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Putting Twitter’s IPO in Perspective

Agile VC

Twitter’s IPO has garnered a ton of attention in the tech and popular press. So their revenue figures, pre IPO financing and ownership, and other info is all widely available. Google, Facebook, and Twitter have each created a new audience-based paradigm and thus have created and dominated a new segment of advertising.

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

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GameFly filed in 2010 and remains in registration, though 2011 has seen a positive start for VC-backed IPOs with 14 in Q1 2011. Now that Google’s acquisition of ITA is closed, following lenghty FTC review, it would appear Kayak is poised to proceed with their IPO in the coming months. =. Distribution revenue is CPC and CPA. .

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

Both Sides of the Table

When I started investing the US advertising market was $300 billion with only 10% of it ($30 billion) of it being online and measurable. One recession later and the US advertising market is about $245 billion – but still only 10-12% is online and measurable. And it turns out that we click a lot.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

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He then worked in consulting which gave him a broad base of business experience working with the newspaper, cable, and advertising industries. In the late 90’s he saw the internet boom and helped start IronPlanet.com, a construction equipment marketplace that is nearing an IPO. 5:00 – 5:55). Startup after Iron Planet? (6:00

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

One is explaining the world as it used to work: the importance of gatekeepers, the scarcity implied by limited distribution, and the resulting quality bar that the industry is so proud of. Mostly it is the time and expense required to create the means of distribution for that industry. It’s just taking some longer than others.

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Will Facebook be the Next Yahoo?

Rob Go

The entire Tech world is waiting with baited breath for the filing of Facebook’s IPO next week. Facebook’s success is largely based on its ability to aggregate the biggest audience on the internet and understand and monetize that audience. Advertising effectiveness. Here are the major vulnerabilities that I see: 1.

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How to Write a Business Plan

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Advertising. Your business plan should include an overview of the kinds of advertising you plan to spend money on. Will you be advertising online? A key component to your advertising plan is your plan for measuring the success of your advertising. Distribution. Retail Distribution. Public Relations.