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MARCH 13, 2014

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Technical Review IPO Early Stage Valuation 91

The Equity Kicker

MAY 2, 2014

Hot IPO markets were a key driver – 107 companies listed, the most since 2007. It looks like the IPO markets have closed so I would expect a swing back to M&A this year. VentureBeat just published a high level analysis of the US VC industry in 2013. It’s based on Pitchbook data. Venture Capital'

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IPO Venture Capital Valuation Marketing 102

Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

Or maybe dip into the 2006 and 2007 time frame when Rally was in an award cycle with my posts Rally’s New Financing and the E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year Award and Boulder 2007 Esprit Entrepreneur Awards. Million To The Boulder Community after their IPO. Get Agile with Rally Release 5.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. And this is happening in mezzanine (pre-IPO) deals as well. And post IPO deals, although these tend to correct more quickly. Why does all this matter?

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Saudi Arabia Valuation IPO Technical Review 309

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

If by overnight you mean 2-3 years of people second-guessing the category followed by 2-3 years of steady growth, followed by large numbers categorized as overnight success and 9-10 years later a chance at an IPO.

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Software Review Turkey Portfolio Syndicate 150

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. =. 166M round closed Dec 2007.

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Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Three reasons: There is a relative valuation between the price a VC pays and their expectations of what it will exit for in an IPO or trade sale. But imagine a VC that did 12 deals per year in 2006, 2007 & 2008. The deal was done in late 2007. Short answer – yes. overvalued) and sell when the fall precipitously.

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Burn Rate Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Private Equity 263

Austin Startup

AUGUST 26, 2011

In the “you knew this was coming&# category, Bazaarvoice filed for an Initial Public Offering (IPO) of it’s stock today. The company is one of the fastest growing in Austin, going from 70 employees in April 2007 to over 600 today. The news is being covered by TechCrunch and The Statesman.

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IPO Initial Public Offering Cofounder Stock 67

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

A 1997 vintage is likely to perform much better than a 2000 vintage because the former got to ride the dot com bonanza and likely saw some quick IPOs and crazy trade sales while the latter is more likely filled with many companies that never reached the promise land (or are still trying). Why does vintage matter to you?

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Venture Capital Balance Sheet Early Stage Software Review 269

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 3, 2011

That's a five-fold increase from the 8 IPOs that raised $903 million in 2009. While the number of exits and the capital gained through them were up, these figures still don't match 2007 levels. The report from Dow Jones VentureSource offers promising news, even if these "blockbuster" IPOs don't materialize this year.

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Rob Go

DECEMBER 28, 2011

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. And a little less relevant is DropBox, part of Cambridge Y-Combinator class back in 2007, this year raised over $250M at ~$4B valuation. market cap.

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Technical Review Boston Software Review IPO 54

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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Software Review Technical Review IPO Cloud 48

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). We expect that the financing scene in 2017 will look very similar to 2016.

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Technical Review Early Stage Portfolio Valuation 60

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Nimble successfully completed its IPO on the NYSE today – a testament to the team’s vision and execution. At Lightspeed, we had identified the flash storage trend in early 2007 with an investment in Pliant Technology, a manufacturer of SSDs that was later acquired by SanDisk. 2013 startups Storage IPO Nimble Storage startup'

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

I believe that, if he understood the reality of the venture capital industry today and its inextricable link to the Initial Public Offering (IPO) drought, his otherwise well-written article would have taken a markedly different direction. But from 2000 to the end of 2007, the rate plunged to 900,000 a year. In the 1990s the U.S.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

HomeAway is another one of our five tech IPOs in the last five years. It started in 2007 here in Austin and was founded by my friend Matt Cohen. And Josh Kopelman and First Round Capital were among the seed investors in Uber, the blockbuster IPO-to-be of 2019. As of today, RetailMeNot is worth $1.33 It is just four-years old?—?for

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 21, 2014

billion, 2007. Postini – $625 million, 2007. This re-enforces the old truism that the most reliable path to a massive exit is to head for an IPO, even with all the difficulties that come with that route. billion, 2012. Nest Labs – $3.2 billion, 2014. DoubleClick – $3.1 YouTube – $1.7 billion, 2006. Waze – $966 million, 2013.

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Acquisition IPO Mobile Internet 103

Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

The CEOs on the panel were (from left to right): Michael Simon, CEO/founder of LogMeIn (2009 IPO) . Scott Griffith, CEO ZipCar (2010 IPO). Gail Goodman, CEO Constant Contact (2007 IPO). Colin Angle, CEO/cofounder of iRobot (2005 IPO). Niraj Shah, CEO/cofounder of Wayfair ($500m revenue).

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder IPO Boston 45

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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Detroit Stock Atlanta Chicago 104

Altgate

DECEMBER 16, 2010

If the company recovers and goes IPO or whatever no one gets hurt. Semiconductor company has raised at $50M pre but is out of cash, no one wants to fund it at the price but taking the price down is impossible (due to shareholder constraints) so the insider do a small round at $50M pre but with multiple liq prefs. One point to takeaway from [.]

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Liquidation Preference Pre-Money Valuation Term Sheet Valuation 39

Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 28, 2014

I remember in 2007 when the idea of a super angel appeared, where successful entrepreneurs were suddenly angel investors making 10 or more seed investments a year. Hedge funds are once again allocating big money to private companies and lots of cross-over public company investors are trying to get large dollars into private companies pre-IPO.

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Angel Investor Venture Capital IPO Sales 140

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. ► 02/24 - 03/02. (1). Happy New Year 2008!

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Software Review Partner United States Venture Capital 48

The Equity Kicker

JULY 4, 2014

If you take the 1995 Netscape IPO as the start of the internet advertising market then that industry went from inception to decline in 19 years. Yesterday I noted that the desktop advertising has also peaked. There’s a similar story there.

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IPO Advertising Revenue Internet 110

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 19, 2012

I decided to go back through the Wayback Machine to figure out what Buddy has called itself over the years: 7/27/2007 – Application Developer: Buddy Media is the leading developer of applications for the emerging new media platforms, including Facebook, MySpace and other social media sites.

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Software Media Social Media Advertising 105

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? Founded in 2007 by Oxford Univ. TechCrunch. GroupSpaces. students. -Is

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IPO Venture Capital Private Placement Cofounder 242

Scalable Startup

AUGUST 26, 2014

Drupal was launched in 2001, and Acquia started in 2007. Will Amazon try to acquire all of Acquia before the inevitable IPO? Acquia, Inc. is the for-profit company founded by Dries Buytaert, the inventor of Drupal, to support his open source project. Because they are open source. What will come next? I think we can bet on that.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 27, 2023

People would stop me on the street to tell me their Google search stories of triumph or failure, ask me about their website ranking, and, around the time of the IPO, make wild assumptions about my net worth. Everyone always had a favorite video to tell you about.

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Chad IPO Email .Net 63

www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Money Money Home Financing Taxes Accounting Basics Personal Finance Money Management Payments & Collections IPOs and DPOs Will Crazy Market Moves Kill IPOs and Slash VC Investment? July 31, 2007 |. Human Resources Play Video Shark Tanks Barbara Corcoran on Bootstrapping a Growing a Business (Video). BY Asheesh Advani. |.

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Sweat Equity Equity Fractional CTO CTO 55

Austin Startup

AUGUST 24, 2019

The iPhone wasn’t out yet (that was 2007). We grew very quickly from $0 to over $100m in sales in just six years, culminating in an IPO with a billion-dollar market cap. We were the right people at the right moment in history to found Bazaarvoice. And speaking of luck, remember?—?this this was 2005. Facebook was closed to the public.

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Software Review Cofounder eCommerce Austin 48

Version One Ventures

JUNE 7, 2016

eBay was relatively successful when it acquired marketplaces like Rent.com (2005) and StubHub (2007). This means that an IPO is the exit option for the most successful marketplaces. In fact, the only reason you’d ever acquire a marketplace is if it were a large, standalone unit that could grow on its own.

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IPO Distribution Channel Business Model 60

David Teten

APRIL 16, 2012

Among our most successful seed investments that have reached maturity are Cornerstone OnDemand (which raised $137m in a March 2011 IPO, ticker CSOD) and Quigo Technologies (sold to AOL for a reported $340m in 2007). Since 1999, our partners have made over 150 investments in over 55 companies. How quickly you could start.

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Cofounder New York Venture Capital B2C 133

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 14, 2016

And Americans have named money as their top source of stress every year since 2007.” His efforts have directly led to exits including IPOs and raised growth capital for multiple companies. In short, many employees need help with their finances – they just don’t know where to look.

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Programming Employee Finance Retention 100

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. The visionary’s lament The Superbowl ad test Lo, my 57692 subscribers, who are you?

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San Francisco Technical Cofounder Fractional CTO CTO 155

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

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. It’s much easier to just steal their ideas and hire their employees. So big companies rarely acquire startups.

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Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 267

Austin Startup

JULY 23, 2010

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. It’s common for even profitable companies to raise a large round in preparation for an IPO. Word on the street is that the company is growing and profitable. So why raise money?

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Balance Sheet Private Equity LP IPO 67

Hearpreneur

MAY 15, 2016

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. I started my company in 2009 out of pure necessity.

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Entrepreneur SEO Web Merger 48

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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