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. How They Make Money : Facebook’s primary revenue stream is of course selling advertising on Facebook.com, which in total accounts for 85% of revenue. February 2, 2012.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2013

A VC: MBA Mondays: Revenue Models – Subscriptions – [link]. Thanks To Facebook, Strongest Year For IPOs Since 2000 With $21.5 The Dunbar Number, From the Guru of Social Networks | Businessweek - [link]. Social Networking Eats Up 3+ Hours Per Day For The Average American User - [link].

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability. VC’s worked with entrepreneurs to build profitable and scalable businesses, with increasing revenue and consistent profitability – quarter after quarter.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

Today, the signs of the new bubble are the Linked-In initial public offering (IPO), Facebook’s stratospheric valuation and the rapid rise of early-stage startup valuation. In the case of this bubble, it was social networks, consumer and mobile applications, and the cloud. The Linked-in IPO valued the company at $8.9

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

So Groupon obviously filed their S-1 the other day to formally being the IPO process. They’ve grown from nothing to >$2B in revenue in 30 months time, making the company among the fastest growing businesses in the histroy of the world. Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $713M. in net revenue and passes $0.58

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 19, 2012

I don’t know exactly when the agency to product transfer happened at Buddy, or at what point you can start calling yourself a software company (when service revenues dip below subscription/license revs?), but the evidence would suggest that repositioning the company as social enterprise software was a master stroke.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Over the years, despite massive losses, Netflix was able to bounce back and improve its revenue by 47%. One of the top five largest IPOs in the world was done by the reformed General Motors in 2010, and the company generated a profit. Thanks to Jen Wan, Soteri Skin ! Thanks to Christopher Andrew, 420 expert advisers ! #18-

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

Clearly define the customer, channel, and revenue model associated with this solution. In this section, you need to be passionate about revenue, profit, and volume growth. Many people seem to use the social network advertising model for revenue, but forget it assumes at least 100M users and $50M investment.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 18, 2016

For me, Twitter is still the #1 social network because it is (or can be) *truly social*. Or really, the fact that it isn’t the trendiest social network any longer. It’s still the best social network to chat about current events, with people you don’t know already.

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The Equity Kicker

APRIL 11, 2012

The question on everyone’s lips is, of course, ‘how come a two year old startup with no revenues is worth $1bn?’. I think the answer is pretty clear – it’s all about Facebook’s IPO price. In this case Facebook’s pending IPO make it particularly easy to understand the logic.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

Clearly define the customer, channel, and revenue model associated with this solution. In this section, you need to be passionate about revenue, profit, and volume growth. Many people seem to use the social network advertising model for revenue, but forget it assumes at least 100M users and $50M investment.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 22, 2012

Although Facebook’s stock price has fallen well below its IPO price of $38 per share, many people agree that the stock is still significantly overpriced. They can’t – certainly not based on Facebook’s current revenue opportunities. Moreover, current per user revenues outside of the U.S./Canada

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

For example, one angel investor reportedly invested in several hundred social networking ventures employing this philosophy. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 17, 2011

Smart Money are prescient angel investors and Venture Capitalists who started investing in social networks, consumer and mobile applications and the cloud 3, 4 or 5 years ago. 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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Gust

AUGUST 5, 2012

Clearly define the customer, channel, and revenue model associated with this solution. In this section, you need to be passionate about revenue, profit, and volume growth. Many people seem to use the social network advertising model for revenue, but forget it assumes at least 100M users and $50M investment.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I believe that many social networks confused this idea. They had previously all worked together at a very successful company in the “telecoms meets Internet&# space, CallWave, which IPO’d 5 years ago or so. Social networks continue to drive conversion of marketers. Perfect.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2011

Are we seeing a time in which pre-revenue companies are more valuable than our offline institutional brands? Why had it endured though market machinations and become this year’s darling IPO? So resume + directionally-correct social graph = goldmine for recruiting, networking and marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

Clearly define the customer, channel, and revenue model associated with this solution. In this section, you need to be passionate about revenue, profit, and volume growth. Many people seem to use the social network advertising model for revenue, but forget it requires at least 100M users and $50M investment.

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The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

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. 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.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

With each hand, a small percentage of the pot is scraped off by the dealer, which in essence becomes the “revenue” for the casino. While casinos use the term “rake,” a plethora of interesting word choices exist which all describe the same thing – keeping a little bit of the revenue for the company that is running the service.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. IPO markets had burned an entire cycle of retail stock investors and many institutional investors to boot. Web businesses can now grow revenue before they can even afford sales people.

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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. Adamac Attack! Unfortunately this usually backfires.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 23, 2010

The firm offers email subscribers a deal-of-the-day coupon at a local business, then encourages them to share it with their social networks. He’s started four IPO-able companies in eight years. If enough people sign up for it, the offer is good. If enough people sign up for it, the offer is good.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Friendster’s valuation set the tone for the entire social networking space. we had no revenue. As a result, we knew that our pitch would need to steer into investors’ biggest concern: the lack of revenue. The graphic we chose emphasizes that it is a network of people. Investors see a lot of pitches.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 29, 2012

The entire Tech world is waiting with baited breath for the filing of Facebook’s IPO next week. Network fragmentation. Social networks should be incredibly robust because of network effects. Facebook’s impressive revenue relies largely on advertising. Advertising effectiveness.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 25, 2012

Wondering how your competitors are using Pinterest to increase their revenues? Wondering how your competitors are using Pinterest to increase their revenues? The Inside Story Of What Happened On The Facebook IPO – [link]. Facebook IPO, and How to Build a Social Network for $389 – [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

Could we have built the first college-based social network five years before Facebook ? We were focused on revenue, but we didnt understand that revenue is not important for its own sake in an early stage company. Almost all of them got scooped up by pre-IPO Google this time.

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

But of course, the model had us requiring only $10M equity to breakeven and to achieve $185M in revenues in 2008 (the magic Year 5 in all business plans). Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? Is $120M enough capital to reach these exit goals? ► January. (1). ► 2010. (7).

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Gust

DECEMBER 12, 2011

They are mentioned in any print, website, or television content concerning beauty, startups, New York, great entrepreneurs, women leaders , or the next generation of IPOs. OK, read the next two words slowly: generate revenue. Sorry, yes, I know how retro this sounds. Worrying about revenues (or wolves) can slow you down.

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

And going even further back there have been a few random ones have been built before like Salesforce.com and e-tailer RedEnvelope (IPO’d in 2003 though now defunct as a company). If my memory serves me, <10% of our pre-IPO employees at PayPal lived in SF and literally 1 of the first 40-50 folks at LinkedIn were city-dwellers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

Not even if its generating revenue. You make me think of something I've been pondering for a while but haven't been able to articulate: the realignment of company and "customer" in the age of pervasive social networks and innovation. Heres hoping Steve will share those techniques with us someday.

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Reid Hoffman

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Today, Groupon is worth about 1/10th what it was on the day of its IPO, and revenues have been flat for years. Network effects occur when increased usage of a good or service leads to an increase in its value, which in turn makes it more attractive and this leads to further increases in usage. The same applies to its ads.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

I’ve always loved games and computers, so it was only natural for me to intern between my Junior and Senior year of UC Berkeley Undergrad at Zynga – then an innovative, pre-IPO social gaming company. I grew that business unit from $0 to now $300M in Revenue, with over 20 million installs across the product line.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

On the one hand innovation is clearly at an all time high unleashed by smart phones, fast telecom networks, social networks that spread commerce and the fact that we are all one click away from buying things on Amazon, Apple, Google or PayPal. ” ring hollow. The response? So eventually rationality has to occur.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Google bought Gil’s company in 2003 (pre IPO) for $100+ million and this business now represents about 30% of all of Googles revenue. I have talked in the past about other layers that are emerging particularly in social networking and mobile applications. Other Layers.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Meanwhile, the rash of early liquidity and recent IPOs — unsatisfying as they were — gave liquidity to thousands of employees at large companies, and a subset of those made very real money. This time around, there has been an explosion at the early stages, and the very late pre-IPO growth stages. Source VentureBeat ]. -

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