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. hours per day on average, and that’s excluding the other 13 hours a day where we have our mobile devices, our connected TVs, our iPads and Kindles and soon our cars connected to the web. Mobility really changes everything.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. Blitzscaling is a strategic technique for moving faster, not a reckless gamble.

Cofounder 28

Cofounder Business Model IPO Non-Compete 28

BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

We each independently fell in love with enterprise software 20+ years ago as seed investors (cos like gotomeeting/Citrix, greenplum/EMC, livperson/IPO LPSN) and founders (workmarket, onforce/Adecco, spinback/buddymedia/salesf0rce) and are now benefiting from the ecosystems, knowledge and network that we’ve collectively developed.

Cap Table 60

Cap Table Cofounder Dividend Institutional Investors 60

Agile VC

JANUARY 27, 2012

This list is hardly exhaustive, but I could only think of CSCO in the ’80s and AMZN in the ’90s and GOOG in the ’00s, and again none of them reached this value until years after IPO. Filed under Uncategorized. link] Ashish Datta. Interesting observation. Read More ».

Hockey Stick 113

Hockey Stick Seed Stage Silicon Valley Syndicate 113

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

We would have gladly followed Jamie (and Josh Roth, the CTO who is phenomenal and we’ve also known for a decade) right through an IPO if we could have. We were CONVINCED Dropcam (then Nest) wouldn’t mobilize a competing product quickly if it did sell? Viral Adoption / Group Use Cases Jamie didn’t want to stop at a single household.

Security 247

Security Los Angeles Silicon Valley Video 247

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

On Facebook, viral distribution has proved decisive. Those companies who have learned to build apps that optimize the viral loop dominate in every category where they compete. So far, I dont see any apps that have much in the way of viral distribution. I think it dwarfs all other mobile platforms by an order of magnitude.

Distribution 74

Distribution San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 74

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

On the web, we have many of these channels: SEM, SEO, world of mouth, PR and viral. For example, if any of the mobile ad networks gets major traction, they may become a dominant way that people discover new apps. Acqusition competition is how new apps get new customers. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

San Francisco 68

San Francisco Lean Retention SEM 68

mashable.com

JANUARY 13, 2012

Meme Machine: ‘Hitler’ Skewers Google’s Social Search Plus 4 More Viral Topics. Today in Mobile. Glamour Print Ads to Feature Mobile E-Commerce. Facebook IPO Hitting in Late May [REPORT]. Mobile Lists. Beepl Adds a Personalized Twist to Q&A. Top Related Stories. 9 Comments. or Twitter.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Social Media Social Network RSS 78

abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

If you download their mobile app, Krispy Kreme will give you a free doughnut , McDonald’s will give you a free large fries , and Baskin-Robbins will give you a free scoop of ice cream. If somehow Sofi could obtain allocation to these so called “hot IPOs” clearly it would be a powerful marketing tool.

IPO 82

IPO Customer Matching Silicon Valley 82