Social Ad Companies Team Up As Brand Networks Acquires Optimal For $35M | TechCrunch
Social media marketing company Brand Networks is announcing that it’s acquiring Optimal for $35 million in cash and stock.
This is an area where companies like Salesforce.com have been making acquisitions. In fact, when Brand Networks raised a $68 million round (its first outside funding!) earlier this year, Tedford cited the need to compete as an independent company against bigger competitors – so the acquisition also helps Brand Networks by growing its headcount.
Job Outsourcing Marketplace Freelancer.com Files For $14.2M IPO | TechCrunch
Freelancer.com announced today that it has filed for its initial public offering on the Australian Securities Exchange. The company aims to raise $15 million AUD (about $14.2 million USD). Thirty million new shares will be offered to the public at $0.50 AUD per share. Its IPO values the online services marketplace at $218 million AUD (about $206 million USD).
Freelancer.com plans to use funds raised in its IPO to fund organic growth and acquisition opportunities. The company disclosed in its prospectus that it forecasts 2013 revenue at $18.3 million AUD (about $17.3 million USD), compared to $10.6 million AUD (about $10 million USD) in 2012, with gross margins of 88%. Consolidated net profit after tax is forecast at $471,000 million AUD, a 35% decrease from $728,000 AUD in 2012. Gross payment volume in 2013 is expected to reach $80.9 million AUSD.
Before Zulily's IPO, One VC Firm Has Already Cashed In - Jason Del Rey - Commerce - AllThingsD
Maveron's investment has already paid off. And it will likely only get better.
Here's What a Pinterest Ad Looks Like - Liz Gannes - Commerce - AllThingsD
Pinterest today started its preannounced test of "promoted pins," a.k.a. the first-ever revenue-generating product for the company valued at $2.5 billion.
How Twitter Is Going to Take a Billion Dollars From YouTube - James Borow - Voices - AllThingsD
All Twitter needs to do is host long-form video, and it’s off to the races.
Yes, YouTube is the de facto video distribution provider on the Internet. More than six billion hours of video are watched each month, and its videos reach more U.S. adults between the ages of 18 and 34 than any cable network. It’s because of numbers like these that more than a million advertisers are pouring dollars into pre-roll YouTube advertisements.
However, YouTube’s advertising value is derived from its massive distribution around the Web. Brands generally use YouTube as a vehicle to upload easily embeddable videos, but a brand’s YouTube channel is rarely where it invests and engages with its community in real time.
This weakness is Twitter’s opportunity: Tweets are just as easily embeddable as YouTube videos, with news stories and blogs regularly including embedded tweets of reactions to recent events. Embedded tweets are slowly becoming as ubiquitous as embedded YouTube videos across the Web.
Sept 25, 2013 - Chinese Internet Giant Alibaba Plans to Issue I.P.O. in New York - NYTimes.com
Ownership rules prevented the company from making its highly anticipated, and potentially very lucrative, debut in Hong Kong, as it had wished.
RadiumOne Finalizes IPO Plan As It Hits ~$100M In AdTech Revenue | TechCrunch
RadiumOne is completing selection of which bankers will underwrite its IPO, which it plans to secretly file for soon, according to a source close to its Wall Street negotiations. The advertising tech company is said to have nearly $100 million in yearly revenue, and hopes to draft off of successful IPOs by fellow adtech provider RocketFuel and Twitter, which also filed a secret S-1.
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Copying Y Combinator - by Jed Christiansen
This paper is a slighly modified version of my MBA dissertation/Individual Project at Cambridge University.
Website Builder Wix Files For $100 Million IPO - Forbes
Wix, an Israel-based company that helps people and businesses build websites, has filed for an initial public offering of up to $100 million.
In the lead up to the highly anticipated Twitter IPO, Wix is joining the ranks of companies moving to get their offerings into the public markets while the window is open.
Wix, with 37 million registered users, offers a freemium website creation service that helps people create a website using drag-and-drop tools without knowing any programming. About 680,000 of its users are paying subscribers.
Violin Memory IPO Flails, RingCentral IPO Soars Tomio Geron Tomio Geron Forbes Staff
FireEye Founder Banks Hundreds Of Millions In IPO Tomio Geron Tomio Geron Forbes Staff
Twitter Files For IPO - Confidentially Tomio Geron Tomio Geron Forbes Staff
In the first six months of 2013, Wix generated revenue of $34.1 million, up from $18.9 million in the year-ago period. Net loss in the first half of 2013, however, was $10.1 million, up from $7.8 million in the first half of 2012.
With HarperCollins Deal, Scribd Unveils Its Bid To Become The Netflix For Books | TechCrunch
The latest company making a bid to bring the subscription model to the book world is one that may already be familiar to TechCrunch readers — social publishing service Scribd.
Scribd first launched in 2007, offering users a platform for users to share documents and other written content. We use it ourselves as a way to upload and embed documents that are relevant to our stories. For Scribd, moving into the subscription books business doesn’t seem like a huge leap, and several of the most important pieces are already in place.
For one thing, the company actually launched an e-book market back in 2009. And it already has users paying a subscription fee for access to premium content — in fact, co-founder and CEO Trip Adler told me the company “soft launched” this service in January by adding books to its premium offering, and that the service has been growing 60 percent for each month since.
Today Scribd its making its ambitions on this front clear, in part by announcing its first big deal with a major publisher — HarperCollins. The companies say that the “majority” of the back catalog for HarperCollins US and HarperCollins Christian will now be available in Scribd’s subscription service, with featured authors including Paolo Coehlo, Neil Gaiman, Marian Keys, and Elmore Leonard. That means Scribd subscribers won’t have access to most of the newest HarperCollins books — but the publisher’s full catalog, including new titles, will be available for purchase on an individual basis.
AngelList Beefs Up Syndicates With New Backers Model, Lets Accelerators Raise Funding Too | TechCrunch
With the loosening of the SEC’s restrictions around general solicitation or public fundraising by startups, AngelList is launching a suite of products that could extend its influence (and its revenue model) in the tech ecosystem today.
Much has been made of how AngelList’s new ‘Syndicates’ program could revolutionize early-stage funding for startups. Regular angels can essentially raise a venture fund on the fly, bring in a group of friends who are accredited investors and provide a startup with an early round of reasonable size. Then the lead angel takes carry from the deal.
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