crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The Number One Mistake People Make When It Comes To Referral Marketing - [link]. Thanks To Facebook, Strongest Year For IPOs Since 2000 With $21.5

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

If you want the full SlideShare deck with many slides not in either post it’s in this link –> The LA Tech Market. Has it begun to mature or is it just better marketed than in was say 5 years ago? Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly.

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Los Angeles Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Seattle 376

Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Pursue Global Markets 2. Pursue Global Markets. 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. These are fantastic new markets for U.S. In the U.S.

Africa 104

Africa Brazil China India 104

thebarefootvc

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

On September 19, Ma led Alibaba to the largest IPO in history, listing the company on the New York Stock Exchange. Ironically, today, while Modi, leader of the world’s largest and most complex democracy, gave this speech, China violently cracked down on pro-democracy protestors in Hong Kong. Enter Modi.

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India China Africa Government 40

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 28, 2016

Fix Venture Capital by Fixing the IPO Market. China Free Trade Agreement. . “Not All Good Ideas Get Funded Anymore” Make the SBA More Entrepreneur-Friendly. Incentivize the Formation and Commitment of Angel Capital. Cultivate the Formation of Viable New Businesses. Increase Startups Access to Capital.

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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.

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Venture Capital India Startup 93

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 267

View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

To analyze what’s become of the OG Unicorns, it’s first worth noting that at the time of the 2013 post about 2/3rds of the 39 on the list had already been realized via IPO or $1B+ acquisitions. Most startups that hit this level did so via IPO or acquisition value. IPO value, $2.8B IPO value, $1.5B IPO value, $31.2B

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IPO Valuation San Francisco Silicon Valley 120

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. … Four of the twenty companies with the largest market capitalization in the U.S. . … Four of the twenty companies with the largest market capitalization in the U.S.—Microsft,

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Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Sequoia Capital recently made headlines with the NASDAQ IPO of Mecox Lane, a Chinese Internet retailer and the seventh IPO by a Chinese company backed by Sequoia in the last 18 months. As in where to build that electric car plant, where to put that server farm, where to assemble that team of software engineers. This challenge?

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Coder Brazil IPO Government 69

Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

Today, the signs of the new bubble are the Linked-In initial public offering (IPO), Facebook’s stratospheric valuation and the rapid rise of early-stage startup valuation. In the stealth phase , prescient angel investors and Venture Capitalists (VCs) start investing in an industry or market segment that others have not yet found.

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Silicon Valley Stealth Valuation Mississippi 327

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. Author howerl.

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IPO South Korea Venezuela Revenue 100

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.

Silicon Valley 159

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 159

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 Chinese Foreign Direct Investment (FDI, excluding real estate) skyrocketed in 2016 as Chinese investors seek diversification out of their domestic markets. Baidu alone raised $3.2

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Venture Capital Saudi Arabia Kuwait Burn Rate 150

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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Private Equity Merger IPO Equity 68

Agile VC

MAY 22, 2014

What we can glean from the S-1 is a qualitative understanding of the monetization of each marketplace, as well as a clearer understanding of revenue from the wholesale part of Alibaba (Alibaba.com/1688) vs the retail parts (Taobao, Tmall, Juhuasuan) and how much comes from China vs non-China (<10% of revenue is non-China).

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China Revenue Flash Affiliate 159

Haystack

DECEMBER 30, 2018

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. That’s still OK given the IPO is more of a financing event than anything else, right? I think this bear market is real and is medicine to deal with all the ICO hype of 2017.

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Lock-up Period IPO New York Warrant 103

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 19, 2020

This was supposed to be Airbnb's biggest year by many measures, including its IPO, which was one of the most anticipated since the 2008 financial crisis. First came their early awareness of the virus as business in China began to plummet. They watched it dissolve further from there, market by market.

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Management Cofounder China IPO 122

thebarefootvc

JANUARY 15, 2020

I talked about the mobile-first millenials, the rising middle (and unbanked) class in emerging markets and the inevitable opening up of financial data – referencing Plaid as an example of a key tech enabler.

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Disintermediation Aggregator China API 69

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

Industry & market sizing. Start with the evolution of the overall industry, market segmentation, market dynamics, and customer landscape. Data from accredited market research groups like Forrester or Gartner is required for credibility. Avoid any statements like “All we have to do is get 1% of the market.”

Business Plan 283

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 283

Eric Friedman

DECEMBER 30, 2020

As mentioned at the top I do not know anyone that predicted the global pandemic of COVID19, despite the writing on the wall and the cases growing in China at the time of this post last year. What a fun exercise and wow was I wrong! So first – how did I do? Here is my made up emoji scoring system for scientific purposes. = -1 = -.75

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Stock Private Equity Option Pool LP 120

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 22, 2012

Although Facebook’s stock price has fallen well below its IPO price of $38 per share, many people agree that the stock is still significantly overpriced. This is less true for Salesforce – it continues to be a market darling while continuously losing huge sums of money. And in its most important market – the U.S.

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South Korea IPO Russia Stock 88

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

Industry & market sizing. Start with the evolution of the overall industry, market segmentation, market dynamics, and customer landscape. Data from accredited market research groups like Forrester or Gartner is required for credibility. Avoid any statements like “All we have to do is get 1% of the market.”

Business Plan 290

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 290

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

There are times when small and slow is the right strategy for a specific market opportunity. When the market conditions are right, you should blitzscale for the benefit of all stakeholders: customers, employees, investors, and society. Blitzscaling is a response to market dynamics, not the cause.

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Cofounder Business Model IPO Non-Compete 28

View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2017

It seems obvious but strategic investment only makes sense when that corporate VC is providing technology, market access, or other aid that cannot be obtained through a simple business relationship or from a startup’s other investors or advisors. In the last 25 years Intel Capital has invested more than $11 billion in over 1,000 startups.

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Strategic Investors Post-Money Valuation Seed Stage Cofounder 120

Gust

AUGUST 5, 2012

Industry & market sizing. Start with the evolution of the overall industry, market segmentation, market dynamics, and customer landscape. Data from accredited market research groups like Forrester or Gartner is required for credibility. Avoid any statements like “All we have to do is get 1% of the market.”

Business Plan 182

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 182

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

The big economies of US, UK, China and Australia together recorded about $20 billion in marketplace loan origination. Lending Club and OnDeck have come out with IPOs which have been well-received showing the positive market sentiment about alternative lending through online platforms.

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New Zealand Mobile Australia China 100

Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

CRMs / marketing tech generally work. The interesting thing about the US market is that customer acquisition these days is actually fairly straightforward online now for most customer audiences. I fully realize that a lot of people do all their business in WeChat in China, etc). This is still a really large market, though.

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Asia Indonesia B2B Singapore 48

Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

CRMs / marketing tech generally work. The interesting thing about the US market is that customer acquisition these days is actually fairly straightforward online now for most customer audiences. I fully realize that a lot of people do all their business in WeChat in China, etc). This is still a really large market, though.

Asia 48

Asia Indonesia B2B Singapore 48

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. So it is a combination of markets and people. The contextual ad market was attractive. Since 2006 they have added offices outside of Boston including Menlo Park, Europe, and China.

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Vertical Curation Boston Burn Rate 265

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

Industry & market sizing. Start with the evolution of the overall industry, market segmentation, market dynamics, and customer landscape. Data from accredited market research groups like Forrester or Gartner is required for credibility. Avoid any statements like “All we have to do is get 1% of the market.”

Business Plan 186

Business Plan Exit Strategy Sweat Equity Intellectual Property 186

Growthink Blog

JULY 23, 2012

Well, for starters they a) pursue global Markets b) place company culture above all else and c) They embrace the Black Swan within and without. They Pursue Global Markets. 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. Your India strategy? •

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Africa Brazil India China 76

VC Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2022

China: $104.4 There are two main forms of exits for startups: trade sale/M&A or IPO. SPACs had their moment in the sun in 2021, with a record number of companies choosing to go public using the SPACs in favour of traditional IPOs. Plenty of fresh powder in the market across stages. US: $330 billion ??China:

Technical Review 159

Technical Review Lock-up Period South Korea 159

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2022

I found some good lessons in this regard in a classic book, “ Becoming Facebook ,” by Mike Hoefflinger, the former Head of Global Business Marketing at Facebook. Too many choices confuse all customers, and make your job in marketing, distribution, and support much more difficult. Less is more.

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Startup Social Media India Acquisition 361

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

He taught me, amongst other things, the benefit of “ top down thinking &# that changed the way I analyzed markets, companies and people. We worked together at Andersen Consulting between 1996-99 when the markets were booming. See, Mark, in a booming market you can never tell the winners from the losers.

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Turkey Differentiation IP Technical Review 302

www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

Size of Opportunity - market size, revenue or usage, exit outcome and their ability to get equity early are all important. Mark Udall We Must Reform the PATRIOT Act Bill Gates The Real Successes of Foreign Aid Todays Markets Loading. The people I spoke with were remarkably clear and consistent in their priorities.

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CTO CTO Hire PHP Cofounder 43