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OCTOBER 16, 2010

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Angel Investor 84

Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 84

Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

In the early days of LinkedIn we jointly acquired an issued patent of the defunct SixDegrees.com which directly pertains to social networking as well as acquiring a nascent startup in part for its in-process patent filings. And at PayPal we were hit with a couple patent disputes while in the midst of our IPO process.

IP 100

IP IPO Social Network Silicon Valley 100

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

I think the best solution for the social networking era is “in-stream&# advertising. I know you could argue that YouTube was much broader but it was really popularized in the social networks. In the former case many people scoffed at paying up for Google at IPO. But I made it for a reason. uh, hello!

Venture Capital 271

Venture Capital Affiliate Valuation San Francisco 271

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2013

Thanks To Facebook, Strongest Year For IPOs Since 2000 With $21.5 The Dunbar Number, From the Guru of Social Networks | Businessweek - [link]. Social Networking Eats Up 3+ Hours Per Day For The Average American User - [link]. A Showcase of Beautifully Designed Mobile App Landing Pages – [link].

Social Media 94

Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

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. The next chunk comes from Facebook’s platform, in essence “taxing” the revenues of app developers like Zynga, which represents 15% of revenue. How To Think About The Future.

IPO 100

IPO South Korea Venezuela Revenue 100

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Mark Zuckerberg’s journey started when he created a message program ‘ ZuckNet’ at the age of twelve, CourseMatch and FaceMash in college, and finally the world-famous social networking platform ‘Facebook’ which revolutionized communication, followed by taking over WhatsApp and Instagram. 18- Adidas' Adi Dassler.

Entrepreneur 95

Entrepreneur Bankruptcy Southern California South Africa 95

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability. With Netscape’s IPO , there was suddenly a public market for companies with limited revenue and no profit. The New Bubble : (2011 – 2014): Here we go again…. (If

Internet 335

Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 335

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 5, 2012

crowdSPRING’s Small Business Spotlight of the Week: Flightwise/ MyRadar Mobile Apps – [link]. Some Thoughts On The IPO Market For Web Companies (by @fredwilson) – [link]. Mobile Users Split on Check-In Services – [link]. 25 Must Have Social Media Icon Packs For Web Designers – [link].

Social Media 92

Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

IPOs and M&A have returned – and with them the investment bankers have staged a rebound. There have been a number of high profile tech IPO s in the recent months including companies such as OpenTable and more recently LogMeIn. – IPO-able in any normal market. but I’ll save that for post 3/3).

IPO 255

IPO Investment Bankers Venture Capital Marketing 255

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 numbers of mobile subscribers are staggering – 1.18 Liquidity for most Internet startups happens via IPO’s.

Silicon Valley 272

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 272

Rob Go

JUNE 7, 2012

There is a dark cloud over the internet sector due to the weak performance of the Facebook IPO. 5 Years ago, the mobile web meant email on the blackberry or really lame on-deck applications on feature phones. This creates implied social graphs, driven by actual behavior outside of social networks, based on data from emails, sms, etc.

Technical Review 61

Technical Review SMS Internet B2C 61

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 numbers of mobile subscribers are staggering – 1.18 Liquidity for most Internet startups happens via IPO’s.

Silicon Valley 164

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 164

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 22, 2012

Although Facebook’s stock price has fallen well below its IPO price of $38 per share, many people agree that the stock is still significantly overpriced. For example, there are five major markets where Facebook is not the top social network : China, Russia, South Korea, Japan, and Vietnam.

South Korea 88

South Korea IPO Russia Stock 88

adamac.blogspot.com

MARCH 9, 2010

Adam MacBeth Tuesday, April 07, 2009 10 Startup Red Flags Ive worked on a number of startups: from seed-stage through IPO, as a founder, employee, advisor, and consultant, as well as evaluating a bunch from the outside, so Ive seen my share of screw-ups. Adamac Attack! Im @adamac on Twitter.See my homepage for more.

Technical Review 41

Technical Review CTO Hire Fractional CTO Startup 41

The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

The lesson from those businesses is that developments in technology can quickly undermine a company’s core strength. The internet and mobile marginalised Microsoft’s dominance of the desktop and improvements in search took away the need for Yahoo’s portal of curated links.

Social Media 60

Social Media Acquisition Curation IPO 60

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. Mobility really changes everything. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! And the future?

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

LA was a leader in lead generation (LowerMyBills), comparison shopping (PriceGrabber, Shopzilla), social networking (MySpace … I know, I know – Facebook won – but it was still a big business). But we do have great technology developers. You need to for conferences, business development and often for sales.

Silicon Valley 290

Silicon Valley Technology Los Angeles Southern California 290

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Pick a similar product that they do use, and ask them "who was the first person you know who started using [social networking, mobile phones, plasma TV, instant messaging.]? The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? can I talk to them?" Posted item in Facebook news feed.

San Francisco 133

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 133

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

One company with an astonishingly high rake is recently IPOed Shutterstock, a photo-purchasing marketplace where the content owner receives only 30% of gross receipts. Because most of the developers building on these platforms make software, the developers do not experience immediate pain when they share 30% of top-line revenue.

Europe 101

Europe Social Network Technical Review IPO 101

Jeff Hilimire

JUNE 14, 2012

PRWeek ran this article I wrote last week, but if you missed it… Facebook has been making loads of press lately – with the billion-dollar purchase of Instagram and an IPO that many are calling a failure. with Instagram was that it was mobile – and mobile done very well. Wait, what? Why would Facebook create a camera app?

Mobile 40

Mobile Social Network IPO Framework 40

Rob Go

JANUARY 29, 2012

The entire Tech world is waiting with baited breath for the filing of Facebook’s IPO next week. Network fragmentation. Social networks should be incredibly robust because of network effects. Not natively mobile. I think the mobile internet will further accelerate the trend of network fragmentation.

Advertising 59

Advertising Mobile Aggregator Distribution 59

Professor VC

APRIL 11, 2008

At times, I do miss being part of a team that takes a company from infancy all the way to IPO and beyond. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? The Most Obvious Mobile Ad Unit and What the New York Times Got Wrong. A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal. ► 2010. (7).

San Jose 28

San Jose Angel Investor Venture Capital Balance Sheet 28

Professor VC

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

I began to wonder based on the "*a*" number comment that perhaps Linked-in had thrown in a sweetener to the investors, such as an opportunity to buy some secondary shares pre-IPO or an allocation in the IPO. Given the issues we had in the past around allocation of IPO shares, this would be a very sensitive issue. ► 2010.

Acquisition 31

Acquisition San Jose Angel Investor IPO 31

mashable.com

JANUARY 13, 2012

My company’s CEO, Patrick Salyer, explains why multiple online personas make it imperative that companies offer social logins beyond Facebook Connect.). Sure, Facebook will almost always be the dominant player in share-of-logins, but we’ve seen the other players account for up to a combined 60% share of social logins.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Social Media Social Network RSS 78

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

For example, if any of the mobile ad networks gets major traction, they may become a dominant way that people discover new apps. If the rating in the App Store is based on usage, I am sure those popular social networking applications are sure to be in the top and the hot seat always. The observation sounds strange.

San Francisco 68

San Francisco Lean Retention SEM 68

Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

In iControl’s case, there were exit options at different stages, but now with more than $100M invested, the only options where investors will be happy will be an IPO or $1B+ acquisition, which greatly limits strategic options. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? 5 hours ago.

San Jose 28

San Jose Angel Investor Term Sheet Venture Capital 28

venturebeat.com

JULY 12, 2012

Developers. Social media. Social networking. Social games. Additionally, Microsoft will provide its startups with four to eight months of advice, design and development help, discounted access to Microsoft’s Azure Data Marketplace APIs, and introductions to potential partners or customers. Acquisition.

Detroit 69

Detroit Incubator Technical Review Venture Capital 69

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Even with only a few months of development, third parties have crammed every single category in the store full of apps. All I see is a name, an icon, a price, the developers name, and a review star-rating. This can even vary by category, as people apply different criteria to games vs. utilities vs. social networking apps.

Distribution 74

Distribution San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 74

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.

Silicon Valley 185

Silicon Valley San Francisco San Jose Startup 185

VC Cafe

JULY 9, 2010

SupersonicAds – a dominant leader in virtual currency monetization for online games, virtual worlds and social networks. Co-founded by Yiftah Frechter, Yoav Arnstein and Ran Cohen, all former execs of recently IPO-ed Eyeblaster. services developer Xconnect. Miscellaneous. Investment Rounds. Around the world.

Media 109

Media Stealth Venture Capital 109

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Hundreds of startups will succeed in this world over the next few years, like all the mobile app companies over the past 5 years. Alexia Tsotsis: Oh, the mobile –. Marc Andreessen: The mobile billing. They can develop their remaining skills, or be able to retrain people once they are in the jobs.

Software Review 22

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

For decades the “layering&# of technology has allowed us to develop IT systems and networks in a specialized way that let’s best-of-breed technology solutions to emerge at each layer of the stack and to allow people with different skill sets to specialize in key areas without having to have competence in every technology arena.

Cloud 343

Cloud Technical Review Database Semantic 343

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Social networking. Social/Sharing. s helpful to find an developer tool that allows you to write html/css and renders the view in real time, so you donâ??t s easier to use/develop with.

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. At each turn, these market changes were heralded as wonderful developments for entrepreneurs. A name like 500 Startups says it all.

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93