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Startup IPO Market: A Fickle Mistress ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Startup IPO Market: A Fickle Mistress. The IPO market, she is a fickle mistress. In the first half of 2011, the IPO markets were looking strong for VC-backed companies. For a time that meant that other category leaders accelerated their own IPO plans… think Groupon and Zynga. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC.

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Why Do Consumer IPOs and B2B IPOs Get Treated Differently?

View from Seed

2019 is off to an exciting start for IPOs of VC-backed startups. All three have different business models… SaaS, media/ad, and consumer transactional. In some respects though Zoom has had the most “successful” IPO of the three companies, which has surprised some folks.

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6 Key Rules To Stay Competitive In The Digital World

Startup Professionals Musings

Customers today quickly get beyond these, and put a competitive priority on the experience of others, reflected in reviews and social media, and their own total experience with your sales process, delivery, returns, and support on their schedule. Features, availability, and brand are just the price of entry.

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[Review] Likeable Social Media

YoungUpstarts

With close to 900 million users and an upcoming IPO , Facebook is ruling the web as the social network of choice. Integrate Social Media into the Entire Customer Experience. Should You Ask a Lot of Questions? Provide Value (Yes, for Free!). Share Stories (They’re Your Social Currency!). Inspire Your Customers to Share Stories.

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The most important 2021 Predictions in entertainment tech and gaming

VC Cafe

According to Gamesbeat , the streaming wars will spill over to the cloud gaming wars, with media companies, streaming companies and telcos looking to include gaming packages in their offerings. social media. In 2021, optimism on investing in social media has returned. Consoles are not going away, but expect a lot of bundling.

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

As a reminder, the Dot Com bubble was a five-year period from August 1995 (the Netscape IPO ) when there was a massive wave of experiments on the then-new internet, in commerce, entertainment, nascent social media, and search. IPOs dried up. Some have labeled this period as irrational exuberance. Then one day it was over.

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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

Both Sides of the Table

What You Can Learn From Public Markets It doesn’t really take a genius to realize that what happens in the public markets will filter back to the private markets because the ultimate exit of these companies is either an IPO or an acquisition (often by a public company whose valuation is fixed daily by the market). Except the music stopped.