VC Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2022

There are two main forms of exits for startups: trade sale/M&A or IPO. SPACs had their moment in the sun in 2021, with a record number of companies choosing to go public using the SPACs in favour of traditional IPOs. Given that some of these new stocks have low trading volume, in practice the lock up period can be longer.

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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. Usually a small company can sell about 20 percent of its stock in an IPO. In 1999, there were 486 IPOs nationwide; just 10 years later, in 2009, there were only 63.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

If your goal is a large national corporation with more than 100 investors, and multiple classes of stock, you might prefer a C-Corp or S-Corp. Set specific targets on the sales channels and marketing initiatives you need, including the use of social media, brand building, franchising, trade shows, affiliates, and distributors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2018

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. Investors showed an increased appetite for new stocks, with 18 percent of deals pricing above the marketed share price range. Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups. Thus a record number of entrepreneurs (and team members) are getting rich.

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Gust

JANUARY 31, 2013

The move came as a shock to many in the tech business community, in which we’ve become accustomed to real-time disclosure by company executives through social media. Before the commercial Internet, the primary tools of disclosure included: Prospectus and related registration statement (“S-1″) for an IPO.

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Start Up Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The other 10,000+ crypto currencies will become the penny stocks of tomorrow. Any IPO touting the word ‘ com’ had investors lining up. When you buy a stock of Apple, Alphabet or Amazon, their prices may well be depressed for a period, but it doesn’t stop people buying iPhones, searching or ordering online.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Eventually, Reddit became wildly popular and was bought by Condé Nast, the owner of 20 other brands and media like Vanity Fair, Vogue, and The New Yorker. One of the top five largest IPOs in the world was done by the reformed General Motors in 2010, and the company generated a profit. Thanks to Raven Cobb, Clearstep, Inc ! #6-

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

Silicon Valley and the media industry that surrounds it values youth. innovated in social media advertising and for a variety of reasons wasn’t ultimately successful and went to zero. He writes “Half of all venture funds outperform the stock market which is the benchmark most institutions measure VC funds against.”

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 28, 2021

Boomer hedgies getting crushed by young folks self-organizing in social media. Only big institutions can get into hot IPOs. I learned about the stock market by reading those magazines. I’m more interested in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th order effects instead of the financial and market dynamics. But hang on.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! Gregory Wehmeyer True, Ben, once upon a time, Angel Investors provided the launching pad for Venture Capital Firms to propel any startup on two legs toward a successful IPO.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! Gregory Wehmeyer True, Ben, once upon a time, Angel Investors provided the launching pad for Venture Capital Firms to propel any startup on two legs toward a successful IPO.

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Start Up Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

The upcoming Facebook IPO is a very interesting scenario. Not just from a startup / social media or tech point of view but from an economic one. I know which companies I’d rather hold stock in. Which means there will be more startups being funded by the FB IPO gold rush. They have an appetite for acquisition.

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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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Start Up Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

The upcoming Facebook IPO is a very interesting scenario. Not just from a startup / social media or tech point of view but from an economic one. I know which companies I’d rather hold stock in. Which means there will be more startups being funded by the FB IPO gold rush. They have an appetite for acquisition.

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

You work long hours at below-market rates for stock options, a chance to participate in the financial payout of the company’s success. In order for stock options to work, your employees must first have a vision of what stock options can do for them. There must be a healthy acquisition or IPO pipeline in the market.

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Money Money Home Financing Taxes Accounting Basics Personal Finance Money Management Payments & Collections IPOs and DPOs Will Crazy Market Moves Kill IPOs and Slash VC Investment? Or she could argue that the prototype is so critical to the business that she should get 50 percent of the company's stock. startupcto

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 21, 2011

This time, the debate centers on the “favored few” Social Media venture backed companies that have brought tremendous windfalls to a select group of venture funds and management teams, both pre- and post-IPO. Welcome to the latest passionate debate over the ‘valuation bubble or not?’ question in venture capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2018

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. “If we build it, they will come” and “word of mouth” are not credible marketing strategies these days.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 18, 2016

Every introduction of new social media platforms chip away at current banner holders like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Usually those reports talk about it’s falling stock price, or even its relative lack of growth in new users. Or really, the fact that it isn’t the trendiest social network any longer.

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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. Facebook stock is trading at 57 times projected earnings (compared to 14 for Google and 12 for Apple). Both stocks have enjoyed strong growth this year.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

A few years back, social media hype went to its peaks with the whole focus being laid on Twitter after Facebook. People did not recognize Twitter to be a social media platform to keep in touch with friends. There are so many aspects to analyze,study and correct before going for the IPO. What happened to Twitter?

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 10, 2021

Better yet, how confident are you that the investors behind the big social media and content platforms will insist on better polices going forward? Should Robinhood be having serious conversations about whether its app is creating a bubble in Tesla stock—a bubble that might take down a bunch of retail investors ?

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David Teten

MARCH 22, 2011

Monday, 04/4/11 at 6:00pm: Innovation in Private Company Liquidity: Online M&A, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO. David Weild, formerly Vice Chairman of The NASDAQ Stock Market (moderator). Chip Austin, i-Hatch Ventures, HBS 90. RSVP: [link].

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Virtual Stock Exchange. Stock Quotes. In the 1990s Internet boom, easy money helped founders maintain more control early in a companys evolution, but founder CEOs without voting control often got replaced by a professional manager ahead of an IPO. Zynga went public last December with three classes of stock. MarketWatch.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Without these two laws (or their equivalent), the social media revolution of the past decade would have been stillborn. The law would have the effect of allowing companies to stay private longer, deferring the significant expense, management distraction and public disclosure of financial and operating data involved in the IPO process.

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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. November 29, 2012.

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www.businessinsider.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Tech/Media. Media Jobs. After Long Startup Journey, Seesmic Is Bought By Social Media Management Service Hootsuite [Confirmed]. Stock quotes by YCharts. |. Remember me. Forgot username or password? Login with Twitter. Login with Facebook. Login with LinkedIn. Enterprise. Sponsored By. BI Intelligence. Enterprise.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Never missing an opportunity for a good war story, I’d like to revisit one high-profile transaction, the $650 million acquisition of MySpace by Fox Interactive Media in 2005, on which I spent many sleepless nights along with the rest of the deal team. Part of the deal was bringing in a new CEO, Richard Rosenblatt. of MySpace, Inc.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Think; custom stock photography. 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. Influencers do not post the content. What makes your company unique? What is influencer marketing?

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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. Catch Media. Hiro Media. Email Integration. Domains.Co. Text Editor. Macromates. Sublime Text. Name.com *. Bluehost *. StartLogic *. Windows Azure. Amazon Web Services.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 1, 2020

Even if they were, startup employees usually don't hold more than 10% of the company's overall stock and less than 10% of the company's employees were black at the time of the IPO. You can't just post to social media circles of people with the same skin color as you that you want to meet diverse founders in June.

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Austin Startup

MAY 3, 2017

Texas is embracing that as we see the impact of the internet being increasingly applied in Texas’ substantial industries of old: education, health, agriculture, real estate, energy, media, and more. Through the series of funding rounds, companies do not need to go through an IPO to obtain capital or a higher valuation. Imagine that.

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Pascal's View

OCTOBER 9, 2011

Increasing numbers of professionals in a position to foment meaningful change in the capital markets are recognizing that structural issues underlie the IPO drought for emerging companies with market capitalizations below $1 billion. Small Cap IPO? Again, I urge readers to make their voices heard on this topic. venture capitalists.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

The final straw came when I asked the latest 25-year old a simple ‘yes / no’ question related to stock options. you know of anyone in the social media marketplace that might be able to help? Interview: Mark Douglas, President & CEO, SteelHouse Media. |. John Greathouse. Got it now. 4 Comments. No Comments.

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Our Own Start-up

MAY 23, 2020

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

This was supposed to be Airbnb's biggest year by many measures, including its IPO, which was one of the most anticipated since the 2008 financial crisis. Well the same could be viewed as a community, a marketplace, social media company, anything. And so the oven is like being an IPO. But it's like taking. You're baking.

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Up and Running

JUNE 13, 2015

At the time of their IPO, Groupon was valued at $13 billion. Then, all this back stuff happened like the book is out of stock; there were always problems with the publisher. It worked; it worked really, really well. I didn’t think it was selling, and so I got really frustrated and upset, blaming people.

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