For New Enterprise Associates, its investment return on Tableau Software was — fittingly — off the charts. NEA’s $29.2 million stake in the digital chart provider, which made its stock market debut today, was valued at more than $925 million...
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An example of Tableau's chart-making ability, a Web Traffic Trends Dashboard.
Chart This: NEA’s Investment Return on Tableau — 3,000%
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Twitter's IPO has been a source of speculation, but co-founder Dorsey says it's not on Twitter executives' minds.
Twitter Co-Founder Dorsey ‘Not Even Thinking’ About IPO
Twitter’s initial public offering could be the biggest for a consumer web company since Facebook. But executives have so far declined to say when it might happen, and co-founder Jack Dorsey said the company is “not even thinking about it”...
Read more »YouSendIt Hires Finance Chief With IPO Track Record
Less than a year after becoming chief executive officer of YouSendIt, Brad Garlinghouse has brought big changes to the online storage business by focusing its resources more on corporate customers and less on free users. Now he’s hired a chief financial...
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Esther Dyson is still excited about the possibilities with collecting data, and health devices that can give real-time feedback.
Angel Investor Esther Dyson Increases Dosage in Health Startups
Angel investor Esther Dyson continues to spread her wings. The former technology analyst found success as an early backer of photo-sharing service Flickr and bookmarking site Delicious, both of which sold to Yahoo. She’s on the boards of high-profile sites...
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Former McAfee CEO Dave DeWalt is taking the helm of FireEye, which may go public next year.
Former McAfee Chief DeWalt Named FireEye CEO, Aims for 2013 IPO
Dave DeWalt, the former chief executive officer of antivirus software maker McAfee, has taken the top job at security startup FireEye and plans an initial public offering in the first half of next year. DeWalt, 48, left McAfee in July 2011 after Intel...
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Thomas Isakovich is taking an entirely different approach to building his second storage company.
No VC: Nimbus Takes ’21st Century Approach’ to Building Business
This is the second in a five-part series called “No VC,” which highlights startups that have succeeded without venture capital, the lifeblood of Silicon Valley. Thomas Isakovich started his first storage computing company, TrueSAN Networks, when he was 19. It...
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Thomas Foley's next act is a new company called CapRally that is backed by venture capitalist Tim Draper.
Entrepreneur Tries Second Act After Secondary Market Fizzles
When Thomas Foley started Xpert Financial in 2009, he had a simple thesis: Going public was too costly for most companies, and the private fundraising process was overly opaque. So he created an electronic exchange for private companies to raise...
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Babylon, an Israeli company that makes translation software, plans to go public.
How Do You Say ‘Google Dependent’ in Hebrew?
Babylon, which makes language-translation software, filed for an initial public offering in the U.S. that could raise $115 million for the Israeli company. Revenue is up, thanks mostly to Google. Babylon, based in Or Yehuda, Israel, offers a search toolbar...
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SugarCRM Chief Executive Officer Larry Augustin took another open-source company, VA Linux, public in 1999.
Salesforce.com Competitor SugarCRM May Shoot for IPO in 2013
SugarCRM, which provides customer management software that competes with Salesforce.com and Oracle, may try to ride the wave of enterprise computing IPOs and go public as soon as next year, Chief Executive Officer Larry Augustin said. “Our goal is to...
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Brad Garlinghouse said startups are raising venture capital at high valuations, picking numbers for the purpose of “chest-pumping.”
Valley Veteran Brad Garlinghouse Sees Signs of Tech Bubble
Even as Facebook and Zynga shed more than half their value in the public market, Silicon Valley veteran Brad Garlinghouse sees signs of a technology bubble. The former executive at AOL and Yahoo said startup founders are raising venture capital...
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