Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 6, 2017
At the tail end of this period when demand was picking up for the industry there was still a belief that in venture it only mattered that you got into the top 10 funds in Silicon Valley. So LPs are looking for a combination of “established top tier” and “new managers with differentiation.” We’re trying to limit our exposure.”
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 20, 2010
The firm changed its name to Internet Brands in June of 2005, and hit the markets with its IPO in November of 2007. The firm's stock had held its own, having recovered so far from last year's market downturn. READ MORE>>.
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socalTECH
MAY 2, 2011
There is no real room for negotiation, or to let demand drive the pricing on the buyer side. I ended up switching to selling on Stubhub in 2007, after eBay made it much more difficult to search for tickets. If you imagine, a promoter might manage Britney Spears in 50 cities, and all those cities have different demand and price points.
socalTECH
JUNE 8, 2011
We actually built that about a year and a half ago, and are bringing that back due to overwhelming demand. It looks like a lot of your execs have background at Active Network? Jimmy Hendricks: My background is I spent a year at Active.com in 2007 and 2008. As part of that, I built a ton of relationships at Active.
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 27, 2013
We don''t spend a lot of time there, except that we''re active investors and bankers who are affected by what''s happening in the IPO market. If you rate the market on a one to ten scale, with one being 2002 and ten being 2007, we''re probably at around five or six. That''s fueling lots of the activity we''re seeing now.
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 11, 2017
According to a recent Ernst & Young global report , the first half of 2017 was the most active first half by global number of IPOs since 2007. Public stockholders are more easily swayed by emotion and the activities of the crowd, than real market conditions. Startup founders don’t fit in a public company.
socalTECH
AUGUST 27, 2014
We have a checklist of about forty things we go through, to make sure the market is big enough, and figure out how much demand consumers have for a product, and how much organic and paid traffic we can actually drive to a website to acquire a consumer. We rode that wave through 2007, until the housing market crashed, and we had to adapt.
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