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.

Software Review 48

Software Review Cofounder eCommerce Austin 48

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 10, 2018

Social media and the need to rank higher on search engines continues to grow in importance with U.S. residents loving their social platforms more each day. The answer is simple – India’s social platforms aren’t really built for anyone outside of the U.S. So why aren’t citizens of other countries as enamored?

DC 48

DC Social Media India Asia 48

Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 13, 2021

To some degree, if you’re bringing a sophisticated sense of human nature of how human beings actually work at scale and somewhere where it doesn’t have to be exactly the seven deadly sins – for example, one of the things that I think is an unfortunate side effect of what happens in all media, including social media is confirmation bias.

Incubator 36

Incubator IPO Networking Cofounder 36

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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IPO Prospectus SEC Intellectual Property 110

Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Social Media. These days, having a social media presence is essentially a requirement for the vast majority of businesses. You don’t need to be on every social media channel, but you do need to be on the ones that your customers are on. Start with a quick review of your milestones.

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Business Plan Forecast Balance Sheet Distribution 163

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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New Zealand Mobile Australia China 100

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

China has essentially closed its internal search, media and social network software market to foreign companies who wouldn’t play with the government rules on the Great Firewall. Facebook was too frightening to Chinese censors, so Renren is the leading social media player. So big companies rarely acquire startups.

Silicon Valley 272

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 272

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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Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

China has essentially closed its internal search, media and social network software market to foreign companies who wouldn’t play with the government rules on the Great Firewall. Facebook was too frightening to Chinese censors, so Renren is the leading social media player. So big companies rarely acquire startups.

Silicon Valley 164

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 164

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.

Equity 28

Equity IPO Venture Capital United States 28

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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Silicon Valley Southern California Los Angeles Semantic 313

Haystack

DECEMBER 28, 2019

These combined effects have helped open new markets, new geographies, and new economic opportunities for people worldwide; they’ve also drawn the ire of privacy advocates, aspiring politicians, and the airwaves on social media and the traditional media at-large.

China 146

China Startup Lock-up Period Cap Table 146

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? More women and the BIPOC community will use social networks if they’re not being harassed on them. Was there ever that kind of conversation at the board level?

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Venture Capital Cap Table Accredited Investor Silicon Valley 158

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 1, 2020

Even if they were, startup employees usually don't hold more than 10% of the company's overall stock and less than 10% of the company's employees were black at the time of the IPO. You can't just post to social media circles of people with the same skin color as you that you want to meet diverse founders in June. And investors?

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Michigan Deal Flow Accredited Investor Equity 132