VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

Is there an early mover advantage for being early on a technology trend? In the first five months of 2022, more than $120 billion have been invested in building out metaverse technology and infrastructure, according to McKinsey. Also, their $1.6 Every month, there are 5B downloads of apps built in Unity.

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Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

In the early days of LinkedIn we jointly acquired an issued patent of the defunct SixDegrees.com which directly pertains to social networking as well as acquiring a nascent startup in part for its in-process patent filings. And at PayPal we were hit with a couple patent disputes while in the midst of our IPO process.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Bad stock markets mean less IPO’s and lower prices for M&A. Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capital. It is also a result of pent-up demand. In the following post I argue that this increased pace may be temporary. If the stock market holds then the pace of VC may hold steady.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 25, 2012

The Inside Story Of What Happened On The Facebook IPO – [link]. Facebook IPO, and How to Build a Social Network for $389 – [link]. Q1 saw the most tech IPOs in four years, but funding amounts are down – [link]. Facebook IPO Post Mortem – Killer – but not for the reasons you think !

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

I think the best solution for the social networking era is “in-stream&# advertising. I know you could argue that YouTube was much broader but it was really popularized in the social networks. In the former case many people scoffed at paying up for Google at IPO. Rumored: Digital Sky Technologies.

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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. It is a really big historical decision that Facebook made not to have Google index its pages.

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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. Each of these pocket computers is payment ready & social linked.

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Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 12, 2016

So when an investment thesis becomes popular, when a new technology becomes available, when a new media consumption platform becomes dominant, if we believe in the trend, we have to “seed” an investment within the first three years and hope to “harvest” 5–10 years later. Out of hundreds of social networks launched, only one changed the world.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

For decades the “layering&# of technology has allowed us to develop IT systems and networks in a specialized way that let’s best-of-breed technology solutions to emerge at each layer of the stack and to allow people with different skill sets to specialize in key areas without having to have competence in every technology arena.

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mashable.com

JANUARY 13, 2012

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. Which Social Login Provider Should I Choose?

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 19, 2012

Buddy Media builds, promotes and monetizes one of the largest networks of engaging and entertaining social media applications on the web. The company reaches more than 8 million internet users each month through some of the top applications on Facebook and other social networks. Social Media Software.

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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. But we have a great city for building technology companies. You can find very talented technology executives. But we do have great technology developers. You don’t.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

A tech bubble is the rapid inflation in the valuation of public and private technology companies that exceeds their fundamental value by a large margin. 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.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

The biggest technology IPO in history has rightfully captured the imagination of both the general and investment public. So once we put this natural (and may I add wholly unproductive) emotion aside, the thoughtful angel investor should both gain great hope and powerful moving forward lessons from the Facebook IPO. read more.

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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. With Netscape’s IPO , there was suddenly a public market for companies with limited revenue and no profit. The New Bubble : (2011 – 2014): Here we go again…. (If

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

We are the most active Twitter country in the world (measured by tweets per account) and the third most socially networked. We have three universities in the top 100 of the Shanghai ranking for engineering and technology. Our socially progressive attitude has helped shape the most creative and agile playing of the global game.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

There’s no doubt (at least anecdotally) that the pace of VC investments in early-stage technology companies has picked up in the past few months. IPOs and M&A have returned – and with them the investment bankers have staged a rebound. – IPO-able in any normal market. Notice that I didn’t say “social networking.”

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

Startups here are primarily in what they call the TMT (Technology, Media and Telecommunications) segment. Not only does Zhongguancun have Chinese startups, but global technology companies (Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Microsoft, IBM, Sun, Oracle, BEA, Alcatel Lucent, Google) all have offices here or elsewhere in Beijing.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Mark Zuckerberg’s journey started when he created a message program ‘ ZuckNet’ at the age of twelve, CourseMatch and FaceMash in college, and finally the world-famous social networking platform ‘Facebook’ which revolutionized communication, followed by taking over WhatsApp and Instagram. 18- Adidas' Adi Dassler.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

There is a lot of uncertainty about the state of the private, high-growth technology markets and the venture capital markets that underpin them. Great technology firms were built during the last dry period and we saw the huge wealth creation of Facebook, Twitter, Tesla and others. Boom and bust. Markets are markets. The response?

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Austin Startup

APRIL 26, 2020

In honor of Netflix’s big beat today in the very unfortunate age of COVID-19, I decided to revisit my four-part Bazaarblog series while I was CEO of Bazaarvoice (from our inception in 2005 to our IPO in 2012). The name of the last part? Netflix vs. Blockbuster: Round Four (Lights Out?)” How can a company be so oblivious to a small start-up?

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venturebeat.com

JULY 12, 2012

Social media. Social networking. Social games. 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. From $1.5B

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

Startups here are primarily in what they call the TMT (Technology, Media and Telecommunications) segment. Not only does Zhongguancun have Chinese startups, but global technology companies (Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Microsoft, IBM, Sun, Oracle, BEA, Alcatel Lucent, Google) all have offices here or elsewhere in Beijing.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2011

Their firm, Andreessen/Horowtiz , has been prescient enough to invest in social networks, consumer and mobile applications and the cloud long before others. In 5 to 10 years most of them will be worth a fraction of their IPO price. They finance companies that invest in new technologies, new ideas and new products.

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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. Fort Mason Games will be a Billion Dollar entertainment business, having redefined social mobile games.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 5, 2012

Some Thoughts On The IPO Market For Web Companies (by @fredwilson) – [link]. Social network addiction around the world (Israelis are the most addicted) – [link]. The Seven Habits of Spectacularly Unsuccessful Executives – [link]. My advice to startups pitching the media – [link].

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

Many entrepreneurs scare away potential investors by claiming that their technology represents “truly disruptive technology.” Many people seem to use the social network advertising model for revenue, but forget it assumes at least 100M users and $50M investment. Going public” (IPO) is another alternative, but not common.

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Rob Go

JUNE 7, 2012

There is a dark cloud over the internet sector due to the weak performance of the Facebook IPO. We are just scratching the surface of the enabling technologies and applications that are going to be built on top of this data infrastructure. NATURAL COMPUTING. They are far more foundational to what is to come.

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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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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 31, 2012

I'm watching CNBC right now and they're featuring two top stories: Facebook's 30% drop since the IPO and SpaceX completing the first commercial space supply mission. Does the Facebook IPO mark the end of our eight year infatuation with social networking that began with Flickr and del.icio.us?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 17, 2011

My esteemed colleague Ben Horowitz essentially makes four arguments : 1) look at how relatively cheap Apple, Google and Amazon stock is compared to their growth; 2) Major technology cycles tend to be around 25 years long with the bulk of the purchases occurring in the last five-to-ten years. The Shills are the middlemen in a bubble.

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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. Open Sesame! (A

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

Many entrepreneurs scare away potential investors by claiming that their technology represents “truly disruptive technology.” Many people seem to use the social network advertising model for revenue, but forget it assumes at least 100M users and $50M investment. Going public” (IPO) is another alternative, but not common.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

This was 2004, and we had never even heard of MySpace, let alone had any understanding of social networking. It required hearing customers say it over and over again for us to take a serious look, and eventually to realize that social networking was core to our business. But the early customers all compared it to MySpace.

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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. We can technology enable offline advertising. Not necessarily in the shopping mindset. Perfect.

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entrepreMusings

FEBRUARY 25, 2012

They are the latest Austin technology company to go public. Congratulations to the Bazaarvoice team! It happened yesterday. I have friends who work there and I’m very happy for them. It takes a lot to go from zero to public and for Austin’s sake, I hope they continue their growth trend and create value.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Every startup faces multiple choices and decisions when it comes to technology. Social networking. Social/Sharing. Ad Serving Technology. Create your own social network. free enterprise social network. Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Updated Business tools for Startups.

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