture had shut down GoTo.com at the request of their very profitable and large distribution partners. Immediately thereafter Amazon became a large business.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Any big changes in your marketing/customer acquisition strategy over the last time period (more money doing Search, less money in Email, elimination Facebook as it does not work, etc., Leaders (company is leaving China, our IPO is next week, 1,800 new stores are being opened in 180 days, our new IRR is 8%).

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

One of the 2020 giants also left this select club: Zoom, which was impacted by the failed acquisition of Five9 and people’s gradual return to offices. The cloud IPO market has also been very active with 32 IPOs vs. 17 in 2020. 60% of the cloud IPOs had a market cap of $5B+ vs. only 28% this year. in Sept 2020. In 2020, c.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

MAY 5, 2016

Over the years we’ve had the privilege of working with amazing founders and helping them grow from infancy to IPO or acquisition in many cases. Meredith Kendall was Head of Communications at Hulu where she led external communications for the company across key areas including corporate, content, product, advertising and distribution.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Influencer collaborations: Clients will contract an influencer to leverage their social expertise in creating a piece of content but will also have them distribute it to their organic following. To start, our team is made up of media and technology experts who have sold companies or been a part of acquisitions/IPOs.

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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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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. What Does a Redemption Rights Provision Look Like?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, October 7, 2008 The App Store after the gold rush I wrote earlier about the issue of distribution advantage on the iPhone. The App Store is a channel for customer acquisition. Having that data will let you pick an acquisition strategy that is appropriate for your app. So what can you do?

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Because they have no presence in the market, they have to find distribution channels to bring in customers. Do you have any thoughts on scalable customer acquisition in cases where a decent bit of knowledge work has to be invested into each customer? First of all, they are not selling their product by hand.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2019

Too many choices confuse all customers, and make your job in marketing, distribution, and support much more difficult. 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. Less is more.

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