Hearpreneur

JUNE 5, 2022

His way of leading is a great example of how people should lead whatever organization they're in – government or business. He first learned about the internet on a trip to the U.S. Who knew it was his first step toward building an empire that holds the record for the largest IPO. Thanks to Shane McEvoy, Flycast Media ! #19-

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

The past year saw startups on the rise, an increase in venture capital funding (both in real dollars and numbers of companies funded), a resurgence of IPOs, and the rise of David against Goliath, as best represented by Groupon’s spurning of a $6 billion offer from Google. Photo: Alan Levine.

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VC Cafe

JULY 12, 2011

The recent wave of Internet IPOs seems to remind the Israeli VCs of the previous tech bubble. There’s also a 30% in expectations for increased M&A activity, primarily in the Internet sector. Overall, 66% of VCs said that they believe an Israeli startup can become a major global Internet player in the next five years.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

But what made the overwhelming impression for me was finding an entrepreneurial software cluster on par with the Internet software portion of Silicon Valley. Startups here are primarily in what they call the TMT (Technology, Media and Telecommunications) segment. Out of that total, they funded 967 Internet deals with $6.7

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 13, 2021

In fact, when you look at it, you say, “Ok, well, what are the early-stage consumer internet investments?” There wasn’t like an IPO – this amazing IPO that just happened. You say, “Let’s set this up for the new cycles of invention and reinvention when you go past the IPO process.” Now by the way, I’ll do an asterix.

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Scott Edward Walker

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

We live at a moment when the majority of people in the world have access to the internet or mobile phones — the raw tools necessary to start sharing what they’re thinking, feeling and doing with whomever they want. We hope to change how people relate to their governments and social institutions. They brought us closer together.

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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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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 10, 2021

Better yet, how confident are you that the investors behind the big social media and content platforms will insist on better polices going forward? Roblox will have a very nice IPO one day if it doesn’t have a big hate speech problem on its platform. Was there ever that kind of conversation at the board level?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

But what made the overwhelming impression for me was finding an entrepreneurial software cluster on par with the Internet software portion of Silicon Valley. Startups here are primarily in what they call the TMT (Technology, Media and Telecommunications) segment. Out of that total, they funded 967 Internet deals with $6.7

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Media & Marketing. Media Agencies. Less than 1% are currently in IPO registration. Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law. INTERNET BUSINESSES. General Internet. - Computer And Internet. Internet Services. Management. Small Business.

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Agile VC

MAY 22, 2014

My first two posts on this mammoth S-1 covered a high-level sizing of Alibaba and a deeper dive into some of Alibaba Group’s governance which in some ways mirrors the Politburo structure. How does that stack up against analogous US internet companies? In fact JD.com, which priced it’s IPO yesterday, is a direct seller (e.g.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

They raised around $350 million to try and sell cars direct over the Internet. Scott left the company, which eventually IPO’d and became Internet Brands. Offers two products: Palantir Government and Palantir Finance. Used by hedge funds, the intelligence community and multiple government agencies.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

In recent years, government regulation has emerged as another such force to be reckoned with in the technology industry. Without these two laws (or their equivalent), the social media revolution of the past decade would have been stillborn. In 2011, virtually every new consumer Internet startup incorporates a social/UGC element.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Lending Club and OnDeck have come out with IPOs which have been well-received showing the positive market sentiment about alternative lending through online platforms. Transactions can be traced back to wallet IDs but names are never revealed which makes it hard for marketers or governments to have any data. Big Data Will Dominate.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

The Wall Street Journal is phasing out support of the Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) browser. Internet Explorer. In the 1990s Internet boom, easy money helped founders maintain more control early in a companys evolution, but founder CEOs without voting control often got replaced by a professional manager ahead of an IPO.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Save Asia for post-IPO Single instance, multi-tenant, single datacenter - Have only one version of the code in production. Save Asia for post-IPO. Cracking The Code. Friday, October 10, 2008. Philippe Botteri.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 29, 2009

The large media companies, too, were seen as great early customers and hotbeds of innovation (I remember how thrilled we were when we secured Time Warner's ground-breaking Pathfinder division as a customer at Open Market back in 1995, thinking we had landed what would be the 800 lb gorilla of the Internet age).

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And then medium-size businesses start to use it, and then large businesses start to use it, and then eventually the government starts to use it. And now all of a sudden you have got this global market of all these early adopters that have smartphones connected to the Internet, and they can just pick up their things and run with them.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

During the Internet Bubble there were a number of startups founded by business people who then wentlooking for hackers to create their product for them. They didnt talkWall Streets language when they did their IPO, and Wall Streetdidnt buy. Ifthere are seven or eight, disagreements can linger and harden intofactions.

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