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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

Agile VC

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. =. Quinstreet priced at $15.00/sh

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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

Both Sides of the Table

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). Why do you think Veoh didn’t succeed? (40:30

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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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Is crowdfunding legal?

Startup Company Lawyer

Under the crowdfunding provisions, the aggregate dollar amount of securities that an issuer can sell in a crowdfunding transaction is limited to $1 million (less the aggregate amount of securities sold under other exemptions) over a 12-month period.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

I believe in the new world you describe, but I think you forget the role that the distributors play in aggregating content for a self-selecting consumer "type" The easiest place to see this in newspapers, where consumers normally buy a newspaper that shares their political viewpoint. [link] August 24, 2009 2:50 PM Quentin said.