Lève 800 millions de dollars par la recapitalisation de ses emprunts et capitaux propres. Cette opération fournit des liquidités aux employés et aux investisseurs de la première heure et elle permet aux actionnaires, nouveaux ou existants, d’investir dans un modèle d’entreprise à forte croissance et extrêmement rentable. Le leader mondial des solutions de sondage en ligne entend ainsi optimiser la prochaine étape de sa croissance. PALO ALTO, Californie, 17 janvier 2013 – SurveyMonkey (« la société »), société fermée qui s’est imposée comme le leader mondial des solutions de sondage en ligne, a annoncé aujourd’hui qu’elle avait lancé une opération de recapitalisation de ses emprunts et capitaux propres à hauteur de 800 millions de dollars, sous l’impulsion de son PDG Dave Goldberg et de Tiger Global Management, LLC, pour un montant estimé à environ 1,35 milliard de dollars.
Google Inc. rejoint le nombre de ses actionnaires. Au total, cette transaction représente l’une des plus importantes ouvertures de capital réalisées par une société fermée d’Internet aux États-Unis. Contacts. Classical Freemium Doesn't Exist At Scale - SaaS Growth Strategies. GitHub raises $100 million from Andreessen Horowitz | Internet & Media. Geeks love GitHub, an online tool for organizing programming projects and communicating about them. And now GitHub-the-company, which has been bootstrapped so far, is getting a $100 million input from Andreessen Horowitz. It's the venture company's largest investment to date. GitHub is the online interface for Git, a fine-grained tool for managing software development. Git was created by Linus Torvalds.
GitHub was designed to organize open-source projects but can be, and is, used for all types of projects. The company reports that there are more than 3 million software repositories hosted on GitHub, and that it's used by 1.7 million developers. And while GitHub has "been talking to VCs since the early days," Preston-Werner says the potential relationships "never really felt right" until the deal with Andreessen-Horowitz. A/H partner Peter Levine, former CEO of XenSource, will join the GitHub board. What will the bootstrapped company do with its overflowing bank balance?
Case Studies in Freemium: Pandora, Dropbox, Evernote, Automattic and MailChimp. Don’t spend money on marketing, do offer flexibility and data exporting to eliminate buyers’ regret, make sure to capitalize on and value goodwill, and only charge for things that are hard to do. That’s what some startups say is the key to success in the freemium business. But the biggest reason the five presenters this morning at the Freemium Summit in San Francisco — Pandora, Dropbox, Evernote, Automattic (see disclosure at the bottom) and MailChimp — are doing well is because they have great products that people want. They’ve been able to get those products to a broad audience by using the freemium model — that is, offering a free service with the option to upgrade.
It’s an increasingly important business model, but one that’s hard to navigate, so their anecdotes, open sharing of data, and lessons learned were really valuable. Pandora CTO Tom Conrad That November, Pandora switched on an “ad-supported” option. Dropbox CEO Drew Houston Evernote CEO Phil Libin. Saas Math Case Study: Dropbox by StartupCFO. Should Your Startup Go Freemium? Editor’s note: Jules Maltz is a general partner at IVP and focuses on later-stage venture investments in rapidly-growing Internet and software companies.
Follow him on Twitter. Daniel Barney is a senior associate at IVP and focuses on later-stage venture investments in digital media and information technology. Follow him on Twitter. Over the last several months, there has been an intense debate about the viability of freemium business models. For some, freemium is a costly trap, a business model that sacrifices revenues and forces a startup to support freeloaders who will never become paying customers. For others, freemium is the future of business, the logical conclusion of a world in which the cost of bandwidth, storage, and information processing approaches zero. While we’re not Samurai sword fighters at IVP, we believe that freemium is massively disruptive and needs to be understood. 1) Start With The Product 2) Know Your Customer: Is Freemium Right for Them?
2. 2. 1. 2. 1. 2. Founder Showcase - Phil Libin Keynote. (81) Freemium: How many of the users (%) use premium services? In services like Dropbox, Evernote GitHub, HootSuite, New Relic, SurveyMonkey, Weebly, and Zendesk.