Rob Go

DECEMBER 28, 2011

IPO’s/Exits. Kayak: Registered for an IPO but on hold. Raised $174M in its IPO in April, current market cap ~$550M. in its IPO, current market cap of $282M. Please add more in the comments and I’ll update the post, as this isn’t meant to be comprehensive. Tripadvisor: An amazing entrepreneurial story.

Technical Review 54

Technical Review Boston Software Review IPO 54

Austin Startup

AUGUST 24, 2019

Many of my industry friends, serving as VPs of eCommerce at large retailers, thought we were crazy. But Amazon was just a small fraction of eCommerce at that time, and was dismissed by many retailers (how things have changed since then). All of the big eCommerce platforms hosted parties with us at the industry tradeshows.

Software Review 48

Software Review Cofounder eCommerce Austin 48

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. Reporters were no longer interested in talking about B2B eCommerce. Our company was completely euphoric. We drank our own Kool Aid. We had one of the largest US software companies talk about buying us.

PR 331

PR Software Review Ireland Germany 331

The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 9, 2014

I knew that Zulily , which Crunchbase describes as ‘A daily deal site for mums, babies and kids’ is an amazing ecommerce success story which IPO’d last year with a valuation in the billions. Ecommerce'

eCommerce 98

eCommerce Flash Forecast IPO 98

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2013

Thanks To Facebook, Strongest Year For IPOs Since 2000 With $21.5 10 brilliant examples of responsive design in ecommerce | Econsultancy - [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].

Social Media 94

Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Facebook Handled their IPO Exactly Right – [link]. The Ecommerce Graveyard: How 37 Popular Sites Used to Look – [link]. Why you should continue working on your bad idea – [link]. Making Money While Keeping Prices Low: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Explains It All (Mostly) – [link]. – [link].

Social Media 92

Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2018

Online and ecommerce businesses are especially attractive here, since they are instantly worldwide and not people-intensive. Since startup stock has little market value for several years until the company goes public (IPO) or is purchased (M&A), investors want to hear your strategy for offering them a good return on their investment.

Product 145

Product Intellectual Property Liquidity Event Exit Strategy 145

View from Seed

MAY 28, 2020

Beyond Meat’s successful IPO last year proved that plant-based meat companies can thrive in the public markets, leading to massive funding rounds in other alternative animal product companies. This enables restaurants to benefit from Toast’s online ordering and payments platform even if they do not use Toast’s POS hardware.

Memphis 256

Memphis Distribution Bankruptcy Operations 256

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

a part of an exciting team, building web applications such as social networking, ecommerce, games, sports, contact management, CMS and more.Re. Gregory Wehmeyer True, Ben, once upon a time, Angel Investors provided the launching pad for Venture Capital Firms to propel any startup on two legs toward a successful IPO.

Angel Investor 83

Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 83

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

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

They’ve had a total of 12 deals that have IPO’d. eCommerce is hot again! ReachLocal – we discussed this deal at length including what amount of revenue does it take to get to an IPO (Jim’s view, sub $100 million in fine as long as you have good margins and a strong growth rate). Read more: TechCrunch.

IPO 236

IPO .Net Venture Capital Strategic Investors 236

The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

But Wall Street isn’t thinking about the fact that Groupon is only four years old, they are thinking about the promises made when the company IPOd a year ago, and they weren’t impressed, sending the shares down 17% in after hours trading to $3.25 (the IPO share price was $20). The problem is of course that it is hard to know.

IPO 104

IPO Marketing Venture Capital eCommerce 104

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. I can remember when creating a web site for eCommerce could easily require a million dollar investment. Three of these, JUUL Labs, Didi Chuxing, and Toutiao have already passed $50 billion. Thus a record number of entrepreneurs (and team members) are getting rich.

North America 320

North America Incubator Initial Public Offering Exit Strategy 320

The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Growth is the main driver of value in our companies and it is what makes them exciting to IPO investors and acquirers. It is mostly ecommerce companies I’ve seen suffering from this problem. I share the view that growth is critical, and that without very high growth rates early on a business will never grow big. Sometimes not.

Silicon Valley 149

Silicon Valley IPO eCommerce Valuation 149

thebarefootvc

JANUARY 15, 2020

These new entrants will also likely provide services that we don’t foresee today, similar to the Amazon example [which expanded from online book selling into AWS, content production and domination of ecommerce].” ” In 2016 I gave the closing keynote, entitled Fintech 2020, at a fintech summit in Bogota.

Disintermediation 69

Disintermediation Aggregator China API 69

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Around this time B2C eCommerce had been dominating the media but the wheels were starting to come off. Everybody thought the real substance was going to come from B2B eCommerce players that would deliver “real value&# by disintermediating supply chains … blah, blah, blah. There was talk of an IPO in 12 months.

South Africa 310

South Africa Europe Disintermediation Poland 310

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. That is a 65% increase in the number of IPOs over 2012, and the highest proceeds raised since the year 2000. I can remember when creating a web site for eCommerce could easily require a million dollar investment. in 2013, with aggregate proceeds of over $38 billion.

IPO 273

IPO Entrepreneur Social Media Startup 273

View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

We are not an AR/VR, blockchain, AI, or ecommerce fund. He was previously VP Product at Runkeeper (sold to Asics), a General Manager and Director of Product at Zynga (IPO), and Director of Product at Conduit Labs (sold to Zynga). Fatma has advised and consulted startups in a wide range of industries from hardware to consumer goods.

Operations 176

Operations Cofounder Technical Review Angel Investor 176

abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

android ecommerce Internet iphone IPO marketplaces Mobile Payment Regulation Twitter Uber Uncategorized Venture Capital Web/Tech Analysis Errors Sharing Economy TAM UberX'

San Francisco 111

San Francisco San Jose Marketing Technical Review 111

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 26, 2022

You can’t write the bestselling book on how to IPO your company if that’s not a thing you’ve done before—or can you? Well, they’re certainly going to think that if they’re sending your Medium post to their other ecommerce founders or retweeting it. Now, obviously, it’s got to be reasonable, right?

Founder 103

Founder .Net Term Sheet Aggregator 103

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

My first day at Bazaarvoice was just a few weeks later, on May 2, 2005, and we built a company from inception to IPO on around $12m of capital use (out of the $24m we raised) in 7 years, creating over a thousand jobs and impacting clients all over the world?—?starting I built the eCommerce engine myself and self-funded the business.

Bootstrapping 48

Bootstrapping Austin Equity Cofounder 48

Version One Ventures

JULY 20, 2015

immediately following its IPO). Bessemer offers a good overview of current valuations for different business models: SaaS, marketplaces, consumer, and ecommerce. Etsy had a market cap of about $2.22B as of July 20, with a revenue multiple of 8.2 and a GMV multiple of 0.92 (but note that its GMV multiple was as high as 1.7

Valuation 60

Valuation Early Stage IPO eCommerce 60

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Gartner expects mobile commerce to make up 50% of all ecommerce payments in the US by the year 2017 and Statista predicts that the volume of mobile payments worldwide will exceed $720 billion by the year 2017. The big economies of US, UK, China and Australia together recorded about $20 billion in marketplace loan origination.

New Zealand 100

New Zealand Mobile Australia China 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. Last year was the most active year for IPOs in the United States since 2000. 275 IPOs were completed in 2014, topping the 2013 total of 222 by more than 23%. IPO proceeds also shattered 2013’s high-water mark of $55 billion, with an impressive $85 billion in proceeds.

IPO 120

IPO Angel Investor Startup Incubator 120

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 21, 2011

Their last company was in the telephony meets Internet infrastructure space and the three RR founders were there through the IPO. eCommerce companies that don’t recognize this are turning away business. Why Pay-Per-Call? It’s just a couple of minutes and done in a humorous way.

Mobile 329

Mobile Advertising Affiliate Internet 329

Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

In the 90s, in the US, going IPO was a common liquidity path. But after consumers became wary of IPOs, M&A became the much more dominant path, though IPOs are coming back in favor again in some cases. Or will these companies go IPO? What this looks like for SEA is unclear and even more unclear is the timeframe.

Asia 48

Asia Indonesia B2B Singapore 48

Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

In the 90s, in the US, going IPO was a common liquidity path. But after consumers became wary of IPOs, M&A became the much more dominant path, though IPOs are coming back in favor again in some cases. Or will these companies go IPO? What this looks like for SEA is unclear and even more unclear is the timeframe.

Asia 48

Asia Indonesia B2B Singapore 48

Hearpreneur

MAY 15, 2016

Prior to founding Rukkus, I was a quantitative analyst at Goldman Sachs where I was a member of the advisory team for the Ticketmaster/Live Nation merger as well as the Groupon IPO. Since then, we moved our storefront to Amazon and our own eCommerce website. I am also an avid music fan and concert go-er. The Bagtique was born.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur SEO Web Merger 48

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2018

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. I can remember when creating a web site for eCommerce could easily require a million dollar investment. An unprecedented number of startups, almost 200 at last count, are now valued above $1 billion, according to a recent Forbes article.

Entrepreneur 166

Entrepreneur Valuation Incubator Initial Public Offering 166

Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

The cloud IPO market has also been very active with 32 IPOs vs. 17 in 2020. It’s worth noting though that while the number of IPOs increased, the companies were smaller and raised less capital than those last year. 60% of the cloud IPOs had a market cap of $5B+ vs. only 28% this year. in Sept 2020. In 2020, c.

Global 62

Global Europe Software Review 62

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Leaders (company is leaving China, our IPO is next week, 1,800 new stores are being opened in 180 days, our new IRR is 8%). Clean measures of conversion rates require a clean and standard implementation of the ecommerce tags. Any big shifts in investment (marketing, customer experience, team sizes, tools). And other such things.

Analytics 133

Analytics Vertical Metrics Web 133

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Michael was the lead research analyst for the IPOs of Internet companies like UUNET, Yahoo!, He also worked in the ecommerce division at General Electric. eBay, DoubleClick, Webex, Real Networks, Exodus, Equinix, amongst many other pioneering companies, as well as covering companies like America Online and Netscape.

Technical Review 128

Technical Review Technology North Carolina Switzerland 128

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 21, 2010

This is equally true of a packaged good in a grocery store, an ecommerce website, a non-profit social service or a variety of government programs. This is equally true of a packaged good in a grocery store, an ecommerce website, a non-profit social service or a variety of government programs.

San Francisco 168

San Francisco Startup Lean Continuous Deployment 168

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

It is a non-profit, unlike eTail or Internet Retailer (today I hear that Shoptalk is the biggest eCommerce conference), and it is where the highest level people in digital retail go as a result. Sure, there are many other events, including eTail and Internet Retailer. But Shop.org is where you go to learn and network.

Software Review 48

Software Review Sales Cofounder Analytics 48

Austin Startup

APRIL 26, 2020

In honor of Netflix’s big beat today in the very unfortunate age of COVID-19, I decided to revisit my four-part Bazaarblog series while I was CEO of Bazaarvoice (from our inception in 2005 to our IPO in 2012). what was going to really make social work in an eCommerce environment. The name of the last part? But I digress.

Technical Review 62

Technical Review Campaign Video Naming 62

The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

The company went public in September in the largest ever tech company IPO and the share price has risen 28% since then giving the company a market cap of $296bn. Ecommerce' For further comparison, Amazon did $20bn in the three months to September 3o. And, investors love Alibaba. The business was founded in 1999.

Sales 149

Sales China eCommerce IPO 149

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.

Silicon Valley 313

Silicon Valley Southern California Los Angeles Semantic 313