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Interview with SoundCloud CEO

 

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Celluon Magic Cube – World’s only virtual projection keyboard and multi-touch mouse

 

shawngunn on Wednesday, 07 December 2011 in Companies to Watch, Entrepreneurs, Gadgets & Gear, Mobile, Venture Capital, Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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A List Of Startups Goldman Sachs Thinks Will Most Likely IPO

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Very very quietly (there is almost no Google footprint), investment bank and securities firm Goldman Sachs held its “Private Internet Company Conference” this week in Las Vegas. During the two-day conference, which lasted from November 29-30th, a gaggle of companies presented their business models to an elite audience composed of bankers, investors and peers.

Attendees listened to talks given by A16Z‘s Marc Andreessen and Square’s Keith Rabois (who gave the keynote on Tuesday night). SV Angel’sRon Conway was also there, being himself. All in all the experience was very, very fun I heard. Makes sense.

So why hold a conference for early stage companies if you’re an IPO underwriter? Well, the event basically functions as an extremely foresighted form of lead generation. According to multiple people I spoke to, these are the 30 or so startups Goldman has designated as potential IPO candidates. And it wants to make a relationship as early on as possible, in case some of them actually do and need Goldman’s services in the process.

So who are these white-hot startups then? Well here you go! (I might be missing one or two, so if you’re on this list or know of someone who should be on this list, please email me and I will put you/them on if your story checks out.)

In alphabetical order:

  • Airbnb
  • Beachmint
  • Beauchamp
  • Birchbox
  • Bluekai
  • Badoo
  • BOKU
  • Box.net
  • BranchOut
  • Cloudflare
  • Coupons.com
  • DropBox
  • Eventbrite
  • Gogobot
  • Hipmunk
  • Instagram
  • Jawbone
  • Klout
  • Narrative Science
  • Ness computing
  • Pinterest
  • One Kings Lane
  • Peixe Urbano
  • Polyvore
  • Quantcast
  • Quora
  • Rent The Runway
  • Rue la la
  • Rovio
  • Shopkick
  • Specific Media
  • Survey Monkey
  • Square
  • TrialPay
  • Trunk Club
  • Tumblr
  • Uber
  • Warby Parker
  • WePay
  • Xoom
  • ZocDoc
  • Zoosk

 

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Facebook Will IPO as Early as April 2012

 

Facebook will make its long-anticipated move to go public between April and June 2012, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal on Monday.

The report, which cites “people familiar with the matter,” says that Facebook is considering raising $10 billion in an IPO that could value it at more than $100 billion. This is consistent with a report in June that used the same eye-popping number of zeros to describe Facebook’s expected valuation.

If realized, the valuation would make Facebook’s IPO one of the largest in history — more than four times as big as Google’s $23 billion IPO in 2004, and likely one of the 10 largest IPOs of all time.

While the first rumors of Facebook’s impending IPO predicted that the company would go public during the first quarter of 2012, recent reports had suggested that the offering had been pushed back to “September or later.”

The Wall Street Journal‘s sources cautioned that Facebook has not made any final decisions in its internal discussions about the timing of its filing — and that market conditions will ultimately determine how much money the company seeks and the value of the company.

Mashable has contacted Facebook for comment and will update this article with any additional information.

 

shawngunn on Monday, 28 November 2011 in Companies to Watch, Current Affairs, Entrepreneurs, Venture Capital | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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$7 Billion Market Cap for Linkedin

 

 

 

 

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The 20 Most Innovative Startups In Tech: MoviePass

Congrats to my man Hamet and the entire MoviePass team...the takeover continues! 


MoviePass is an all you can eat movie ticket solution. Pay $30 and see as many as you want per month in theaters.

MoviePass is an all you can eat movie ticket solution. Pay $30 and see as many as you want per month in theaters.

Company: MoviePass

Founders: Stacy Spikes and Hamet Watts

Location: New York, NY

Funding: Raising a round now and is backed by AOL Ventures, True Ventures, Lambert Media, Moxie Pictures, Brian Lee, Diego Berdakin, MJ Eng, Ryan Steelberg and Adam Lilling.

Why it's innovative: MoviePass lets users attend all of the movies they want in theaters for a fixed price. It's great for theaters, which have been having trouble getting people in seats.  It also collect data on movie goers.

If MoviePass takes off, it could cast aside sites like Fandango and become an entirely new way for movie buffs to purchase tickets.



Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/20-innovative-startups-2011-11#moviepass-is-an-all-you-can-eat-movie-ticket-solution-pay-30-and-see-as-many-as-you-want-per-month-in-theaters-12#ixzz1d8qzX563

Past Konsortium Post on MoviePass

shawngunn on Tuesday, 08 November 2011 in Companies to Watch, Entrepreneurs, Mobile, Services, Venture Capital, Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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Networked Society ‘On the Brink’

By JD - Global 14

AS I TRAVEL ACROSS THE COUNTRY BUILDING GLOBAL14 AND DOING INTERVIEWS, ITS WAS VERY INTERESTING FOR ME TO WATCH THIS BECAUSE,THIS IS TOTALLY WHERE I AM

“In On The Brink we discuss the past, present and future of connectivity with a mix of people including David Rowan, chief editor of Wired UK; Caterina Fake, founder of Flickr; and Eric Wahlforss, the co-founder of Soundcloud. Each of the interviewees discusses the emerging opportunities being enabled by technology as we enter the Networked Society. Concepts such as borderless opportunities and creativity, new open business models, and today’s ‘dumb society’ are brought up and discussed.”

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Apple Purchases 3D Mapping Company C3 Technologies


Apple has purchased its second 3D mapping company called C3 Technologies. Apple bought a company called Poly9 last summer that also specializes in 3D mapping technology.

Rumors have said for years that Apple is working to drastically improve its iOS Maps application with in-house features and improvements. The purchase of C3 Technologies suggests that Apple is working to bring revolutionary 3D technology and hi-quality image rendering to its Maps app on the iOS platform.
C3 Technologies: 3D map of Oslo, Norway
youtube.com – MORE INFO http://bit.ly/C3maps 3D map of Oslo, the capital of Norway, based on incredible mapping tech from Swedish startup C3 Technologies. Based on...

shawngunn on Monday, 31 October 2011 in Companies to Watch, Current Affairs, Entrepreneurs, Mobile, Services, Venture Capital, Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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Start-up Money! AngelList

Meet some of the startups in the community and the investors they've closed via Angellist

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“By the weekend I had multiple term sheets and by Monday we had closed our round with exceptional investors that I could only dream about.”

Shafqat Islam, Founder

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“80% of our investors came through AngelList, including our lead investor, the Silicon Valley legend Mitch Kapor.”

Matt Mireles, Founder

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Companies to Watch: MoviePass (@moviepass)


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