Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2011

The $30 billion trade surplus in advanced technology products that America enjoyed just one decade ago has now become a $56 billion deficit. Nothhaft, in his new book “ Great Again: Revitalizing America's Entrepreneurial Leadership ” are already calling these last ten years the “Lost Decade.” The innovation engine that powered the U.S.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2014

The story struck me as significant for three reasons – firstly, because Freelancer founder Matt Barrie had been very public leading up to the IPO about wanting to list in Australia over both London and NASDAQ. Finally, that this was not the first highly successful tech IPO in Australia in 2013 with OzForex raising AUD $439.4

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

McLaren Technology Acquisition Corp, the SPAC focused on fintech recently closed a $ 201 million IPO at NASDAQ. As Chairman of the Diversity Committee of STEM, Sajan introduced Step IT Up America to train and hire 5,000 women technologists, a program endorsed by political and industry leaders. ?He

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 28, 2010

Everybody agrees that, without meaningful job growth, America will not emerge from its current deep economic funk. 6) The most efficient fuel for this IPO engine is venture capital. v) “Since 1999, over 60% of IPOs have been VC-backed. Of the 85 IPOs priced so far this year, only 28 are up. GDP growth, the U.S.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 3, 2019

Companies as disparate as FireEye, Zuora, Virgin America and Salesforce.com have leveraged these breakthrough marketing changes to win over customers and become industry leaders. Three years later their IPO valued the company at more than $2 billion.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

This method was perfected by Gil Elbaz and his team at Applied Semantics in LA and in what some have called “ the most important acquisition ever made by Google ” they acquired the company for $102 million before Google had even IPO’d. What Do We See From the Road Ahead? The infrastructure phase of the Internet is over.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Square filed its S-1 several weeks ago and is now in the middle of its IPO road show process. A bunch of articles came out saying that Square had “priced” their IPO below last round and this was something terrible ranging from the bursting of a tech bubble to the coming of the apocalypse. appeared first on AGILEVC.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Questions I ask Mike Evans: [1:46] Could you give us a high-level overview of the startup of Grubhub to IPO to what you’re doing now? 12:51] Right up to IPO at which point you quit, which I think some people would actually say, you made it now, why are you quitting? He lives in Chicago with his wife, daughter, dog, and bike.

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Pascal's View

OCTOBER 6, 2009

I’ve been speaking publicly for over one year about the disastrous impact of the capital markets crisis in accelerating the demise of small emerging company IPO’s. In addition to revitalizing America’s slipping global competitiveness, restoring emerging company IPOs in the U.S. IPO market.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 28, 2016

Launch an Education Reform Dialogue Among America’s Educators. Fix Venture Capital by Fixing the IPO Market. Jump-Start America’s Trade Agenda. .” “Not Enough People with the Skills We Need” Incentivize STEM Education. Launch a Curriculum-Focused Dialogue Between Business and Education.

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Pascal's View

MARCH 18, 2010

Susan Mangiero , CEO of Investment Governance’s Fiduciary X , asked me the following: Question: Do you think than anemic IPO market will remain a deterrent to VC investing? I believe that an entire generation of American innovation is at risk as a result of the lack of IPO’s. Yes I do. I believe that the U.S.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 29, 2012

Unfortunately, lost in too much of the "dramatic" coverage of the Facebook IPO has been the real lessons to be learned for those interested in successful technology and growth company investing. They exist within the legion of start-up, small business and middle market companies that make up the beating heart of entrepreneurial America.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 29, 2020

Put an emphasis on efficiency and don’t assume that at some stage everything will return to be the way it was before” Israeli Tech Recovery Depends on America’s Ability to Overcome Covid-19. Source: NVCA , “Startup Ecosystem Faces Capital Crunch over Coming Months” USA – SBA Loans and PPP.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

But in 2012 a visit to any major college in America will show you the massive increase in aspirations of our young talent to become the next Mark Zuckerberg and build a future Facebook. IPO markets had burned an entire cycle of retail stock investors and many institutional investors to boot. The Exit Problem.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Michael was the lead research analyst for the IPOs of Internet companies like UUNET, Yahoo!, eBay, DoubleClick, Webex, Real Networks, Exodus, Equinix, amongst many other pioneering companies, as well as covering companies like America Online and Netscape. He was an Institutional Investor ranked analyst for several years.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Twitter CEO Costolo Talks Ads, Facebook, and IPO – [link]. How Facebook killed the big IPO – [link]. How Liberal Arts Colleges Are Failing America – [link]. Chicago magazine writes about the tech scene here at 1871 – [link]. Ten Ways to Get People to Change - [link].

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 28, 2023

If I didn't move, I wouldn't have had the same opportunities, wouldn't have been able to join companies like Juste and do the IPO and luck, the IPO, how many companies IPO, far and few between once again, and there's a luck factor behind that and the right timing of that. So I moved to London at the age of 19.

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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).

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

The article points to America’s innovation crisis along lines that have been articulated in greater detail by thought leaders including Judy Estrin and Norm Augustine. Below, I quote several parts of the article that I found particularly useful, and I point out the error: First, the positive: “America needs good jobs, soon.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

And I’ve been fortunate enough to witness their startups scale from ideas to $1B+ businesses (and even an IPO in the case of Poshmark). Finally, while my home base is San Francisco, I am investing across North America along with the rest of our team as we believe great ideas and inspiring founders transcend geography.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

While that note was a simple but heartfelt message from us, I felt compelled to make a more detailed post regarding why Full Fridge can’t continue, and the unfortunate reality that servicing middle income America is not an appealing market. It is interesting how the definition of success varies from person to person.

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Venture Chronicles

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Like most people, I had the opportunity to review Facebook’s IPO filing yesterday and admit that, like Apple’s recent earnings announcement, this is pretty damn impressive. Here are a couple of lessons worth reinforcing: 1) People’s view of what is normal and acceptable in emergent online activities is constantly evolving.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 12, 2009

It boggles the mind that Washington would enact new policies sure to prolong this (IPO) drought and strike at the heart of American innovation.” IPO drought testifies to a systemic liquidity crisis for emerging growth companies that is putting at risk an entire generation of innovative American companies. from the WSJ editorial).

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2013

Thanks To Facebook, Strongest Year For IPOs Since 2000 With $21.5 Ad agencies are discovering products like Columbus discovered America - [link]. Why You Should Give Yourself Permission to Screw Up - [link]. Good discussion about the tension between being a maker and manager … Becoming A Boss - [link].

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 25, 2019

In America alone, there are up to 13 different types of schools , that gives a glimpse to the options in public and private schools, and once you start adding in homeschooling variations you can see that there are many views on how best to educate our young.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Zynga Leans On Some Workers to Surrender Pre-IPO Shares – [link]. Of the 55M mortgages in America, more than 10M are reasonably likely to default – [link]. SaaS CEOs: Measure Customer Engagement – [link]. 26 Promising Social Media Stats for Small Businesses – [link]. Very shady, if true. – [link].

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

One company with an astonishingly high rake is recently IPOed Shutterstock, a photo-purchasing marketplace where the content owner receives only 30% of gross receipts. These reasons are likely behind the struggles in GroupOn’s core Daily Deals business ( North America Third Party Revenue is down in Q4 both YOY and QOQ ).

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). If Reid were to start a company today he’d probably have every VC in America offering to back him, but this wasn’t necessarily the case when we started LinkedIn out of his apartment in Mountain View at the end of 2002.

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

So Groupon obviously filed their S-1 the other day to formally being the IPO process. But it turns out the majority of the company’s revenue comes from outside the US & Canada … about 54% of revenue in Q1 2011 came from the International segment (non North America). AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups.

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Scott Kirsner of The Boston Globe called them the startup equivalent of the Justice League of America. The CEOs on the panel were (from left to right): Michael Simon, CEO/founder of LogMeIn (2009 IPO) . Scott Griffith, CEO ZipCar (2010 IPO). Gail Goodman, CEO Constant Contact (2007 IPO).

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Seeing Both Sides

JUNE 1, 2012

Facebook's IPO brought their "hack" culture to the forefront of the world's conscience. There are 200,000 employees at JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America each and 350,000 at Citigroup. Well it turns out, technologists are hacking everything - from advertising to media, from retail to health care, from education to banking.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 24, 2012

Groupon’s Andrew Mason Talking About Daily Deals Site’s Stock Smack, Future Plans and IPO Regrets (Or Lack Thereof) – [link]. The Real Reason America’s Schools Stink [link]. Payment Data Is More Valuable Than Payment Fees – [link]. Facebook adds 500 terabytes of new data to its databased every day – [link].

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

the voice of customers would indeed sound “bizarre” to all of the corporate people that had been locked away in their towers instead of walking their store aisles like Sam Walton, the founder of Walmart, used to do to “keep it real” and then taught his children in his book Made In America. Because everyone alphabetizes the list.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2023

If I didn't move, I wouldn't have had the same opportunities, wouldn't have been able to join companies like just eat and do the I P O and look the IPO o you know, how many companies IPO O far and for few between it once again. The only country that the book hasn't come out yet until now is in the US and Canada in North America.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 5, 2012

Some Thoughts On The IPO Market For Web Companies (by @fredwilson) – [link]. This will give you pause – income inequality in America visualized as physical map of NYC – [link]. The Seven Habits of Spectacularly Unsuccessful Executives – [link]. My advice to startups pitching the media – [link].

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2013

Case in point: It took Amazon six years to earn a dime, during which it consumed huge amounts of venture funding and issued an IPO. After all, if the ebbs and flows of the economy over the last couple decades have taught us anything, it’s that innovative small businesses are what help America prosper.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 29, 2014

To sell out would make it one of the largest music concerts ever played in America — highly unlikely for an English electronic band. Depeche Mode had decided to play the Pasadena Rose Bowl — capacity 60,000 — for the 101st show of their 1988 tour. If that moment even comes, which it most likely will not.

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