Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

Finally, I HATE the name. Golden rule of branding for me: 1) name your company or product your URL and 2) don’t paint yourself into a corner. &# Tweet&# = corner. My bet: within 18 months they will change the name and go multi-stream. Sounds like somebody didn’t do their homework on this name. uh, hello!

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Venture Capital Affiliate Valuation San Francisco 271

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

The name of the game now is quality content which keeps viewers watching past the golden 1-minute mark. Look out for more products that aggregate and organize existing accounts and automatically scrub your inboxes, feeds and social media connections. Lane Sutton , Social Media from a Teen. Raul Pla , SimpleWifi and UseABoat.

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API Social Media Mobile Valuation 157

VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

The future of social media and 3D interaction is the biggest priority to Facebook. It goes beyond the change of name, to reflect the company’s intention to become fully metaverse focused within 5 years – Facebook is investing billions and hiring 1,000 people in EMEA to build their vision for our future online social interactions.

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IP Cofounder Valuation Acquisition 206

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 29, 2014

The IPO market for financial technology companies will start to heat up. If market conditions continue to be favorable, more IPOs are inevitable as these private market investors seek exits. The window is clearly open, so I wouldn’t be at all surprised if there are several more IPOs on the way in 2015.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 18, 2011

Years later Clavier's name now comes up all the time when one of his portfolio companies finds success; his exits include Mint, Tapulous, and UserPlane, other investments include Mashery (a ReadWriteWeb sponsor), Rapleaf, Fitbit, bitly, GroupOn, Twitter and many more. You want to build your own IPO and exit.

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Investment Bankers Technical Review Cofounder Due Diligence 153

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). No matter the name?—?the

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B2C Austin Cofounder IPO 51

Up and Running

JULY 10, 2019

Boutique fitness franchises are now some of the biggest names in the industry. Meanwhile, Soulcycle, the spinning obsession of every trendy New Yorker, filed for IPO in 2018 only to withdraw at the last minute. A friend’s recommendation can be so much more useful than a social media ad or flashy special offer.

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Retention Social Media Software Review Acquisition 70

David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

I hope that you can join us Monday night, April 4, midtown NYC, at a panel on “Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO” The program is sponsored by the HBS Club of New York and the HBS Angels of NY.

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Private Equity Merger IPO Equity 68

Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

Not really; it was a result of an industry investing into a frothy market at higher and higher valuations in expectation of near term liquidity, and suddenly the IPO window shutting, leading to no exits and little additional capital to support these companies. I knew them all, because we all knew each other in this era. This isn’t true.

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Venture Capital SBIC Technical Review Silicon Valley 70

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). Shame they didn’t like his suggested name for the company: DreamWorks SKG-MM. We discussed: 1. TechCrunch.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 24, 2019

Lucky7 is named after my mom , who was an amazing woman and entrepreneur herself. We would build the “voice of the marketplace” (Bazaarvoice was named after Chapter 4 of The Cluetrain Manifesto , the most important marketing chapter of any book I’ve read, as I discussed in What’s in a name? ). And speaking of luck, remember?—?this

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Software Review Cofounder eCommerce Austin 48

VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Obviously our investment in Medialets – the market leader in rich media mobile advertising – reflects our belief that mobile in general, and rich media on mobile specifically (which is really the kind of advertising that mobile was made for) is a rising area in advertising. Do you see a window developing?

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Technical Review Due Diligence Venture Capital IPO 60

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 23, 2016

Have you ever noticed how so many major corporations produce commercials that focus more on their brand name rather than an actual product? Even if your company never offers an IPO, having long financial value is one of the most positive aspects of good brand recognition. photo credit Very Pixel. Yes and no.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Mike founded GrubHub in his spare bedroom and grew it into the multi-billion-dollar online food delivery colossus that is a household name. Questions I ask Mike Evans: [1:46] Could you give us a high-level overview of the startup of Grubhub to IPO to what you’re doing now? My guest today is Mike Evans.

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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. That’s not to say that you could not *easily* name 10 exciting AR/VR companies. With the smartphone, entertainment is basically with us all the time, everywhere.

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Vertical Artificial Inteligence Distribution IPO 113

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

Their name alone is enough to get meetings set up. They have an expectation that the IPO will be in 3 years and they were in at the ground floor. This is part of my ongoing series Pitching a VC. They know that the money they invest may be lost. They know all the VCs for intros. They are calling cards. They are full of wisdom.

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Silicon Valley Ireland Technical Review Valuation 291

Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Bill Gurley’s excellent piece on Silicon Valley IPO Anxiety inspired me to take a companion look at the East Coast, particularly Massachusetts and New York, and evaluate the health of the local IPO economy and prospective pipeline. Yet, when you evaluate the pipeline of IPO candidates, the results in MA are less inspiring.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

When we want to sell or IPO companies they’re there again. of Stubbs Alderton, a firm that focused exclusively on early-stage tech, media and game companies in Southern California. In Silicon Valley the name I hear mentioned most often for very early stage deals is Joey Tran from Fortis. Our lives are intertwined.

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Southern California Silicon Valley IP Stock Options 318

Hunter Walker

JANUARY 27, 2023

I was the first “Hunter” to work at Google, so I got the six-letter name (the second Hunter went for retnuh@ — “hunter” backwards. People would stop me on the street to tell me their Google search stories of triumph or failure, ask me about their website ranking, and, around the time of the IPO, make wild assumptions about my net worth.

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Chad IPO Email .Net 63

www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

NAME THAT TECH TUNE. It’s still the Pacific Northwest, and Dealmaker Media has assembled an eye-opening list of speakers. Small tech firms outpace big counterparts with IPOs. WINDOWS PHONE. Mobile News. WINDOWS PHONE. VIDEO GAMES. GEEK OF THE WEEK. TECH EVENTS. Columnists. FRANK CATALANO. MONICA GUZMAN. REBECCA LOVELL.

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Venture Capital Seattle Cofounder Software Engineering 42

Gust

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Talented entrepreneurs are nothing if not resilient in the face of change: Market forces, competitive threats, technological shifts, you name it. Without these two laws (or their equivalent), the social media revolution of the past decade would have been stillborn.

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IPO Prospectus SEC Intellectual Property 110

The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

They even went as far as changing the name of the company to Alphabet, emphasising the point that the Google search business is just one part of what they do. Facebook has mostly moved via bold acquisitions, starting with $1bn for Instagram six weeks before their IPO, moving the through $24bn for WhatsApp, before paying $2bn for Oculus.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 10, 2018

Social media and the need to rank higher on search engines continues to grow in importance with U.S. The global population has a great interest in social commerce, but user-to-user commerce on social media is illegal there. Currently in South and Southeast Asia only 37% of the population uses social media. after living abroad.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

There are small and bright companies that have come up in the past few years that have found out ways to manage virtually any service offered by big names in banking. Lending Club and OnDeck have come out with IPOs which have been well-received showing the positive market sentiment about alternative lending through online platforms.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

Here is who will be joining the NextView Operator Guilds (for full bios, click the link in their name): Product Guild. He was previously VP Product at Runkeeper (sold to Asics), a General Manager and Director of Product at Zynga (IPO), and Director of Product at Conduit Labs (sold to Zynga). Sara Wajnberg, SVP of Product at Oscar.

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Operations Cofounder Technical Review Angel Investor 176

Steve Blank

JUNE 17, 2011

While Shills have no credibility, Promoters have “brand-name” credibility that makes the Marks trust them. 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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Investment Bankers Stock Valuation Venture Capital 310

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2010

Many of us in the technology, media and VC world sit on panels at lot. Things to know: mix of entrepreneurs, big tech company execs, service providers, media people, VCs, etc. Make sure they know your name, your company and what you do. It’s “earned media.&#. Many of them are painfully boring. Don’t.

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Audience Venture Capital Restful Warrant 284

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

But knowing the right people and knowing a market only works well for angel investors in bullish tech markets in which IPO’s happen quickly (97-99) or where larger companies are actively scooping up little tiny companies at sub $50 million valuations to drive innovation (05-08, 10-?). Obviously I agree.

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Angel Investor Early Stage Cap Table Deal Flow 284

Up and Running

JUNE 11, 2012

Amidst all the hype and media coverage of Facebook’s recent IPO and the rise of Pinterest, there is one powerful social network that you are probably a member of and not even using it to its full extent – LinkedIn. Nothing looks worse to someone who comes across your name and sees the bare minimum. Add your connections.

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Social Network Cofounder Networking IPO 120

Hunter Walker

JUNE 22, 2013

I was the first “Hunter” to work at Google, so I got the six-letter name (the second Hunter went for retnuh@ — “hunter” backwards. People would stop me on the street to tell me their Google search stories of triumph or failure, ask me about their website ranking, and, around the time of the IPO, make wild assumptions about my net worth.

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Chad IPO .Net Email 103

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

This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 22, 2016

I had all of seven deals to my name in a short, two year track record. Granted, two of those companies had exited for great returns, but it was also on behalf of a brand name firm whose name I wouldn't get to carry around all the time anymore. Who knew whether I'd even be able to get into any deals on my own?

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New York City New York Venture Capital Limited Partner 60

Growthink Blog

AUGUST 14, 2010

Main Street Investor, are NOT getting a piece of the next big IPO: The 2 best known venture capital funds –Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins - because of their reputations and massive bankrolls – will continue to get the lion’s share of the deals with rockstar IPO potential.

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Private Equity Intellectual Property IPO Venture Capital 67

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

As for LBGTQ, I probably trend higher than average as I know several founders who have indicated that they’ve gotten my name off of various lists of allies and such. What all the media and conversational focus seems to be on is the middle part—the implicit or explicit bias you encounter in the process itself. First is network bias.

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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. They not only have gotten bigger but they have an amazing track record of funding the biggest names in the sector: Cisco, Apple, Google, Facebook. Los Angeles. People either love it our hate it.

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Silicon Valley Technology Los Angeles Southern California 290

Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 28, 2023

If I didn't move, I wouldn't have had the same opportunities, wouldn't have been able to join companies like Juste and do the IPO and luck, the IPO, how many companies IPO, far and few between once again, and there's a luck factor behind that and the right timing of that. Hasan (20:49): Yeah, we're all over social media.

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Framework Cofounder Early Stage IPO 70

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. It covers a range of technology trends, from social media to mobile, clean technology, games and chips. You can’t afford to hire three developers to add features and bugs.

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