Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

With high levels of public market volatility — the first we’ve seen in the age of social media and true real-time information — it feels like everyone and their grandmom is expecting a downturn. on a global stage) and specifically the Bay Area (within the U.S.) It’s an unusual time in the markets.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 4, 2012

Fast, and high-volume computerized trading combined with the utilization of extremely high leverage has made Wall Street trading profits to be many multiples greater than those generated via traditional underwriting, promotion, and distribution of long positions in stocks. read more.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

For this reason, we’ve partnered with Guild members who have experience across different kinds of customers, business models, and distribution channels. He was previously VP Product at Runkeeper (sold to Asics), a General Manager and Director of Product at Zynga (IPO), and Director of Product at Conduit Labs (sold to Zynga).

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 11, 2017

The only difference is, our high-quality content is shot by the leading social media creators, crowd-sourced from around the globe, at a fraction of the cost a client would traditionally pay. This is a paid media buy on Facebook or Instagram through the influencers’ accounts vs. a brand’s account. Influencers do not post the content.

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BeyondVC

JULY 5, 2004

Russell Beattie has a thorough post on Jamdat Mobile’s IPO filing. For those of you that don’t know, Jamdat is a provider of global wireless entertainment applications and enabling technologies that support multiple wireless platforms to wireless carriers, handset manufacturers, media companies, and independent content developers.

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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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Agile VC

JANUARY 13, 2016

Was this simply a shift in sentiment among the tech & business media? Potential for instant global distribution (mobile app stores, Facebook, etc). Many people valued Zynga and Groupon at $20-30B+, both buyers of shares on secondary markets and investment banks during the run up to IPO. What happened?

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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. The distribution power of their pervasive platform proved a remarkable vehicle for many companies; particularly games companies. Let’s start with Facebook.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Incorporated in 1998 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company’s network of over 100,000 globally distributed servers provides an infrastructure layer that accelerates the distribution and delivery of content, media and applications. Many people know Akamai as the purveyor of the Internet’s backbone. Founding Akamai.

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Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

This enabled consolidation among the brokerage houses and banks, which led to the loss of multiple distribution channels for securities and reduced the ability for small players to survive. 2003: Spitzer’s Global Research Analyst Settlement, which had the unintended effect of depriving small companies from getting research coverage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2019

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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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2017

I found some good lessons in this regard in a new 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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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. ignited the current trend by adopting a dual-class voting structure before its IPO in 2004. Did the Facebook IPO undermine your confidence in the markets?

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Media & Marketing. Media Agencies. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Less than 1% are currently in IPO registration. Globaloney: Globalization Challenged. Management.

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

At the time of its launch, the name “cisco” was also confusingly similar to SYSCO, the $20B food distribution company. Expertcity was initially named to reflect the company’s “marketplace for services,” which enabled independent, global experts to directly access customers’ computers and fix their technical problems. 4 Comments.

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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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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And now all of a sudden you have got this global market of all these early adopters that have smartphones connected to the Internet, and they can just pick up their things and run with them. So these companies that are kind of for — in the sort of mechanical term, distributed workforces and outsource work being run online.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Media Temple. Social Media Tracking/Marketing. analytics for social media and online. social media and email marketing. free, distributed source code control management system. Email Integration. Domains.Co. Text Editor. Macromates. Sublime Text. Name.com *. Bluehost *. StartLogic *. Windows Azure. CVSDude (svn).

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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. Open Sesame! (A

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 13, 2021

The question was just to say that if you’re going to create a consumer internet media property that you think is for a broad swath of humanity, you could say, “Hey, we should have a billion human beings that are active members of this, or maybe 200 million or 500 million, but a very large number.” Reid: Again, it’s not really a formula.

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