Eric Friedman

JANUARY 3, 2020

The need for software and services to accommodate this group looks nothing like the bank accounts, benefits, and tax software we use today. This one directly pulled from Range and the original Game Boy that has the infamous spinach colored screen and still dominated against full color competition due to these constraints.

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Board Effect

JULY 22, 2021

Private company stock. Publicly traded stock. Pre-IPO shares. Donor-advised funds can be given to most tax-exempt public charities that meet the definition of the IRS as a 501(c)(3) organization (and classified as public charities under IRS code 509), including international charities. Securities. Cryptocurrency.

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United States Software Review Stock IPO 105

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. Your firm worked with an investment banking firm that underwrote and offered stock (typically on the NASDAQ exchange) to the public.

Silicon Valley 235

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 235

Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. On the IPO front, LogMeIn made the news, being one of the few tech IPO on the NASDAAQ in 2009. The stock was very well received, jumping 25% on its first day of trading.

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Software Review Technical Review IPO Cloud 48

Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

IPO market. Prior to joining Andreessen Horowitz, I held several executive positions in a publicly-traded software company and was previous to that an investment banker. With the benefit of increasing IPOs in the last few years, we are starting to see better growth: In 2020, there were close to 500 IPOs in the U.S.,

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SEC Accredited Investor IPO Technical Review 36

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

It was one of the year's most successful IPOs so far, and has been heralded as a "landmark moment" for cryptocurrency's entrance into mainstream investing. Brian is the CEO of Coinbase, a successful tech company, and one of 2021's most successful IPOs. I was writing some software, I was doing some product management stuff.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Unemployment coupled with a stock market drop will stop this spending cold IMHO. If these factors impact earnings the stock market may be headed South – If unemployment rises housing prices won’t. This will likely cause the stock market to contract. If the stock market holds then the pace of VC may hold steady.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Virtual Stock Exchange. Computer Software. AllThingsDigital. AllThingsDigital. Financial News. Professor Journal. SmartMoney. Student Journal. WSJ Classifieds. WSJ Classroom. Ran gold Resources Ltd. View All Search Results » Subscribe. Media & Marketing. Small Business. More Industries. Accounting. Advertising. Computer Hardware.

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Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

GameFly filed in 2010 and remains in registration, though 2011 has seen a positive start for VC-backed IPOs with 14 in Q1 2011. Now that Google’s acquisition of ITA is closed, following lenghty FTC review, it would appear Kayak is poised to proceed with their IPO in the coming months. =. Kayak Software Corporation.

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

– Templatize the entrepreneurial process , by providing checklists, standardized agreements and other reusable code. The firm attracts deal flow by promising a decision (positive or negative) in under 2 weeks, with minimal paperwork and without repeating due diligence. engineers, designers, business developers).

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

I find it amusing when a journalist writes an article about a prominent startup (either privately held or preparing for an IPO) and decries that, “They’re not even profitable!” I always remind this to journalists who ask me about public stocks. One of them is profitability. Revenue is Not Revenue is Not Revenue.

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Startup Revenue Technical Review Flash 418

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 25, 2012

The Inside Story Of What Happened On The Facebook IPO – [link]. Good article about Facebook’s dual stock class structure & investors – [link]. Facebook IPO, and How to Build a Social Network for $389 – [link]. Facebook IPO, and How to Build a Social Network for $389 – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

But VC is an “illiquid asset&# so funds didn’t disappear quickly - In 2000/01 the stock market quickly adjusted punishing investors in the NASDAQ and in individual public technology stocks. What accelerated this was the collapse of the public stock markets. But in bad economies many angels get burned.

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LP Technical Review Early Stage Silicon Valley 311

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

It’s like people arguing that there’s a beautiful beach house in 2006 that represents great long-term value due to scarcity of similar property. And this is happening in mezzanine (pre-IPO) deals as well. And post IPO deals, although these tend to correct more quickly. That doesn’t mean it’s not a bubble.

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Saudi Arabia Valuation IPO Technical Review 309

Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. So where does Salesforces profitability stands today compared to the most successful on premise public software companies? traditional software is like cocaine--youre hooked.

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Software Review Software Technical Review Cloud 48

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2009

We went through the euphoria of massive exposure at the time of our launch due to an article that ran in the Financial Times. Our software wasn’t fully baked. We had one of the largest US software companies talk about buying us. We do hand out stock options. We were unprepared. Our phones rang off the hook.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

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Silicon Valley 42

Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 28, 2013

Invest in Your Customers More Than Your Brand | Michael Schrage-Harvard Business Review – [link]. Lessons Learned from Bill Gross’ 35 IPOs/Exits and 40 Failures – [link]. Invest in Your Customers More Than Your Brand | Michael Schrage-Harvard Business Review – [link]. TechCrunch – [link].

Social Media 107

Social Media Small Business Design Media 107

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). And obviously all the liq prefs went away in the IPO when pref stock converted to common. Is it a case of just design it, code it, build it, deploy it, trademark it, copywright it and then go for funding? . link] Terence Donnelly. link] Graham.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

I wassurprised recently when I realized that all the worst problems wefaced in our startup were due not to competitors, but investors.Dealing with competitors was easy by comparison. In an IPO, it might not merely addexpense, but change the outcome. Those remedial actions can delay, stall or even kill the IPO.

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Technical Review Startup Software Review Angel Investor 76

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 2, 2008

But the investor is already being compensated for that risk in the low price of the stock, so it is unfair to delay. Your natural tendency when an investor says yes will be to relax and go back to writing code. When a company is only two months old, every day you wait gives you 1.7% more data about their trajectory. Even VCs do it.

San Francisco 125

San Francisco Software Review Technical Review Continuous Deployment 125

prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

As a result, local universities here churn out thousands of new graduates each year who can spell Microsoft but understand nothing about proper software engineering. Silicon Valley is a great place for technology startups in no small part due to its culture of entrepreneurship and innovation. Culture creation is not easy.

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Offshore Malaysia Developer Stock Options 40

Pascal's View

AUGUST 12, 2009

economy: “… Sarbanes-Oxley compliance costs, Eliot-Spitzer’s stock analyst settlement and the economic downturn have created an historic drought in venture-backed companies going public. . It boggles the mind that Washington would enact new policies sure to prolong this (IPO) drought and strike at the heart of American innovation.”

IPO 28

IPO Silicon Valley Merger Sweat Equity 28

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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Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 84

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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Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 83

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. s the new way to code, and quite easy to learn. You can write back end code in javascript, one language conquers all! Code Igniter. Code Hosting and Version Control. code spaces (svn). WorkingPoint.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

philipsmith.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Compensation-wise the biggest challenge is insuring people are respectful of my time and skills (when they don't write real checks for hourly or project work they don't tend to be quite as diligent on this as one would like!). Don't be paying yourself or others a decent salary and then expect someone else just to work for stock.

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Silicon Valley Equity Technical Review Recapitalization 40

www.mint.com

MARCH 9, 2010

Go there now » Sign up or log in to mint.com Updates Drop Your Debt to Win 2 comments How To The Top 5 Customer Complaint Letters — And What You Can Learn From Them 5 comments Investing In Graphics: What Is a Stock? After that, an IPO or FPO will decide who owns portions of your new USA based company. Live your life.

Software Review 68

Software Review Startup Post-Money Valuation Technical Review 68

paulgraham.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Writing software is a great way to solve (b), but you can still end up constrained in (a). If you write software to teach Tibetan to Hungarian speakers, youll be able to reach most of the people who want it, but there wont be many of them. If you make software to teach English to Chinese speakers, however, youre in startup territory.

Startup 111

Startup Technical Review Software Review Acquisition 111

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 27, 2023

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! So it was one that, um, someone had selected and they did screen screen recording and screen sharing software. And so through that ended up with some Slack stock, and then of course they, they later iPod. Like this show? Like it was still a long time to to hold.

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Cofounder Artificial Inteligence New Zealand Analytics 55

abovethecrowd.com

AUGUST 23, 2020

But in light of where we are in 2020, especially with regard to the degrading efficiency and sky-rocketing cost of capital through the structurally broken IPO process, SPACs may emerge as a legitimate third option for helping Silicon Valley companies efficiently and cost-effectively transition into the public markets.

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IPO Silicon Valley Warrant Matching 118

Austin Startup

OCTOBER 6, 2018

After Bazaarvoice went public, Debra and I gifted a significant portion of our stock to help give the Bazaarvoice Foundation a boost. To prepare for our IPO at Bazaarvoice, I leveraged three additional coaches?—?one And then Rafa Pereira, our Director of Software Engineering, really pushed us to embrace OKRs three quarters ago.

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Founder Cofounder Software Review San Francisco 51

discuss.joelonsoftware.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

(Not logged on) | Register | Log On Home Discuss Jobs About The Business of Software A community discussing the business of software, from the smallest shareware operation to Microsoft. A part of Joel on Software. This community works best when people use their real names. Please register for a free account.

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Sweat Equity Equity Angel Investor Affiliate 40

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. The Week in Review.

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Marc Andreessen: So the computer industry started in 1950 and basically ran for 50 years with the same model, which was a model where all of the new computers, all the new technology, all the new software started out being sold for the highest prices to the biggest organizations. So originally the customer was the Department of Defense.

Software Review 22

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

They take common stock, not preferred, a fact that the entrepreneurs mentioned to me many times. Im also excited to share two long-form reviews from actual attendees. More recently it's skewed to software & web. Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and what. There used to be a ton of storage startups here.

San Francisco 113

San Francisco Silicon Valley Startup Lean 113

BeyondVC

APRIL 1, 2004

I was with a banker today talking about the influx of new IPO filings and the end result of our discussion was the following: 1. The stock now trades at $8.34. In this quarter, we failed to close several transactions due to customers’ merger and acquisition activities. We are disappointed with these results.

Software Review 60

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