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Startup IPO Market: A Fickle Mistress ? AGILEVC

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Startup IPO Market: A Fickle Mistress. The IPO market, she is a fickle mistress. In the first half of 2011, the IPO markets were looking strong for VC-backed companies. In the software an internet space a number of companies obviously had strong public offerings (LinkedIn, Yandex, Pandora, RenRen, et al).

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The most important 2021 Predictions in entertainment tech and gaming

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billion gamers worldwide will help the global games market generate revenues of $189.3 Game streaming continues to grow in 2021 – According to StreamElements 2020 year in review , game streaming broke new records in 2020. Trillion Hours, 218 Billion Downloads – demand for new apps and games still grows globally, up 7% YoY.

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A Venture Capital History Perspective From Jack Tankersley

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Take a look at the founding syndicates of each: Masstor Sytems (5/1979). Quantum Corporation (6/1980). What is striking about these syndicates is that nobody had any meaningful capital, which forced syndication and cooperation. “By January 1984, investors had turned away from hardware toward software.”

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

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If engineers want more time to spend making their old code more pretty, they are invited to do so on the weekends. The idea is that once we move to the new system (or coding standard, or API, or.) The current code is spaghetti, but the new code will be elegant. Its become "legacy code" and part of the problem.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

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Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). And obviously all the liq prefs went away in the IPO when pref stock converted to common. I’m the founder, ex Hewlett-Packard Director of Advertising and former SVP at Millward Brown (global brand/ad research firm owned by WPP). link] Terence Donnelly.

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How to Plan Your Social Integration Strategy

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