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? NVV: How did you adjust?

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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. For many lifestyle-oriented companies, social media ads can be crucial to getting you off the ground initially, and should always be part of your acquisition strategy.

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Start Up Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

The upcoming Facebook IPO is a very interesting scenario. Not just from a startup / social media or tech point of view but from an economic one. 68 Million in acquisitions: In the past year Facebook invested $68 million in purchasing other companies. They have an appetite for acquisition.

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Austin Startup

MAY 10, 2021

three companies he previously worked for had successful exits including two acquisitions and one IPO. Join Hologram on social media at Twitter here , Facebook here , and LinkedIn here. Georgoff has more than 15 years of experience as a growth-stage executive focused on strategy, product and design.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

I hope that you can join us Monday night, April 4, midtown NYC, at a panel on “Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO” The program is sponsored by the HBS Club of New York and the HBS Angels of NY.

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

There must be a healthy acquisition or IPO pipeline in the market. Malaysia unfortunately does not have a good technology IPO pipeline. Certainly if Zoecity was mature enough within an imminent exit (IPO or acquisition) this might have worked greater. Without an “exit&# , you will never exercise your options.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 25, 2021

Therefore whether you need a decision for marketing (sales), management (amalgamations), or financial (IPOs) guidance. For instance, if you are planning to complete major acquisitions or business transformations, you will need a corporate communications advisor to help your business. So, you need to look at your business needs.

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Up and Running

JUNE 16, 2014

Simply leave a comment below or get in touch on any of our social media accounts – Twitter , Google+ and Facebook. This may include planning for an IPO, a strategic acquisition or for management buyout. You ask a question related to starting a business and for the next few weeks, every Monday, we will provide the answer.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 21, 2011

This time, the debate centers on the “favored few” Social Media venture backed companies that have brought tremendous windfalls to a select group of venture funds and management teams, both pre- and post-IPO. Welcome to the latest passionate debate over the ‘valuation bubble or not?’ question in venture capital.

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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’s four of the six largest social media properties on the planet, and they’re all still growing.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

— Unremarked and unheralded, the balance of power between startup CEOs and their investors has radically changed: IPOs/M&A without a profit (or at times revenue) have become the norm. In the 20th century tech companies and their investors made money through an Initial Public Offering (IPO).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

Set specific targets on the sales channels and marketing initiatives you need, including the use of social media, brand building, franchising, trade shows, affiliates, and distributors. The options here include going public (IPO), merger/acquisition, liquidate, or no exit, just paying off investors.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

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. It’s an unusual time in the markets. “We’re in the nth year of an unbelievable bull market!”

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

They’ve had a total of 12 deals that have IPO’d. It’s clear that many companies are going to need to understand “authority&# in the social media era. We also discussed the fact that an IPO often doesn’t mean the founders or investors can take too much money off the table. businesses.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Since leaving GrubHub, he founded Fixer.com, an on-demand handyperson service focused on social impact. 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? Maybe just give us kind of the high level startup to, you know, IPO to now what you're doing.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

Facebook was too frightening to Chinese censors, so Renren is the leading social media player. there are almost no mergers or acquisitions in this market segment. Liquidity for most Internet startups happens via IPO’s. 70% of exits in China are via IPO (in the U.S. 70% of exits in China are via IPO (in the U.S.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Favaron’s appointment caps off a year of successes for Spredfast which include aggressive customer acquisition, Series A funding from Austin Ventures in April 2010 and ongoing recognition by industry analysts as an innovative player in social media marketing and the growing social customer relationship management (CRM) market.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 15, 2015

For those in the bubble camp, Domo is “ Tech Unicorn ,” a recent start-up worth, either through a financing, an acquisition or IPO, more than $1 billion usually without any meaningful profits to speak of and thus instead valued via reasonings and justifications far outside of the pale of traditional finance and accounting.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2022

He talks in detail about ten of the key challenges that Facebook faced in their growth, to move from a tiny social media upstart to one of the most successful companies in the world. For many companies, the long game is choosing the right strategic partners and acquisitions. But never take your eye off today’s customer.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

Facebook was too frightening to Chinese censors, so Renren is the leading social media player. there are almost no mergers or acquisitions in this market segment. Liquidity for most Internet startups happens via IPO’s. 70% of exits in China are via IPO (in the U.S. 70% of exits in China are via IPO (in the U.S.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Never missing an opportunity for a good war story, I’d like to revisit one high-profile transaction, the $650 million acquisition of MySpace by Fox Interactive Media in 2005, on which I spent many sleepless nights along with the rest of the deal team. Read on for a fuller explanation. Intermix and its advisors weren’t fools.

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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! PR is mostly ineffective when companies step on social media landmines – [link]. 26 Promising Social Media Stats for Small Businesses – [link].

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 11, 2017

The only difference is, our high-quality content is shot by the leading social media creators, crowd-sourced from around the globe, at a fraction of the cost a client would traditionally pay. 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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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

They had previously all worked together at a very successful company in the “telecoms meets Internet&# space, CallWave, which IPO’d 5 years ago or so. This no doubt led to the acquisition of AdMob by Google and Quattro by Apple. This was their next act so they brought domain knowledge. Perfect.

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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%). or Weightwatchers.co.uk

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 12, 2012

Isn't there plenty of euphoria and "animal spirits" to go around with the IPO market returning, marquee acquisitions (e.g., Instagram at $1 billion) and the impending earth-shattering Facebook IPO? Why is the new investment bar so high today?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2019

He talks in detail about ten of the key challenges that Facebook faced in their growth, to move from a tiny social media upstart to one of the most successful companies in the world. For many companies, the long game is choosing the right strategic partners and acquisitions. But never take your eye off today’s customer.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

The big enterprise software companies almost all bootstrapped their way to profitability before they got their first external investors (typically via an IPO). This is not just about social media or consumerization of software. On the other hand, the failure rate of VC funded enterprise software ventures is high.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

John Greathouse has held a number of senior executive positions with successful startups during the past fifteen years, spearheading transactions, which generated more than $350 million of shareholder value, including an IPO and a multi-hundred-million-dollar acquisition. John Greathouse. Got it now.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Panel 1 – How Social Investing is Disrupting Traditional Investing in Public Securities. The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2017

He talks in detail about ten of the key challenges that Facebook faced in their growth, to move from a tiny social media upstart to one of the most successful companies in the world. For many companies, the long game is choosing the right strategic partners and acquisitions. But never take your eye off today’s customer.

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venturebeat.com

JULY 12, 2012

Acquisition. Streaming media. Social media. Social networking. Social games. Additionally, he’s looking for companies that have a long-term potential to be Microsoft partners or acquisitions. From $1.5B to half a trillion dollars: PayPal celebrates a 10th anniversary. Editor’s picks.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2017

Your business isn’t Facebook, but you certainly can learn from the social-media titan by examining how it operates — when things are going well, and not so well. billion, and a widely anticipated IPO was about to value the company at $100 billion. Competition had been vanquished, revenue reached $3.7

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Orcam was created by the founders of Mobileye (NYSE: MBLY and one of Israel’s largest IPOs ), Prof. YouAppi (2011)- YouAppi creates adtech to streamline mobile user acquisition. Amnon Shashua and Ziv Aviram (great interview with them here ). Co-founders Ami Daniel and Matan Peled both served as naval officers.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2014

CB Insights regularly produces data-driven reports and analysis on venture capital, private equity, angel investment, mergers & acquisitions, IPOs and emerging high-growth industries. Mattermarks goal is to track growth signals from all private tech, media and telecom companies. 6) CB Insights. 7) Mattermark.

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Austin Startup

MAY 3, 2017

Buyout companies  — In a low interest rate and the slow-growth environments of recent years, companies like Apple, Facebook, and Google focus on acquisitions instead of focusing on capital expenditures and development of internal investment projects. Imagine that. They can just go back to their investors for more capital.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Social Media Tracking/Marketing. great web customer acquisition tutorials. analytics for social media and online. social media and email marketing. Ipoint-Media. Aptana Cloud (svn, IDE, php, java, rails etc…). code spaces (svn). CVSDude (svn). github (git only). Patch-tag (Darcs).

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