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. Facebook admits as much that the ad business, which again accounts for the vast majority of revenues (85%), has seasonality in line with the media industry generally with a strong Q4 and weak Q1.

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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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Venture Capital Saudi Arabia Burn Rate Kuwait 150

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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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

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. For example, there are five major markets where Facebook is not the top social network : China, Russia, South Korea, Japan, and Vietnam.

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South Korea Russia IPO Stock 88

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. Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. Do you think the impact of social media is effecting Google’s search business?

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Vertical Curation Boston Burn Rate 265

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

www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

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.

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CTO CTO Hire PHP Cofounder 43

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2022

He talks in detail about ten of the key challenges that Facebook faced in their growth, to move from a tiny social media upstart to one of the most successful companies in the world. For others, including Facebook, it is penetrating China despite political constraints, and India, where only thirty percent of the population is on the Internet.

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Startup Social Media Acquisition India 361

Austin Startup

JANUARY 24, 2018

It is true that in Austin it is historically more likely that successful companies will sell early rather than pursue the big IPO. They show up at happy hours, they show up at demo days, they connect on social media and over coffee. Some people have argued that Austin lacks motivation to pursue big economic outcomes.

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San Francisco Austin Sweden Germany 48

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. Several discussions on social media have founders asking if they should hedge their FOREX risk.

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Technical Review Lock-up Period South Korea 158

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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Silicon Valley Carried Interest Cofounder Boston 240

venturebeat.com

MARCH 8, 2011

For example, you know that to avoid social media shitstorms you’re supposed to have stupendous customer service , so you claim as much on your website. It covers a range of technology trends, from social media to mobile, clean technology, games and chips. You can’t afford to hire three developers to add features and bugs.

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Software Review Startup Technical Review Global 41

Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

IPO market and simply dismiss the American equity markets for emerging growth companies today as “no longer engineered for brokers & bankers to make money via flipping over-valued startups to retail investors via institutional cronies” (from Paul Kedrosky’s blog). And then there are those who look at the broken U.S.

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Delaware IPO Venture Capital Private Equity 37

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

IPO markets had burned an entire cycle of retail stock investors and many institutional investors to boot. There is no sector of the economy that isn’t being transformed by the online community that is now voraciously consuming media, applications, communications and buying global products. The Exit Problem.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2019

He talks in detail about ten of the key challenges that Facebook faced in their growth, to move from a tiny social media upstart to one of the most successful companies in the world. For others, including Facebook, it is penetrating China despite political constraints, and India, where only thirty percent of the population is on the Internet.

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Social Media India Acquisition China 218

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).

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Venture Capital Seed Stage LP Valuation 48

Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 29, 2009

The large media companies, too, were seen as great early customers and hotbeds of innovation (I remember how thrilled we were when we secured Time Warner's ground-breaking Pathfinder division as a customer at Open Market back in 1995, thinking we had landed what would be the 800 lb gorilla of the Internet age).

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New York Washington DC New York City 20

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2017

He talks in detail about ten of the key challenges that Facebook faced in their growth, to move from a tiny social media upstart to one of the most successful companies in the world. For others, including Facebook, it is penetrating China despite political constraints, and India, where only thirty percent of the population is on the Internet.

Social Media 163

Social Media India Acquisition China 163

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. Welcome, Logout. Customer Center.

Silicon Valley 42

Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

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%). In my case I'm looking at Social Media (boss LOVES social!), Any big shifts in investment (marketing, customer experience, team sizes, tools). And other such things. Direct Traffic (I get a lot of it!)

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Analytics Vertical Metrics Web 133

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

中文-简体 (China). Media & Marketing. Media Agencies. Less than 1% are currently in IPO registration. Defending Japanese Waters From Chinas Navy. Defending Japanese Waters From Chinas Navy. Ran gold Resources Ltd. View All Search Results » Subscribe. América Latina.

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Venture Capital Software Review North Dakota Rhode Island 107

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 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. 10:44) The moment the company went below 1x growth for the first time since it was founded as the pandemic hit China and then Europe. (11:50) Our China business was really affected.

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Silicon Valley Hosting Cofounder Employee 60

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! Popular Media: the key to viral marketing.

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Software Review Software Technical Review Cloud 48

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Twitter CEO Costolo Talks Ads, Facebook, and IPO – [link]. How Facebook killed the big IPO – [link]. Does Your Company Pay For Social Media Reviews? - [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 95

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. Thanks to Shane McEvoy, Flycast Media ! #19- Before getting accepted to Hangzhou Teacher's Institute, he was thrice rejected by them. 19- Bill Gates.

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Romania United Kingdom Entrepreneur United States 126

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. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. One Datacenter. Single Instance, Multi-tenant.

Software Review 48

Software Review South Korea IPO Portfolio 48

www.businessinsider.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Tech/Media. Look How Much More Expensive Luxury Items Got In China This Year. Look How Much More Expensive Luxury Items Got In China This Year. Media Jobs. After Long Startup Journey, Seesmic Is Bought By Social Media Management Service Hootsuite [Confirmed]. Remember me. Forgot username or password? Enterprise.

Silicon Valley 54

Silicon Valley Startup Valuation Venture Capital 54

Start Up Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2019

What happened: Google leaves China + Uber launches in App Store. Why it mattered: Google leaving China was the start of a New Cold War. China pushed hard to create clones of Western online services and even made better ones – see WeChat. To date, its market capitalisation has now increased fourfold since the IPO.

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Technical Review China IPO Vesting 105

Haystack

DECEMBER 28, 2019

These combined effects have helped open new markets, new geographies, and new economic opportunities for people worldwide; they’ve also drawn the ire of privacy advocates, aspiring politicians, and the airwaves on social media and the traditional media at-large. 3/ The Streaming Media Effect. That’s the politics.

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China Startup Lock-up Period Cap Table 146

Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

While the global financial crash of 2008 and the resulting Great Recession initially slowed job growth in Silicon Valley, the meteoric rise of smart phones and social media helped the tech industry as a whole to power ahead despite the near collapse of the global economy. First Street and Market Street by Leo vanMunching.

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San Francisco Silicon Valley California Oakland 20

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Media Temple. Social Media Tracking/Marketing. analytics for social media and online. social media and email marketing. Sourcing in China. Smart China Sourcing. Catch Media. Email Integration. Domains.Co. Text Editor. Macromates. Sublime Text. Name.com *. Bluehost *. StartLogic *. Windows Azure.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

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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Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93