thebarefootvc

JANUARY 15, 2020

: “Twenty years from now, we will see disintermediation of banks, and millenials will no longer recognize the current banking system as they will receive financial services from a number of new entrants in the technology sector. No entity is immune to technology disruption.

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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.

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Private Equity Merger IPO Social Media 68

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

We had scrambled to get a product to market, built our first website, rapidly hired a technology team, raised our seed round of capital ($1.5 Around this time B2C eCommerce had been dominating the media but the wheels were starting to come off. There was talk of an IPO in 12 months. million … yes that was seed in 1999!)

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

They’ve had a total of 12 deals that have IPO’d. eCommerce is hot again! Investors: Allen Morgan of Mayfield Fund, ff Asset Management, Bobby Yazdani, Nova Spivack of Lucid Ventures, Zelkova Ventures, Paige Craig, Tom McInerney, Michael Yavonditte of Quigo Technologies, Ofer Ronan. the funding and market coverage.

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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.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

By 2011, the number of subscribers worldwide had surpassed 5 Billion and cellular communication had become an unprecedented technological revolution.” ( article via @trengriffin ). We have simply taken a structured look at how traditional human car transportation can change as a result of today’s technology.

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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.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

We are not an AR/VR, blockchain, AI, or ecommerce fund. Although we have companies that are leveraging all of these technologies, we’ve realized that the best companies tend not to be easily categorized and don’t necessarily fit the standard playbooks. Pierre was also named to MIT Technology Review ‘s Innovators Under 35 list.

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Operations Cofounder Technical Review Angel Investor 176

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 21, 2011

So my strategy was to focus on technology heavy companies who could bring measurability and performance to inefficient parts of the digital media landscape. Every generation of new technology and new media starts out by emulating those that came before them without realizing that things are fundamentally different when you change media types.

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Mobile Advertising Affiliate Internet 329

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

17, on “How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology”. The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas.

Technical Review 128

Technical Review Technology North Carolina Maryland 128

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.

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IPO Angel Investor Startup Incubator 120

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. Most now routinely buy startups for new technology and new products. Two of these, Uber and Didi Chuxing, have already passed $50 billion.

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Entrepreneur Valuation Incubator Initial Public Offering 166

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.

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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

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 21, 2010

And yet, we so often loose sight of the fact that startups are not their products, their technological breakthroughs, or even their data. 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. What other kinds of institutions are there, anyway?

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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.

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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.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 20, 2013

Meanwhile, Meg Whitman helped Pierre Omidyar’s eBay become the second most powerful ecommerce company in the world (trailing only Amazon). s Tim Koogle helped build Jerry Yang and Dave Filo’s startup into the world’s most valuable internet company. But if you’re successful, the job of being CEO shifts dramatically over time.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Zynga Leans On Some Workers to Surrender Pre-IPO Shares – [link]. Create An eCommerce Landing Page In Adobe Photoshop – [link]. SaaS CEOs: Measure Customer Engagement – [link]. 26 Promising Social Media Stats for Small Businesses – [link]. How Little Brands Land Big Bang for Their Buck – [link].

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

On the IPO front, the one word that comes to mind is “supersize”. While the number of IPOs in 2020 is close to 2019, the average valuation has doubled compared to last year, driven in particular by the massive IPO of Snowflake, which reached a $70 billion market cap on its first trading day. million today.

Europe 71

Europe Cloud Silicon Valley 71

ConversionXL

AUGUST 23, 2020

According to a study of 3,000 mobile searchers by Google & IPOS, nearly half indicated that they are more likely to convert elsewhere if they can’t call a business directly from the search result. That’s kind of a big deal. Give your visitors a (Good) reason to call.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 23, 2014

According to a study of 3,000 mobile searchers by Google & IPOS, nearly half indicated that they are more likely to convert elsewhere if they can’t call a business directly from the search result. Give Your Visitors a (Good) Reason To Call. Here’s the thing that most developers I know take for granted.

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www.theverge.com

JUNE 20, 2012

After Facebooks IPO flub, value of tech startups falls back to earth. Over three nights and two days of drinking, schmoozing, and panel discussion, many of the industries insiders spoke their minds plainly, and the bumbled Facebook IPO was a frequent topic of conversation."Excuse By Ben Popper 06.19.2012.

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Austin Startup

MAY 29, 2019

unfortunately, social commerce morphed to mean solutions like Facebook eCommerce stores offered by numerous small vendors who are now mostly no longer in business. There are other networking effects that we will be unleashing, both natural and technological, as we progress through our multi-year strategic plan.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Every startup faces multiple choices and decisions when it comes to technology. Ad Serving Technology. Technology & Marketing Law Blog. SVPG : They want to share senior level experience and best practices with technology companies. Offers practical assistance to build technology businesses. Preloaders.net.

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