The consequences of the financial markets’ drop for whatever reason are incomparable to understand the difficult choices that face new technology companies’ founders, entrepreneurs and CEO’s. Already many accounts and actions have been communicated (Sequoia, Seesmic, Fast company, etc..).
The Cornelian choice of any entrepreneur is to permanently manage situations which gravitate around the needs of [...]
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Venture Capital
My friend Ouriel has written a post entitled « The man of the situation » (in french) at an opportune moment when many startups are going through radical management changes.
After starting Ads-Click in 2004, I brought the company up to 35 people in three years with two fundraises totalling 7M$, created new innovative products sold [...]
Looking at the latest acquisitions in this sector, we are very far from the respective valuations of Looksmart (LOOK) 53.8 m and Miva (MIVA) 75.5 m. From Tacoda 300 m, aquantive 6 B, Quigo recently 340 m, Right Media 800 m and Doubleclick 3 B, the valuations paid are beyond those of these two ad [...]
This graph represents the evolution of M&A operations since 2002 in the advertising and online marketing field. An important acceleration can be observed since 2005 to reach a peak in 2007, when we’re only in the middle of the year.
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Concerning recent investments in this field in Europe, after ADS-click in Geneva was given [...]
Via Valerie Thompson, a post and a very instructive presentation for all entrepreneurs who want to resort to venture capital for funding.
By clicking on the image below (an extract from the « Equity Fingerprint » presentation), you will discover the formidable mechanism which allowed the famous release of Skype, bought by eBay in 2005.
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With Microsoft’s acquisition of Aquantive for 6 Billion dollars in Cash, the online advertising sector is showing its great energy and huge potential. No Internet sector is as active today than in these buyout operations which peak at over 10 Billion $ between Doubleclick, 24/7, Rightmedia, Adtech,etc… But this is a sector consolidation, between Internet [...]