Agile VC

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Twitter’s IPO has garnered a ton of attention in the tech and popular press. So their revenue figures, pre IPO financing and ownership, and other info is all widely available. Growth IPOs Are Back. Tomorrow we’ll know Twitter’s market cap definitively, at least near term. Why are media businesses so valuable?

IPO 194

IPO Aggregator B2B Internet 194

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

There’s too much PR and too many tech blogs and too many newsletters and aggregators and Twitter summarizers to even try to catch everything that’s going on and equally there’s so much noise that it becomes harder to be heard.

Software Review 150

Software Review Turkey Portfolio Syndicate 150

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Two others – that each team member give their input independently and that the results be objectively aggregated – are also key parts of building a meritocracy. Diversity is not the only requirement for making good group decisions. So why is demographic diversity important? So why is demographic diversity important?

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San Francisco Lean Sweden Continuous Deployment 167

View from Seed

MARCH 24, 2021

So, we decided to aggregate NextView’s “greatest hits.” Why Do Consumer IPOs and B2B IPOs Get Treated Differently? That being said, there are benefits to learning from past reflections — especially as we near national re-opening, and the theoretical “end” of the pandemic. ” (Melody Koh).

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Seed Stage Hiring IPO Analytics 177

Agile VC

JUNE 13, 2019

I know some of the investors in Chewy prior to the PetSmart acquisition, but I am not a shareholder nor do I intend to purchase shares in the IPO. Chewy helpfully provides some cohort data on both aggregate $ revenue, active customer spend, and LTV/CAC basis. spent by new customers in 2015, that same group (in aggregate) bought $1.65

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

It’s entirely possible for the startup to be a massive success without having large aggregate numbers, because the startup has succeeded in finding a passionate, but small, early adopter base that has tremendous per-customer behavior. The visionary’s lament The Superbowl ad test Lo, my 57692 subscribers, who are you?

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Startup 102

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

But aggregated across many schools, there are thousands or tens of thousands of them. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th.

Programming 143

Programming San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 143

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Using memcacheds multiget, which allows the fetching of many keys in parallel, I have written code to aggregate all the shard lookups for a given page and prefetch them, reducing the overhead even further. The mappings never change (unless you build a data migration tool, in which case they change rarely) and so are easy to cache.

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San Francisco Architecture Startup Database 151

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

On aggregate, putting a dollar into Israeli high-tech could yield you more than double the returns (if only these things worked on aggregate!). At the same time, only $126 million was raised in five IPOs, down five percent from $133 million raised in 11 IPOs in 2010. billion, a 134 percent increase from $2.18

IPO 100

IPO Israel Aggregator Green 100

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

In an ecosystem, each participant acts according to its own imperatives, but these selfish actions have an aggregate effect. In an ecosystem, each participant acts according to its own imperatives, but these selfish actions have an aggregate effect. Some ecosystems are stable, others malign, and others grow and prosper.

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Customer San Francisco Viral Lean 156

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

When the NVCA or PriceWaterhouse surveys come out at the end of year I’m not saying they will necessarily will show aggregate $$$ or deal numbers up. IPOs and M&A have returned – and with them the investment bankers have staged a rebound. – IPO-able in any normal market. There is a lot of pent-up demand.

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IPO Investment Bankers Venture Capital Marketing 255

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Examples of things I monitor are the numbers of user activations, active users, and aggregate page hits to user galleries. Examples of things I monitor are the numbers of user activations, active users, and aggregate page hits to user galleries. Application level diagnostics Despite the best testing, defects still happen.

Continuous Deployment 151

Continuous Deployment San Francisco Lean Wiki 151

View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession. Companies are retrenching, VC firms are going through their own upheavals, and IPOs are non-existent. Image from Sequoia Capital presentation.

IPO 202

IPO Early Stage Cofounder B2C 202

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2022

These may be aggregated by an angel group up to about $1M for an angel round. Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public. Some of these groups also offer you the option of putting your money into a multiple-startup fund to spread your risk.

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Liquidity Event Angel Investor SEC Accredited Investor 300

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th.

Customer 167

Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

Rob Go

JUNE 7, 2012

There is a dark cloud over the internet sector due to the weak performance of the Facebook IPO. Our recent investment in Farmeron is leveraging the rising availability of data being produced in the farming and agricultural sector, and other companies are similarly aggregating and making accessible oceanographic data.

Technical Review 61

Technical Review SMS Internet B2C 61

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 30, 2008

In order to get optimal results from a group-based effort, you need three things: diversity, Independence , and an objective method for aggregating results. Aggregate results carefully. Let me briefly summarize the part of the book I find most helpful (leaving a few out, which arent germane to todays topic). Not all crowds are wise.

San Francisco 83

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 83

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Targeting new investors is your priority — whether your company is gearing up for an IPO or it’s already on the market. While end-to-end IR solutions aggregate all your data in one place, a siloed approach separates each process into a distinct tool, isolating analytics from reporting, targeting, and surveillance.

Government 182

Government Aggregator IPO Portfolio 182

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

I believe in the new world you describe, but I think you forget the role that the distributors play in aggregating content for a self-selecting consumer "type" The easiest place to see this in newspapers, where consumers normally buy a newspaper that shares their political viewpoint. [link] August 24, 2009 2:50 PM Quentin said.

San Francisco 113

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

These may be aggregated by an angel group up to about $1M for an angel round. Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public. Some of these groups also offer you the option of putting your money into a multiple-startup fund to spread your risk.

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Liquidity Event SEC Entrepreneur Accredited Investor 224

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

On aggregate, putting a dollar into Israeli high-tech could yield you more than double the returns (if only these things worked on aggregate!). At the same time, only $126 million was raised in five IPOs, down five percent from $133 million raised in 11 IPOs in 2010. billion, a 134 percent increase from $2.18

IPO 68

IPO Israel Aggregator Green 68

Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Instead, they prefer to buy through large distribution companies that aggregate products from lots of suppliers and then make that inventory available to retailers to purchase. An exit strategy is your plan for eventually selling your business, either to another company or to the public in an IPO. Retail Distribution.

Business Plan 163

Business Plan Forecast Balance Sheet Distribution 163

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

These may be aggregated by an Angel group up to about $1M for an Angel round. Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public. Some of these groups also offer you the option of putting your money into a multiple-startup fund to spread your risk.

Portfolio 228

Portfolio Accredited Investor Liquidity Event SEC 228

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

In the late 90’s he saw the internet boom and helped start IronPlanet.com, a construction equipment marketplace that is nearing an IPO. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories. How did the experience of pitching Iron Planet to investors affect you as a VC? (5:00 5:00 – 5:55).

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Vertical Curation Boston Burn Rate 265

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

These may be aggregated by an Angel group up to about $1M for an Angel round. Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public. Some of these groups also offer you the option of putting your money into a multiple-startup fund to spread your risk.

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Accredited Investor Liquidity Event SEC Stock 219

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

They had previously all worked together at a very successful company in the “telecoms meets Internet&# space, CallWave, which IPO’d 5 years ago or so. initially captured the Internet portal revenues by aggregating eyeballs. This was their next act so they brought domain knowledge.

Advertising 284

Advertising Las Vegas Affiliate RSS 284

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

These may be aggregated by an angel group up to about $1M for an angel round. Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public. Some of these groups also offer you the option of putting your money into a multiple-startup fund to spread your risk.

Liquidity Event 184

Liquidity Event SEC Accredited Investor Angel Investor 184

VC Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2014

There’s quite a range of information sources from curated reports to aggregated data. CB Insights regularly produces data-driven reports and analysis on venture capital, private equity, angel investment, mergers & acquisitions, IPOs and emerging high-growth industries. 1) Industry reports. 6) CB Insights. 7) Mattermark.

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Curation Vertical San Francisco Angel Investor 167

View from Seed

MARCH 5, 2019

2019 is shaping up to be the year the dam broke for decacorn IPOs, with Lyft, Uber, AirBnB, Pinterest, et al in the queue. So it’s not really the case that Lyft’s riders (in aggregate) are using the service more often, but rather Lyft is getting much better at netting more revenue per active rider. Lyft’s S-1 dropped on Friday.

Aggregator 120

Aggregator IPO .Net Revenue 120

Gust

OCTOBER 17, 2012

When you aggregate all of the data, these angel investors (across the U.S. A little less than one-third of IPOs are of venture capital-backed firms. In fact, VCs eventually invested in only one out of three of the ventures, and the ventures in which they did invest produced lower returns than those where VCs did not invest.

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Seed Stage Silicon Valley 152

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession. Companies are retrenching, VC firms are going through their own upheavals, and IPOs are non-existent. Image from Sequoia Capital presentation.

IPO 100

IPO Early Stage Cofounder B2C 100

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

Hunter Walk: Ok, so we first met when you were leading comms at enterprise software company Box, a startup you joined when they were still pretty early and stayed at until post-IPO. HW: Anyone who’s been through an IPO, I always like to ask about the experience because it’s such a classic, if statistically rare, startup milestone.

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IPO Cofounder Early Stage San Francisco 120

Agile VC

MARCH 5, 2019

So it’s not really the case that Lyft’s riders (in aggregate) are using the service more often, but rather Lyft is getting much better at netting more revenue per active rider. Again as I highlighted above, in aggregate Lyft’s users aren’t taking dramatically more rides today then they were 3+ years ago. So what about those cohorts?

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Aggregator .Net Revenue IPO 100

Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

12 cloud IPOs in the past 2 years: One from Europe SaaS companies are thriving in the public markets, with their aggregated market cap grew 350% since 2011, and 12 cloud companies going public in the past 24 months. These 12 have performed well, with an aggregate $2.6 Out of the 12 IPOs, Mimecast is the only company from Europe.

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Europe Cloud API Israel 83

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

These may be aggregated by an Angel group up to about $1M for an Angel round. Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public. Some of these groups also offer you the option of putting your money into a multiple-startup fund to spread your risk.

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Accredited Investor Liquidity Event SEC Entrepreneur 120

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

2gov.org automatically routes your tweet (aggregating it with everyone else whos expressed a similar point of view) to the right legislator or agency. 2gov.org automatically routes your tweet (aggregating it with everyone else whos expressed a similar point of view) to the right legislator or agency.

San Francisco 150

San Francisco Founder DC Washington 150

Gust

DECEMBER 12, 2011

They are mentioned in any print, website, or television content concerning beauty, startups, New York, great entrepreneurs, women leaders , or the next generation of IPOs. Without a doubt, Birchbox is one of the hottest startups on the planet right now. So, its almost impossible to avoid them. Nonetheless….

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IPO Social Network Revenue Aggregator 70