Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

Some disgruntled younger partners left to go start a new firm in 1965 called Greylock. Some disgruntled younger partners left in the 90s to form what is now Redpoint Ventures (IT team) and Versant Ventures (healthcare team). Big success was Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), in which ARD invested about $2.1M

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Silicon Valley Carried Interest Cofounder Boston 240

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas. Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information.

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Technical Review Technology North Carolina Switzerland 128

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

It was one of the year's most successful IPOs so far, and has been heralded as a "landmark moment" for cryptocurrency's entrance into mainstream investing. Just before the IPO, I had a far-reaching conversation with co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong as he approached this major milestone for the company he co-founded back in 2012.

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IPO Cofounder Technical Review Government 113

Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 28, 2023

And despite not going to University, Ash became a serial tech founder and the first marketing director of the Unicorn Startup Just Eat. Well, you're going to judge it by the team, by the co-founders. Who should you partner with? It's the founders themselves. Can you find the right co-founder?

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Framework Cofounder Early Stage IPO 70

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Airbnb founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia had difficulty securing funding, so they launched a mini project to build some funds and catch investors' attention. Using this capital , the founders launched and enjoyed exponential growth in their first year, with 10K users and thousands of listings. Photo Credit: Jack Underwood.

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Entrepreneur Bankruptcy Southern California South Africa 94

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

He’s considering making me the permanent co-host so if you enjoy any of this episode or want to see me on the show on a more regular basis please Tweet @jason and let him know (he asked for direct feedback). In fact, their affiliate partners dissuaded them from doing so. How do founder get “liquidity&# (e.g.

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Venture Capital Affiliate Valuation San Francisco 271

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Security will shift from defensive to predictive AI-powered security (Norwest Venture Partners). Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Startup 122

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2023

Despite not going to university, Ash became a serial tech founder and the first marketing director of a unicorn startup – Just Eat). Well, you're gonna judge it by the team, by the co-founders. And when you're judging it by the co-founders, that's when you have to try and decide, okay, what have they got going for themselves?

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Audio Cofounder Framework Early Stage 86

Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

I usually don’t back a business unless there are founders that can build, sell, and service the new solution that is being brought to market. In this case, they could build and service it but they needed a third co-founder to sell it. My fellow partners at Austin Ventures may say this is the first thing they look for.

Bootstrapping 52

Bootstrapping IPO Business Model Software Review 52

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. The YCombinator founder believes this means great things for entrepreneurs.

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 84

www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Money Money Home Financing Taxes Accounting Basics Personal Finance Money Management Payments & Collections IPOs and DPOs Will Crazy Market Moves Kill IPOs and Slash VC Investment? Market value doesn't equal the sum of sweat equity invested by you and your partners. Financing Some Jobs Act Proposals Make Headway.

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Sweat Equity Equity Fractional CTO CTO 55

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. The YCombinator founder believes this means great things for entrepreneurs.

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 83

Austin Startup

MAY 29, 2019

But Bazaarvoice actually has a working network effect that benefits all participants: retailers, brands that sell through those retailers, consumers that shop at those brands and retailers, and Bazaarvoice and some of its partners. I wrote about this in detail in my first annual shareholders letter after Bazaarvoice became a public company.

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Networking Fractional CTO CTO Hire B2C 48

Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

Bob Fabbio was the founder and CEO of eRelevance and he was the man in the arena here?—?and For all of us Austin fans, I’m talking about Cotter Cunningham, the founder and CEO of RetailMeNot. HomeAway is another one of our five tech IPOs in the last five years. But I digress?—?this and I bet he’ll be back. It is worth $3.4

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B2C Austin Cofounder IPO 51

Austin Startup

AUGUST 24, 2019

At Coremetrics, I had to use mainframes and dumb terminals, clients and servers, the credit card industry, and any other analogy we could think of when explaining our idea to prospective investors, customers, and partners. Brant Barton, my co-founder, and I had left Coremetrics to start it together. Application Service Provider.

Software Review 48

Software Review Cofounder eCommerce Austin 48

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

Hunter Walk: Ok, so we first met when you were leading comms at enterprise software company Box, a startup you joined when they were still pretty early and stayed at until post-IPO. I had gone to high school with the founders in the Seattle area, and we had recently reconnected. First, congrats! Enter Box. They gave me a shot.

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IPO Cofounder Early Stage Portfolio 91

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 29, 2014

The IPO market for financial technology companies will start to heat up. If market conditions continue to be favorable, more IPOs are inevitable as these private market investors seek exits. The window is clearly open, so I wouldn’t be at all surprised if there are several more IPOs on the way in 2015.

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IPO API Silicon Valley Mobile 236

Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 13, 2021

The Greylock general partner and the host of The 20 Minute VC pick back up from a December 2020 episode of the popular podcast , during which Hoffman discusses his wide-ranging career and key lessons learned. If you’re a regular listener, you’ll know that Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman joined me on my show in November.

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Incubator IPO Networking Cofounder 36

www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

million of what partners hope will be a much larger fund. It’s still the Pacific Northwest, and Dealmaker Media has assembled an eye-opening list of speakers. Small tech firms outpace big counterparts with IPOs. Co-founder, National Editor. Co-founder, National Editor. GeekWire Events.

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Venture Capital Seattle Cofounder Software Engineering 42

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

After more than 15 years leading Sales and Marketing teams in the Media & Publishing spaces, he’s developed a unique passion for helping creators become more successful by leveraging books as a catalyst for opportunities and sustainable revenue. Matt Briel (01:33): Yeah, it's actually a really fun one. How am I gonna write all of this?

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Audience Revenue Distribution Differentiation 88

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.

Private Equity 68

Private Equity Merger IPO Equity 68

VC Cafe

MAY 21, 2021

This is a guest post by Kevin Baxpehler , co-founder and Managing Partner at Remagine Ventures. We at Remagine Ventures completed a new investment deal, continued working with our portfolio companies and in general saw IPOs, startups fundraising and succeeding at unprecedented levels.

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Iran Cofounder Germany 148

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Media & Marketing. Media Agencies. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., David Cowan of Bessemer Venture Partners has stuck with Mr. Dreymann. Breaking Up (With a Co-Founder) Is Hard to Do.

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Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

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.

China 146

China Startup Lock-up Period Cap Table 146

VC Cafe

JULY 9, 2010

Legolas Media – Currently in stealth mode, The Legolas Media team is focused on innovating digital display media. Co-founded by Yiftah Frechter, Yoav Arnstein and Ran Cohen, all former execs of recently IPO-ed Eyeblaster. Miscellaneous. Investment Rounds. Soho OS raised $1 million from The T.i.m.e (as

Media 109

Media Stealth Venture Capital 109

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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Silicon Valley Southern California Los Angeles Semantic 313

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

.” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. Media Temple. Social Media Tracking/Marketing. analytics for social media and online. social media and email marketing.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

VC Cafe

JULY 6, 2010

T oday, Internet users are overwhelmed with options to share and consume various types of media. But the solutions are very partial, focusing each on only one type of media (with the exception of Facebook perhaps). He started to look at his own experience with music and media as a user. He made it very profitable.

Media 84

Media Management API HTML 84

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. One of its champions includes Jason Goldberg, the co-founder and CEO of online design retailer Fab.com Inc.,

Silicon Valley 42

Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

I’m a female founder. I don’t have a technical co-founder. These are all of the things I heard from a founder that I recently backed. So what about all of the above statements—things that founders widely hold to be true barriers to fundraising? It’s the “hook” that gets a team noticed in a partner meeting.

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Venture Capital Cofounder Deal Flow Later Stage 162

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Extremely important for companies to plan their IPOs during a “strategic window” that will increase their odds of success. Going public is not easy : companies should be preparing for IPO in terms of media communication and internal management over a year ahead of IPO. October 2011 was the worst month for IPOs since 2008.

IPO 92

IPO Cofounder Europe 92

David Teten

MARCH 22, 2011

We are co-sponsoring two upcoming events with the HBSCNY: Tuesday, 03/22/11 at 5:00pm : HBS Alumni New Venture Contest: Regional Finals. Monday, 04/4/11 at 6:00pm: Innovation in Private Company Liquidity: Online M&A, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO. RSVP: [link].

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New York Private Equity Cofounder LLC 114

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

Fullfunnel co-founder Andrei Zinkevich says, “ABM is not that complicated, and it’s also oversimplified.”. iRidium narrowed their audience into five segments: Best customers; Members of the target account buying community; Thought leaders ; Partners; Media and industry publications. Keep doing what works.

Marketing 105

Marketing Campaign Artificial Inteligence Sales Cycle 105

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Establish credibility with potential partners. You need to combine your product with others, and this requires partners like OEMs or system integrators. A marketing launch can help you get in the door with those partners, if youre having trouble getting their attention. Founders push for it.

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San Francisco PR Lean Early Stage 168

www.theverge.com

JUNE 20, 2012

After Facebooks IPO flub, value of tech startups falls back to earth. A string quartet played a medley of pop radio hits as several hundreds startup founders, Goldman Sachs bankers, and venture capital investors, chatted over drinks inside a gleaming neon temple of Angel Orensanz in lower Manhattan. By Ben Popper 06.19.2012.

IPO 48

IPO Stock Switzerland Valuation 48

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

A great product enables customers, developers, partners, and even competitors to exchange their unique currencies in combinations that lead to financial success for the company that organizes them. Now consider a traditional media business. The value of the attention that the media company collects determines how profitable it is.

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Customer San Francisco Viral Lean 156

Scott Edward Walker

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Securities and Exchange Commission , we again present Mark Zuckerberg , co-founder of Facebook and indeed an amazing, inspirational entrepreneur. This is how we think about our IPO as well. The word “hacker” has an unfairly negative connotation from being portrayed in the media as people who break into computers.

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Entrepreneur Securities and Exchange Commission IPO Engineer 65