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JUNE 12, 2010
Recent competitive financings closed by Gilt Groupe ($35mm in 05/2010), OKL (undisclosed value in 12/2009) and Ideeli ($20mm in 12/2009). Metrics: 50mm users (up from 40mm in Dec 2009), -Competition includes: Spotify , Last.fm. Social network app developer and ad network. Competitor: Slide.
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JULY 23, 2014
Note the full presentation deck with additional slides can be found on SlideShare here or you can simply scroll through it at the bottom of this post.]. The “big boom” in startup financing started around March 2009?—?more Just 3 years ago there was talk of institutional investors “not being able to write small enough checks.”
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MAY 15, 2010
Following Microsoft’s addressable advertising trials with NBC in June 2009, many suspect that Google’s investment may have some defensive motivations, as well. Swipely – Blippy competitor founded by TellMe founder, Angus Davis, in Fall 2009. Swipely is a social network orientated around users credit card transaction data.
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AUGUST 9, 2011
Come 2009 we felt really bullish about the future for startups because the froth was gone and so, too, were wantrapreneurs. The people left standing had a compelling vision to build companies and we backed many in 2009. When this period was fresh, in Sept 2009, I wrote a very detailed assessment of what I thought had just happened.
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DECEMBER 1, 2010
aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. think his slides are great (and by far much easier on the eye then mine.). 17, 2009 and before Jan. but: Something is Still Missing.
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