Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

In the late 90’s he saw the internet boom and helped start IronPlanet.com, a construction equipment marketplace that is nearing an IPO. Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories.

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Vertical Curation Boston Burn Rate 265

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

They had previously all worked together at a very successful company in the “telecoms meets Internet&# space, CallWave, which IPO’d 5 years ago or so. But more broadly I believe that you’ll see a lot more tools for helping marketers more effectively run, monitor and manage social media campaigns. Perfect.

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Advertising Las Vegas Affiliate RSS 284

K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

One of the people I respect the most in the VC/PE media ecosystem is Dan Primack. Typically, Pre-Seed rounds are less than $1M in aggregate capital raised. Because of this the first mention of a company in the press/media is usually concurrent with their Seed round financing announcement. Q: Is Pre-Seed a Thing?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

Designed for large businesses, the channels let a company share several types of documents, brand the channel with their own design elements, and then include display advertising, contest promotions, blog aggregation, social media integration and metrics reporting. The idea seemed to SlideShare to be a natural direction.

San Francisco 167

San Francisco Lean Analytics Continuous Deployment 167

David Teten

MARCH 2, 2013

Counting IPOs gets us only a short distance to an Answer. Firstly, “fund size” can be misleading as some firms prefer to raise a large aggregate amount split between several concurrent funds. This is a difficult question to study.”. Secondly, none of the VC return studies to date, including the ones we discuss here, are definitive.

LP 114

LP Securities and Exchange Commission Silicon Valley Venture Capital 114

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Leaders (company is leaving China, our IPO is next week, 1,800 new stores are being opened in 180 days, our new IRR is 8%). In my case I'm looking at Social Media (boss LOVES social!), … You can see the wisdom of not just setting a 20% aggregate conversion rate, based on the above benchmarking data.

Analytics 133

Analytics Vertical Metrics Web 133

Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Or perhaps in traditional media? Getting the media to cover you can be a great way to reach your customers. Social Media. These days, having a social media presence is essentially a requirement for the vast majority of businesses. Will you be advertising online? Public Relations. Retail Distribution.

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Business Plan Forecast Balance Sheet Distribution 163

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

In an ecosystem, each participant acts according to its own imperatives, but these selfish actions have an aggregate effect. Now consider a traditional media business. The value of the attention that the media company collects determines how profitable it is. A successful startup strives for this latter case. Sorry about that.)

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2014

So he teamed up with a few PhDs and set off to write a book about each major vertical – Healthcare, Technology Media and Telecom, Energy and Industrials, Retail and Consumer Goods, etc. A There’s quite a range of information sources from curated reports to aggregated data. 1) Industry reports. 7) Mattermark. 8)Clarity.

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Curation Vertical San Francisco Angel Investor 167

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

This was supposed to be Airbnb's biggest year by many measures, including its IPO, which was one of the most anticipated since the 2008 financial crisis. Well the same could be viewed as a community, a marketplace, social media company, anything. And so the oven is like being an IPO. But it's like taking. You're baking.

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Silicon Valley Hosting Cofounder Employee 60

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. Save Asia for post-IPO. Your default position should be to consider Europe as your pre-IPO growth story, and Asia only after you’re a high-flying public company. Philippe Botteri. Bessemer SaaS Law #8.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

It was one of the year's most successful IPOs so far, and has been heralded as a "landmark moment" for cryptocurrency's entrance into mainstream investing. Just before the IPO, I had a far-reaching conversation with co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong as he approached this major milestone for the company he co-founded back in 2012.

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IPO Cofounder Technical Review Government 113

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. This introduction was also the opportunity to illustrate the amazing growth of our software and saas portfolio in the past years, with aggregated revenues reaching $1.2B Software 2.0:

Software Review 48

Software Review South Korea IPO Portfolio 48

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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IPO Customer Matching Silicon Valley 82

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Welcome to the Lost Decade (for Entrepreneurs, IPO’s and VC’s) - Steve Blank , July 15, 2010 If you take funding from a venture capital firm or angel investor and want to build a large, enduring company (rather than sell it to the highest bidder), this isn’t the decade to do it. Here’s why. Take a look at the chart below. 10 Blogging Tips.

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Software Review Startup Venture Capital Technical Review 217

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Media Temple. Social Media Tracking/Marketing. analytics for social media and online. social media and email marketing. aggregation. Catch Media. Email Integration. Domains.Co. Text Editor. Macromates. Sublime Text. Name.com *. Bluehost *. StartLogic *. Windows Azure. Amazon Web Services. code spaces (svn).

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. Source: AllThingsD ]. -

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Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93