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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. The fact that today’s Internet bubble does not represent all companies does not disprove its existence. Ah, but today’s Internet companies have real revenue!

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO. Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. And obviously all the liq prefs went away in the IPO when pref stock converted to common.

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Modi and Ma

thebarefootvc

On September 19, Ma led Alibaba to the largest IPO in history, listing the company on the New York Stock Exchange. One of the most Modi, who won in a landslide election with a clear mandate for economic reform (despite controversy surrounding his role in sectarian riots in 2002), is fully aware of the lofty expectations of those he governs.

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Modi and Ma

thebarefootvc

On September 19, Ma led Alibaba to the largest IPO in history, listing the company on the New York Stock Exchange. One of the most Modi, who won in a landslide election with a clear mandate for economic reform (despite controversy surrounding his role in sectarian riots in 2002), is fully aware of the lofty expectations of those he governs.

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This Week in VC: Michael Montgomery (President, Montgomery & Co.)

Both Sides of the Table

For entrepreneurs who want to learn about how to work with investment banks, how to position yourself to be acquired and what the IPO markets look like this is the episode to watch. What does the market look like for IPO’s and is this likely to improve? Founded in 2002 and expanded after founders graduated from CMU in 2006.

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Groupon Co-Founders to Teach at U of Chicago’s Booth School

Campus Entrepreneurship

but I don’t recall courses on internet strategy. On January 3, the adjunct professors will tackle their newest challenge: teaching 95 Booth students who have enrolled in the course, Building Internet Start-Ups: Risk, Reward, and Failure. He’s started four IPO-able companies in eight years.

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10 Tips for Enterprise Software Startups

ReadWriteStart

The big enterprise software companies almost all bootstrapped their way to profitability before they got their first external investors (typically via an IPO). Bernard is based in New York, was born in Berlin, has lived in and started companies in Asia and Europe as well as America; he is comfortable with globalization.

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