Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

They’ve had a total of 12 deals that have IPO’d. Provides application performance management (APM) software solution that helps web sites manage distributed applications in high-volume production environments; features include: application mapping, transaction flow monitoring, code-level diagnostics, and cloud orchestration.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

adults spend 11 hours daily on consuming some form of media, from watching TV, listening to music, apps or games – that is a whopping two-thirds of their waking-time. A few examples: Commerce + Content + 5G AI + Video eSports and Entertainment Retail + Entertainment + Experiences Cloud + Gaming Data + Consumer Products + Sustainability.

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Vertical Artificial Inteligence Distribution IPO 113

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Cloud Computing. (1). Unveilling of the Bessemer's 10 laws of Cloud Comp. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Cracking The Code. Friday, February 27, 2009. SaaS 13 Index Valuation. My Investments.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 17, 2011

Smart Money are prescient angel investors and Venture Capitalists who started investing in social networks, consumer and mobile applications and the cloud 3, 4 or 5 years ago. But they don’t support his justification of the bubble valuations we are seeing for companies filing for IPO’s (Pandora Media just priced its IPO at $2.6

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Investment Bankers Stock Valuation Venture Capital 310

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 21, 2011

My background was 8 years of telecoms & mobile and 8 years of cloud computing & SaaS – so these two themes were a given. Digital Media was an obvious theme because it’s one in which LA (where I’m based) and NY (where I spend a lot of time) have strong assets, companies and management teams. Why Pay-Per-Call?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, August 24, 2009 Marching through quicksand I have been spending a lot of time lately talking to people in various media companies: editors and agents, executives, journalists, producers and directors. For established media empires, this is a scary fact.

San Francisco 113

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

Pascal's View

AUGUST 21, 2011

This time, the debate centers on the “favored few” Social Media venture backed companies that have brought tremendous windfalls to a select group of venture funds and management teams, both pre- and post-IPO. We should not let the greed emotions cloud our judgement. question in venture capital.

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Valuation Social Media Media IPO 50

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

Expo Intensive rocked, the mainstream media has started writing about the Lean Startup, and - most of all - the movement continues to grow and evolve. Expo Intensive rocked, the mainstream media has started writing about the Lean Startup, and - most of all - the movement continues to grow and evolve.

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San Francisco Lean Technical Review Software Review 133

Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

With high levels of public market volatility — the first we’ve seen in the age of social media and true real-time information — it feels like everyone and their grandmom is expecting a downturn. It’s an unusual time in the markets. “We’re in the nth year of an unbelievable bull market!”

IPO 76

IPO Private Equity Valuation Acquisition 76

Agile VC

MAY 22, 2014

In fact JD.com, which priced it’s IPO yesterday, is a direct seller (e.g. 4) It’s Unclear if Alibaba Looks Like an Media Company or a Marketplace – To be clear, Alibaba’s sites are obviously marketplaces. stocks inventory) and is really more analogous to Amazon. So Alibaba captured only 2.6

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, November 5, 2008 Getting educated about advertising, agencies, and media buyers I see lots of startups whose business plans revolve around selling high-value ad space to brand advertisers. Big-time media buying is a complex ecosystem that includes many entrenched players. 1 comments: Desoja said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Twitter about it or post it to a social media site? ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. Would you be willing to link to the Master Class info page from your blog?

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Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Software Review 60

Up and Running

APRIL 17, 2013

As for Google a decade later, after an IPO and billions upon billions in ad revenue later Google is one of the largest companies in the world. Social media maven Ashley Mooney is also a Glass Explorer and I’m already nicknaming her the Glass Content Queen. Imagine Tiger Woods, playing The Masters with them this past weekend.

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Michigan Boston Jordan Austin 96

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2007

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Cloud Computing. (1). Unveilling of the Bessemer's 10 laws of Cloud Comp. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Cracking The Code. Monday, February 12, 2007. SaaS 13 Index Valuation. My Investments.

Software Review 48

Software Review SEM Marketing Las Vegas 48

Cracking the Code

MAY 25, 2010

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. 10 Things Every CEO Needs to Know About Product Design" unveiled at the Bessemer Annual Cloud CEO Conference. I would like to see more info on the Annual CEO Cloud event. ipo process. Tuesday, May 25, 2010. "10

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Software Review Cloud IPO Jordan 74

Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 12, 2012

Isn't there plenty of euphoria and "animal spirits" to go around with the IPO market returning, marquee acquisitions (e.g., Instagram at $1 billion) and the impending earth-shattering Facebook IPO? Why is the new investment bar so high today?

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IPO Metrics Venture Capital Social Media 44

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 Mobile 41

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

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. IPO markets had burned an entire cycle of retail stock investors and many institutional investors to boot. The number of startups being created has increased by an order of magnitude. The Exit Problem.

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

Programming languages were radically less functional, hardware was literally a hundred times more expensive, and there was no virtualization or cloud computing or AJAX. Cloud computing, which was not available then, now enables companies to build massively scalable products with very little initial capital outlay.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Valuation Database 78

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

Designed for large businesses, the channels let a company share several types of documents, brand the channel with their own design elements, and then include display advertising, contest promotions, blog aggregation, social media integration and metrics reporting. The idea seemed to SlideShare to be a natural direction.

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San Francisco Lean Analytics Continuous Deployment 167

venturebeat.com

JULY 12, 2012

Cloud services. Cloud storage. Streaming media. Social media. Featured stories. Enterprise. Acquisition. Venture capital. Developers. Entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs. Infographics. Management. Electric cars. Hybrid cars. Renewable energy. Streaming video. Smartphones. Windows Phone. Google Plus. Social networking.

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Detroit Incubator Technical Review Venture Capital 69

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 6, 2009

The first event is January 21, and is being put on by Dealmaker Media as part of their Strategy Series events: In the Trenches: Cutting Costs in a Tight Economy. So, for those of you in the neighborhood, feel free to bring your questions to either event. There are no canned presentations, so you can come set the agenda.

San Francisco 60

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC 60

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

iRidium narrowed their audience into five segments: Best customers; Members of the target account buying community; Thought leaders ; Partners; Media and industry publications. How do you sustain growth that precedes the highest IPO in history for a software company? For cloud-based data warehouse Snowflake , that was ABM.

Marketing 105

Marketing Campaign Artificial Inteligence Sales Cycle 105

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

It represents the triumph of learning, over the naive startup creation myths we read about in the media. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. IMVU learned to learn.

Lean 74

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment DC 74

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Orcam was created by the founders of Mobileye (NYSE: MBLY and one of Israel’s largest IPOs ), Prof. is an AI-powered log analysis platform that offers the open source ELK Stack as an enterprise-grade cloud service with machine learning technology. Media and e-commerce sites are prime customers of this.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Startup 122

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

Customers and prospects are overwhelmed by the number of media and companies clamoring for their attention. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th.

San Francisco 68

San Francisco Lean Retention SEM 68

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 1, 2019

All the important SEO tools that you need for pay traffic, social media, PR and of course, SEO. I had Mike Stelzner on recently and he’s a social media examiner. You have to subscribe to the Adobe Creative Cloud for that. Check it out at semrush.com/partner/ducttapemarketing. We’ll have that in the show notes.

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Portland Audio Technical Review Video 58

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Now consider a traditional media business. The value of the attention that the media company collects determines how profitable it is. In the old days, these media companies would then themselves plow this profit back into marketing and advertising, and grow. Now consider a traditional media business. Sorry about that.)

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Customer San Francisco Viral Lean 156

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. Videogames Reach for the Cloud.

Silicon Valley 42

Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

philipsmith.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Cloud Computing. Silicon Alley Insider Henry Blodget, Nick Carlson and others musings on the state of digital media, financial, technology and other sectors. April 2010. Categories. Best Practices. Business Management. Communications. Entrepreneurship. Fundraising. Getting going. Globalization. Interesting Startups. Less Fortunate.

Silicon Valley 40

Silicon Valley Equity Technical Review Recapitalization 40

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

We used social media to get alpha users as outlined here during Feburary. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. Eric, thanks for this post very helpful.

San Francisco 168

San Francisco PR Lean Early Stage 168

Cracking the Code

MARCH 10, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. From our private investor experience, a breakeven in 1-2 year seems reasonable and if we look at Salesforce.com CAC ratio since its IPO, it is indeed within this 0.5-1 Cloud Computing. (1). Cracking The Code.

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Sales Software Review Marketing Technical Review 79

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Security, Cloud, NoSQL databases, etc. In the last five years, there’s been this sort of acknowledgment of the consumerization of the enterprise, which is consumer product development, design methods applied to business software, of which SaaS and cloud and all these things are examples. Nothing is going to stop cloud.

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Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22

Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Cloud Computing. (1). Unveilling of the Bessemer's 10 laws of Cloud Comp. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Cracking The Code. Tuesday, September 02, 2008. Death Sentence for SaaS.or for Lawson?

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Software Review Software Technical Review Cloud 48

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Our online media company is small, we have 6 employees, great proven leaders, great talent, great cashflow. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th.

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Software Review Technical Review Part-Time VPE San Francisco 94

infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

John has held a number of senior executive positions with successful startups during the past fifteen years, spearheading transactions, which generated more than $350 million of shareholder value, including an IPO and a multi-hundred-million-dollar acquisition. Opening The Cloud: Marten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus Systems. |. 2 Comments.

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