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. Discussion of likely liquidity events and exit strategy. Five-year financial projections of revenue and expenses.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2016

Disruptive innovations are coming from startups – Telsa for automobiles, Uber for taxis, Airbnb for hotel rentals, Netflix for video rentals and Facebook for media. Capital is returned to these investors through liquidity events (originally public offerings, but today mostly acquisitions). What’s holding large companies back?

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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. of MySpace, Inc.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 29, 2017

I started Ignite Social Media in 2007 after working in a mid-sized regional ad agency. I didn’t feel we were differentiated enough and, at the same time, I was hearing all this buzz about social media. So in 2015, we launched Carusele to apply digital media targeting to influencer marketing. Photo Credit: Jim Tobin.

Entrepreneur 73

Entrepreneur Social Media Liquidity Event Private Equity 73

www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

What did you take from idea on the back of a napkin to liquidity event? Cassie Boorn , Social Media Coordinator You could try putting a listing up at a site that hires people specifically for Start Ups. Now we turn it around. It's the developer's turn to ask the Biz Guy. What companies have you launched?

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Going public is not easy : companies should be preparing for IPO in terms of media communication and internal management over a year ahead of IPO. Larry Leibowitz’s advice to Israeli companies: “Start to get media training. An ipo is not really an exit, it is a liquidity event. It is a 1-mile marker on a 100 mile road.

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IPO Cofounder Europe 92

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Media Temple. Social Media Tracking/Marketing. analytics for social media and online. real-time event tracking. social media and email marketing. Catch Media. Email Integration. Domains.Co. Text Editor. Macromates. Sublime Text. Name.com *. Bluehost *. StartLogic *. Windows Azure. Amazon Web Services.

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Software Review Technical Review Startup 53