This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 21, 2023

In other words, you’re one of dozens, perhaps 100’s of companies getting the same exact e-mail where the VC says they’re really excited about what you’re doing and they work with such and such partner and the firm has done such and such IPOs, etc. All they’re doing is filling a database. Do you know how I know?

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 24, 2012

Facebook adds 500 terabytes of new data to its databased every day – [link]. Groupon’s Andrew Mason Talking About Daily Deals Site’s Stock Smack, Future Plans and IPO Regrets (Or Lack Thereof) – [link]. It’s More Important to Be Kind than Clever – [link].

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 16, 2023

Feed the left by working on Late Night with Conan O’Brien and be the only one geeking out about an Access database to track guests. Over the previous years you could spend 12–24 month at a startup and become an IPO millionaire. Right brain mother and left brain father left me confused… which one was I??? Is it sustainable?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

For entrepreneurs who want to learn about how to work with investment banks, how to position yourself to be acquired and what the IPO markets look like this is the episode to watch. What does the market look like for IPO’s and is this likely to improve? Founder Bart Decrem and COO Andrew Lacy will join Disney as a senior VPs.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

They have an expectation that the IPO will be in 3 years and they were in at the ground floor. In LA we have www.socaltech.com but in every market there’s some sort of database. When I write an angel round check I always tell me wife, “let’s assume that money is lost.&# So goes angel investing.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 11, 2015

This compensation can come in the form of a stock option , a stock appreciation right, or a similar financial instrument, which can potentially be quite lucrative for employees at the time of a merger, acquisition or initial public offering (IPO). Common shares can have value, even if other stakeholders contractually get paid first.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 26, 2014

Over its 13 year life the web has vastly changed from primarily static pages to dynamic database driven automated (“rendered”) web page serving, which Drupal excels at. Will Amazon try to acquire all of Acquia before the inevitable IPO? Amazon has a strategic value beyond many other companies or VCs in their investment.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

I know he’s smart but you wouldn’t hire a Javascript developer to do your database design – would you? When we want to sell or IPO companies they’re there again. But I don’t have money to pay a fancy lawyer – I’ll just have my cousin do it - Don’t. Here’s a hack for you.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

MARCH 28, 2014

Three items from the frontier… University of Chicago Booth School high growth startup GrubHub has filed for an IPO. The dissertation will include a case study, a database of high growth student entrepreneurs, their firms, and universities. Been awhile lots of research and busy with new opportunities at George Mason Universities.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 23, 2012

Facebook initiated an interview to re-initiate investigation of the rejected patent application on Valentine’s Day 2012, shortly after it announced its upcoming IPO. The USPTO patent assignee database reveals that than 500 patents (512) came to Facebook direct from AOL with the last week. And the effort finally paid off.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2012

Facebook’s latest IPO is an excellent example of a company that has yet to fully understand (or at least announce) what its process for generating income will be. a year for access to their database for industry information that is not available anywhere else. Basically a customer pays either $5.00

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

Los Angeles has a strategic asset : content creation skills – In order for the Internet to go mainstream you first needed the infrastructure to support it from networking equipment (Cisco, Juniper) to databases (Oracle) to search (Google) and more recently mobile devices (Apple). A great team from MySpace has created Gravity.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Massive proprietary databases? ► 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. I dont think so. Can the company dig into its tools when they fail and fix them?

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View from Seed

APRIL 14, 2015

We realized you could put some data to it, so we looked at the Harvard database of HBS alumni who self-identified as founders and cross-referenced that with CrunchBase. But if you look at the companies in that group of HBS classes, there are a number of companies heading towards an IPO and others that will be good acquisition candidates.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 23, 2012

Facebook initiated an interview to re-initiate investigation of the rejected patent application on Valentine’s Day 2012, shortly after it announced its upcoming IPO. The USPTO patent assignee database reveals that than 500 patents (512) came to Facebook direct from AOL with the last week. And the effort finally paid off.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 21, 2011

Most companies trying to innovate in this space wind up, to pay the bills in the short term, falling back into the rut of paid placement or selling access to databases of resumes. Post IPO, I’m sure LinkedIn will do some tuck in acquisitions here and there, but the reality is that the whole space is hemorrhaging cash for the most part.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

They maintain a huge database of passive candidates, by offering to pay them when they interview. ► 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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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Do you have a bug database? ► 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. For more on continuous deployment, see Just-in-time Scalability. Do you fix bugs before writing code?

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

For example, the 1998 IPO class had average revenue of $120 million (and net losses of $65 million to boot). If you just look at the tech IPOs that have been completed year to date from 2010, the average revenue of this group is north of $300 million. The first major change was the move to relational database technology.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 1, 2013

If you are more conservative, want a good salary and prefer to pick a "safe" winner, then a highway phase company that is pre-IPO or recently IPO'ed is the right choice. . LinkedIn is an incredibly powerful tool, as are the various alumni databases. Pick a Winner. Once this heuristic is complete, you now have your target list.

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David Teten

MARCH 2, 2013

Counting IPOs gets us only a short distance to an Answer. The first is that the ThomsonOne database shows capital weighted average returns consistently beating simple average returns for vintage years 1980-2008, implying that larger funds do better than smaller funds. This is a difficult question to study.”.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

*All* of the factors involved in delivering software are affected by starting with baseline requirements that are constrained to what the system should do and the process artifacts desired (say 5 forms reading and writing a database store). The visionary’s lament The Superbowl ad test Lo, my 57692 subscribers, who are you?

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

They have a cute little app that takes a picture of a business card, populates your contact database and data is confirmed through crowd sourced labor. Given the issues we had in the past around allocation of IPO shares, this would be a very sensitive issue. Mind you, this is clearly speculation on my part (what are blog posts for?)

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Then, the company spends no more than a few hundred dollars marketing the product through search engines and to the contacts in its sales database and LinkedIn. Then, the company spends no more than a few hundred dollars marketing the product through search engines and to the contacts in its sales database and LinkedIn.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

But they are often hard to spot in global databases like Crunchbase, Pitchbook or CBInsights, because even though they originate from Israel, they are registered as US companies. Israeli unicorn landscape 2021 - including recently 'graduated' unicorns that exited via acquisition, SPAC or traditional IPO.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2009

With so many deployments how do you deal with database schema changes and data conversion for these schema changes? OODBs and ORMs like NHibernate are great but you dont want users using the system while youre making database schema changes. Dont you need a maintenance window? May 1, 2009 4:05 PM Gabriele Lana said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Data storage is becoming a specialized function, delegated most often to relational databases. If you are storing all of your data in a relational database, and the load on that database exceeds its capacity, there is no automatic solution that allows you to simply add more hardware and scale up.

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The data that underpinned the analysis was from Correlation Ventures , which is a fund that invests programmatically behind certain investment signals – thus the large database of transactions. And exit was a sale of the business, IPO or wind-down. I thought the data were encouraging.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Wish I could figure out how to apply it to the average data warehousing project which has a single shareed database right at the heart of the entire solution. my data warehouse project has a "single shared database" in it too (the warehouse), and plenty of databases too (post-processing stages, marts).

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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. Pentagon Weighs Honors Database.

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Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Orcam was created by the founders of Mobileye (NYSE: MBLY and one of Israel’s largest IPOs ), Prof. Orcam (2010) – Orcam can potentially help the 280 million visually impaired people to automatically read any text they are looking at via a discreet device that attaches to the user’s eyeglasses.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

In old-school resume databases, most talented professionals didn’t want or need to participate. When you’re finding people on LinkedIn, you’re finding them through a network as opposed to a resume database. The journey from founding, to multiple rounds of financing, to IPO, was not easy. At LinkedIn, we had these moments.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

For tips on how to integrate it into your database and application layers, you can see the tail-end of my JIT Scalability talk. ► 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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paulgraham.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

The reason is that they get paid by getting their capital back, ideally after the startup IPOs, or failing that when its acquired. A startup building a new database will probably not do that. An ordinary slower-growing business might have just as good a ratio of return to risk, if both were lower.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Less than 1% are currently in IPO registration. Find opportunities in our business and franchise databases. DJVentureWire : Friday IPOs Fail to Price as Thursdays Rally Doesnt Carry [link]. —Vanessa OConnell contributed to this article. Write to Deborah Gage at deborah.gage@dowjones.com. All Rights Reserved. Franchises |.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

For this product, I later realized that I was the software architect, the frontend engineer, the backend engineer, the database administrator, the systems administrator, the QA engineer, and lastly I was the only technical support guy. It sounded fun in the beginning and I had a ton of passion to create this product.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2014

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