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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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 28, 2021

Boomer hedgies getting crushed by young folks self-organizing in social media. Only big institutions can get into hot IPOs. Governments trying to regulate it each time will be slow, and all will fail to do what they want to do while creating other unintended consequences. For example, from Fred’s post. But hang on.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 14, 2012

The Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, or GAAP, are the set of rules that govern financial accounting in businesses. IPO stands for Initial Public Offering, and is the first sale of a private stock to the public. IPO stands for Initial Public Offering, and is the first sale of a private stock to the public.

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Scott Edward Walker

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

We hope to change how people relate to their governments and social institutions. Over time, we expect governments will become more responsive to issues and concerns raised directly by all their people rather than through intermediaries controlled by a select few. This is how we think about our IPO as well.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

The value ascribed by subsequent investors (in a secondary); buyers (acquisition); or the public markets (IPO). Tim O’Reilly, CEO, O’Reilly Media, argues , “Blitzscaling isn’t really a recipe for success but rather survivorship bias masquerading as a strategy.” Governance. Volatile, uncapped. Flexible VC: Revenue -based.

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Gust

MAY 24, 2012

Dual-class voting structures are receiving a lot of attention these days along with intense publicity related to the Facebook IPO , following in the wake of other recent tech IPOs with a similar structure such as Zynga and LinkedIn.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

Startups here are primarily in what they call the TMT (Technology, Media and Telecommunications) segment. About 1/3 of all China’s Venture Capital investment is made in Beijing and the majority of those investments are in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) sector I’ll describe shortly. Closed for You, Open For Us.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 24, 2019

A tsunami of social media was about to hit society and commerce would never be the same. We grew very quickly from $0 to over $100m in sales in just six years, culminating in an IPO with a billion-dollar market cap. Governments began to sign up. And speaking of luck, remember?—?this this was 2005.

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

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. Competitors: Google (Invite Media) , MediaMath , X+1. Total raised: $6.0mm. See: TechCrunch.

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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. In fact JD.com, which priced it’s IPO yesterday, is a direct seller (e.g. stocks inventory) and is really more analogous to Amazon.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

Startups here are primarily in what they call the TMT (Technology, Media and Telecommunications) segment. About 1/3 of all China’s Venture Capital investment is made in Beijing and the majority of those investments are in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) sector I’ll describe shortly. Closed for You, Open For Us.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 10, 2018

Social media and the need to rank higher on search engines continues to grow in importance with U.S. The global population has a great interest in social commerce, but user-to-user commerce on social media is illegal there. Currently in South and Southeast Asia only 37% of the population uses social media. after living abroad.

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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.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2022

The government set a goal to increase the percentage of people employed in tech t0 15% but it cannot be achieved overnight. There are two main forms of exits for startups: trade sale/M&A or IPO. Many of the companies that went public via SPACs saw their valuations dramatically reduce in the months that followed post IPO.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2014

The booming IPO market proved the model of investing in new companies, as some SBICs cash out at attractive levels. The US government, however, lost most of the $2 billion it put into SBIC firms.” One of the other problem is SBA and SBIC’s behavior in governance of the fund.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

For a pursuit that largely revolves around silent time spent at a computer by one person then, slowly at first, a few more people, a bit more talking, and on and on until failure, acquisition, or IPO, it may seem inconsequential to consider where it all goes down.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

For a pursuit that largely revolves around silent time spent at a computer by one person then, slowly at first, a few more people, a bit more talking, and on and on until failure, acquisition, or IPO, it may seem inconsequential to consider where it all goes down.

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Pascal's View

OCTOBER 9, 2011

Increasing numbers of professionals in a position to foment meaningful change in the capital markets are recognizing that structural issues underlie the IPO drought for emerging companies with market capitalizations below $1 billion. Small Cap IPO? Again, I urge readers to make their voices heard on this topic. venture capitalists.

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Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

The NVCA has developed research going back forty years showing that over 90% of the job growth created by venture-backed companies occurs AFTER their IPO. So it should be no surprise to our government and to economists that we aren’t getting the job growth that we need in our tentative recovery from 2008—we need IPOs to create jobs.

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Pascal's View

MARCH 28, 2009

The media is full of negative reactions related to.   Both the Government and the private. SEC’s failure to enforce a whole body of regulation governing the now largely. been exposed succinctly in the white paper “Why are IPOs in the ICU”. been exposed succinctly in the white paper “Why are IPOs in the ICU”.

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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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Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Or perhaps in traditional media? Getting the media to cover you can be a great way to reach your customers. Social Media. These days, having a social media presence is essentially a requirement for the vast majority of businesses. Will you be advertising online? Public Relations. Milestones are planned major goals.

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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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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

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. ignited the current trend by adopting a dual-class voting structure before its IPO in 2004. Enlarge Image Close. Google Inc.

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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. DJVentureWire : Friday IPOs Fail to Price as Thursdays Rally Doesnt Carry [link]. Management. Small Business. More Industries.

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Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

SecondMarket was named the top start-up in the entire Northeast by AlwaysOn Media and one of the Top Fifty Startups You Should Know by Businessweek. Barry Silbert – Founder and CEO of SecondMarket, the largest marketplace for illiquid securities. Space is limited. Register today. <

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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. 69% of Israeli VCs want the government to provider additional incentives for high tech companies. Signs of gloom ahead. That said, there’s also some cautious optimism. 56% of VCs believe that Israeli fund sizes will increase.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

It was one of the year's most successful IPOs so far, and has been heralded as a "landmark moment" for cryptocurrency's entrance into mainstream investing. Just before the IPO, I had a far-reaching conversation with co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong as he approached this major milestone for the company he co-founded back in 2012.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

The speed of that initial spread caught the state and local governments flat-footed. As the virus spread and the world went into a state of work from home, the media questioned whether “New York is dead.” Union Square Ventures raised its first fund in NYC in 2004 and it wouldn’t see the first local IPO from that fund, Etsy, until 2015.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

They didnt talkWall Streets language when they did their IPO, and Wall Streetdidnt buy. Search was now only a small percentage of our page views, less thanone months growth, and now that we were established as a "media company," or "portal," or whatever we were, search could safely beallowed to wither and drop off, like an umbilical cord.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

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. Your default position should be to consider Europe as your pre-IPO growth story, and Asia only after you’re a high-flying public company. Philippe Botteri. Bessemer SaaS Law #8.

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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. 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- Photo Credit: Ryan O’Donnell. 15- Marc Benioff.

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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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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 so we think that the model flipped to a model where, today, where the most interesting and advanced new technology now comes out for the consumer first. And then small businesses start to use it.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 29, 2017

This was before the Facebook IPO. I was really interested in Second Market and idea of a market to trade pre-IPO shares. HW: When you dove into the world of anti-vaxxers you encountered some really interesting conclusions about how extreme groups use social media effectively, and how traditional voices are getting drowned out.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

On March 26, SoFi announced that “it will be offering its members (at least those with $3K in their account) the ability to invest in IPOs for companies going public, an investment opportunity that has traditionally been reserved for large institutional investors or ultra-high-net-worth individuals.”

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