The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

Look out for more products that aggregate and organize existing accounts and automatically scrub your inboxes, feeds and social media connections. Facebook’s IPO was a tell-tale sign that startup valuations are very unpredictable and susceptible to major changes. Christopher Kelly , NYC Conference Centers. Logan Lenz , Endagon.

API 157

API Social Media Mobile Valuation 157

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

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Targeting new investors is your priority — whether your company is gearing up for an IPO or it’s already on the market. While end-to-end IR solutions aggregate all your data in one place, a siloed approach separates each process into a distinct tool, isolating analytics from reporting, targeting, and surveillance.

Government 145

Government Aggregator IPO Portfolio 145

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

There’s too much PR and too many tech blogs and too many newsletters and aggregators and Twitter summarizers to even try to catch everything that’s going on and equally there’s so much noise that it becomes harder to be heard.

Software Review 150

Software Review Turkey Portfolio Syndicate 150

View from Seed

MARCH 5, 2019

2019 is shaping up to be the year the dam broke for decacorn IPOs, with Lyft, Uber, AirBnB, Pinterest, et al in the queue. So it’s not really the case that Lyft’s riders (in aggregate) are using the service more often, but rather Lyft is getting much better at netting more revenue per active rider. Lyft’s S-1 dropped on Friday.

Aggregator 120

Aggregator IPO .Net Revenue 120

Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

In that same time frame, United States IPO volume declined 75% in real terms and now accounts for less than 11% of the global total. 7 Companies in China have raised more than $1 billion in an IPO this year. IPO by far this year will be the government ward General Motors. In the U.S. These are fantastic new markets for U.S.

Africa 104

Africa Brazil China India 104

View from Seed

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

One of the most highly anticipated startup IPOs of recent years, we now get a peek inside Airbnb’s business. Uber is an $85B+ market cap company today but is essentially flat to its IPO price and late private round valuations. Airbnb’s public S-1 dropped Monday afternoon.

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North America IPO Europe Prospectus 401

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

Hunter Walk: Ok, so we first met when you were leading comms at enterprise software company Box, a startup you joined when they were still pretty early and stayed at until post-IPO. HW: Anyone who’s been through an IPO, I always like to ask about the experience because it’s such a classic, if statistically rare, startup milestone.

IPO 91

IPO Cofounder Early Stage Portfolio 91

Agile VC

MARCH 5, 2019

So it’s not really the case that Lyft’s riders (in aggregate) are using the service more often, but rather Lyft is getting much better at netting more revenue per active rider. Again as I highlighted above, in aggregate Lyft’s users aren’t taking dramatically more rides today then they were 3+ years ago. So what about those cohorts?

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Aggregator .Net Revenue IPO 100

Andrew Payne

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

You have to be living under a rock to miss all of the punditry & chatter about WeWork’s IPO filing. If you haven’t read their S-1 , it’s a piece of work: it’s the most audacious tech IPO I’ve ever seen, by far.

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IPO Aggregator Stock Cost 63

thebarefootvc

JANUARY 15, 2020

I had seen the beginning of this evolution during the Internet boom…my first venture investment, in 2000, was in a company called Yodlee, which later went on to IPO and was eventually bought by Envestnet. No entity is immune to technology disruption.

Disintermediation 69

Disintermediation Aggregator China API 69

Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2013

Because device IPOs are rare, and M&A is much tougher, liquidity for investors is hard to find. Moreover, the absence of recent IPOs and public companies benchmarks creates uncertainty for VCs evaluating later investments too. Venture Capital Issues. Early stage Venture Capital for medical device startups has dried up.

Startup 294

Startup Lean Venture Capital IPO 294

Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

So Groupon obviously filed their S-1 the other day to formally being the IPO process. Keep in mind Yipit is an indirect competitor in the daily deals space (essentially a meta aggregator of deals sites), but the analysis is sound IMO. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. June 5, 2011.

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North America Chicago Boston .Net 100

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. in 2013, with aggregate proceeds of over $38 billion. That is a 65% increase in the number of IPOs over 2012, and the highest proceeds raised since the year 2000. business entrepreneur investment IPO social media startup' It’s not too late to start.

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IPO Entrepreneur Social Media Startup 273

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

When the NVCA or PriceWaterhouse surveys come out at the end of year I’m not saying they will necessarily will show aggregate $$$ or deal numbers up. IPOs and M&A have returned – and with them the investment bankers have staged a rebound. – IPO-able in any normal market. There is a lot of pent-up demand.

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IPO Investment Bankers Venture Capital Marketing 255

View from Seed

JUNE 13, 2019

I know some of the investors in Chewy prior to the PetSmart acquisition, but I am not a shareholder nor do I intend to purchase shares in the IPO. Chewy helpfully provides some cohort data on both aggregate $ revenue, active customer spend, and LTV/CAC basis. spent by new customers in 2015, that same group (in aggregate) bought $1.65

Leadership 214

Leadership .Net Revenue Acquisition 214

Rob Go

JUNE 7, 2012

There is a dark cloud over the internet sector due to the weak performance of the Facebook IPO. Our recent investment in Farmeron is leveraging the rising availability of data being produced in the farming and agricultural sector, and other companies are similarly aggregating and making accessible oceanographic data.

Technical Review 61

Technical Review SMS Internet B2C 61

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 26, 2022

You can’t write the bestselling book on how to IPO your company if that’s not a thing you’ve done before—or can you? Ask yourself the following question: What book would serve you and your company well if you wrote it and it became a bestseller? Now, obviously, it’s got to be reasonable, right?

Founder 103

Founder .Net Term Sheet Aggregator 103

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

It’s entirely possible for the startup to be a massive success without having large aggregate numbers, because the startup has succeeded in finding a passionate, but small, early adopter base that has tremendous per-customer behavior. The visionary’s lament The Superbowl ad test Lo, my 57692 subscribers, who are you?

San Francisco 102

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Startup 102

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

In the late 90’s he saw the internet boom and helped start IronPlanet.com, a construction equipment marketplace that is nearing an IPO. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories. How did the experience of pitching Iron Planet to investors affect you as a VC? (5:00 5:00 – 5:55).

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Vertical Curation Boston Burn Rate 265

Gust

OCTOBER 17, 2012

When you aggregate all of the data, these angel investors (across the U.S. A little less than one-third of IPOs are of venture capital-backed firms. In fact, VCs eventually invested in only one out of three of the ventures, and the ventures in which they did invest produced lower returns than those where VCs did not invest.

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Seed Stage Silicon Valley 152

Agile VC

JUNE 13, 2019

I know some of the investors in Chewy prior to the PetSmart acquisition, but I am not a shareholder nor do I intend to purchase shares in the IPO. Chewy helpfully provides some cohort data on both aggregate $ revenue, active customer spend, and LTV/CAC basis. spent by new customers in 2015, that same group (in aggregate) bought $1.65

Leadership 100

Leadership .Net Revenue Acquisition 100

ithacaVC

DECEMBER 14, 2011

One final background point, a “liquidation event” is a sale of the company and typically NOT an IPO. So, after the Series B round the company would have $13mm of aggregate liquidation preference ($3mm plus 2*$5mm). Is the $13mm of aggregate LP a problem? Bottom line: we weary of building up too much aggregate LP.

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Liquidation Preference LP Preferred Stock Liquidity Event 49

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

They had previously all worked together at a very successful company in the “telecoms meets Internet&# space, CallWave, which IPO’d 5 years ago or so. initially captured the Internet portal revenues by aggregating eyeballs. This was their next act so they brought domain knowledge.

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Advertising Las Vegas Affiliate RSS 284

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 13, 2012

When you aggregate all of the data, these angel investors (across the U.S. A little less than one-third of IPOs are of venture capital-backed firms. In fact, VCs eventually invested in only one out of three of the ventures, and the ventures in which they did invest produced lower returns than those where VCs did not invest.

Angel Investor 103

Angel Investor Venture Capital Seed Stage Silicon Valley 103

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Examples of things I monitor are the numbers of user activations, active users, and aggregate page hits to user galleries. Examples of things I monitor are the numbers of user activations, active users, and aggregate page hits to user galleries. Application level diagnostics Despite the best testing, defects still happen.

Continuous Deployment 151

Continuous Deployment San Francisco Lean Wiki 151

View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession. Companies are retrenching, VC firms are going through their own upheavals, and IPOs are non-existent. Image from Sequoia Capital presentation.

IPO 202

IPO Early Stage Cofounder B2C 202

K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Typically, Pre-Seed rounds are less than $1M in aggregate capital raised. It is what Seed used to be from 2009-2013, until the Seed rounds got fat and bloated and the bar for raising a Seed round became a lot higher. Q: What amount of financing is considered Pre-Seed? Q: Is Pre-Seed a Thing? A: Yes, Pre-Seed is a thing.

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Seed Stage Finance Later Stage Equity 82

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

But aggregated across many schools, there are thousands or tens of thousands of them. ► 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.

Programming 143

Programming San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 143

Growthink Blog

JULY 23, 2012

In that same time frame, United States IPO volume declined 75% in real terms and now accounts for less than 11% of the global total. goods and services, especially services, and they are expanding in aggregate at a rate that even 10% U.S. And with their capital and confidence, China and India are stretching their wings.

Africa 76

Africa Brazil India China 76

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. Here are the major vulnerabilities that I see: 1. Network fragmentation.

Advertising 59

Advertising Mobile Aggregator Distribution 59

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. ► 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.

Customer 167

Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2022

These may be aggregated by an angel group up to about $1M for an angel round. Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public. Some of these groups also offer you the option of putting your money into a multiple-startup fund to spread your risk.

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Liquidity Event Angel Investor SEC Accredited Investor 300

David Teten

MARCH 2, 2013

Counting IPOs gets us only a short distance to an Answer. Firstly, “fund size” can be misleading as some firms prefer to raise a large aggregate amount split between several concurrent funds. This is a difficult question to study.”. Secondly, none of the VC return studies to date, including the ones we discuss here, are definitive.

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LP Securities and Exchange Commission Silicon Valley Venture Capital 114

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

The pressures of lofty paper valuations, massive burn rates (and the subsequent need for more cash), and unprecedented low levels of IPOs and M&A, have created a complex and unique circumstance which many Unicorn CEOs and investors are ill-prepared to navigate. In Q1 of 2016 there were zero VC-backed technology IPOs.

IPO 40

IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

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.

San Francisco 113

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

2gov.org automatically routes your tweet (aggregating it with everyone else whos expressed a similar point of view) to the right legislator or agency. 2gov.org automatically routes your tweet (aggregating it with everyone else whos expressed a similar point of view) to the right legislator or agency.

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San Francisco Founder DC Washington 150