YoungUpstarts
MAY 23, 2012
Online Gaming, Mobile Entertainment and the Video Game Design Boon. Meanwhile, mobile gaming on smart devices – an industry worth $33 billion – is a field swelling with potential for designers. Mobile Gaming. What makes mobile games so appealing is that they don’t require an outlet, a controller, or a rulebook.
Steve Blank
MARCH 18, 2011
The reward for doing so was a liquidity event via an Initial Public Offering. There was no repeatable methodology, startups and their VC’s still operated like startups were simply a smaller version of a large company. They taught you about customers, markets and profits. August 1995 – March 2000: The Dot.Com Bubble.
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Reid Hoffman
MARCH 19, 2019
And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. The second is a lack of operational scalability.
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 26, 2013
Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. According to a report just out, a record 156 operating companies went public in the U.S. The elements include communications, mobile platforms, and location-based services. A year from now that’s projected to go as high as 100.
The Next Web
JANUARY 16, 2014
The Brisbane-based creators of Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride were acquired by Onan Games in 2012, but still deserve an honorable mention for being Australia’s answer to global mobile gaming giants King.com and Rovio. It is set to announce a first class of 10 companies in early 2014.
Austin Startup
FEBRUARY 12, 2019
We had raised a small round of funding in 2013, led by a local angel investor who was a member of Central Texas Angel Network, and used the funds to build our first product (a mobile website) and launch with recommendations from friends of mine in Austin the week before South by Southwest Festival. Certainly.
online.wsj.com
JULY 11, 2012
About 14% of the technology firms that have held initial public offerings between January 2011 and the end of June 2012 went public with at least two share classes—more than twice the 6.4% In just a year of operations, Fab has signed up nearly 5 million members, sold 1.8 Student Journal. Corrections.
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