Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2018

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. I can remember when creating a web site for eCommerce could easily require a million dollar investment. Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups. Two of these, Uber and Didi Chuxing, have already passed $50 billion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. Last year was the most active year for IPOs in the United States since 2000. 275 IPOs were completed in 2014, topping the 2013 total of 222 by more than 23%. IPO proceeds also shattered 2013’s high-water mark of $55 billion, with an impressive $85 billion in proceeds.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Panel 1 – How Social Investing is Disrupting Traditional Investing in Public Securities. 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.

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Technical Review Technology North Carolina Switzerland 128

David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

I hope that you can join us Monday night, April 4, midtown NYC, at a panel on “Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO” The program is sponsored by the HBS Club of New York and the HBS Angels of NY.

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Private Equity Merger IPO Equity 68

Austin Startup

AUGUST 24, 2019

Many of my industry friends, serving as VPs of eCommerce at large retailers, thought we were crazy. But Amazon was just a small fraction of eCommerce at that time, and was dismissed by many retailers (how things have changed since then). A tsunami of social media was about to hit society and commerce would never be the same.

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Software Review Cofounder eCommerce Austin 48

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2018

Online and ecommerce businesses are especially attractive here, since they are instantly worldwide and not people-intensive. I would expect to see specific plans for distribution, partnerships, and sales channels, as well as the use of social media and conventional marketing, with budgets for the major elements.

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Product Intellectual Property Liquidity Event Exit Strategy 145

Austin Startup

MAY 29, 2019

This, by the way, isn’t very different from how the term social commerce became muddled after Bazaarvoice first started promoting it in 2006 to describe what we do?—?unfortunately, unfortunately, social commerce morphed to mean solutions like Facebook eCommerce stores offered by numerous small vendors who are now mostly no longer in business.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Around this time B2C eCommerce had been dominating the media but the wheels were starting to come off. Everybody thought the real substance was going to come from B2B eCommerce players that would deliver “real value&# by disintermediating supply chains … blah, blah, blah. There was talk of an IPO in 12 months.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

They’ve had a total of 12 deals that have IPO’d. eCommerce is hot again! It’s clear that many companies are going to need to understand “authority&# in the social media era. Raising $75mm in IPO, values company at $515mm. the funding and market coverage. Read more: TechCrunch.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Gartner expects mobile commerce to make up 50% of all ecommerce payments in the US by the year 2017 and Statista predicts that the volume of mobile payments worldwide will exceed $720 billion by the year 2017. The big economies of US, UK, China and Australia together recorded about $20 billion in marketplace loan origination.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

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Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

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%). Clean measures of conversion rates require a clean and standard implementation of the ecommerce tags. In my case I'm looking at Social Media (boss LOVES social!), And other such things.

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Analytics Vertical Metrics Web 133

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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