Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

I have conversations with entrepreneurs and other VCs on a daily basis about fund raising, the prices of deals, how much companies should raise, etc. Then you can do a little bit of research and find out that very few companies ever achieve this valuation in a trade sale so you’re clearly gunning for an IPO.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

This huge increase of capital is really just money that used to be invested post-IPO, so more value is captured by VCs who traditionally sold post-IPO In a way we see this late-stage capital as a different market segment than traditional venture capital but it gets lumped into the same classification. trillion in value. Still reading?

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 26, 2011

In the “you knew this was coming&# category, Bazaarvoice filed for an Initial Public Offering (IPO) of it’s stock today. In conversations with company co-founder and CEO Brett Hurt, he has always characterized the company’s financial condition by saying that they could stop growing [.].

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 21, 2016

Conversely, enterprise organizations get breached as a result of the complexity of their infrastructure at the present moment. When are we looking for funding, investors, or going IPO? These organizations have outdated technology, mismanaged processes, and poor implementations, leading to a constant uphill battle against hackers.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 10, 2018

You’ll find exceptions to this rule, like Snapchat, which was operating at a loss at its IPO, when it experienced high initial trading prices due to its huge popularity and untapped monetization capabilities. This the first and foremost way to begin evaluating the sellability of your company.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2017

It is fitting that 2012 is the year that Snapchat really took off in Los Angeles and raised its first venture capital and began a five year ascent to becoming LA’s most recognizable startup company and largest IPO alongside LAs other great startup brands such as Riot Games and Tinder. link] The Snap IPO Happened. What Next LA?

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 8, 2012

With close to 900 million users and an upcoming IPO , Facebook is ruling the web as the social network of choice. Others like the use of questions in one’s Facebook status updates, and the uncanny mix between promotional messages and conversation starters, were quite enlightening.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

GameFly filed in 2010 and remains in registration, though 2011 has seen a positive start for VC-backed IPOs with 14 in Q1 2011. Now that Google’s acquisition of ITA is closed, following lenghty FTC review, it would appear Kayak is poised to proceed with their IPO in the coming months. =. Quinstreet priced at $15.00/sh

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View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

Ellie Mirman was the first marketer hired by the CMO of HubSpot, the Boston-based marketing software startup that IPOed in 2014. NextView Ventures: Thinking back to before anyone knew HubSpot or the company was headed towards an IPO, where did you even start to market the company?

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

And I’ve been fortunate enough to witness their startups scale from ideas to $1B+ businesses (and even an IPO in the case of Poshmark). These reflections, conversations, side projects, and time with my newly expanded family gave me clarity.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 28, 2016

I’m glad I did – the conversation with John was stimulating. Fix Venture Capital by Fixing the IPO Market. When I know, work with, and respect more than 50% of the board of a new non-profit, I pay attention. “Not All Good Ideas Get Funded Anymore” Make the SBA More Entrepreneur-Friendly.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2009

Goldman Sachs (an investor in our company) told us we’d IPO within 18 months for $1 billion so not to take any offers. Having a conversation. Keep your conversations confidential. Our company was completely euphoric. We drank our own Kool Aid. We had one of the largest US software companies talk about buying us.

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View from Seed

MAY 31, 2023

Inspired by Mike’s reflection, and to better understand an entrepreneur’s perspective, I set out to have conversations of my own with founders who have completed the rebound. For example, in the Lerner’s and Scharfstein’s study the “success” benchmark was completing an IPO. I reached out to a dozen founders using the criteria of: 1.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

At the Upfront Summit in early February, we had a chance to have many off-the-record conversations with Limited Partners (LPs) who fund Venture Capital (VC) funds about their views of the market. Without some cash distributions, eventually LPs will become stretched.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

And even if somehow you avoid it until your IPO, remember that an IPO is a fundraising event itself. And there were other offers along the path to IPO that we also turned down. Funding : At some point if you want to build a large company, you are almost certainly going to need to take funding.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 12, 2023

We started this conversation looking at legacy companies with recurring revenue. And the enterprise value of these businesses at the M&A or IPO stage is almost always much higher than other types of businesses because of this. An exception: SaaS companies.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 9, 2019

When I was in Boston a while ago (it was very cold, so it must have been January), I had a wide-ranging conversation with Eric Paley. One of our conversational threads was about how to value companies.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 18, 2011

Kedrosky: "In the 90's I was an analyst through all this [tech investment and IPO] madness. The conversation at investment banks was 'why don't we have one of those?'. You want to build your own IPO and exit. An investment banker sees it as a serial kill, conquest, get the fee and move on. Think about when LinkedIn went public.

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The Next Web

JULY 20, 2013

“Do they really expect that the next Facebook will come knocking at their ivory towers with a polished product, proven business model and the only thing missing on the way to an IPO being their Series A investment?”. Sometimes it takes me up to an hour to feel I have at least somewhat succeeded.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

HomeAway is another one of our five tech IPOs in the last five years. If it wasn’t for a fierce conversation that I had with Arthur Patterson, the co-founder of Accel Partners, Coremetrics would have gone out of business in early 2001. As of today, RetailMeNot is worth $1.33 It is just four-years old?—?for It is worth $3.4

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

The value ascribed by subsequent investors (in a secondary); buyers (acquisition); or the public markets (IPO). Yes, via conversion rights at a valuation cap. Yes, via conversion rights at a valuation cap. On average, founders own just 43% of equity by Series B , declining thereafter. Volatile, uncapped.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 27, 2019

As I wrote about in this Lucky7 post , Bazaarvoice was one of the most capital efficient companies leading up to the IPO as compared to many companies that reach this milestone. But, most importantly, he said they love the accelerated face-to-face conversations in their new office space. And that is the big point here. Same point?—?but

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Hunter Walker

MAY 11, 2022

Think Of Your First Non-Investor Board Member As a Senior Hire, And Not Your IPO Board. Individuals who are *perfect* for that stage of the business and bring real world perspectives to the conversation. Being a CEO and running a startup is hard! And for the most part they do. These people are all available, identifiable and reachable.

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Austin Startup

MAY 10, 2021

three companies he previously worked for had successful exits including two acquisitions and one IPO. IoT Startup Hologram Hires Mike Georgoff as Chief Product Officer was originally published in Austin Startups on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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Austin Startup

MAY 10, 2021

The IPO netted $500M for UiPath (and another $700M for shareholders). Automation is En Fuego (part 1) was originally published in Austin Startups on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. You have to expect Automation Anywhere to make a push to go public in the near future.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 3, 2022

That’s the tweet sent by the venture capitalist after a big IPO by a startup they decided not to back years earlier. Maybe there’ll even be a screencap of their pass email, or similar ‘proof’ that they were in conversation with the founders during their fundraises. I was too bone-headed to see it. Should have invested.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In 2001 companies IPO’d very quickly if they were working, by 2011 IPOs had slowed down to the point that in 2013 Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures astutely called billion-dollar outcomes “unicorns.” How little we all knew how ironic that term would become but has nonetheless endured.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 17, 2014

Here’s one way to find out: after your first conversation, give a homework assignment relevant to your company and the job. Unless you’re in the blessed class of ventures on track to be the next billion dollar IPO, you just don’t have the resources to outbid the Googles of the world.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

I’ve had this conversation with several communities such as in San Diego where I believe there are way more qualified and talented engineers than available local capital to support them. That IPOs and then continues rising. Actually, there is tons of wealth in San Diego but it isn’t organized well to support them.

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 10, 2020

With Airbnb’s IPO, I thought the time was right to take a look back at the past decade (Greylock led Airbnb’s Series A in November 2010) and reflect on what I learned from the journey. After that conversation, I called around to learn more about Brian, Joe and Nate, and I got really strong references. HOW GREYLOCK INVESTED IN AIRBNB.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

I built a 3,000 person tech networking organization in NYC back in 2006 and was one of the first 100 members of the NY Tech Meetup back in 2005 so I’ve participated in a lot of these conversations. First, you have to ask yourself what the desired outcome is. Those two things aren’t really the same.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

That chapter, “Markets Are Conversations”, moved me more than almost anything I had ever read (you can read it for free at that link). Later on, it led to the b: monikor in our rebranding prior to IPO, so it was also playful. I was reading Chapter 4 of The Cluetrain Manifesto and it hit me?—?big The “voice of the marketplace”?—?it

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). Not long after the product launch we began the initial conversations with VCs for a Series A round. And obviously all the liq prefs went away in the IPO when pref stock converted to common. is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2013

Thanks To Facebook, Strongest Year For IPOs Since 2000 With $21.5 Lots of great insight in this Hacker News Conversation about MVPs and getting started - [link]. Why You Should Give Yourself Permission to Screw Up - [link]. Good discussion about the tension between being a maker and manager … Becoming A Boss - [link].

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 25, 2019

Previously, he was the Head of Public Relations at various successful startups like Dropmysite (reverse-IPO) and Folr (multi-million dollar acquisition). He specializes in creating meaningful and long-lasting conversations about game-changing businesses that go after grand ideas.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 9, 2021

During this time, Downs also was a key part of the industry’s most successful IPO and played a key M&A role in a highly acquisitive environment. Chargify Appoints New Chief Revenue Officer was originally published in Austin Startups on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

A 1997 vintage is likely to perform much better than a 2000 vintage because the former got to ride the dot com bonanza and likely saw some quick IPOs and crazy trade sales while the latter is more likely filled with many companies that never reached the promise land (or are still trying). Why does vintage matter to you?

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