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Startup IPO Market: A Fickle Mistress ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

And even other strong, but perhaps not standout, companies like Active Network and Demand Media completed their own offerings. The global macro conditions could weigh heavily on the IPO market for awhile. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Bankers licked their chops. Life was good.

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How to Navigate the New Era of SEO: Strategies for Understanding Consumer Search Behavior

Duct Tape Marketing

His clients include global brands such as Citizen Watch, ExxonMobil and bva. So I'm actually from my agency spinning up a syndication campaign that we'd done a while back where I'm not just publishing on my website or LinkedIn, but I'm also publishing on many other websites. This is John Jantsch. My guest today is Dale Bertrand.

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Groupon's S-1: From Zero to Like? Billions in 30 Months ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

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. The folks at Yipit did a detailed analyis of the Boston data and concluded Groupon’s model is deteriorating there.

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Announcing Techstars AngelList Funds for Mentors and Alumni

Feld Thoughts

Our global network now consists of over 5,000 mentors, including many successful Techstars alumni. Our first two pilot funds will be the 2017 city programs in Austin and Boston, launching on January 23rd. At Foundry Group, we learned a lot by running our own FG Angels syndicate.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

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). First and foremost, we believed there would be a “professional” social network.

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Why Twitter is A Media Company ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Twitter isn’t really a social network. But Twitter isn’t really a social network. As a source of real-time content and information, Twitter really has no peer in most global markets (China being the most notable exception where local clones dominate). Hootsuite, CoTweet, etc). Read More ».

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Tech IPOs Are Back ? So Now What? ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

But even during the macroeconomic boom of 2004 to early 2008 (inflated by various credit bubbles – housing, sovereign debt, LBOs) tech IPOs were extremely rare and then the global economic crisis of late 2008 – 2010 only further dampened hopes for a recovery. Active Network – 2.4x Zynga – 8x+ trailing revenue.

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