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By request: there has been one mobile IPO so far in 08 (OnMobile). There were 16 in 07, 10 of which were in the first half of the year.
Posted: July 9th, 2008 under » Finance.
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Unlike the dismal IPO/venture stats we mentioned yesterday, private equity is only slightly (3%) off its stellar, record-setting 2007 total ($313B) – press release is here.
Posted: July 9th, 2008 under » Finance.
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As expected, AT&T has ended its current five-year agreement with Dish, effective in this December. It did the same with DIRECTV a few months ago. Not clear what the long-term dance will be (or not be) between ATT and satellite – the acquisition speculation is not far behind us. if ATT does want a sat partner, this certainly clears the way for a year-end DTV/Dish bidding war.
Posted: July 8th, 2008 under » Finance, » Media.
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According to the NVCA, there was not as single VC-led IPO in the last quarter. Not one. This follows a slow Q1, in which there were only five.
In the first half of 2007, there were 43.
Posted: July 8th, 2008 under » Finance.
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I’m in Seattle, where Amazon announced their most successful Christmas season ever. Some stats below:
On it busiest day, Dec 10, Amazon customers ordered more than 5.4 million items, which is 62.5 items per second.
– Amazon shipped more than 99 percent of orders in time to meet holiday deadlines worldwide.
– On the peak day this season, Amazon’s worldwide fulfillment network shipped over 3.9 million units.
– Amazon.com sold Nintendo Wii systems at approximately 17 per second when they were in stock.
– Amazon.com sold enough high-def DVD players to cover seven football fields.
– If you lined up all of the GPS units Amazon.com sold this holiday, they would make a trail from New York to Philadelphia
– Amazon.com sold enough auto wrenches to stretch all the way around the Daytona 500 track.
– Amazon.com sold enough Hannah Montana wigs to outfit the entire audience at her December 20th show in Providence, RI.
Posted: December 29th, 2007 under » Finance.
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Posted by: Seth Shapiro
The suit that stalked Sequoia’s $1.65B deal has been filed in SDNY. Thrust of the case is the intuitively compelling point that if a site can screen effectively for porn (which YouTube does), it should be able to apply the same methodology to screening for copyrighted material (YouTube does not).
The doc is plain-spoken. Excerpts:
enable massive infringement by its users. It is YouTube that knowingly reproduces and
publicly performs the copyrighted works uploaded to its site.
Posted: March 13th, 2007 under » Finance, » Media.
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Out today: NYT estimates:
- Sequoia XI: >$450,000,000
- Chad Hurley: >$345,000,000
- Steve Chen: >$326,000,000
- Jawed Karim: > $64,000,000. He’s the partner who left and went back to school.
Groovy.
Posted: February 8th, 2007 under » Finance.
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Forbes has published The Midas List, its annual list of the top 100 dealmakers across Angel, Banking, VC, BO, Academic and Legal. Many old hits (John Doerr is #2) as well as some new blood.
Posted: January 31st, 2007 under » Finance.
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