Rob Go

DECEMBER 28, 2011

And that’s true pretty much across the board – from exits, late stage financings, scaling companies, and seed activity. IPO’s/Exits. Kayak: Registered for an IPO but on hold. Raised $174M in its IPO in April, current market cap ~$550M. in its IPO, current market cap of $282M. market cap.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 14, 2016

We expect that the financing scene in 2017 will look very similar to 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).

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

While poised with a limited number of transactions this year, the world of public Cloud Computing and SaaS companies has been marked by two events in the past few months: the acquisition of Omniture by Adobe and the high profile IPO of LogMeIn, a leading provider of PC remote access and support with a very interesting freemium model.

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Entrepreneur Homepage Startups Starting a Business Home How-To Guides Startup Basics Business Ideas Business Planning Startup Financing Success Stories Home-Based Business Starting a Business Play Video How to Take a New Product from Just an Idea to a Business (Video). Financing Some Jobs Act Proposals Make Headway. July 31, 2007 |.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 7, 2019

As a case in point, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta published a graphic indicating that stock prices plunged 50% from the high to low between October 2007-March 2009. We’ve seen significantly fewer IPOs pre-and post the financial crisis ( 213 in 2007, 31 in 2008, and 222 in 2013).

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Altgate

DECEMBER 16, 2010

The first thing I noticed was that the vast majority (76%) of financings have a “one x&# preference. And yes, some financings don’t have any liquidation preferences at all (although that’s actually a pretty small number). If the company recovers and goes IPO or whatever no one gets hurt.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

26 Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP), the oldest venture capital practice in the United States, today announced the closing of a $350 million supplement to its current fund family, BVP VII, which closed in June 2007. ► 2007. (10). Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007. Yahoo Finance. ► 02/24 - 03/02. (1).

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 26, 2014

Drupal was launched in 2001, and Acquia started in 2007. Red Hat was one of the first of these types of companies bridging open source with big finance, leveraging Linux support into a profitable business, also leveraging the enterprise. Will Amazon try to acquire all of Acquia before the inevitable IPO? Acquia, Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

For entrepreneurs who want to learn about how to work with investment banks, how to position yourself to be acquired and what the IPO markets look like this is the episode to watch. What does the market look like for IPO’s and is this likely to improve? Venture Financing. Founded in 2007 by Oxford Univ. TechCrunch.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 14, 2016

You might not consider finances as being something that has a huge impact on an employee’s health, but more than 53% of financially stressed employees spend hours on the clock dealing with their financial issues. And Americans have named money as their top source of stress every year since 2007.”

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

If it’s driven by profit then the ecosystem needs both entrepreneurs as well as Venture Finance. More than 1,600 VC investments in TMT have been made since 2007, with a record high of 436 in 2011. Liquidity for most Internet startups happens via IPO’s. 70% of exits in China are via IPO (in the U.S. innovation in the U.S.

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Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 269

www.mint.com

MARCH 9, 2010

Check out the personal finance topic by clicking here. After that, an IPO or FPO will decide who owns portions of your new USA based company. In one, the founder (and major investor) just walked away, and in the other, the founder was so obsessed on an IPO that she drove the company bankrupt. So easy on the eyes!

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Software Review Startup Post-Money Valuation Technical Review 68

Austin Startup

JULY 23, 2010

The company announced that is just completed $13M in financing from existing investors SMH Private Equity Group, ABS Ventures, Austin Ventures, and Trellis Partners. Doing some research shows that their last round in 2007 was Series F, so this must be Series G. The company could be preparing for an IPO.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 15, 2016

I’ve worked in the finance for over 12 years. I had already left my good paying job when my son was born in 2007 so failure was not an option. Prior to founding Rukkus, I was a quantitative analyst at Goldman Sachs where I was a member of the advisory team for the Ticketmaster/Live Nation merger as well as the Groupon IPO.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

But knowing the right people and knowing a market only works well for angel investors in bullish tech markets in which IPO’s happen quickly (97-99) or where larger companies are actively scooping up little tiny companies at sub $50 million valuations to drive innovation (05-08, 10-?). Obviously I agree.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

If it’s driven by profit then the ecosystem needs both entrepreneurs as well as Venture Finance. More than 1,600 VC investments in TMT have been made since 2007, with a record high of 436 in 2011. Liquidity for most Internet startups happens via IPO’s. 70% of exits in China are via IPO (in the U.S. innovation in the U.S.

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Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 161

Pascal's View

AUGUST 21, 2011

This time, the debate centers on the “favored few” Social Media venture backed companies that have brought tremendous windfalls to a select group of venture funds and management teams, both pre- and post-IPO. tech sector have more than doubled since 2007. It is intentional.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 23, 2010

When I attended between 1998-2001, there were a few course on entrepreneurship (entrepreneurial finance, entrepreneurial strategy, etc.), In 2007, they started Mediabank, a business-to-business media-buying technology firm whose platform powers over 40 percent of North American media spend across all media types.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2007

Monday, February 12, 2007. ▼ 2007. (10). Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007. Yahoo Finance. Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Getting the most of your online marketing: the In & Out of SEM/SEO. VC lifestyle.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

One investor played chicken with me by threatening not to approve my next-round financing unless I gave him more equity. It was 2007. The days of quick flips, quick IPOs and astronomic returns had come to a close. And I had all the VCs play head games with me. If you’re going to leave, go do another startup?

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Entrepreneur Startup Salary Egypt 384

Austin Startup

MAY 11, 2011

Back in 2006 and early 2007 Austin had seen a positive upswing in investment, consumer spending, and a generally healthy economy since about 2004. Austin is about to witness a wave of financial liquidity in the technology community not seen since 1999. Just enough time to get sales up, profits up, growth rates back in [.].

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Cracking the Code

MAY 25, 2010

One of his secret: "Incentivize your marketing team on sales not leads" Jeff Jordan, CEO of OpenTable speaking about his IPO process: " Build relationships with key public investors 2-3 years before going public (Morgan Stanley, Fidelity and T. ipo process. ► 2007. (10). Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

One investor played chicken with me by threatening not to approve my next-round financing unless I gave him more equity. It was 2007. The days of quick flips, quick IPOs and astronomic returns had come to a close. And I had all the VCs play head games with me. If you’re going to leave, go do another startup?

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Entrepreneur Startup Salary Egypt 176

Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 21, 2009

VC funding into start-ups averaged roughly $20 billion a year for many years since the bubble crashed and recently (2007 and 2008) had creeped up to $30 billion a year. The IPO market remains completely irrelevant to VCs. Yes, Rosetta Stone had a successful IPO - the first one since March 2008 to be priced above the range.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Michael was the lead research analyst for the IPOs of Internet companies like UUNET, Yahoo!, He holds a Master of Science in Finance from the London Business School and a Bachelor of Arts from Tulane University. Mr. Lindzon continues to manage a hedge fund he started in 1998.

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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). Finance tells a dramatic story since then. The name of the last part? Netflix vs. Blockbuster: Round Four (Lights Out?)”

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Startup Company Lawyer

MAY 26, 2012

In 2005, Kiva launched a micro-finance platform that allows people to lend small amounts of money to entrepreneurs in developing areas. This lending model was further refined, and peer-to-peer lending companies like Prosper emerged in 2006 and Lending Club emerged in 2007.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The IPO market remained closed to IT startups, but there were big acquisitions like Google buying YouTube for $1.65B (Fall 2006) and late stage financing rounds for companies like Facebook (Microsoft round at $15B valuation in Fall 2007). Kevin Rose was on the cover of BusinessWeek.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 10, 2008

The definition becomes for the last quarter of 2007: CAC Ratio = (GM (Q4 07) - GM (Q307)) x 4 / S&M costs (Q307) A CAC ratio of one would be equivalent to breakeven marginally on a new customer in one year. ► 2007. (10). Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007. Posted by Philippe Botteri. at 8:58 PM.

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Sales Software Review Marketing Technical Review 79

Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

The Deutsche Bank report has a very interesting chart on the topic presenting the Free Cash Flow margins vs. the revenue growth four years post IPO for select software leaders: As you can see, with 20% Free Cash Flow margin and a 50% growth rate, Salesforce is well positioned in the pack! ► 2007. (10). Yahoo Finance.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Save Asia for post-IPO Single instance, multi-tenant, single datacenter - Have only one version of the code in production. Together, CMRR, Cashflow, Churn, CAC, and CLTV make up the “5 C’s of SaaS Finance. Save Asia for post-IPO. Philippe Botteri. Bessemer SaaS Law #3. Philippe Botteri. Bessemer SaaS Law #8.

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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. This tends to happen more in the world of finance — think of the farsighted investors from “The Big Short” who bet against the subprime mortgage market. The fund generated $17 billion in returns in 2007.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

2007 was a turning point for the SaaS industry with the successful IPOs of NetSuite, SuccessFactors, DemandTec, Salary.com, Aprimo and Constant Contact. The 23rd started with a quick overview of the achievement of our Software and SaaS portfolio in 2007 presented by Byron Deeter, the co-head of our West Coast SaaS practice.

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Software Review South Korea IPO Portfolio 48

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

Consumer debt relative to incomes has risen to an all time high reaching 138% of 2007 (obviously that’s not sustainable!) This affects M&A activities for startups, which with the reduction of the IPO market could spell lower returns in the short-term for technology startup investors.

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Cracking the Code

JULY 6, 2007

Friday, July 06, 2007. I was surprised today when I went through the NetSuite IPO filling (S1) to see that it looked very much like any Enterprise software document - not a single mention of churn or % of recurring revenues. . ▼ 2007. (10). Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007. Yahoo Finance.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

On March 26, SoFi announced that “it will be offering its members (at least those with $3K in their account) the ability to invest in IPOs for companies going public, an investment opportunity that has traditionally been reserved for large institutional investors or ultra-high-net-worth individuals.”

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VC Cafe

JULY 20, 2010

13% of respondents believe this gap to be in Mezzanine financing and no venture capitalist believes that there is no investment gap. there was a significant increase in optimism pertaining to Israel embarking on its first IPO on the NASDAQ since July, 2007 (Voltaire). Clear cut: VC activity in Israel will become difficult.

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