Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2011

It has been at least a decade since going public via an Initial Public Offering (IPO) has been considered a credible exit strategy for startups. At any rate, it seems only appropriate that social media sites, which have dominated the Internet over the past few years, will likely lead startups back into the IPO game.

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Eric Friedman

MAY 30, 2008

The shortage of revenue among social networks, blogs and other “social media” sites that put user-generated content and communications at their core has persisted despite more than four years of experimentation aimed at turning such sites into money-makers.

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Web Initial Public Offering Social Network Social Media 60

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Social media is littered with tales of companies that withered under the pressure of hypergrowth, were crushed by so-called ‘toxic V.C.s’ I still want to have as large an impact as possible, but I don’t need to create it directly, or capture it in the form of our revenue or our valuation.”

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Silicon Valley Technical Review Venture Capital San Francisco 48