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%. I can remember when creating a web site for eCommerce could easily require a million dollar investment.

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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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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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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. Similarly for every Supercell and Zynga, there’s also big mobile gaming franchises built by legacy publishers like EA. Growth IPOs Are Back.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2018

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. I can remember when creating a web site for eCommerce could easily require a million dollar investment. Now you can create a web site for almost nothing - and be on your way with your latest invention or personal services.

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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! Twitter CEO Costolo Talks Ads, Facebook, and IPO – [link]. How Facebook killed the big IPO – [link]. 18 New and Free Fonts For Web Designers – [link].

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Mobile and web software apps may cost even less. VCs tend to carry their partners much longer, in hopes of a big public offering (IPO) that could produce a windfall. The cost of entry for tech startups continues to go down. The large investment amounts preferred by VCs are no longer needed to launch winners.

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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! Why the Best Entrepreneurs and Creators are Humble | The Next Web - crowdspring.co/1e9b5t3. Google, Apple or IPO: What’s Next for Square? | Re/code - crowdspring.co/1embSqM.

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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! Mark Cuban Says Dead IPO Market for Small Firms Hurts Competition – [link]. Mobile Isn’t Just a Screen or Device, It’s About Behavior | Advertising Age – [link].

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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! A Discussion on Material Choices in Mobile – crowdspring.co/1lYw8iS. With IPO Hopes Fading, Square And Box Face Reality Of Commodity Products | TechCrunch – crowdspring.co/1rWbako.

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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! Hottest Pre-IPO Adtech Startups | Business Insider – crowdspring.co/1k6cUmV. Great Design via Psychology | Psychology of Web Design – crowdspring.co/1o0VnjR.

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Start Up Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2019

The start of a massive GPS-driven logistics and mobility revolution. What happened: Edward Snowden’s NSA revelations + Facebook goes public with IPO. To date, its market capitalisation has now increased fourfold since the IPO. This could put a massive schism into the entire web and anything news-related.

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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! 7 Web Productivity Tools That’ll Maximize Your Efficiency | Forbes – [link]. New study on companies worth $100M+ shows how much of a lie the Web 2.0

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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! Lessons Learned from Bill Gross’ 35 IPOs/Exits and 40 Failures – [link]. How Groupthink Can Ruin Startups | The Next Web – [link]. Design Reviver – [link].

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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. When companies DO IPO they are worth much more at IPO time than in the past. More value is captured more by VCs prior to an IPO.

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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. Two big themes have emerged in my head in the past 3 years: offline / online integration and mobile computing. Why Pay-Per-Call? It’s just a couple of minutes and done in a humorous way.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2020

Mobile and web software apps may cost even less. VCs tend to carry their partners much longer, in hopes of a big public offering (IPO) that could produce a windfall. The cost of entry for tech startups continues to go down. The large investment amounts preferred by VCs are no longer needed to launch winners.

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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! Zynga Leans On Some Workers to Surrender Pre-IPO Shares – [link]. Report: Search To Dominate Mobile Advertising By 2015 – [link]. Very shady, if true. – [link].

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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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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

a part of an exciting team, building web applications such as social networking, ecommerce, games, sports, contact management, CMS and more.Re. 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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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2015

On the one hand it denied Facebook from enormous amounts of web traffic that Google controlled at the time but in the longer-run due to network effects of social networks it made Facebook significantly more powerful. What are the chances that SnapChat or WhatsApp would emerge without getting crushed like a bug?

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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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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! Why Startups Die | The Next Web - [link]. Thanks To Facebook, Strongest Year For IPOs Since 2000 With $21.5 10 Best Photoshop Web Layout Design Tutorials 2012 – [link].

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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]. How Google+ Is Changing the Web, Even Though No One Wants It To – [link].

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Some examples: AI will be the new mobile. Orcam was created by the founders of Mobileye (NYSE: MBLY and one of Israel’s largest IPOs ), Prof. YouAppi (2011)- YouAppi creates adtech to streamline mobile user acquisition. Security will shift from defensive to predictive AI-powered security (Norwest Venture Partners).

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Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

And at PayPal we were hit with a couple patent disputes while in the midst of our IPO process. The bulk of the patents they believe Facebook is infringing pertain to things like A) display & targeting of online ads, B) online privacy, C) personalization of a user’s web experience, D) general online messaging (Yahoo!

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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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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

This method was perfected by Gil Elbaz and his team at Applied Semantics in LA and in what some have called “ the most important acquisition ever made by Google ” they acquired the company for $102 million before Google had even IPO’d.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 31, 2012

Mobile advertising is a hot market right now. Evidenced most recently by the IPO of mobile advertising network Millennial and Singtel’s $321m acquisition of Amobee. Mary Meeker just released her annual 100+ page slide deck of internet trends, and three of those show why everyone is so excited about mobile advertising.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. It’ll be nearly two years before the concept of “Web 2.0″ ″ is popularized by Tim O’Reilly (the first Web 2.0

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 5, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! In the red: 73% of tech IPOs aren’t profitable when they debut – [link]. Responsive Web Design: New Tools, Articles and Tutorials – [link]. – [link].

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

For life sciences it was the Genentech IPO in 1980 that proved to investors that life science startups could make them a ton of money. For products that are simply “bits” delivered over the web, a first product can be shipped in weeks rather than years. Founders Need to Run the Company Longer.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 20, 2014

last year, more than any other major index), and the IPO market is booming. While there were IPOs (notably Wix in November), most of the acquisitions were made by global technology companies with R&D Centers (and their corporate M&A teams) in Israel, including Apple, Google, EMC, AOL, Cisco, IBM and now Facebook. Bubble 2.0 $4.2

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

Bill Gross is the man responsible for the overwhelming amount of monetization on the web. In the former case many people scoffed at paying up for Google at IPO. Stitcher - San Francisco-based service that lets users customize talk radio programming on their mobile devices. High Profile Deal of the Week: 1. Overture sold for $1.6

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Of course, upcoming IPOs like Snapchat will bring some added excitement to the industry. Every 10-15 years, a major cycle reshapes the computing landscape: PC (1981), Internet (1994), Mobile (2007). In short, Perez believes that we are currently in the deployment period for web and mobile.

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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. Social investments in the Internet sector are down, though mobile social is booming after the Facebook-Instagram deal. Web Designer.

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