Agile VC

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Twitter’s IPO has garnered a ton of attention in the tech and popular press. So their revenue figures, pre IPO financing and ownership, and other info is all widely available. Tomorrow we’ll know Twitter’s market cap definitively, at least near term. Growth IPOs Are Back.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

This combinatorial model works because it’s diversified, can best withstand bear markets, benefits from technological synergies, and it’s the mix of products and services clients value. Here digital intercepts of consumer activities are aggregated into large data sets, analysed, and assessed versus market expectations.

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Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Software Review IPO 154

Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

Success depends on finding startups that have identified acute customer pains in large markets where conditions are ripe for a new entrant. Startups still need capital to scale once they find good product-market fit and a repeatable-scalable business model.). Part 3: Engineering a Regional Tech Cluster. Here’s Part 2 of Dino’s story….

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Early Stage Silicon Valley Oregon Technical Review 286

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 9, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Fantastic essay by @abbymyles on the current obsession with design/designers & market realities – crowdspring.co/1lWpMjT. 1j0IXIT. . ” – crowdspring.co/1j0HTod.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 21, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Surprise Is One Of The Most Powerful Small Business Marketing Tools – [link]. Surprise Is One Of The Most Powerful Small Business Marketing Tools – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 21, 2016

One shows the newspaper industry growing steadily for fifty years and then declining for ten and the other shows the Japanese fixed lens digital camera market growing from nothing to 120m unit sales in ten years and then dropping by 80% in the seven years after that. PDAs and satnavs were usurped by mobile phones in about 15 years.

Marketing 60

Marketing Venture Capital Software Review IPO 60

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

For startups and entrepreneurs, awareness of the stock exchanges will help prepare you for a potential public financing of your company through an initial public offering, known as an IPO. The New York Stock Exchange has been the largest stock exchange by market capitalisation in the world since the end of the World War.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 2, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Empower Your Small Business, latest crowdSPRING newsletter: managing remote vendors, marketing tips, culture – crowdspring.co/1hS8brU. 1k6nQRA. – crowdspring.co/1ftv1Y3.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 10 Tips To Help You Build a Successful Small Business Brand | Duct Tape Marketing – [link]. I don’t care about crowded markets | by StartupCFO : Mark MacLeod – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The Number One Mistake People Make When It Comes To Referral Marketing - [link]. Thanks To Facebook, Strongest Year For IPOs Since 2000 With $21.5

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

It’s not too late to set up a presence on Pinterest and Instagram, and mobile apps aren’t going anywhere anytime soon. Mobile, Mobile, Mobile! It’s crazy how much web traffic is being served to mobile phones now. You can’t ignore mobile, and yet most of the web isn’t optimized.

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API Social Media Mobile Valuation 157

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 5, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! crowdSPRING’s Small Business Spotlight of the Week: Flightwise/ MyRadar Mobile Apps – [link]. The State of Social Marketing 2011 – 2012 – [link]. – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

think about the entrepreneurs that started in the early days of the Internet, mobile, crypto, VR and yes… now Metaverse. To live to its potential as a core part of the Metaverse Meta has to overcome a challenging market and a confused brand. Roblox is publicly traded and has a market cap of $27.2 Unity’s recent $4.4

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IP Cofounder Valuation Acquisition 206

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

If you want the full SlideShare deck with many slides not in either post it’s in this link –> The LA Tech Market. Has it begun to mature or is it just better marketed than in was say 5 years ago? Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly.

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Los Angeles Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Seattle 376

The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

————————————– A couple of weeks back Twitter acquired a mobile advertising company called Mopub for around $350m in Twitter shares. That way the next IPO will be easier and the one after that will be easier again.

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IPO Valuation Stock Advertising 98

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. That strikes me as an attractive market for disruption over time. Two big themes have emerged in my head in the past 3 years: offline / online integration and mobile computing.

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Mobile Advertising Affiliate Internet 329

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

The tech market is filled with many stories of early-stage funding. Our investments focus heavily on the financial services industry, digital media, mobile applications & infrastructure, SaaS / Cloud and retail innovation. Lyn Kirby ran Ulta Cosmetics from its early days through its successful IPO.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Facebook Handled their IPO Exactly Right – [link]. Mobile Advertising: Twitter Sales Are Double That Of Facebook In A Google-Ruled, $2.6B Market – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

When he founded Netflix as a DVD rental service in 1997, Hastings had already led one company, Pure Software, from its birth to an IPO. You’ve IPOed two companies. Doing an IPO can be a great thing, but there are always consequences. How will mobile change. Even to me that is still an amazing thing.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

GameFly filed in 2010 and remains in registration, though 2011 has seen a positive start for VC-backed IPOs with 14 in Q1 2011. Last week ZipCar began trading and has a market cap of about $1 billion. Mobile Usage: 8% of 2010 query volume (mobile app download growth of 344% YoY). Quinstreet priced at $15.00/sh

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Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

Hunter Walker

MAY 13, 2023

Especially in the early days of mobile/iOS engineering, if you hired strong technical talent into your early stage company, you basically created an acquisition outcome floor. Sometimes you’d even get lucky and receive stock in the acquirer, which was how I gained pre-IPO equity in high growth stars like Pinterest and Facebook.

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Early Stage Cap Table Acquisition Sales 117

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2014

The opportunity set is much bigger than ever (50x more users, 10x time online, mobile, social, credit-card enabled, global) … when things work they work faster and at an unprecedented scale. Companies are now raising much more capital in the private markets now before they go public. VCs used to IPO and then sell.

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Venture Capital IPO LP Jordan 362

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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IPO Silicon Valley Revenue Seed Stage 100

abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

Using a combination of market data, math, and financial analysis, Professor Damodaran concluded that his best estimate of the value of Uber is $5.9 billion, far short of the value recently determined by the market. The first is TAM, and the second is Uber’s market share within that market. Total Available Market Analysis.

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thebarefootvc

JANUARY 27, 2014

Some, such as Chinese mobile company Xiaomi, were founded less than five years ago while others such as Good Technology have been around for more than a decade. Lower interest rates in developed markets and volatility in emerging markets have also made private company investment a more attractive option. Technology ubiquity.

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Technical Review Valuation Venture Capital Investment Bankers 63

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In the first post in this three part series I described why I believe the VC market froze between September 2008 – April 2009. When the market run started in March people were relieved that “the world wasn’t ending” so they started spending again. Unemployment coupled with a stock market drop will stop this spending cold IMHO.

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Technical Review Stock Hawaii Early Stage 269

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 29, 2014

We had the introduction of Apple Pay, which was a major step forward for mobile wallets. One of the major inhibitors to mobile payments is the installed base of older point-of-sale terminals which can’t support it, and that retailers have had no real incentive to update. Bitcoin reached historic highs but then went sideways.

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IPO API Silicon Valley Mobile 236

The Equity Kicker

APRIL 20, 2012

Startups appreciate in value most quickly when consensus starts to build that the market is tipping in their direction, and this is when the high multiple exits occur. Looking at the mobile advertising industry over the last few years suggests that tipping point is around 3-5%.

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Advertising Mobile IPO Marketing 102

The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 18, 2012

VatorTV had an article this morning reporting on the growth in mobile advertising. They note from the eMarketer chart inset right that US mobile ad spend is up 180% this year to $4.1bn and say that “after years and years of every year being proclaimed as the ‘year of mobile’ it finally happened in 2012”.

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Mobile Acquisition Forecast IPO 100

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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Mobile Advertising Bandwidth Web 160

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. Plus Facebook has ample cash on hand today and will get a huge slug more from the IPO. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC.

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IPO South Korea Venezuela Revenue 100

The Equity Kicker

JUNE 8, 2012

There is quite rightly a lot of chat at the moment about Facebook’s poor showing post IPO, but the fact that the shares are down 30% doesn’t mean that Facebook is a bad business, it means that investors now think the $100bn IPO price was too high. They are turning in impressive stats on mobile , their supposed Achilles heal.

IPO 100

IPO Valuation Mobile Internet 100

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. There are now signs the VC market has gathered pace meaning it’s a great time to be fund raising. This is one book-end of the cycle.

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IPO Investment Bankers Venture Capital Marketing 255

BeyondVC

MARCH 25, 2004

So while I was at PC Forum, my partner, Ned Carlson, sent me an email on the recent IPO filing of Seven Networks. According to its website , “SEVEN is a leader in Out of the Office technologies; our mobile email software makes it simple and affordable to access corporate and personal data while on the go.

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IPO United States .Net Software Review 60

Hunter Walker

APRIL 3, 2014

In advance of the IPO I reconnected with their SVP Product & User Experience Alex Kinnier, whom I know from our days together at Google. I couldn’t ask Alex specifically about the IPO or future plans but wanted to get some more info on a company that gets less press than your typical social app but is poised for an amazing run.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2015

Being able to leverage mobile contacts on your phone gave them independence from Facebook while many other people were doing anything they could to oAuth in FB users. How will they act if the market tanks? What are the chances that SnapChat or WhatsApp would emerge without getting crushed like a bug? It’s a Hobbesian calculation.

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Oauth Software Review Technical Review IPO 150

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Gregory Wehmeyer True, Ben, once upon a time, Angel Investors provided the launching pad for Venture Capital Firms to propel any startup on two legs toward a successful IPO. We are coaching VCs and Angel Investors everyday who call us wanting to understand our Early Stage LPO versus late stage IPO approach to business.

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 84