Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

HomeAway is another one of our five tech IPOs in the last five years. Cotter bucks the flavor-of-the-day entrepreneurial stereotype: the college dropout popularized by both our own Michael Dell and recently Mark Zuckerberg and the great movie The Social Network. As of today, RetailMeNot is worth $1.33 It is worth $3.4

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B2C Austin Cofounder IPO 51

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Facebook S-1: The Most Anticipated IPO in a Decade. Here’s my first look at Facebook viewed through the lens of their IPO filing. who derive a meaningful chunk of their revenue from operating ad networks. Plus Facebook has ample cash on hand today and will get a huge slug more from the IPO. February 2, 2012.

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IPO South Korea Venezuela Revenue 100

Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

So Groupon obviously filed their S-1 the other day to formally being the IPO process. How They Do It: Build email list of consumers interested in local deals (mainly via paid search & social network ads), sell coupon programs to merchants via telesales. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. June 5, 2011.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Google reportedly turned down buyout offers from Microsoft shortly before the 2004 IPO. Google’s value has grown from $23 billion at the time of the IPO to over $200 billion today. eBay was ultimately unable to generate sufficient profits and synergies from the acquisition. Unique social networking product.

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IPO Exit Strategy San Francisco Startup 162

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

China has essentially closed its internal search, media and social network software market to foreign companies who wouldn’t play with the government rules on the Great Firewall. The table below from web2asia.com shows the number of users of online social networks as of 2009. 70% of exits in China are via IPO (in the U.S.

Silicon Valley 272

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 272

The Equity Kicker

APRIL 11, 2012

I’m just back from a week skiing and visiting relatives and the big news whilst I’ve been away is undoubtedly Facebook’s $1bn acquisition of Instagram. I think the answer is pretty clear – it’s all about Facebook’s IPO price. In this case Facebook’s pending IPO make it particularly easy to understand the logic.

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IPO Valuation Forecast Acquisition 110

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I believe that many social networks confused this idea. Our publisher distribution network reaches in the tens of millions of unique users and is comprised of “head end&# stars as well as many “mid tier&# and “long tail&# publishers. The affiliate networking market alone is about a $2 billion industry now.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

China has essentially closed its internal search, media and social network software market to foreign companies who wouldn’t play with the government rules on the Great Firewall. The table below from web2asia.com shows the number of users of online social networks as of 2009. 70% of exits in China are via IPO (in the U.S.

Silicon Valley 164

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 164

The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Facebook has mostly moved via bold acquisitions, starting with $1bn for Instagram six weeks before their IPO, moving the through $24bn for WhatsApp, before paying $2bn for Oculus. That’s four of the six largest social media properties on the planet, and they’re all still growing.

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Social Media Acquisition Curation IPO 60

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas. Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information.

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Technical Review Technology North Carolina Switzerland 128

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. IPO markets had burned an entire cycle of retail stock investors and many institutional investors to boot. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin!

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Professor VC

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

The LinkedIn acquisition of CardMunch a few weeks ago caught my attention. Techcrunch called it one of the " most like-minded and forward-thinking acquisitions I’ve ever seen " I met with the founders of CardMunch several months ago when they were out raising their Series Seed round. The last blogger in Silicon Valley.

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Acquisition San Jose Angel Investor IPO 31

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

The App Store is a channel for customer acquisition. I think its helpful to think about two kinds of competition for distribution: acquisition competition and retention competition. For example, if any of the mobile ad networks gets major traction, they may become a dominant way that people discover new apps.

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San Francisco Lean Retention SEM 68

Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

had mixed emotions when I read the the press release on the recent funding of iControl Networks. A talent acquisition or bootstrapping are still options, but need to include buy-in from the investors. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? The last blogger in Silicon Valley.

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San Jose Angel Investor Term Sheet Venture Capital 28

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Don’t be fooled by thinking that social networks are hot, so you should invest in the next startup you see in that realm. Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public. Start in a business domain you know well. Fund an entrepreneur you know and trust.

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Liquidity Event SEC Entrepreneur Accredited Investor 224

venturebeat.com

JULY 12, 2012

Acquisition. Social media. Social networking. Social games. However, one of the advantages of Bing Fund investment is that Sood will set up a network of mentors for each startup, drawing from experts across Microsoft, including product experts, marketing experts, or scientists in Microsoft Research.

Detroit 69

Detroit Incubator Technical Review Venture Capital 69

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Don’t be fooled by thinking that social networks are hot, so you should invest in the next startup you see in that realm. Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public. Start in a business domain you know well. Fund an entrepreneur you know and trust.

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Liquidity Event SEC Accredited Investor Angel Investor 184

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Don’t be fooled by thinking that social networks are hot, so you should invest in the next startup you see in that realm. Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public. Start in a business domain you know well. Fund an entrepreneur you know and trust.

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Accredited Investor Liquidity Event SEC Stock 219

Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

And going even further back there have been a few random ones have been built before like Salesforce.com and e-tailer RedEnvelope (IPO’d in 2003 though now defunct as a company). If my memory serves me, <10% of our pre-IPO employees at PayPal lived in SF and literally 1 of the first 40-50 folks at LinkedIn were city-dwellers.

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Silicon Valley San Francisco San Jose Startup 185

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Don’t be fooled by thinking that social networks are hot, so you should invest in the next startup you see in that realm. Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public. Start in a business domain you know well. Fund an entrepreneur you know and trust.

Portfolio 228

Portfolio Accredited Investor Liquidity Event SEC 228

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Don’t be fooled by thinking that social networks are hot, so you should invest in the next startup you see in that realm. Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public. Start in a business domain you know well. Fund an entrepreneur you know and trust.

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Accredited Investor Liquidity Event SEC Entrepreneur 120

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. These advantages can include: Network Effects : This is the primary — though not the only — justification for blitzscaling. Established players can also use a string of acquisitions to blitzscale. Advantage 4: M&A.

Startup 28

Startup North Dakota Acquisition Europe 28

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

We were trying to broaden the conversation beyond just viral customer acquisition. Facebook , LinkedIn , and other successful social networks have elevated this technique to a high art. Today, I was comparing notes with Ed Baker (one of the gurus of viral growth). Direct notifications can help ameliorate that problem.

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Viral San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 140

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Social networking. Social/Sharing. great web customer acquisition tutorials. analytics for social media and online. Create your own social network. free enterprise social network. Mailing lists/groups. Google Groups. Forms/Surveys. Google Forms. Survey Monkey. Personal storage.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

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.

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93