crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

The past year saw startups on the rise, an increase in venture capital funding (both in real dollars and numbers of companies funded), a resurgence of IPOs, and the rise of David against Goliath, as best represented by Groupon’s spurning of a $6 billion offer from Google.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China. I was only in China for a week so this a cursory view. China Venture Capital. China now has plenty of both.

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

This is a model used in at least one case by China’s third-largest private equity firm, China Science & Merchants Investment Management Group ($12 billion+ AUM), which funded in 2015 CSC Upshot, a $400m seed fund through AngelList.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 28, 2010

6) The most efficient fuel for this IPO engine is venture capital. v) “Since 1999, over 60% of IPOs have been VC-backed. billion, followed by finance, 19 deals, and healthcare, 17 deals. Of the 85 IPOs priced so far this year, only 28 are up. GDP growth, the U.S. government dataset compiled by the U.S. (iv)

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 5, 2022

and created a small website about China and Chinese products. Who knew it was his first step toward building an empire that holds the record for the largest IPO. Anne also sits on the board of UK Finance and is an adviser to the Board of Trade. He first learned about the internet on a trip to the U.S. 24- David Cameron.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

This affects M&A activities for startups, which with the reduction of the IPO market could spell lower returns in the short-term for technology startup investors. Stock market declines equal lowering of wealth effects which in turn equals lower consumer spending and hits on corporate earnings.

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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. Plus Facebook has ample cash on hand today and will get a huge slug more from the IPO. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future. February 2, 2012. Facebook, Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Yet as we enter February 2017 the VC funding markets are booming, Snap, Inc has filed for its IPO, AppDynamics was just purchased for $3.7 And while the US had FANG (Facebook, Amazon/Apple, Netflix and Google) China has BAT (Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent). But it’s not just China and Singapore. Ok, Suster. Baidu alone raised $3.2

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Juno IPO’d while Joel was there, and it was the first “broken&# IPO of the dot-com era. There’s a big business in Finance working with Excel, but that’s an outlier. Mark: Apple is like China, they have introduced an incredibly amount of innovation to the market.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China. I was only in China for a week so this a cursory view. China Venture Capital. China now has plenty of both.

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Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 159

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

中文-简体 (China). Less than 1% are currently in IPO registration. Defending Japanese Waters From Chinas Navy. Finance, Banking, Loans, etc. Defending Japanese Waters From Chinas Navy. Ran gold Resources Ltd. View All Search Results » Subscribe. América Latina. Deutschland.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 30, 2018

That’s still OK given the IPO is more of a financing event than anything else, right? especially the Bay Area) and China. Well, actually, quite a few tech companies IPO’d in 2018, though many of those are a bit underwater now given December’s public market volatility.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Loading… Personal Finance. Personal Finance. 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. China Lifts Spending as Growth Ebbs. Welcome, Logout.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 14, 2019

For example, when LinkedIn China was trying to launch an important project, the project leader moved project team into a single hotel so that the team members could work for two weeks at a time without the distractions of everyday life. A jack (or jill) of all trades is actually a master of adaptability.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

I hope that you can join us Monday night, April 4, midtown NYC, at a panel on “Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO” The program is sponsored by the HBS Club of New York and the HBS Angels of NY.

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www.businessinsider.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Look How Much More Expensive Luxury Items Got In China This Year. Look How Much More Expensive Luxury Items Got In China This Year. Many if not most seed investments in startups these days are done in the form of convertible debt, which is a loan that can convert to equity in a subsequent financing. Finance Jobs.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

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. Those are shackles.

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www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

Part of Money & Finance HuffPost Lightbox. S&P 500 NASDAQ NYSE Gainers Losers Most Active Wikinvest data is provided as-is, delayed, and subject to Terms TOP VIDEO PICKS 1 of 13 Unimpressive growth for U.S. All rights reserved. startupcto

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Though the initial traction was in payments scene, new startups like Motif Investing and CAN Capital have entered advanced banking service areas of online trading and small business alternative capital financing. The big economies of US, UK, China and Australia together recorded about $20 billion in marketplace loan origination.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Yesterday, TechCrunch posted a neat slideshow on the nine largest venture capital and private equity financing rounds of the past 24 months. Didi Dache , which just raised $700 million, is the Uber of China. Xiaomi , to bring the promise of high-end “Apple-like” smartphones, to China’s 1.2 billion mobile customers.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

2007 was a turning point for the SaaS industry with the successful IPOs of NetSuite, SuccessFactors, DemandTec, Salary.com, Aprimo and Constant Contact. or What do I need to do to get ready for an IPO. Save Asia for post-IPO. Yahoo Finance. How can I best partner with the large public saas vendors? One Datacenter.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2011

In 5 to 10 years most of them will be worth a fraction of their IPO price. They finance companies that invest in new technologies, new ideas and new products. They are currently built in China.). Are we in the beginnings of a tech bubble – yes. A few will be worth much, much more.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

easy business finance software. Sourcing in China. Smart China Sourcing. YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents. Y Combinator : They provide a series of AA equity financing documents that are written with simpler words so start-up companies will have an easier starting point. Startup Threads. SlideShare.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

of the world’s population — has more companies listed on the NASDAQ than any country in the world save the United States and China. In 2014, for example, 18 IPOs raised a record-breaking $9.8 There are also American executives who have experience working with startups with R&D in India, China, and Israel. billion in 2013.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

The Deutsche Bank report has a very interesting chart on the topic presenting the Free Cash Flow margins vs. the revenue growth four years post IPO for select software leaders: As you can see, with 20% Free Cash Flow margin and a 50% growth rate, Salesforce is well positioned in the pack! Yahoo Finance. Post a Comment. Newer Post.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. Blitzscaling is a strategic technique for moving faster, not a reckless gamble.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The IPO market remained closed to IT startups, but there were big acquisitions like Google buying YouTube for $1.65B (Fall 2006) and late stage financing rounds for companies like Facebook (Microsoft round at $15B valuation in Fall 2007). Kevin Rose was on the cover of BusinessWeek.

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K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 12, 2015

This includes, but is not limited to money from China, India, Middle-East and also from “retail” investors (or otherwise unsophisticated investors who are attracted to a market simply because of the amount of press/media attention it gets). That increases the overall money supply coming in to venture.

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venturebeat.com

MARCH 8, 2011

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 29, 2009

And, secondly, NYC is where the big capital was - that is, after the company had matured past the VC financing stage. The rules of the game for the start-up's ultimate goal, accessing the public market through an IPO, were set by the investment bankers and sales desk traders on Wall Street.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Outcomes of the conversations with your Finance team and Sr. Leaders (company is leaving China, our IPO is next week, 1,800 new stores are being opened in 180 days, our new IRR is 8%). Any big shifts in investment (marketing, customer experience, team sizes, tools). And other such things.

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