Ever wonder which technology companies are growing in value the fastest? Play Bigger crunched the numbers & discovered 11 "Super-Unicorns" growing by over $1B in value a year and 89 more of tech's top value creators.
The Play Bigger Data Science Team discovered powerful new insights into how U.S. VC-backed companies create enduring value.
Then HBR wrote a feature story around the Play Bigger Discoveries. What follows is the report behind the story.
For Free.
The company that designs the space,
is best positioned to dominate it.
This simple, powerful idea is changing the way people think about company building. To increase the odds, savvy technology CEOs are proactive about designing their product, their company and their category.
Category design is the discipline of creating and monetizing new markets. It is a strategy for taking control over the development of a new market. The goal of category design is to create a new space and become the Category King.
Dave Peterson, Co-founder of the legendary marketing consulting group Play Bigger, discusses how category design applies to social movements like Direct Care.
Watch the full talk at: http://summit.hint.com/talks/2017/keynote-dave-peterson
Bridging the Gap: The Current State of Venture Capital and Cloudsaastr
Byron Deeter, Partner @ Bessemer Venture Partners and Jason Lemkin, SaaStr CEO and Co-Founder chat about what’s going on in venture capital, fundraising, and Cloud right now. And how to plan around it.
The Play Bigger Data Science Team discovered powerful new insights into how U.S. VC-backed companies create enduring value.
Then HBR wrote a feature story around the Play Bigger Discoveries. What follows is the report behind the story.
For Free.
The company that designs the space,
is best positioned to dominate it.
This simple, powerful idea is changing the way people think about company building. To increase the odds, savvy technology CEOs are proactive about designing their product, their company and their category.
Category design is the discipline of creating and monetizing new markets. It is a strategy for taking control over the development of a new market. The goal of category design is to create a new space and become the Category King.
Dave Peterson, Co-founder of the legendary marketing consulting group Play Bigger, discusses how category design applies to social movements like Direct Care.
Watch the full talk at: http://summit.hint.com/talks/2017/keynote-dave-peterson
Bridging the Gap: The Current State of Venture Capital and Cloudsaastr
Byron Deeter, Partner @ Bessemer Venture Partners and Jason Lemkin, SaaStr CEO and Co-Founder chat about what’s going on in venture capital, fundraising, and Cloud right now. And how to plan around it.
The Patterns to boost your time to market - An introduction to DevOpsBrice Argenson
What are the patterns used by the Giant of the Web to optimize their Time-to-Market.
Presentation for: @clevertoday (http://slideshare.net/clevertoday)
Time to market is crucial (Future by Semcon #1 2012)Semcon
The race to get your products onto the market as quickly as possible has never been tougher. Fierce global competition for customers means that no one can afford to be slow. However, to become the fastest also means becoming the smartest. The right strategy to reduce the time to market is the key to success.
Time to market: when a worse game is better - Mattia Traverso - Codemotion Mi...Codemotion
The experimental Kinect game FRU was released on July 13 on the Xbox One Store. The Verge called it a "killer app". Engadget an "incredible game", whereas Destructoid gave it a 9.5/10. It's the highest rated camera-based game ever and yet, it sold less than ten thousand copies. At first glance, the issue might seem obvious: "It's a Kinect game". However, the Kinect 2 peripheral has a respectable install base between 3 and 4 million units, so only the 0,0025 % of the potential target bought the game. What we can learn from this experience?
Advertising agencies are obsessed with innovation. They also have one of the most unique sets of creative talent of any industry. Yet the creative department is the most suspicious of "innovation" of any group at the agency. Could it be that actually Creative Directors hold the keys to converting ad agencies into what so many desire: innovation partners to clients?
(special thanks to @seelydiaplay for presentation design help)
Ready, Set, Present (Creativity PowerPoint Presentation Content): 100+ PowerPoint presentation content slides. Creativity adds to everyone’s personal and professional bottom line and is where innovation and excellence begins. Creativity PowerPoint Presentation Content slides include topics such as: understanding creativity as a human skill using mini systems and processes, the benefits of creativity, left and right brain thinking, blocks to creativity, organizational success through creativity, over techniques, methods, examples and exercises. There are 9 slides covering the definition of creativity, 10 slides on how creative mind works followed by 14 slides describing the process of creativity, creative people and their qualities. Within the first 43 slides you will discover connection between creativity and organizational success and ways to increase your personal creativity. In addition you will receive 19 slides of unique information about fostering organizational creativity, 23 slides covering management and group creativity as well as 11 slides about creativity and the future plus much more.
2014 Tech M&A Monthly - Quarterly ReportCorum Group
The third quarter of 2014 has been marked by soaring deal values, a surge of megadeals and the largest IPO in history. What does this mean to your company? Tune in to the Tech M&A Quarterly review webcast, where we look at the key deals, megadeals, valuations and trends impacting the global M&A market for software and related technology companies. We’ll examine:
The hot gaming market, including Twitch, Mojang, Bally and more
More megadeals, including Concur, Cars.com, Trulia and many others
What does Alibaba’s IPO—the largest tech IPO ever—mean to your company?
Deal reports from India to Seattle
Valuation metrics for all six tech markets and 26 subsectors
And much, much more—don’t miss the Tech M&A Monthly Q3 2014 Report.
...how quickly venture backed
technology companies market capitalization changed (grew) and whether there had
been a change in the “Time To Market Cap” during different periods of history. November 2014
Tech M&A Monthly: Deal Structures TodayCorum Group
Today’s combination of active public markets, resurgent IPOs and a growing pool of buyers means that deal structures are getting more complex as buyers and sellers get creative in order to get deals done. The September edition of Tech M&A Monthly will examine some of the many ways that structure is more important than price in many cases, following up on last year’s highly-praised webcast on the topic. When is a profit sharing agreement appropriate? What’s the role of consulting agreements? How do cross-border issues complicate matters? September 10, Corum dealmakers will address these questions and more, drawing on the largest body of tech M&A in history. In addition, we’ll examine the key deals, trends and valuations from the past month in the Horizontal, Infrastructure and Consumer technology markets.
What Every Startup And Corporate Should Know About ExitsHAX
Startups: prepare -- Corporates: build your playbook!
Talk given at the Hello Tomorrow Summit in Paris in March 2019, inspired by the 50 speakers of the "Exit Masterclass" series we ran in 2018 in SF, NYC, London and Paris.
Deal Index - aggregating digital investing market dataGrow VC Group
DealIndex: Aggregating Digital Investing Markets. Global Crowdfunding Aggregator. Real-time data and deals on private companies raising
capital, backed by analytics, insights and research.
2014 Tech M&A Monthly - Deal Structures TodayCorum Group
With healthy capital markets, booming public markets and a resurgent IPO environment, deal structures are beginning to move away from the cash-only rules of the last few years. Buyers are using more stock and earn-out, while leveraging cheap debt to sometimes make acquisitions beyond their reach just a couple years ago. When should you consider stock? What’s the role of earn-outs? How should you approach non-competes? Find out during the September edition of Tech M&A Monthly.
This is the annual forecast created by Corum Group that dives into the various sectors and sub-sectors of Tech, with a specific focus on M&A, valuation arena, and what we will see this year.
Blockchain winter is upon us.... The valuation of the digital assets is down from $600B to nearly $100B. But do the prices of the digital assets truly reflect the reality of development, the success/failure of blockchain use cases, and the general adoption? If so, what caused the decline? Who is poised to survive and thrive in 2019?
Ray Valdes (CTO @ ConsenSys) & Kate Mitselmakher (CEO & Founder @ Bloccelerate VC) covered the data points explaining what has happened, what is happening, and what will happen in the blockchain universe.
Tech M&A Monthly: Valuations for an Optimal OutcomeCorum Group
“How much is my company worth?” No magic formula can answer this question, but a valuation report is still a key component of the disciplined tech M&A process that will ultimately bring an optimal outcome. Thursday, November 8, as the world’s leading expert on tech company valuations, Corum Group will share best practices for developing, presenting and making the best use of a valuation to create the auction environment that will result in the best price and deal structure for your software or related technology company.
Building Deep Tech Startups Outside Silicon ValleyHAX
The resources you need can be distributed: for R&D, prototyping, production, financing and customers. Silicon Valley is an expensive option in most cases!
The Patterns to boost your time to market - An introduction to DevOpsBrice Argenson
What are the patterns used by the Giant of the Web to optimize their Time-to-Market.
Presentation for: @clevertoday (http://slideshare.net/clevertoday)
Time to market is crucial (Future by Semcon #1 2012)Semcon
The race to get your products onto the market as quickly as possible has never been tougher. Fierce global competition for customers means that no one can afford to be slow. However, to become the fastest also means becoming the smartest. The right strategy to reduce the time to market is the key to success.
Time to market: when a worse game is better - Mattia Traverso - Codemotion Mi...Codemotion
The experimental Kinect game FRU was released on July 13 on the Xbox One Store. The Verge called it a "killer app". Engadget an "incredible game", whereas Destructoid gave it a 9.5/10. It's the highest rated camera-based game ever and yet, it sold less than ten thousand copies. At first glance, the issue might seem obvious: "It's a Kinect game". However, the Kinect 2 peripheral has a respectable install base between 3 and 4 million units, so only the 0,0025 % of the potential target bought the game. What we can learn from this experience?
Advertising agencies are obsessed with innovation. They also have one of the most unique sets of creative talent of any industry. Yet the creative department is the most suspicious of "innovation" of any group at the agency. Could it be that actually Creative Directors hold the keys to converting ad agencies into what so many desire: innovation partners to clients?
(special thanks to @seelydiaplay for presentation design help)
Ready, Set, Present (Creativity PowerPoint Presentation Content): 100+ PowerPoint presentation content slides. Creativity adds to everyone’s personal and professional bottom line and is where innovation and excellence begins. Creativity PowerPoint Presentation Content slides include topics such as: understanding creativity as a human skill using mini systems and processes, the benefits of creativity, left and right brain thinking, blocks to creativity, organizational success through creativity, over techniques, methods, examples and exercises. There are 9 slides covering the definition of creativity, 10 slides on how creative mind works followed by 14 slides describing the process of creativity, creative people and their qualities. Within the first 43 slides you will discover connection between creativity and organizational success and ways to increase your personal creativity. In addition you will receive 19 slides of unique information about fostering organizational creativity, 23 slides covering management and group creativity as well as 11 slides about creativity and the future plus much more.
2014 Tech M&A Monthly - Quarterly ReportCorum Group
The third quarter of 2014 has been marked by soaring deal values, a surge of megadeals and the largest IPO in history. What does this mean to your company? Tune in to the Tech M&A Quarterly review webcast, where we look at the key deals, megadeals, valuations and trends impacting the global M&A market for software and related technology companies. We’ll examine:
The hot gaming market, including Twitch, Mojang, Bally and more
More megadeals, including Concur, Cars.com, Trulia and many others
What does Alibaba’s IPO—the largest tech IPO ever—mean to your company?
Deal reports from India to Seattle
Valuation metrics for all six tech markets and 26 subsectors
And much, much more—don’t miss the Tech M&A Monthly Q3 2014 Report.
...how quickly venture backed
technology companies market capitalization changed (grew) and whether there had
been a change in the “Time To Market Cap” during different periods of history. November 2014
Tech M&A Monthly: Deal Structures TodayCorum Group
Today’s combination of active public markets, resurgent IPOs and a growing pool of buyers means that deal structures are getting more complex as buyers and sellers get creative in order to get deals done. The September edition of Tech M&A Monthly will examine some of the many ways that structure is more important than price in many cases, following up on last year’s highly-praised webcast on the topic. When is a profit sharing agreement appropriate? What’s the role of consulting agreements? How do cross-border issues complicate matters? September 10, Corum dealmakers will address these questions and more, drawing on the largest body of tech M&A in history. In addition, we’ll examine the key deals, trends and valuations from the past month in the Horizontal, Infrastructure and Consumer technology markets.
What Every Startup And Corporate Should Know About ExitsHAX
Startups: prepare -- Corporates: build your playbook!
Talk given at the Hello Tomorrow Summit in Paris in March 2019, inspired by the 50 speakers of the "Exit Masterclass" series we ran in 2018 in SF, NYC, London and Paris.
Deal Index - aggregating digital investing market dataGrow VC Group
DealIndex: Aggregating Digital Investing Markets. Global Crowdfunding Aggregator. Real-time data and deals on private companies raising
capital, backed by analytics, insights and research.
2014 Tech M&A Monthly - Deal Structures TodayCorum Group
With healthy capital markets, booming public markets and a resurgent IPO environment, deal structures are beginning to move away from the cash-only rules of the last few years. Buyers are using more stock and earn-out, while leveraging cheap debt to sometimes make acquisitions beyond their reach just a couple years ago. When should you consider stock? What’s the role of earn-outs? How should you approach non-competes? Find out during the September edition of Tech M&A Monthly.
This is the annual forecast created by Corum Group that dives into the various sectors and sub-sectors of Tech, with a specific focus on M&A, valuation arena, and what we will see this year.
Blockchain winter is upon us.... The valuation of the digital assets is down from $600B to nearly $100B. But do the prices of the digital assets truly reflect the reality of development, the success/failure of blockchain use cases, and the general adoption? If so, what caused the decline? Who is poised to survive and thrive in 2019?
Ray Valdes (CTO @ ConsenSys) & Kate Mitselmakher (CEO & Founder @ Bloccelerate VC) covered the data points explaining what has happened, what is happening, and what will happen in the blockchain universe.
Tech M&A Monthly: Valuations for an Optimal OutcomeCorum Group
“How much is my company worth?” No magic formula can answer this question, but a valuation report is still a key component of the disciplined tech M&A process that will ultimately bring an optimal outcome. Thursday, November 8, as the world’s leading expert on tech company valuations, Corum Group will share best practices for developing, presenting and making the best use of a valuation to create the auction environment that will result in the best price and deal structure for your software or related technology company.
Building Deep Tech Startups Outside Silicon ValleyHAX
The resources you need can be distributed: for R&D, prototyping, production, financing and customers. Silicon Valley is an expensive option in most cases!
InsureNXT-Unicorn session_Final 21 April 2021.pdfAlchemy Crew
These slides aim to share within our community the great achievements from unicorns.
The challenges to get there and the opportunities within our insurance world.
2014 Tech M&A Monthly - New World of BuyersCorum Group
The world of buyers for technology companies is very different than it was just a few years ago. The rise of Private Equity, a new generation of international buyers, disruptive change creating new tech giants and destabilizing old ones – today, your ultimate buyer may be someone you've never heard of, in a country you've never visited. In the August edition of the Tech M&A Monthly webcast, join Corum Group dealmakers and experts as they examine the new classes of buyers that you need to be aware of as you consider your company’s future. Plus the key deals trends and valuations of the last month, and a special report on M&A in the gaming sector.
The 2016 Top 50 Tech Pioneers, Australia and New ZealandH2 Ventures
We are pleased to present the inaugural ‘Tech Pioneers Report’, which showcases the most exciting and pioneering startups from Australia and New Zealand. These are the companies at the leading edge of the ‘ideas boom’ and the drivers of the economy of the future.
The Tech Pioneers 50 are those companies using technology to the best advantage and driving disruption within a variety of industries and sectors. These companies have a commitment
to excellence, superior customer experience and a demonstrated ability to do one thing in a market better than anyone else.
The process for selecting the top 50 pioneers involved a wide search for pioneering companies to create a comprehensive list that was then ranked based on 5 factors: total capital raised, rate of capital raising, location and degree of sub industry disruption and the judging panel’s subjective rating of the degree of product, service, customer experience and business model innovation. A formula was then used to combine this data and determine the overall ranking.
The report has been prepared by H2 Ventures, one of Australia’s leading venture capital firms, with the support of Investec Australia, a distinctive specialist lender and asset manager.
Tech M&A Monthly: When You are ApproachedCorum Group
In today’s competitive Tech M&A environment, more and more firms were being approached by potential acquirers. Here at Corum, we are seeing more and more companies coming to us after they have been approached, but only those who manage discussions properly will get a deal done. In this webinar, Corum’s global team of senior dealmakers will address the question, “What do I do when I've been approached?”, sharing 13 tips to turn that approach into an optimal outcome—and avoid the mistakes that can turn an approach into a disaster for your company.
Getting approached is a double edged sword - it means a buyer is interested, but it means they may also be interested in your competitors. We looked at the missteps sellers often make when they're first approached, best practices for dealing with that first inquiry, and the methods for leveraging a single buyer’s approach into an auction environment that will ultimately give you the maximum value and best structure.
Similar to Play Bigger Time to Market Cap 100 report (20)
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
19. Workday is the number one enterprise
company creating a market cap
$15.2 billion in ten years.
…BTW Oracle paid $10B in a hostile take over of PeopleSoft in 2004
21. Play Bigger TTMC 100
Market Cap Created by Category
US Companies, Founded Since 2000, VC backed, Valuation @Dec 31, 2014
Source: Play Bigger Advisors
Enterprise
$136B
24%
Consumer
$432B
76%
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33. Play Bigger Research Agenda
We believe that the failure rate of startups and new product
introductions is too high in the technology industry, with less
than one percent of startups achieving billion dollar values.
The objective of our research is to assist entrepreneurs,
executives and VCs with insights that increase their odds of
winning.
34. Play Bigger Methodology
We assembled a team of computer scientists, data scientists and
business executives to comb through a variety of data sources to
create a fact-based database on the velocity of market cap growth.
The research examined financial transactions from 702,000
companies searching for companies that were U.S.-headquartered,
venture backed, in the technology industry and founded since 2000.
We only included transactions that occurred between January 1,
2000 and December 31, 2014.
The research was conducted using a primary data source from
PrivCo (http://www.privco.com). We also used Crunchbase
(https://www.crunchbase.com) and other sources. We developed
custom python code to extract and manipulate data and primarily
used Tableau (http://www.tableau.com) for the analytics.
35. Selection Process
The research was conducted using a primary data source from
PrivCo (http://www.privco.com). The PrivCo team provided us with
what we believe is accurate, complete, hard-to-find and timely private
company data.
We also used Crunchbase (https://www.crunchbase.com) and other
sources such as Google finance, Bloomberg, Wikipedia, etc. We
wrote python code to manipulate and extract the data. We also
downloaded data where APIs weren’t available. The bulk of our
analytics were conducted with Tableau (http://www.tableau.com).
There has been a lot written about the methods of establishing the
value of a private company. Our approach is that if the valuation data
was reliable we included it and if it was not, we did not include it.
36. Selection Process
We selected financial transactions from 702,000 companies where they met
the following selection criteria:
• Headquartered in the United States
• Venture backed
• In the technology industry
• Founded since 2000
• Financial transaction occurred between Jan 1 2000 and Dec 31 2014
This created a raw dataset of 28,810 transactions. We further reduced the
transactions down to a final database of 2,694 transactions by removing
duplicates, questionable or lack of valuation information, non-standard VC
transactions, debt financing, exotic financing, spin-outs, leveraged buyouts
and other non-equity financings.
While we understand that valuations based on private investments have are
different from publicly traded companies, we did not adjust the private
valuations and we did not adjust for inflation.
37. About Play Bigger
Play Bigger is on a mission to help great company builders increase the odds of
winning.
We specialize in Category Design - the discipline of creating and monetizing new
markets. It is a strategy for taking control over the development of a green-field
potential. The goal of category design is to create a new space and become the
Category King.
As audacious as it may sound, we aspire to improve the win rate across our industry by
making category design a core competency practiced by the best technology
companies. Just like you can design a great company and a great product, you can
and should design a great category. And category design works for both startups and
existing companies looking for a growth breakthrough.
Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Play Bigger was founded by Dave Peterson, Al
Ramadan and Christopher Lochhead - former entrepreneurs and operating executives
turned advisors. More information about Play Bigger can be found at the
www.playbigger.com and by following the company on Twitter @playbiggeradv,
Facebook, and Linkedin.
38. Definitions
We defined a number of terms used throughout our research:
• Market Cap is measure of a company’s value and is typically calculated by
multiplying the number of shares outstanding by the current share price. In this
report we establish a company’s market cap in one of three ways:
• Public market capitalization as reported by 3rd parties such as Bloomberg, Google
finance, etc;
• Purchase price at the time of acquisition of the company by another entity
• The most recent post-money valuation from a private financing transaction
• TTMC Velocity is a measure of the speed at which a company grows its market
cap. For a company it is calculated by dividing its latest Market Cap by the
number of years since it was founded.
• Time to Market Cap is a term created by Play Bigger to measure of how long it
takes a company to reach seminal valuation / market capitalization milestones.
• Unicorn is a term popularized by Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures to
describe billion-dollar plus value technology companies.
39. Definitions
• Super-Unicorn is a term created by Play Bigger to describe technology
companies who are growing in value at or above one billion U.S.
dollars a year.
• Category King is a term created by Play Bigger to describe the
company who achieves the dominant position in a given space as
measure by market cap. Our research indicates that Category Kings
attain 70-80 percent of the market cap in their sector.