Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 21, 2011

My background was 8 years of telecoms & mobile and 8 years of cloud computing & SaaS – so these two themes were a given. Digital Media was an obvious theme because it’s one in which LA (where I’m based) and NY (where I spend a lot of time) have strong assets, companies and management teams.

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Agile VC

MAY 23, 2012

The End of “Internet” Companies. Al Gore's 2012 Induction to the Internet Hall of Fame. I’m not sure whether it’s 10 years from now or 50 years from now, but at some point in the medium to long term future we’ll cease talking about “internet” companies in any meaningful sense.

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Agile VC

AUGUST 1, 2012

About 6-12 months ago you could hardly throw a rock in the startup ecosystem without hitting a VC expressing their enthusiasm for “mobile” Now the frenzy about mobile has extended into the mass media and public equity markets, though with trepidation as often as excitement. First the enthusiasm.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

In the former case many people scoffed at paying up for Google at IPO. Stitcher - San Francisco-based service that lets users customize talk radio programming on their mobile devices. You go onto the Internet and can control what people hear on terrestrial radio. Time will tell. So far it seems the former. billion pre-money.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 31, 2012

Mobile advertising is a hot market right now. Evidenced most recently by the IPO of mobile advertising network Millennial and Singtel’s $321m acquisition of Amobee. Mary Meeker just released her annual 100+ page slide deck of internet trends, and three of those show why everyone is so excited about mobile advertising.

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Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

Tech IPOs Are Back – So Now What? Three of the five “blockbuster” tech IPOs I predicted have happened (LinkedIn, Groupon, Zynga) and the biggest of all (Facebook) has filed and will likely go public within the next 90 days. I see several dynamics at work in today’s IPO markets. March 8, 2012.

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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.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Facebook S-1: The Most Anticipated IPO in a Decade. Here’s my first look at Facebook viewed through the lens of their IPO filing. They don’t even run ads in the FB mobile apps. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. February 2, 2012.

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Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

And at PayPal we were hit with a couple patent disputes while in the midst of our IPO process. only notified them of potential IP infringement two weeks ago on February 27, 2012 (as described in the lawsuit) and Facebook heard about it through the media rather than in private. I skimmed the text of the Yahoo! execs involved.

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Follow Entrepreneur on Facebook Follow Entrepreneur on Twitter Follow Entrepreneur on LinkedIn Subscribe | Mobile. Money Money Home Financing Taxes Accounting Basics Personal Finance Money Management Payments & Collections IPOs and DPOs Will Crazy Market Moves Kill IPOs and Slash VC Investment? Entrepreneur Mobile.

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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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Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 267

Seeing Both Sides

JUNE 1, 2012

Mary Meeker's periodic review of the Internet industry is always a must-read presentation. The simple notion is that the confluence of broadband, mobile and globalization in combination with Moore's Law have allowed the technology industry to innovate almost everything in existence. Plastiq will soon be hacking large ticket purchasing.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 11, 2013

The 16 finalists that have been selected – covering a range of industries, from mobile, digital media and healthcare to fashion, and Internet services - to pitch are: Crowdtap. Fancy Hands. Little Bits. . You can sign up for it here.

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BeyondVC

JULY 31, 2008

They understand the media and online world, are well connected, and work diligently to get the job done. IPO vs. M&A)? (My With our computing world living in the cloud, there will be a whole new generation of mobile applications that leverage the increased computing power and faster broadband speeds that are offered today.

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Jordan Exit Strategy IPO Semantic 60

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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Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 159

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 23, 2016

If an employee knows that the brand they’re working for has a strong future—and possibilities for upward mobility in their own career paths—the likelihood that your employees will look for “greener pastures” will be significantly reduced. #2 2 Strong Branding Generates Long Term Financial Value. Check him out on Twitter or his blog.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

adults spend 11 hours daily on consuming some form of media, from watching TV, listening to music, apps or games – that is a whopping two-thirds of their waking-time. Social usage is almost entirely spent on mobile. . A Nielsen survey from 2018 shows that U.S Emarketer has pegged that number at over 12 hours for 2019.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

They’ve had a total of 12 deals that have IPO’d. Palm (acquired by HP ) – In our interview we talked about how transformational mobile computing is and why it’s different than web computing (e.g. It’s clear that many companies are going to need to understand “authority&# in the social media era.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

If you don’t know Montgomery & Co it is one of the premier technology & media focused investment banks in the country (and as Michael corrected me they also have a strong Healthcare / Med tech practice). What does the market look like for IPO’s and is this likely to improve? We discussed: 1. 1 party = low price.

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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. This is how we think about our IPO as well. They brought us closer together.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 17, 2011

The major adoption wave for the Internet technology platform will hit in the next 8 years; 3) the economics of building Internet businesses has changed; 4) the markets are much bigger. But they don’t support his justification of the bubble valuations we are seeing for companies filing for IPO’s (Pandora Media just priced its IPO at $2.6

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 9, 2014

Long renowned as a digital media and entertainment hub, LA Tech investing activity has never been greater, with both funding and deal activity at a five year high. Like in the Valley, Internet and Mobile-related businesses dominate - with close to 80% of all venture activity being concentrated in these areas.

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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. Geodelic develops free mobile applications to easily browse your surroundings (restaurants, banks, businesses, etc). Includes content mobile guides, ie.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

IPO markets had burned an entire cycle of retail stock investors and many institutional investors to boot. By the end of 2011 the Internet population was estimated at 2.3 billion, with 275 million in North America alone (source: Internet World Stats) and an astounding global penetration of 33% of the world’s population.

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Mobile Payments Set to Grow Even Faster. Mobile payments have revolutionized how we pay for our purchases at checkouts. Gartner expects mobile commerce to make up 50% of all ecommerce payments in the US by the year 2017 and Statista predicts that the volume of mobile payments worldwide will exceed $720 billion by the year 2017.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

Mobile News. It’s still the Pacific Northwest, and Dealmaker Media has assembled an eye-opening list of speakers. Gist works the way you do – in your inbox, on a mobile device, or in a web browser. Small tech firms outpace big counterparts with IPOs. Posts Comments Startups. STARTUP SPOTLIGHT. VENTURE CAPITAL.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 22, 2012

Although Facebook’s stock price has fallen well below its IPO price of $38 per share, many people agree that the stock is still significantly overpriced. It’s already coming close to saturating the limits of world Internet usage. Estimated mobile display spend in the U.S. was around $500 million last year.

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The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

The internet and mobile marginalised Microsoft’s dominance of the desktop and improvements in search took away the need for Yahoo’s portal of curated links. That’s four of the six largest social media properties on the planet, and they’re all still growing.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

They had previously all worked together at a very successful company in the “telecoms meets Internet&# space, CallWave, which IPO’d 5 years ago or so. Internet consumption is obviously growing massively on mobile devices. But we’re only in the first inning of mobile advertising.

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BeyondVC

JULY 5, 2004

Russell Beattie has a thorough post on Jamdat Mobile’s IPO filing. As an investor, the difficult part of any consumer wireless play is that the wireless world is a walled garden and not an open network like the Internet. The post Jamdat Mobile files for IPO appeared first on BeyondVC.

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Business Plan Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Companies raising this type of capital typically have been bootstrapped for quite some time, boasting revenues of $10M+ and looking for institutional capital to grow fast with goal of reaching a not too long term IPO. Average and Media Seed and Series A Deals.

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Technology Early Stage Venture Capital Bootstrapping 49

venturebeat.com

MARCH 8, 2011

For example, you know that to avoid social media shitstorms you’re supposed to have stupendous customer service , so you claim as much on your website. Assume everything you do on the Internet is recorded, cataloged, tagged, and monitored continuously. This story originally appeared on his blog.)

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Software Review Startup Technical Review Mobile 41

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

And we’re left with a city with idyllic weather, major commerce, the media center of the world, and a great emerging technology scene. But ultimately we’re on the Internet to communicate, buy stuff, become informed and be entertained. TechCoast Angels backed GreenDot should be a major IPO this year. Los Angeles.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 28, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The image above shows a map of the Internet, created by an anonymous researcher, who hacked hundreds of thousands of computers around the world in order to create the map.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

Many Internet marketplaces also have a rake or vig. Before discussing the merits of low rakes versus high rakes, let us first take a look at current examples of different rakes across the Internet. All of which leads us to two very interesting rake examples that are front and center in today’s Internet – Facebook and Apple.

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Europe Social Network Technical Review IPO 101

Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

Burr, Egan, Deleage [Boston] –> Huge wins in the 1980s and early 90s included Continental Cablevision (sold for $5.3B – now a big chunk of what is Comcast), Qwest Communications, Cephalon (biotech IPO, acq by Teva), and Powersoft (Burr, Egan made 35x when it went public and then was acquired by Sybase). Read More ».

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Silicon Valley Carried Interest Cofounder Boston 240

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Leaders (company is leaving China, our IPO is next week, 1,800 new stores are being opened in 180 days, our new IRR is 8%). In my case I'm looking at Social Media (boss LOVES social!), For this blog, Benchmarking classifies me into Internet & Telecom vertical. Outcomes of the conversations with your Finance team and Sr.

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