Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Reuters TV Interview by Rhonda Schaffler Investing in entrepreneurs and startups is a fun but different world from investing in conventional stocks, bonds, and commodities. Just like a seasoned stock investor would never put all his investible resources into a single stock, don’t put all your money into startups.

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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

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Investing in entrepreneurs and startups is a fun but different world from investing in conventional stocks, bonds, and commodities. Just like a seasoned stock investor would never put all his investible resources into a single stock, don’t put all your money into startups. Diversify your total investment across several startups.

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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. Similar mechanisms are at work in the stock market, Google PageRank , and guessing an oxs weight at the state fair. Aggregate results carefully. Not all crowds are wise.

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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

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Investing in entrepreneurs and startups is a fun but different world from investing in conventional stocks, bonds, and commodities. Just like a seasoned stock investor would never put all his investible resources into a single stock, don’t put all your money into startups. Diversify your total investment across several startups.

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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. Now let’s get back to the business of selling more product and less stock! and UK) produced a gross multiple of 2.5X their investment, in a mean time of about four years.

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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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Andrew Payne

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

You have to be living under a rock to miss all of the punditry & chatter about WeWork’s IPO filing. If you haven’t read their S-1 , it’s a piece of work: it’s the most audacious tech IPO I’ve ever seen, by far.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 13, 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. Now let’s get back to the business of selling more product and less stock! and UK) produced a gross multiple of 2.5X their investment, in a mean time of about four years.

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ithacaVC

DECEMBER 14, 2011

As most of you probably know, LP is one of the fundamental economic attributes of preferred stock that preferred shareholders enjoy. Yes, it is possible to issue preferred stock without liquidation preference, but that is rarely done. Series B round = $5mm and the Series B preferred stock is participating with a 2x LP.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

GameFly filed in 2010 and remains in registration, though 2011 has seen a positive start for VC-backed IPOs with 14 in Q1 2011. Now that Google’s acquisition of ITA is closed, following lenghty FTC review, it would appear Kayak is poised to proceed with their IPO in the coming months. =. Quinstreet priced at $15.00/sh

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

On March 26, SoFi announced that “it will be offering its members (at least those with $3K in their account) the ability to invest in IPOs for companies going public, an investment opportunity that has traditionally been reserved for large institutional investors or ultra-high-net-worth individuals.”

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

So Groupon obviously filed their S-1 the other day to formally being the IPO process. The latter are included in free cash flow whereas the former are excluded, since they’re one-time in nature and it’s possible stock is used instead of cash for acquisitions. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. June 5, 2011.

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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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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

The pressures of lofty paper valuations, massive burn rates (and the subsequent need for more cash), and unprecedented low levels of IPOs and M&A, have created a complex and unique circumstance which many Unicorn CEOs and investors are ill-prepared to navigate. The same thing happened to many Internet stocks.

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Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

Tech IPOs Are Back – So Now What? Three of the five “blockbuster” tech IPOs I predicted have happened (LinkedIn, Groupon, Zynga) and the biggest of all (Facebook) has filed and will likely go public within the next 90 days. I see several dynamics at work in today’s IPO markets. March 8, 2012.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

aggregation. London Stock Exchange. Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement. Advasense Technologies. Advent Venture Partners. advertising. Aerotel Medical Systems. AFCV Holdings. Afterdownload. Airbase Systems. Alan Patricof. Alex Osterwalder. Allon Bloch. Allot Communications. Alma Lasers. Alon Bloch. Internet trends. Internet TV.

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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. And so the oven is like being an IPO. You created the longterm stock exchange. Instead, the global pandemic has turned 2020 into its most harrowing year. But it's like taking.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

It was one of the year's most successful IPOs so far, and has been heralded as a "landmark moment" for cryptocurrency's entrance into mainstream investing. Just before the IPO, I had a far-reaching conversation with co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong as he approached this major milestone for the company he co-founded back in 2012.

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