mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! 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.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! 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.

Angel Investor 83

Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 83

VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

AdExchanger just posed an interview that I did with them that touched on some of our ad-tech investments as well as our overall investment philosophy. Unlike many venture capital firms that invest in certain geographic regions or specific technologies and sectors, Foundry Group’s investing activity is largely driven by a thematic approach.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Venture Capital IPO 60

ReadWriteStart

JULY 18, 2011

Jeff Clavier was the first tech investor I ever met; he was introduced to me years ago by some hip engineers in a bar as "one of the few cool VCs." If you like this kind of advice, check out my coverage of a talk by Paul Palmieri, Co-Founder and CEO of mobile advertising service Millennial Media, titled " Investing in Your Influencers. ".

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Investment Bankers Technical Review Cofounder Due Diligence 153

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Eventually, Reddit became wildly popular and was bought by Condé Nast, the owner of 20 other brands and media like Vanity Fair, Vogue, and The New Yorker. Later they failed to keep up with technologies and the digital boom and have even filed for bankruptcy twice. Thanks to Raven Cobb, Clearstep, Inc ! #6- 6- Lord Alan Sugar.

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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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Technical Review Venture Capital India Startup 93

adamac.blogspot.com

MARCH 9, 2010

Adam MacBeth Tuesday, April 07, 2009 10 Startup Red Flags Ive worked on a number of startups: from seed-stage through IPO, as a founder, employee, advisor, and consultant, as well as evaluating a bunch from the outside, so Ive seen my share of screw-ups. Just using technology isnt enough (who doesnt have a website these days?)

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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? Business & Small Business.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

HomeAway is another one of our five tech IPOs in the last five years. Instead of crying in their beers about it, Cotter and Tom Ball at Austin Ventures decided what to do next and came up with Small Ponds, which later became Whale Shark Media and then RetailMeNot (named after its largest digital property). It is worth $3.4

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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.

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Software Review IPO Technical Review America 41

BeyondVC

JULY 31, 2008

As an aside, I worked with JEGI two years ago and they did a fantastic job helping us sell Moreover Technologies to Verisign. They understand the media and online world, are well connected, and work diligently to get the job done. IPO vs. M&A)? (My How is the environment changing for deal exits (e.g., Exit Strategy.

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Jordan Exit Strategy IPO Semantic 60

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. IPO markets had burned an entire cycle of retail stock investors and many institutional investors to boot. The Exit Problem.

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups. With the key social media platforms today, an entrepreneur can tune a product, build a brand, and grow the business with very low cost and a high interactivity never before possible.

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North America Incubator Initial Public Offering Exit Strategy 320

View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

Pierre Valade, Co-Founder of Sunrise & Mobile Designer at Microsoft. Although we have companies that are leveraging all of these technologies, we’ve realized that the best companies tend not to be easily categorized and don’t necessarily fit the standard playbooks. Sara Wajnberg, SVP of Product at Oscar. Go-to-Market Guild.

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Operations Cofounder Technical Review Angel Investor 176

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. That is a 65% increase in the number of IPOs over 2012, and the highest proceeds raised since the year 2000. Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups. The elements include communications, mobile platforms, and location-based services.

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IPO Entrepreneur Social Media Startup 273

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. You want to sneak in some tech support emails during the day, so you use a cocktail of Anonymizer plus GMail-over-SSL to confound the network admin.

Software Review 41

Software Review Startup Technical Review Mobile 41

Agile VC

JANUARY 13, 2016

But by the time we ended 2015, the headlines like “ The Dangers Ahead if Tech Unicorns Get Gored (WSJ) ” and “ Regulators Look Into Mutual Funds Procedures for Valuing Startups (WSJ) “ “Unicorn” went from being a brass ring to reach for to a term used with sarcasm or derision. What happened?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2018

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups. With the key social media platforms today, an entrepreneur can tune a product, build a brand, and grow the business with very low cost and a high interactivity never before possible.

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Entrepreneur Valuation Incubator Initial Public Offering 166

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. Last year was the most active year for IPOs in the United States since 2000. 275 IPOs were completed in 2014, topping the 2013 total of 222 by more than 23%. IPO proceeds also shattered 2013’s high-water mark of $55 billion, with an impressive $85 billion in proceeds.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2014

The story struck me as significant for three reasons – firstly, because Freelancer founder Matt Barrie had been very public leading up to the IPO about wanting to list in Australia over both London and NASDAQ. Finally, that this was not the first highly successful tech IPO in Australia in 2013 with OzForex raising AUD $439.4

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Australia San Francisco IPO Cofounder 146

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! Invest in Your Customers More Than Your Brand | Michael Schrage-Harvard Business Review – [link]. Tech Startup City: G2 Crowd in Chicago | Forbes – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 107

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 11, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Here’s the Data | Harvard Business Review – crowdspring.co/1lLgAjK. Google, Apple or IPO: What’s Next for Square? | The decline of the mobile web - crowdspring.co/1lIlKL4.

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Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. You can learn as much from these cautionary tales as you can from the enduring successes, plus studying a broad sample of firms helps avoid drawing false conclusions due to survivorship bias. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future. July 11, 2012.

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Silicon Valley Carried Interest Cofounder Boston 240

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

One company with an astonishingly high rake is recently IPOed Shutterstock, a photo-purchasing marketplace where the content owner receives only 30% of gross receipts. This way no one leaves the network due to excessive fees, yet you end up with a higher average rake over time due to the competitive dynamic.

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Europe Social Network Technical Review IPO 101

Seeing Both Sides

JULY 22, 2012

Over a year and a half ago, I did a two-part blog post on the East Coast IPO malaise – one focused on Boston (Massachusetts more broadly), another focused on New York. On the heels of the successful Kayak IPO, I thought I would do a retrospective look back. Meanwhile, not a single New York technology IPO has taken place.

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Boston IPO Technical Review New York 52

Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

Lately, everybody seems to be talking about a new technology bubble. A Comparison Between Today’s “Bubble” and the Last Tech Bubble. If publicly traded technology companies are not at bubble-like prices, then private technology valuations aren’t either because they are roughly equivalent. Are the prognosticators correct?

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Technical Review Venture Capital Valuation Database 78

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Some examples: AI will be the new mobile. Artificial Intelligence is an important, foundational technology that gets more important every year and will be used to solve more and more problems going forward. One of the interesting applications for this technology is assessing intellect in job interviews. What tasks are next?

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Startup 122

allthingsd.com

JULY 16, 2012

It’s clear that factors like the greater American economy and the bumpy tech IPO market don’t necessarily have a direct and/or timely correlation with venture capital spending. Ed tech, e-commerce and enterprise. Photo and video start-ups accounted for 29 percent of mobile funding dollars. Featured Reviews.

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Venture Capital Technical Review RSS Charlotte 71

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Technology. This service is temporary unavailable due to system maintenance. Loading… Tech. Personal Technology. TECHNOLOGY. more in Tech. WSJ Classroom. Ran gold Resources Ltd. View All Search Results » |. The Wall Street Journal. Welcome, Logout. Customer Center. My Journal. Edition Home.

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Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

mashable.com

JANUARY 13, 2012

9 Tech Millionaires Under Age 30 [INFOGRAPHIC]. Brian Sullivan is vice president of client services at Gigya , where he advises clients on implementing social technology. Gigya offers websites a suite of social technology like social login , comments, game mechanics and a social identity management platform.

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Technical Review Social Media Social Network RSS 78

venturebeat.com

JULY 12, 2012

VentureBeat | News About Tech, Money and Innovation. Streaming media. Social media. Despite the name, the Bing Fund doesn’t require its companies to work with the Bing search engine or the technologies associated with Bing, including speech recognition, image processing, video, local/geo/map technologies, and so forth.

Detroit 69

Detroit Incubator Technical Review Venture Capital 69

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! PR is mostly ineffective when companies step on social media landmines – [link]. 26 Promising Social Media Stats for Small Businesses – [link]. Very shady, if true.

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Social Media Small Business Design CTO Hire 94

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Loading… Tech. Media & Marketing. Media Agencies. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. which makes a mobile app that rewards shoppers for creating a personal shopping mall and following their favorite stores. Mossberg Reviews the iPhone 5.

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Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

These are good things to think about and companies to study as we move back from consumer to Enterprise in the tech cycle. Hundreds of startups will succeed in this world over the next few years, like all the mobile app companies over the past 5 years. Alexia Tsotsis: Oh, the mobile –. Marc Andreessen: The mobile billing.

Software Review 22

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Chicago magazine writes about the tech scene here at 1871 – [link]. Twitter CEO Costolo Talks Ads, Facebook, and IPO – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 95

Start Up Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2019

It’s pretty easy to forget how much a new technology changes our lives once it’s adopted. Sure, some new technologies are like shooting stars, but some change everything forever. The start of a massive GPS-driven logistics and mobility revolution. What happened: Twitch is launched + Steve Jobs dies.

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Technical Review China IPO Vesting 105

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Every startup faces multiple choices and decisions when it comes to technology. Media Temple. Girls in Tech. We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging. Domains.Co.

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