The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

As a special purpose acquisition company, you can sidestep all the trappings that go with the usual initial public offering, but this shakeup introduces a totally new set of snags that can complicate your merger. According to global research and advisory firm Gartner, the average cost of downtime is $5,600 per minute or $336,000 every hour.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

I hear it right after people have decided to come by for a few days to “check out what all the fuss is about.” But many people forget that we have 2 relatively recent IPOs that are substantive companies: TrueCar (Upfront backed) & Cornerstone OnDemand. Stuff you may not know about LA?

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

To analyze what’s become of the OG Unicorns, it’s first worth noting that at the time of the 2013 post about 2/3rds of the 39 on the list had already been realized via IPO or $1B+ acquisitions. Most startups that hit this level did so via IPO or acquisition value. IPO value, $2.8B IPO value, $1.5B

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 30, 2017

Social entrepreneurship is about applying practical, innovative and sustainable approaches to benefit society in general, with an emphasis on those who are marginalized and poor,” according to the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. Social entrepreneurs need to be careful about the investors they align with.

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Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

How To Think About The Future. Tech IPOs Are Back – So Now What? Three of the five “blockbuster” tech IPOs I predicted have happened (LinkedIn, Groupon, Zynga) and the biggest of all (Facebook) has filed and will likely go public within the next 90 days. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. March 8, 2012.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 3, 2011

That's a five-fold increase from the 8 IPOs that raised $903 million in 2009. Exit activity is staging a comeback but capital netted lagged as large M&As and IPOs were still uncommon in 2010," said Jessica Canning, director of global research for Dow Jones VentureSource. 514 companies achieved liquidity in 2010, netting $39.3

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Austin Startup

MAY 10, 2021

Hologram , a global cellular platform for IoT, announced it hired Mike Georgoff this month as its first Chief Product Officer as the organization continues its growth. three companies he previously worked for had successful exits including two acquisitions and one IPO. To learn more about Hologram, please visit www.hologram.io.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

How To Think About The Future. Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round).

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

How To Think About The Future. So Groupon obviously filed their S-1 the other day to formally being the IPO process. One of the frequent questions raised about Groupon is what their long run gross profit margins may look like. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. June 5, 2011.

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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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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Prosperati HOME BLOG ABOUT CONTACT Blog Can A Startup Do OffShore Development? Part 1 ), I talked about alignment of interest and trust as being the two most critical aspect when starting a new offshore development team. There is this drive to create something new, crazy, innovative and globally game changing.

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

I first got into venture capital about 10 years ago and I love my job. My partners and I have written extensively about this thematic approach on the Foundry Group blog: [link]. To be clear about where we are as a fund and a firm, we have plenty of capacity to continue to make new investments. Do you see a window developing?

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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. How to investment banks help with the M&A (mergers & acquisitions) process? This is often in the 5-7% range.

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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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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

The value ascribed by subsequent investors (in a secondary); buyers (acquisition); or the public markets (IPO). As a result, unfounded hockey-stick graphs and unicorn promises give way to financial fluency, realistic expectations, frank conversations about what a business can credibly achieve, and transparency. .

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

The next two posts are about what I saw and learned in my short stay exploring Beijing’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. And he was generous in sharing his insights about the current state of entrepreneurship and investment in China. If there ever was any question about the value of China’s Torch Program walk around Zhongguancun.

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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.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

— Unremarked and unheralded, the balance of power between startup CEOs and their investors has radically changed: IPOs/M&A without a profit (or at times revenue) have become the norm. In the 20th century tech companies and their investors made money through an Initial Public Offering (IPO).

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 26, 2012

Reading about the JOBS Act this morning I learned of another reason why we need to build more large European companies: it is good for employment. According to the National Venture Capital Association (of America) ninety-two percent of job creation comes after IPO. The good news is that we are doing better and better at this in Europe.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 2, 2014

Well, if you don’t, try on these IPO, M&A, and financing stats from 1st Quarter 2014: Initial Public Offerings: 72 companies went public in the U.S. And, as of Monday 54 of the 72 of them were trading above their IPO price. Wrong about the U.S. Private Equity. Venture Capital. They also raised $10.3

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2017

Fortunately we proved skeptics wrong and every one of these strategic investors made a tidy 2.5 – 3x return once PayPal IPO’d in 2002 and then was acquired by eBay later that year. We’ve invested in about 60 startups over the last 7 years here at NextView.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

According to “ Global Trends Among Gen Z ” report by Snap and GlobalWebIndex, the top 5 interests for Gen Z’s ‘always on’ generation is Music (69%), Movies (61%), Gaming (54%) and Technology (53%) New technologies, primarily driven by AI/Automation : here we focus on machine learning, deep learning, NLP and computer vision/image recognition.

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The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 24, 2012

Nic Brisbourne on why the technology start-up ecosystem will remain an important part of the global economy, despite some recent missteps. These funders were providing liquidity to early investors and additional capital for growth, just like the IPO markets used to. My latest column for the Kernel. It was published on Wednesday.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

When we create new platform initiatives, our team tries to think about how we can be the most impactful with our portfolio companies. We don’t sit in a room and pontificate about what they need — we just ask. And they tell us over and over again that they just care about four things: Hiring and developing a great team.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

The next two posts are about what I saw and learned in my short stay exploring Beijing’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. And he was generous in sharing his insights about the current state of entrepreneurship and investment in China. If there ever was any question about the value of China’s Torch Program walk around Zhongguancun.

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Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 164

Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

on a global stage) and specifically the Bay Area (within the U.S.) This doesn’t even yet account for a bear-case scenario of all the private Bay Area juggernauts which are primed to IPO next year — if those all hit, and assuming local investors and employees own at least a third six months after IPO.

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David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

I’m excited about the program below on “Investing in Intellectual Capital: Intellectual Capital: Patents, Trademarks, Domain Names, Litigation, Government Rights, and other Intangible Assets” Click here to make a reservation. Kevin Barhydt, Head of Acquisitions, RPX. Kevin Barhydt, Head of Acquisitions, RPX.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

As I was about to hit “send” on the newsletter this morning, a piece of news came through: Circle, founded by serial entrepreneur Jeremy Allaire (with two successful IPOs under his belt), announced its acquisition of crypto exchange Poloniex for a reported $400M. as well as Bittrex and Kraken, the runner-ups.

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Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

It’s one thing to hear from other people that Southeast Asia (SEA) is up-and-coming, but it was totally another thing to go there and talk with so many people about the future. To add some context here, I loved learning about all the low-hanging fruit investment opportunities there are. Payments / marketplaces / etc).

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Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

It’s one thing to hear from other people that Southeast Asia (SEA) is up-and-coming, but it was totally another thing to go there and talk with so many people about the future. To add some context here, I loved learning about all the low-hanging fruit investment opportunities there are. Payments / marketplaces / etc).

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VC Cafe

APRIL 24, 2024

Early-Stage Deals Pick Up Steam In Q1 2024, $265 million was invested globally into early-stage gaming startup rounds. While the IPO markets have been relatively quiet, successful debuts like Reddit show there is investor appetite for well-known consumer tech brands. Can Big Exits Reopen the Floodgates?

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

For a pursuit that largely revolves around silent time spent at a computer by one person then, slowly at first, a few more people, a bit more talking, and on and on until failure, acquisition, or IPO, it may seem inconsequential to consider where it all goes down. New York is a city that invites escape from whatever it is you do.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

For a pursuit that largely revolves around silent time spent at a computer by one person then, slowly at first, a few more people, a bit more talking, and on and on until failure, acquisition, or IPO, it may seem inconsequential to consider where it all goes down. New York is a city that invites escape from whatever it is you do.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 4, 2012

So lots of companies went public - 1,272 of them from 1990 to 1996 - and Wall Street was very much about "long" promotion of companies' growth potential and as "analog" distributors of their stocks. And the Facebook IPO debacle will only accelerate this sometimes disturbing but ultimately inevitable and yes welcome trend.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. I’ve written in detail about that in this post, “ On Bubbles, And Why We’ll Be Just Fine.”. Just why does over-funding dampen returns?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2022

I found some good lessons in this regard in a classic book, “ Becoming Facebook ,” by Mike Hoefflinger, the former Head of Global Business Marketing at Facebook. He talks in detail about ten of the key challenges that Facebook faced in their growth, to move from a tiny social media upstart to one of the most successful companies in the world.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

MAY 5, 2016

In the show, Police Commissioner Jim Gordon used a special Batphone to dial up Batman (aka Bruce Wayne) and Robin (aka Dick Grayson) whenever something was about to go down in Gotham City. Over the years we’ve had the privilege of working with amazing founders and helping them grow from infancy to IPO or acquisition in many cases.

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