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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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. A Silicon Valley native, for years Brian has been in the business of high stakes match-making, with the mission of bringing the right talent to the right company at the right time.

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Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

This really resembles the era when in Silicon Valley we had Yahoo, EBay, and Craigslist. But it’s arguably even harder in a place where there aren’t ready distribution channels. This makes it easier to do customer acquisition for a consumer-based company. In the 90s, in the US, going IPO was a common liquidity path.

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Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

This really resembles the era when in Silicon Valley we had Yahoo, EBay, and Craigslist. But it’s arguably even harder in a place where there aren’t ready distribution channels. This makes it easier to do customer acquisition for a consumer-based company. In the 90s, in the US, going IPO was a common liquidity path.

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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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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. The business model (OEM through broadband and home security companies for mass distribution) if not specific product functionality has remained largely the same. A talent acquisition or bootstrapping are still options, but need to include buy-in from the investors. ProfessorVC.

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Professor VC

DECEMBER 8, 2015

I think we will see more of these in 2016 and beyond as IPOs are still far and few between and unicorns struggle to justify their stratospheric valuations. Both companies were relatively well capitalized, building peer to peer payments businesses and spending a significant amount of their funding on customer acquisition.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Are Israeli companies on the verge of developing a repeatable playbook to scale their companies and become market leaders, not just acquisition fodder for the Silicon Valley giants? In 2014, for example, 18 IPOs raised a record-breaking $9.8 How do I strengthen my market position through acquisitions and innovation?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

SXSW Panel: Attracting VC Investment Outside of Silicon Valley Carolyn Rodz (@carolynrodz) | Twitter Holly Gibson Founder Austin Women Who Code Holly loves the Austin tech community and serves it as the Founder of the Women Who Code Austin, a network of 2800+ women in tech.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

great web customer acquisition tutorials. free, distributed source code control management system. Silicon Roundabout. silicon valley. Silicon Valley Bank. Silicon Wadi. mixpanel vs kissmetric vs google analytics review. Analytics blog â?? good analytics tutorials. SEO for Startups â??

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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.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 13, 2021

You know, “I have profit loss statements and cost of customer acquisition and long-term value and cohort analysis and all of these things,” (all of which of course super important for understanding and valuing businesses appropriately), and what they’re growing to, and what the growth stage, and what is the future. I was wrong.”

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