Acquisition eCommerce Internet IPO 
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!” Internet scale. Many eCommerce companies are in fact, middle men. In many Internet startups 80% of the operating costs will be people.
David Teten
JANUARY 10, 2012
Mr. Lindzon’s new media and internet business investments also include: Limos.com, Blogtalkradio.com, Buddy Media, Ticketfly, Assistly, Bit.ly Michael was the lead research analyst for the IPOs of Internet companies like UUNET, Yahoo!, Mr. Parekh serves on various advisory boards of start-up internet companies.
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crowdSPRING Blog
NOVEMBER 11, 2011
Zynga Leans On Some Workers to Surrender Pre-IPO Shares – [link]. From Deadpool to Acquisition: Lessons From Sprouter’s Almost Fail – [link]. Not encouraging…teens have trouble communicating without the Internet – [link]. Create An eCommerce Landing Page In Adobe Photoshop – [link].
thebarefootvc
JANUARY 15, 2020
acquisition of Plaid by Visa, in a highly competitive deal, shows how even the largest incumbents are feeling pressure to innovate and need to think outside of their current business models. Along those lines, I have been spending time thinking of the the continued digitization of the financial services sector. The recently announced $5.3B
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 4, 2010
They’ve had a total of 12 deals that have IPO’d. eCommerce is hot again! ReachLocal – we discussed this deal at length including what amount of revenue does it take to get to an IPO (Jim’s view, sub $100 million in fine as long as you have good margins and a strong growth rate). Read more: TechCrunch.
David Teten
APRIL 1, 2011
I hope that you can join us Monday night, April 4, midtown NYC, at a panel on “Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO” The program is sponsored by the HBS Club of New York and the HBS Angels of NY.
Hippoland
SEPTEMBER 28, 2018
People in the US can pay for things electronically and can get most services and goods today from the internet – things in the US generally work, so improvements in these areas are all incremental. This makes it easier to do customer acquisition for a consumer-based company. Or will these companies go IPO? Payments work.
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