ReadWriteStart

JULY 18, 2011

If you like this kind of advice, check out my coverage of a talk by Paul Palmieri, Co-Founder and CEO of mobile advertising service Millennial Media, titled " Investing in Your Influencers. ". 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.

Investment Bankers 153

Investment Bankers Technical Review Cofounder Due Diligence 153

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. And obviously all the liq prefs went away in the IPO when pref stock converted to common. We have a long way to go baby!

Term Sheet 178

Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Money Money Home Financing Taxes Accounting Basics Personal Finance Money Management Payments & Collections IPOs and DPOs Will Crazy Market Moves Kill IPOs and Slash VC Investment? More Personal Finance Headlines from FoxBusiness.com » Featured Advertiser Links. Financing Some Jobs Act Proposals Make Headway.

Sweat Equity 55

Sweat Equity Equity Fractional CTO CTO 55

The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 18, 2012

VatorTV had an article this morning reporting on the growth in mobile advertising. After the Admob and Quattro deals we had the near $1bn Milennial IPO earlier this year. One way that the mobile advertising market could work better is via more realtime buying and selling of inventory.

Mobile 100

Mobile Acquisition Forecast IPO 100

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

Many people seem to use the social network advertising model for revenue, but forget it assumes at least 100M users and $50M investment. Financial forecast and metrics. Going public” (IPO) is another alternative, but not common. This is how you will make money, who pays you, and gross margins.

Business Plan 283

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 283

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

Many people seem to use the social network advertising model for revenue, but forget it assumes at least 100M users and $50M investment. Financial forecast and metrics. Going public” (IPO) is another alternative, but not common. This is how you will make money, who pays you, and gross margins.

Business Plan 290

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 290

BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

I am not sure if you saw the news , but Salary.com recently filed for an IPO to raise up to $50 million. I would usually put IPO filings in the nonevent category but as I dug deeper into the company and financial performance, it did raise some interesting questions for me. The post Is the bar lower for a tech IPO?

IPO 60

IPO Investment Bankers Demand Revenue 60

The Equity Kicker

MAY 2, 2012

Facebook’s ability to make money from mobile is a hotly debated topic in the run up to their IPO.

Mobile 113

Mobile Forecast IPO Valuation 113

Gust

AUGUST 5, 2012

Many people seem to use the social network advertising model for revenue, but forget it assumes at least 100M users and $50M investment. Financial forecast and metrics. Going public” (IPO) is another alternative, but not common. This is how you will make money, who pays you, and gross margins.

Business Plan 182

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 182

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

Many people seem to use the social network advertising model for revenue, but forget it requires at least 100M users and $50M investment. Financial forecast and metrics. IPO as an exit strategy is not recommended these days. This is how you will make money, who pays you, and gross margins. See where your cashflow bottoms out.

Business Plan 186

Business Plan Exit Strategy Sweat Equity Intellectual Property 186

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Because five whys kept turning up a few key metrics that were hard to set static thresholds for, we even had a dynamic prediction algorithm that would make forecasts based on past data, and fire alerts if the metric ever went out of its normal bounds. Getting educated about advertising, agencies, and.

Software Review 167

Software Review Technical Review San Francisco Continuous Deployment 167

Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

If it’s a new division inside a larger company, forecasts talk about return on investment. The company has a large press event, and Marketing launches a series of programs to create end-user demand (trade shows, seminars, advertising, email, and so on). Marketing is at its peak.

Silicon Valley 268

Silicon Valley Product Startup Product Development 268

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

If you want to learn about how to do simple forecasting and trend analysis, please see the official forecast function in Excel post on the Microsoft website, and this handy tutorial on trend lines and forecasting in excel. In an ideal world as you do the above exercise, you'll take into account: 1. And other such things.

Analytics 133

Analytics Vertical Metrics Web 133