Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2022

I found some good lessons in this regard in a classic book, “ Becoming Facebook ,” by Mike Hoefflinger, the former Head of Global Business Marketing at Facebook. Too many choices confuse all customers, and make your job in marketing, distribution, and support much more difficult. Less is more.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

To do this they have to accomplish five things; 1) get deal flow – via networking and legwork, they identify likely industries, companies and teams with the potential for rapid growth (less than 10 years), 2) evaluate those companies and teams on the basis of technology, market opportunity, and team.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

GameFly filed in 2010 and remains in registration, though 2011 has seen a positive start for VC-backed IPOs with 14 in Q1 2011. Last week ZipCar began trading and has a market cap of about $1 billion. paying for travel data from ITA or others (customers acquisition spend is not included in COGS). Quinstreet priced at $15.00/sh

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2011

It has been at least a decade since going public via an Initial Public Offering (IPO) has been considered a credible exit strategy for startups. Usually a small company can sell about 20 percent of its stock in an IPO. The market is moving back up, but slowly. The market is moving back up, but slowly. How’s the timing?

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

Kauffman Fellows Report (2020): “Diverse Founding Teams generate higher median realized multiples (RMs) on Acquisitions and IPOs]. As mentioned above, we report realized multiples (RMs) only for successful startups that were acquired or went through the IPO process.”. According to Pitchbook data , only 21.6%

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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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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 Cafe

JANUARY 2, 2023

The ten biggest exits of the year included a mix of IPOs and acquisitions. Israeli public tech companies saw market cap decline of 65% in 2022. Israeli public tech companies saw market cap decline of 65% in 2022. Sector funding distribution according to Greenfield Partners. ” Fred Wilson.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2019

I found some good lessons in this regard in a classic book, “ Becoming Facebook ,” by Mike Hoefflinger, the former Head of Global Business Marketing at Facebook. Too many choices confuse all customers, and make your job in marketing, distribution, and support much more difficult. Less is more.

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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. I'd love to hear your thoughts on what's happened in the capital markets over the last 20 years--the good and the bad? What about in the public markets?

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

If and when a startup gets big enough, it can pursue an initial public offering (IPO) to get listed on the stock market, and raise funds publicly. First, let’s consider the existence of Special-Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) and the nature of corporate VCs. Corporate VCs and SPACs. The basic idea is simple.

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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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IPO Acquisition Distribution Algorithm 52

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. They taught you about customers, markets and profits. The goals were “first mover advantage,” “grab market share” and “get big fast.”

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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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Generative AI Cloud Acquisition 173

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. Dairy Alternatives.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2017

I found some good lessons in this regard in a new book, “ Becoming Facebook ,” by Mike Hoefflinger, the former Head of Global Business Marketing at Facebook. Too many choices confuse all customers, and make your job in marketing, distribution, and support much more difficult. Less is more.

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Social Media India Acquisition China 163

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. In 2008, he co-founded a first-to-market payments company, Century Payments, and was one of the pioneers in driving security and payments monetization for software and SaaS companies.

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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. Retain 100%.

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View from Seed

APRIL 23, 2015

For instance, I’m fairly active in the content marketing industry , where the POTAJ often centers on quality content trumping spammy marketing tactics. ” Founders must address distribution in their pitches both overtly and succinctly. But don’t overlook the need to think about distribution early and often.

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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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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The themes we pursue tend to be horizontal in nature and are often driven by underlying technology protocols and standards or emerging market trends and customer needs. From my perspective the results of that obsession is obvious when you look at what each of our companies is doing to change their respective markets.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 8, 2020

Brent Wistrom edits the daily Austin Inno Beat email newsletter , which has emerged over the last five years as a must-read source of information for the city’s startup, entrepreneurial and investment communities The Forrest Files: August 6, 2020 Brent Wistrom is a senior editor at American Inno , overseeing half of Inno’s 14 markets.

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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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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 13, 2021

And I said, well, actually in fact, because I think that our whole business is things that fail a lot, and then suddenly you have the right idea and the right thing for these markets and the right way of pulling together. There wasn’t like an IPO – this amazing IPO that just happened. I was wrong.”

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

It’s an unusual time in the markets. With high levels of public market volatility — the first we’ve seen in the age of social media and true real-time information — it feels like everyone and their grandmom is expecting a downturn. “We’re in the nth year of an unbelievable bull market!”

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Influencer marketing is here and it’s not going anywhere soon. For many brands on a limited budgets, they have turned to leveraging industry influencers as a way to market their products and promote holiday deals. This combination allows us to streamline our process and execute influencer marketing campaigns at scale.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

They’ve had a total of 12 deals that have IPO’d. Hyper-local, flash marketing platform connecting consumers with local business offers; super majority of offers are restaurant and personal services; competitor to Groupon. the funding and market coverage. Segment Three: “VC Deals Funded this Week”. LivingSocial.

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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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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? They hired a marketing team to promote their products more broadly. If there was strong market demand for their product then this investment might pay off handsomely. The answer may not be known for many years.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Only a handful of so-called unicorns — companies that have achieved a valuation of over $1 billion in the last 10 years — come from Israel, and only one Israeli firm, Teva, ranks in the world’s 500 largest companies by market capitalization. In 2014, for example, 18 IPOs raised a record-breaking $9.8 But is all of that changing?

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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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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. Incubators, too, helped flood the markets with even more startups, and AngelList played its part too. Source App Annie ]. -

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 4, 2012

Why the full future for Facebook and the performance of its stock is yet to be written, as of today it is selling at prices significantly less than at which it traded on popular, private secondary markets like SharesPost and Second Market as recently as three months ago. Compare that to today's financial markets.

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Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

CRMs / marketing tech generally work. 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. Messaging / email generally works.

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Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

CRMs / marketing tech generally work. 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. Messaging / email generally works.

Asia 48

Asia Indonesia B2B Singapore 48