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Groupon's S-1: From Zero to Like? Billions in 30 Months ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

So Groupon obviously filed their S-1 the other day to formally being the IPO process. They’ve grown from nothing to >$2B in revenue in 30 months time, making the company among the fastest growing businesses in the histroy of the world. Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $713M. in net revenue and passes $0.58

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

Both Sides of the Table

I believe that many social networks confused this idea. 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. Social networks continue to drive conversion of marketers. Perfect.

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Will Facebook be the Next Yahoo?

Rob Go

The entire Tech world is waiting with baited breath for the filing of Facebook’s IPO next week. Network fragmentation. 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.

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Of Birchbox and Bricks

Gust

They are mentioned in any print, website, or television content concerning beauty, startups, New York, great entrepreneurs, women leaders , or the next generation of IPOs. OK, read the next two words slowly: generate revenue. Sorry, yes, I know how retro this sounds. Worrying about revenues (or wolves) can slow you down.

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

pandodaily.com

Meanwhile, the rash of early liquidity and recent IPOs — unsatisfying as they were — gave liquidity to thousands of employees at large companies, and a subset of those made very real money. This time around, there has been an explosion at the early stages, and the very late pre-IPO growth stages. Source VentureBeat ]. -