Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

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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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. Mobile traffic is growing fast, now up to 10% of all internet traffic.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 11, 2014

Google, Apple or IPO: What’s Next for Square? | The decline of the mobile web - crowdspring.co/1lIlKL4. “Real Time” in Display Advertising Doesn’t Really Mean Real Time - crowdspring.co/1hyAnvG. Peet’s Coffee & Tea Inks Profit-Sharing Deal with Razorfish | Advertising Age – crowdspring.co/1hmm2C4.

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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. 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. I’d take an offer from FourSquare.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 23, 2020

According to a study of 3,000 mobile searchers by Google & IPOS, nearly half indicated that they are more likely to convert elsewhere if they can’t call a business directly from the search result. But could it also be that 96% of users reported encountering websites that were not built with mobile in mind ? Get it now.

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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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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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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 9, 2014

A Discussion on Material Choices in Mobile – crowdspring.co/1lYw8iS. With IPO Hopes Fading, Square And Box Face Reality Of Commodity Products | TechCrunch – crowdspring.co/1rWbako. The Answer to the Organic Reach vs Advertising Problem on Social Media Channels – crowdspring.co/1rTUmdM.

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

————————————– A couple of weeks back Twitter acquired a mobile advertising company called Mopub for around $350m in Twitter shares. That way the next IPO will be easier and the one after that will be easier again.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 21, 2013

Mark Cuban Says Dead IPO Market for Small Firms Hurts Competition – [link]. Mobile Isn’t Just a Screen or Device, It’s About Behavior | Advertising Age – [link]. Adapting To A Responsive Design (Case Study) | Smashing Mobile – [link]. ” – [link]. Webdesigner Depot – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 28, 2013

Lessons Learned from Bill Gross’ 35 IPOs/Exits and 40 Failures – [link]. Half of What Online Advertisers Know About You Is Wrong – [link]. Amazon’s New Mobile Ad Network Is A Huge Threat To Google | Business Insider – [link]. Native Advertising Is Bad News | Digiday (by Ben Kunz) – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 2, 2014

Hottest Pre-IPO Adtech Startups | Business Insider – crowdspring.co/1k6cUmV. Is Native Advertising Even Profitable for Brands? – crowdspring.co/1ftv1Y3. 80% of Your Culture is Your Founder | First Round Capital – crowdspring.co/1lk0ZGm. The Sharing Economy Is About Desperation | NYMag – crowdspring.co/1k6bGZ4.

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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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VC Cafe

JANUARY 20, 2014

last year, more than any other major index), and the IPO market is booming. While there were IPOs (notably Wix in November), most of the acquisitions were made by global technology companies with R&D Centers (and their corporate M&A teams) in Israel, including Apple, Google, EMC, AOL, Cisco, IBM and now Facebook. Bubble 2.0 $4.2

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 5, 2012

Radio Still Good Advertising Option for Small Business – [link]. crowdSPRING’s Small Business Spotlight of the Week: Flightwise/ MyRadar Mobile Apps – [link]. Some Thoughts On The IPO Market For Web Companies (by @fredwilson) – [link]. Advertising Isn’t Dead – The Creative Process Is – [link].

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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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The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 18, 2012

VatorTV had an article this morning reporting on the growth in mobile advertising. They note from the eMarketer chart inset right that US mobile ad spend is up 180% this year to $4.1bn and say that “after years and years of every year being proclaimed as the ‘year of mobile’ it finally happened in 2012”.

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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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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2013

Thanks To Facebook, Strongest Year For IPOs Since 2000 With $21.5 5 Predictions For Online Advertising | Fast Company – [link]. 50 Creative advertisements of cars | Ants Magazine – [link]. 50 Creative advertisements of cars | Ants Magazine – [link]. Billion Raised | TechCrunch - [link].

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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. These mobile visitors were responsible for more than 1.1 billion visits to mobile apps in the same time frame (up from 320 million in late February). I think they will find a way to make money from that.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

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. We are coaching VCs and Angel Investors everyday who call us wanting to understand our Early Stage LPO versus late stage IPO approach to business.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

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. We are coaching VCs and Angel Investors everyday who call us wanting to understand our Early Stage LPO versus late stage IPO approach to business.

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 8, 2013

There was a good round up of Facebook mobile advertising stats on Techcrunch yesterday, culled from a number of different sources. These are the highlights: 20% of ad spend on Facebook now goes to mobile, from a standing start last March and up from 14% since October. 71% of ad spend targeted to phones goes to Android.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Zynga Leans On Some Workers to Surrender Pre-IPO Shares – [link]. Report: Search To Dominate Mobile Advertising By 2015 – [link]. Are We At An Inflection Point For Mobile Search? Steve’s Last Laugh: Adobe Killing Off Flash For Mobile Devices – [link]. Very shady, if true. – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Facebook Handled their IPO Exactly Right – [link]. Mobile Advertising: Twitter Sales Are Double That Of Facebook In A Google-Ruled, $2.6B 40 Naughty Animals In Extremely Creative Advertisements – [link]. 60 Advertising Posters With Inspiring Ideas – [link]. – [link]. Market – [link].

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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. You want to build your own IPO and exit.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 3, 2014

In advance of the IPO I reconnected with their SVP Product & User Experience Alex Kinnier, whom I know from our days together at Google. I couldn’t ask Alex specifically about the IPO or future plans but wanted to get some more info on a company that gets less press than your typical social app but is poised for an amazing run.

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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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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 5, 2012

In the red: 73% of tech IPOs aren’t profitable when they debut – [link]. 30 Unbelievably Awesome Print Advertising Examples – [link]. 30 Unbelievably Awesome Print Advertising Examples – [link]. Building a Responsive, Mobile-First Navigation Menu – [link]. – [link]. – [link].

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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! link] Terence Donnelly.

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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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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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allthingsd.com

JULY 16, 2012

It’s clear that factors like the greater American economy and the bumpy tech IPO market don’t necessarily have a direct and/or timely correlation with venture capital spending. Social investments in the Internet sector are down, though mobile social is booming after the Facebook-Instagram deal. ATDmobile (Mobile).

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 23, 2014

According to a study of 3,000 mobile searchers by Google & IPOS, nearly half indicated that they are more likely to convert elsewhere if they can’t call a business directly from the search result. But could it also be that 96% of users reported encountering websites that were not built with mobile in mind ?

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BeyondVC

JULY 31, 2008

Anyway, here are the questions and my response: Even though there is uncertainty in the credit markets, a stalled IPO market, and few billion-dollar plus M&A transactions, the investment activity level and appetite for quality businesses in the middle-market continues to be vibrant. IPO vs. M&A)? (My Exit Strategy.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 27, 2022

This figure only includes studios, and doesn’t include gaming infrastructure and supporting services (advertising, payments, distribution etc) which serve the gaming industry. Israel’s gaming industry is primarily focused on mobile gaming, both social and casual. Israeli gaming startups generated $8.6 billion market cap.

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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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