Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

I think the best solution for the social networking era is “in-stream&# advertising. In the former case many people scoffed at paying up for Google at IPO. Rumored: Digital Sky Technologies. You go onto the Internet and can control what people hear on terrestrial radio. But I made it for a reason.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 19, 2012

The company reaches more than 8 million internet users each month through some of the top applications on Facebook and other social networks. It does so through a powerful rapid development platform and the Buddy Media Advertising Network, which provides advertisers an easy way to reach millions of users of the leading social networks.

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Software Media Social Media Advertising 105

The Equity Kicker

APRIL 20, 2012

Looking at the mobile advertising industry over the last few years suggests that tipping point is around 3-5%. It’s an old cliche that for the first ten years of this century every years was supposed to be the year of the mobile, then the iPhone and Apple app store arrived and the mobile internet finally took off.

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Advertising Mobile IPO Marketing 102

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

The VC industry grew dramatically as a result of the Internet bubble - Before the Internet bubble the people who invested in VC funds (called LPs or Limited Partners) put about $50 billion into the industry and by 2001 this had grown precipitously to around $250 billion. Here’s my take: 1. Price MUST be in a certain range.

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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? Technology Technology Home Online Business Tools Security Phones & Mobile Gadgets Tech Tips Technology The Future of Facebook -- Streaming Live Now.

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Sweat Equity Equity Fractional CTO CTO 55

BeyondVC

JULY 31, 2008

As an aside, I worked with JEGI two years ago and they did a fantastic job helping us sell Moreover Technologies to Verisign. IPO vs. M&A)? (My This technology enables the company to go beyond keywords to understand page meaning and sentiment, to deliver the most effective display and text advertising to end-users.

Jordan 60

Jordan Exit Strategy IPO Semantic 60

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 21, 2011

While the media industry is driven by a combination of subscriptions and advertising – it’s clear that the latter plays a unique role in media. So my strategy was to focus on technology heavy companies who could bring measurability and performance to inefficient parts of the digital media landscape. They’re not.

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Mobile Advertising Affiliate Internet 329

Seeing Both Sides

JUNE 1, 2012

Mary Meeker's periodic review of the Internet industry is always a must-read presentation. The simple notion is that the confluence of broadband, mobile and globalization in combination with Moore's Law have allowed the technology industry to innovate almost everything in existence.

Software Review 41

Software Review IPO Technical Review America 41

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Either way, you can use any marketing channel thats available to bring in new customers, including word of traditional advertising, SEO, SEM - wherever you can find prospects who are going to find your product addicting. Thats why eBay advertises on search engines, and Facebook doesnt. As far as they are concerned, thats eBays job.

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Agile VC

AUGUST 1, 2012

The best example of this was Facebook’s disclosure during their IPO process back in May that “mobile” usage was increasing significantly but FB’s monetization of mobile users lagged considerably. This question has lingered for Facebook and other consumer internet companies in recent months. First the enthusiasm.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

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). 40:30 –41:30). 41:30-42:00).

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Vertical Curation Boston Burn Rate 265

Scott Edward Walker

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

At Facebook, we’re inspired by technologies that have revolutionized how people spread and consume information. We live at a moment when the majority of people in the world have access to the internet or mobile phones — the raw tools necessary to start sharing what they’re thinking, feeling and doing with whomever they want.

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Entrepreneur Securities and Exchange Commission IPO Engineer 65

Mucker Lab

JANUARY 1, 2014

VC’s start investing in technology-enabled “offline” businesses (distribution, services etc) – most of whom would never have gotten venture money 3 years ago. Native advertising goes “RTB” and thus becomes an oxymoron (hold on, its already an oxymoron).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

They’ve had a total of 12 deals that have IPO’d. Investors: Allen Morgan of Mayfield Fund, ff Asset Management, Bobby Yazdani, Nova Spivack of Lucid Ventures, Zelkova Ventures, Paige Craig, Tom McInerney, Michael Yavonditte of Quigo Technologies, Ofer Ronan. Raising $75mm in IPO, values company at $515mm.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 30, 2011

As an entrepreneur it can be dizzying to watch Groupon and Living Social grow so quickly, raising huge venture rounds at massive valuations while contemplating multiple billion dollar acquisitions and IPOs. However, that was an outlier relative to the majority of tech companies focused on online advertising.

Advertising 116

Advertising Business Model Revenue Mobile 116

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

They raised around $350 million to try and sell cars direct over the Internet. Scott left the company, which eventually IPO’d and became Internet Brands. Danish VOIP technology company founded in 2006 by entrepreneur Tanveer Sharif. And it carries no inventory. Total raised: $10.5mm. See: TechCrunch.

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San Francisco Venture Capital Analytics Government 248

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

As Ive written previously , lean startups are built upon three main trends: Technology commoditization. Combined with the technology trends above, it also enables rapid deployment strategies like just-in-time scalability. Getting educated about advertising, agencies, and. Agile software development. Customer development.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

One of the most recent success story is the IPO of QIWI plc on the NASDAQ in May 2013. Since the date of the IPO, the company has tripled in size. The investments were predominately in more technical segments that find it difficult to attract private investors such as biotech, and industrial technology. billion in the UK and $5.5

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

IPO markets had burned an entire cycle of retail stock investors and many institutional investors to boot. By the end of 2011 the Internet population was estimated at 2.3 billion, with 275 million in North America alone (source: Internet World Stats) and an astounding global penetration of 33% of the world’s population.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

Advertise with GeekWire. Despite the industry’s lackluster returns in recent years, there’s still lots of interest in funds that have good track records or are well-situated to take advantage of broad consumer technology trends,” said Zoran Basich, editor of Dow Jones VentureWire. Snow Creek Technology Law PS. GeekWire Events.

Venture Capital 42

Venture Capital Seattle Cofounder Software Engineering 42

Mucker Lab

JANUARY 1, 2014

VC’s accelerate investments in “internet of things” except sometime in Q4, wake up and realize it’s no different than “consumer electronics” – and that we still need to innovate around the manufacturing infrastructure, distribution economics, and consumer liability of the consumer goods business to really make this a venture fundable category.

Seed Stage 60

Seed Stage Early Stage Distribution Bootstrapping 60

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

This theory has become so influential that I have called it one of the three pillars of the lean startup - every bit as important as the changes in technology or the advent of agile development. Very few startups fail for lack of technology. Getting educated about advertising, agencies, and.

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Customer Development Developer San Francisco Customer 168

The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

The lesson from those businesses is that developments in technology can quickly undermine a company’s core strength. The internet and mobile marginalised Microsoft’s dominance of the desktop and improvements in search took away the need for Yahoo’s portal of curated links.

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Social Media Acquisition Curation IPO 60

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Playing with new technologies. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. Getting educated about advertising, agencies, and. Seeing whats possible.

San Francisco 88

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 88

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

The other revels in the world as we all know it will be someday: limitless distribution enabled by new technologies, the importance of collaborative filters, and on-demand availability of all content for end-users. But the same technologies that make life difficult for traditional marketers also offer them unprecedented new opportunities.

San Francisco 113

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

Last night I had the great privilege to interview Bill Gross , one of the Internet’s true pioneers. I thing I’ve learned over the years is that technology purists hate advertising even when it is that revenue stream that truthfully drives much of our industry. – the biggest Internet portals of the day.

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Product Tuvalu Dilution Incubator 350

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Lending Club and OnDeck have come out with IPOs which have been well-received showing the positive market sentiment about alternative lending through online platforms. Suitably pitched product campaigns and targeted advertising can improve the buying experience for customers, build brand loyalty and drive sales for companies.

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New Zealand Mobile Australia China 100

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

More often This logic can be extrapolated to the web world to mean: more users, visiting your site more often, for longer amounts of time to maximize advertising exposure. Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas.

San Francisco 166

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Continuous Deployment 166

Rob Go

JANUARY 29, 2012

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. Not natively mobile. I don’t.

Advertising 59

Advertising Mobile Aggregator Distribution 59

Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

In May 1996, Open Market completed a successful IPO and more than doubled on the first day of trading, ending with a $1.2 If investors observing this extraordinary phenomenon in 1996 were to have concluded that the technology market was in the midst of an unsustainable bubble, they would not have been wrong. We had recorded $1.8

IPO 48

IPO IRR Brazil Government 48

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2022

In this age of technology, the advent of a better alternative is inevitable. For others, including Facebook, it is penetrating China despite political constraints, and India, where only thirty percent of the population is on the Internet. A focus on looking good as an acquisition or IPO candidate has undermined many startups.

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Startup Social Media India Acquisition 361

www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

I was lucky to sign on as advisor and investor the founder of a very high-profile consumer Internet site who happens to also be a former engineer, who I will call Richard. Minted.com is both a global design community and stationery retailer. The first thing I did was to find an advisor who I could trust.

CTO 43

CTO CTO Hire PHP Cofounder 43

reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

the consumer internet landscape in 2004 vs. today. In 2004, the consumer internet was just beginning to rebound. we weren’t the natural leader of a market or technology trend that everyone was paying attention to, we didn’t have substantial organic growth, and. In 2004, investors regained interest in the consumer internet again.

Entrepreneur 111

Entrepreneur Revenue Viral Networking 111

Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

It was adopted by the consumer packaged goods industry in the 1950s and spread to the technology business in the last quarter of the twentieth century. 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).

Silicon Valley 260

Silicon Valley Product Startup Product Development 260

venturebeat.com

MARCH 8, 2011

Don’t use company property or Internet, ever - Another clause in most employment agreements is that anything you do physically at work, or on software and equipment owned by the company (e.g. Assume everything you do on the Internet is recorded, cataloged, tagged, and monitored continuously. And you need to watch your ass.

Software Review 41

Software Review Startup Technical Review Mobile 41

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Flaws in design as a different story, and shouldnt be treated the same way; a user can live with software that doesnt have one of the features advertised, but he cant live with software where a feature sometimes does one thing, and sometimes another. October 22, 2008 2:31 PM Eric said. This was the age of Alvin Tofflers Future Shock.

Software Review 164

Software Review Engineer Management Technical Review 164

Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

Burr, Egan, Deleage [Boston] –> Huge wins in the 1980s and early 90s included Continental Cablevision (sold for $5.3B – now a big chunk of what is Comcast), Qwest Communications, Cephalon (biotech IPO, acq by Teva), and Powersoft (Burr, Egan made 35x when it went public and then was acquired by Sybase).

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