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Startup IPO Market: A Fickle Mistress ? AGILEVC

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Startup IPO Market: A Fickle Mistress. The IPO market, she is a fickle mistress. In the first half of 2011, the IPO markets were looking strong for VC-backed companies. For a time that meant that other category leaders accelerated their own IPO plans… think Groupon and Zynga. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC.

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The most important 2021 Predictions in entertainment tech and gaming

VC Cafe

Looking ahead at 2021, with vaccines being rolled out (slowly) in the developed world, it feels like we have a grip on what the year ahead might look like – the new normal. billion gamers worldwide will help the global games market generate revenues of $189.3 In Newzoo’s l atest report , analysts predicted that in 2021, 2.8

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Why We Invested in Flyp: Unlocking Recommerce Supply

View from Seed

Flyp’s workflow automation capabilities and AI-driven inventory matching system empower these entrepreneurs to develop and scale their at-home reseller businesses. The company has recruited a network of tens of thousands of small online resellers, frequently individual stay-at-home entrepreneurs, onto its platform.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). I certainly bear no ill will to the various firms that ultimately passed on our fundraise… as a seed stage VC myself now I can appreciate how hard it is evaluating companies at the earliest stages of development. We three partners are working hard.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

The value ascribed by subsequent investors (in a secondary); buyers (acquisition); or the public markets (IPO). Coinvestors: Flexible VC terms have not been standardized, which may make the investment harder to syndicate. which they co-developed with Fenwick & West. . Volatile, uncapped. Flexible VC: Revenue -based.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. And this was a huge product, which took years to develop.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

Or are they running to a fresh perspective, a massive talent pool, and an innovation culture that balances social impact with global domination? The newest development phase dubbed “TMC3” will lead the world in life sciences research commercialization. Did COVID-19 fundamentally change things, or was it just the final straw?

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