Feld Thoughts
OCTOBER 18, 2019
One of the many great things about the Governor of Colorado is that he’s an entrepreneur, having started multiple successful technology companies, including BlueMountainArts.com (acquired by Excite for $800m) and Provide Commerce (IPO, then acquired by Liberty Media for $500m).
This is going to be BIG.
JUNE 19, 2012
The other day I wrote a post about the lack of Enterprise Software disruption coming out of NYC —and a lot of people responded that I wasn’t citing Buddy Media. When I looked at the site, it had the term “Social Enterprise Software” written all over it. Social Media Software. Facebook Pages.
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BeyondVC
APRIL 4, 2018
Look at the Dropbox IPO which priced above its initial value and came out white hot at the end of one of the worst weeks in stock market performance. Despite that, it’s also hard to ignore the following facts: Enormous spend and growth for public cloud and app infrastructure, middleware and developer software of $50b (Gartner, Pivotal S-1).
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
If you want to understand the details of why this is, I covered it in detail in this post, Understanding Changes in the Software Industry. IPO markets had burned an entire cycle of retail stock investors and many institutional investors to boot. This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. The Exit Problem.
Ben's Blog
MARCH 24, 2011
The open source movement dramatically reduced the cost and improved the quality of systems software. For example, the 1998 IPO class had average revenue of $120 million (and net losses of $65 million to boot). Average consumer bandwidth increased 100 fold due to cable modems, DSL, and high-speed wireless networks.
online.wsj.com
JULY 11, 2012
In the 1990s Internet boom, easy money helped founders maintain more control early in a companys evolution, but founder CEOs without voting control often got replaced by a professional manager ahead of an IPO. ignited the current trend by adopting a dual-class voting structure before its IPO in 2004. Enlarge Image Close. Google Inc.
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