VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2021

Companies like iHeartMedia, SiriusXM, and Spotify are investing in and leading the evolution of audio, focused on music streaming (on-demand and lean-back modalities), podcasting and content production. Trillion Hours, 218 Billion Downloads – demand for new apps and games still grows globally, up 7% YoY.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 18, 2020

[I originally published this on Medium pre-IPO, so the tense is outdated, but I think the framework holds]. Every big tech IPO results in predictable Twitter chatter. You can also sell a ton of the company to the public, trying to find the true market price for demand. I was at Google for their IPO.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2022

Today the rate of startups going public (IPO – Initial Public Offering) is finally up from the dead zone of the last two decades, and is now double the rate back in 1999. Thus, today around 90 percent of successful startups are still acquired by bigger companies versus an IPO, as the safer and preferred method of growth and funding.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, November 7, 2008 Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online service, step-by-step If you want to build an online service, and you dont test it with a fake AdWords campaign ahead of time, youre crazy. Turns out, there was aboslutely no demand whatsoever for that particular product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

Today the rate of startups going public (IPO – Initial Public Offering) is up from the dead zone, but is still less than half the rate of 15 years ago. According to a recent Ernst & Young global report , 2014 was a strong year with IPOs actually outperforming other indices by 10 percent. Going public is an expensive process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Today the rate of startups going public (IPO – Initial Public Offering) is at an all-time low, and most entrepreneurs avoid this option like the plague, knowing the process is painful, and public company executives are seen as greedy sharks. entrepreneur Mark Zuckerberg startup investor IPO exit' Going public is an expensive process.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

IPO market is broken”, positioning their offering as an alternative to capitalize on the dwindling supply of smaller IPOs, pointing out that only 18 companies completed IPOs that raised less than $50M last year, versus 557 in 1996.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

More and more angels will be minted as the 2019 IPO class emerges. The shift in consumer behavior and the intensity of the Scooter demand was undeniable. To follow this demand, some of the best venture capital firms in the world poured billions of dollars into these companies, making their valuations soar incredibly fast.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

Projected IPOs for 2009 are an embarrassing 10 total deals, down from 86 just 2 years ago (it was 265 in the go-go years of 99-00) but at least up from 6 in 2008. Fred Wilson supports Montgomery’s view in this thoughtful post on the return of the tech IPO market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

With the advent and growth of crowdfunding over the past few years, many entrepreneurs have predicted the demise of those demanding angel investment groups and venture capital organizations. Your options for funding just increased, or at least you have a new way to get some real market feedback on the demand for your solution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2023

It’s time to scale up and I need money to keep up with demand.” The new investors you need at this stage are investment bankers, private equity, or competitors, to buy you out via merger or acquisition (M&A), or to go public with an Initial Public Offering (IPO). Congratulations!

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 24, 2017

There was a 33% year-over-year growth in camera unit sales from the recent Thanksgiving to the Cyber Monday period, indicating that consumer demand for GoPro units continues to be strong. Snap Inc’s stock SNAP increased 44% from the initial IPO rate on the first trading day. and $24.48 on the same day.

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Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Since then, the debate over IPOs has continued, with a particular focus on allegedly underpriced offerings that jump shortly after opening — the dreaded “pop.” ” As some criticism has it, this supposedly deprives companies of millions of dollars that should have been theirs if not for underpricing the IPO.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2023

Very few successful startups need only one funding round, and venture firm offerings, as well as the IPO process, will go up in cost, complexity, and risk, as the number of current investors goes up. Your options for funding just increased, or at least you have a new way to get some real market feedback on the demand for your solution.

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BeyondVC

MARCH 21, 2017

As you move upstream in your customer base to larger enterprises, the harder it is to just sell cloud -only as a delivery model as these larger customers demand on-prem or hybrid versions to meet regulatory and compliance needs. The post Thoughts from Mulesoft and AppDynamics IPO Filings appeared first on BeyondVC.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2021

Every startup demands logical changes along the way. Equity investors realize that they won’t see any real return until an exit occurs, such as a sale, merger, or IPO. Investors want to see a willingness to follow outside guidance, tempered by your own convictions. Don’t forget to focus on the value of you and your team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2021

Most entrepreneurs avoid setting up a board of directors for their new business unless or until they sign up an investor who demands a seat on the board. That implies that a board of directors has no value to the founder, and is just another burden that to be assumed for the privilege of attracting outside investors or going public.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2022

Don’t wait for the harsh reality of the demanding business world to start thinking about these tradeoffs. If you take investor money, expect a push for hockey-stick growth and a liquidity event, like going public (IPO) or sale (M&A), to get the payback. That’s not an attractive statistic if you crave control and power.

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Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

Tech IPOs Are Back – So Now What? Three of the five “blockbuster” tech IPOs I predicted have happened (LinkedIn, Groupon, Zynga) and the biggest of all (Facebook) has filed and will likely go public within the next 90 days. I see several dynamics at work in today’s IPO markets. March 8, 2012.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

Early-stage investors in technology startups are only looking for growth-oriented companies that can achieve an “exit&# someday – either via selling your company to a larger company or via an IPO. The former is much more likely than the latter. The risk wouldn’t be appropriate.

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Life Beyond Code

MAY 16, 2012

The profound lessons that startups can learn from Facebook IPO. Tomorrow is the Facebook IPO and I am not expert enough to predict what is going to happen. There are several people out there who are vying for your attention and stories like Facebook IPO is a great way to DEMAND that attention.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Practitioners sought providers specializing in healthtech who could meet the sudden increase in demand, provide an excellent service, and not blow through a digitization budget that more than likely was non-existent or dramatically scaled-back, pre-pandemic. .

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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? Did you feel that pressure to deliver immediately?

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thebarefootvc

JANUARY 27, 2014

The how and why are purely a function of Economics 101—supply and demand. Demand for late stage VC-backed companies. The influx of capital contributing to these valuations is happening at the lower risk, pre-IPO stage—once a company has scaled to prove out its business model with significant revenue and/or market share.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

It is also a result of pent-up demand. Bad stock markets mean less IPO’s and lower prices for M&A. My advice : if you’re raising a $750,000 round and you have demand for $1.2 In the following post I argue that this increased pace may be temporary. If the stock market holds then the pace of VC may hold steady.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2020

It’s time to scale up and I need money to keep up with demand.” The new investors you need at this stage are investment bankers, private equity, or competitors, to buy you out via merger or acquisition (M&A), or to go public with an Initial Public Offering (IPO). Congratulations!

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2019

If there is a gap in the market, there will be demand. There is a complete process to go for an IPO. After an IPO, you can retire and get a new management to work for the company. After an IPO, you can retire and get a new management to work for the company. Market Research. There is a simple rule of thumb. Acquisition.

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View from Seed

MAY 3, 2022

Through our other investments in this category, we at NextView have come to recognize the perhaps counterintuitive insight: the key to recommerce is on the supply side (not the demand side) of these marketplaces. Unlocking inventory of products that could be resold & reused so that they will be resold & reused.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

It seems that most of you entrepreneurs I meet in my role as business advisor are convinced that starting a new business requires equity investors, exponential growth, and a plan to go public via IPO. You want to be your own boss, and do things your way. Take pride in your leadership role in the local environment.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

This method was perfected by Gil Elbaz and his team at Applied Semantics in LA and in what some have called “ the most important acquisition ever made by Google ” they acquired the company for $102 million before Google had even IPO’d. He built & IPOd Demand Media. He built & sold iMall in Internet 1.0

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

I find it amusing when a journalist writes an article about a prominent startup (either privately held or preparing for an IPO) and decries that, “They’re not even profitable!” If there was strong market demand for their product then this investment might pay off handsomely. One of them is profitability.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

Next, Mr Blank states, “The LinkedIn IPO valued the company at $8.9 It sent a signal that there is an irrational demand for tech IPOs.&#. Here, he smartly narrows his bubble argument from technology companies to technology company IPOs, because, as I have shown above, there is no technology bubble.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

Companies, products and technologies that successfully cut through the clutter and deliver meaningful value will be in high demand. Facebook’s IPO was a tell-tale sign that startup valuations are very unpredictable and susceptible to major changes. Christopher Kelly , NYC Conference Centers. Logan Lenz , Endagon.

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Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Let’s not even get started with “on-demand” or “subscription e-commerce.” Why should a public market downturn determine an investment in a startup that has seven to 10 years to go before it can even think about an IPO? Whatever happened to IoT after Nest?

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

This is because these days it’s a trendy word, conjuring up images of youthful exuberance, all-night coding parties, and developing revolutionary apps that transform into mind-boggling IPOs. Although a plumbing company may be new but it can’t be considered a startup because it is not designed to grow fast. Startups play in a bigger field.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Bitmain, the world’s largest crypto mining company, filed for its IPO on the Hong Kong stock exchange. While most of the major US based exchanges, including Coinbase, only offer major cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin, the growth of exchanges such as Binance show the demand for smaller altcoins globally.

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Seeing Both Sides

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Last week''s successful IPO of e-commerce giant Wayfair (market cap $3B) and this week''s impending IPO of Hubspot (if it prices in the range, market cap $600m) has many in the Boston tech community celebrating. 2013 was the best year for IPOs since the tech bubble of the 90s and 2014 looks to wrap up even stronger this quarter.

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