A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 4, 2018

This week we closed $250M in financing from Silver Lake , the premier technology private equity firm. Every day, 5% of the entire online world visits a customer running on the WP Engine Digital Experience Platform. The majority of the funds pay back our early investors who believed in us enough to trust us with their money.

Engineer 152

Engineer Revenue San Francisco Security 152

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

After all, before the house of cards inevitably tumbles, private equity investors get a tidy return. And the same thing happened after we sold IT WatchDogs in 2005. The crap of it is, those VC’s who continue to invest in Nguyen are acting rationally. Nguyen knows how to keep the magic going long enough for the payday.

IPO 240

IPO Flash Bootstrapping Private Equity 240

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

After that, I did it for a private equity firm then we became a part of a larger corporation. How do you split equity? Edwin: No, I do think, and I realize that very much, that if I were to take venture capital, the whole game changes. You know that I ran WinZip before. I first did it for the founder. The game changes very much.

Technical Cofounder 220

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Software Review Management 220

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 20, 2011

Sometimes this is literally a VC or private equity firm who, rather than investing in brand new companies hoping for the rare, massive multiple, invest in well-established companies where the upside multiple is lower but so is the risk.

Sales 260

Sales Channel Cofounder Valuation 260