crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 5, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Radio Still Good Advertising Option for Small Business – [link]. crowdSPRING’s Small Business Spotlight of the Week: Flightwise/ MyRadar Mobile Apps – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

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. Twitter Is A Media Business. Despite it’s long-standing protestations, Twitter is indeed a media company.

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IPO Aggregator B2B Internet 194

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Facebook Handled their IPO Exactly Right – [link]. Mobile Advertising: Twitter Sales Are Double That Of Facebook In A Google-Ruled, $2.6B – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Inside the IPO pipeline: It’s all B2B, all of the time | GeekWire – [link]. The Era Of Easy Riches In Mobile Apps Is Over | ReadWrite – [link].

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 31, 2012

Mobile advertising is a hot market right now. Evidenced most recently by the IPO of mobile advertising network Millennial and Singtel’s $321m acquisition of Amobee. Mobile traffic is growing fast, now up to 10% of all internet traffic.

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Advertising Mobile IPO Acquisition 113

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 21, 2011

My background was 8 years of telecoms & mobile and 8 years of cloud computing & SaaS – so these two themes were a given. Digital Media was an obvious theme because it’s one in which LA (where I’m based) and NY (where I spend a lot of time) have strong assets, companies and management teams.

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Mobile Advertising Affiliate Internet 329

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! Gregory Wehmeyer True, Ben, once upon a time, Angel Investors provided the launching pad for Venture Capital Firms to propel any startup on two legs toward a successful IPO.

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 84

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! Gregory Wehmeyer True, Ben, once upon a time, Angel Investors provided the launching pad for Venture Capital Firms to propel any startup on two legs toward a successful IPO.

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 83

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

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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Agile VC

AUGUST 1, 2012

About 6-12 months ago you could hardly throw a rock in the startup ecosystem without hitting a VC expressing their enthusiasm for “mobile” Now the frenzy about mobile has extended into the mass media and public equity markets, though with trepidation as often as excitement. First the enthusiasm.

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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. Stitcher - San Francisco-based service that lets users customize talk radio programming on their mobile devices. But I made it for a reason. Time will tell.

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Venture Capital Affiliate Valuation San Francisco 271

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Facebook S-1: The Most Anticipated IPO in a Decade. Here’s my first look at Facebook viewed through the lens of their IPO filing. How They Make Money : Facebook’s primary revenue stream is of course selling advertising on Facebook.com, which in total accounts for 85% of revenue. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC.

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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.

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Investment Bankers Technical Review Cofounder Due Diligence 153

VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Foundry Group is an advertising start-up "bull" it would appear. We think of these investments as part of our “Glue” theme – meaning that they’re all essentially connective technologies that help increase the velocity, accuracy, transparency and availability of online advertising. Do you see a window developing?

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Technical Review Due Diligence Venture Capital IPO 60

www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Follow Entrepreneur on Facebook Follow Entrepreneur on Twitter Follow Entrepreneur on LinkedIn Subscribe | Mobile. 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? Entrepreneur Mobile.

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Sweat Equity Equity Fractional CTO CTO 55

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 23, 2016

Remember, your brand followers will be your strongest advocates, so when someone needs a recommendation for the kind of product or service you provide, they’ll be the ones out there providing you with “free” advertising. A good way to gauge how strongly your customers feel about your brand is through a customer survey.

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Software Review Merger Advertising IPO 46

BeyondVC

JULY 31, 2008

They understand the media and online world, are well connected, and work diligently to get the job done. IPO vs. M&A)? (My With our computing world living in the cloud, there will be a whole new generation of mobile applications that leverage the increased computing power and faster broadband speeds that are offered today.

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Jordan Exit Strategy IPO Semantic 60

Seeing Both Sides

JUNE 1, 2012

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. Facebook's IPO brought their "hack" culture to the forefront of the world's conscience. Plastiq will soon be hacking large ticket purchasing.

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Software Review IPO Technical Review America 41

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 22, 2012

Although Facebook’s stock price has fallen well below its IPO price of $38 per share, many people agree that the stock is still significantly overpriced. Alarmingly, even the lead underwriter in the IPO, Morgan Stanley, recognized these trends and cut Facebook estimates just before the IPO. It’s not.

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South Korea IPO Russia Stock 88

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

They’ve had a total of 12 deals that have IPO’d. Palm (acquired by HP ) – In our interview we talked about how transformational mobile computing is and why it’s different than web computing (e.g. It’s clear that many companies are going to need to understand “authority&# in the social media era.

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IPO .Net Venture Capital Strategic Investors 236

Scott Edward Walker

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

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. This is how we think about our IPO as well. They brought us closer together.

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Entrepreneur Securities and Exchange Commission IPO Engineer 65

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. There is no sector of the economy that isn’t being transformed by the online community that is now voraciously consuming media, applications, communications and buying global products. Mobility really changes everything.

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Scott left the company, which eventually IPO’d and became Internet Brands. Geodelic develops free mobile applications to easily browse your surroundings (restaurants, banks, businesses, etc). Includes content mobile guides, ie. Competitors: Google (Invite Media) , MediaMath , X+1. Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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San Francisco Venture Capital Analytics Government 248

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Mobile Payments Set to Grow Even Faster. Mobile payments have revolutionized how we pay for our purchases at checkouts. Gartner expects mobile commerce to make up 50% of all ecommerce payments in the US by the year 2017 and Statista predicts that the volume of mobile payments worldwide will exceed $720 billion by the year 2017.

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New Zealand Mobile Australia China 100

www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

Advertise with GeekWire. Mobile News. It’s still the Pacific Northwest, and Dealmaker Media has assembled an eye-opening list of speakers. Gist works the way you do – in your inbox, on a mobile device, or in a web browser. Small tech firms outpace big counterparts with IPOs. About GeekWire. Contact Us.

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Venture Capital Seattle Cofounder Software Engineering 42

Agile VC

MAY 23, 2012

In the wake of the undue frenzy leading up to and now ex post recriminations about Facebook’s IPO, the mainstream media and normal folks keep wondering if the non-existent “bubble” for internet companies has now popped. Turns out commerce and advertising are kinda different businesses actually. Read More ».

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Internet Silicon Valley IPO Seed Stage 182

The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

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

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Social Media Acquisition Curation IPO 60

View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

Pierre Valade, Co-Founder of Sunrise & Mobile Designer at Microsoft. He was previously VP Product at Runkeeper (sold to Asics), a General Manager and Director of Product at Zynga (IPO), and Director of Product at Conduit Labs (sold to Zynga). Pierre Valade, Co-Founder of Sunrise & Mobile Designer at Microsoft.

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Operations Cofounder Technical Review Angel Investor 176

adamac.blogspot.com

MARCH 9, 2010

Adam MacBeth Tuesday, April 07, 2009 10 Startup Red Flags Ive worked on a number of startups: from seed-stage through IPO, as a founder, employee, advisor, and consultant, as well as evaluating a bunch from the outside, so Ive seen my share of screw-ups. Adamac Attack! Im @adamac on Twitter.See my homepage for more.

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Technical Review CTO Hire Fractional CTO Startup 41

venturebeat.com

MARCH 8, 2011

For example, you know that to avoid social media shitstorms you’re supposed to have stupendous customer service , so you claim as much on your website. Steve One important thing to have under these circumstances: a good mobile smart-phone. This story originally appeared on his blog.) You have to work in fits and spurts.

Software Review 41

Software Review Startup Technical Review Mobile 41

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 11, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Google, Apple or IPO: What’s Next for Square? | The decline of the mobile web - crowdspring.co/1lIlKL4. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 28, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lessons Learned from Bill Gross’ 35 IPOs/Exits and 40 Failures – [link]. Half of What Online Advertisers Know About You Is Wrong – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 107

Seeing Both Sides

JULY 22, 2012

Over a year and a half ago, I did a two-part blog post on the East Coast IPO malaise – one focused on Boston (Massachusetts more broadly), another focused on New York. On the heels of the successful Kayak IPO, I thought I would do a retrospective look back. Meanwhile, not a single New York technology IPO has taken place.

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Boston IPO Technical Review New York 52

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). Read More ».

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Silicon Valley Carried Interest Cofounder Boston 240

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

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%). In my case I'm looking at Social Media (boss LOVES social!), Remember how enamored I was with strategy three of CI tools with traffic sources to improve acquisition/marketing/advertising?

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Analytics Vertical Metrics Web 133

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]. Very shady, if true.

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Social Media Small Business Design CTO Hire 94

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 5, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! In the red: 73% of tech IPOs aren’t profitable when they debut – [link]. 30 Unbelievably Awesome Print Advertising Examples – [link]. – [link]. – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 91