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Ryan Lawler
February 6th, 2013

SurveyMonkey CEO On How To Build A Great Company: Raise Money From The Right People, Don’t Sweat Competitors

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At the fifth 500 Startups Accelerator Demo Day in Mountain View today, SurveyMonkey CEO Dave Goldberg gave some advice about how to build a great company based on his 20 years of experiences in tech. Along the way, he recounted the differences between now and 20 years ago when he embarked on an entrepreneurial journey with his first startup, CD-Rom magazine company Launch. → Read More

Rip Empson
January 18th, 2013

SurveyMonkey CEO Dave Goldberg On Why His Company Won’t IPO After Raising A Whopping $794M And What’s Next

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“We could go public,” SurveyMonkey CEO Dave Goldberg says, “but the cost of going public — of running a public company — outweighs the benefits.” As the founder of LAUNCH Media, which he took public before selling to Yahoo! (where he stayed for six years), Goldberg is familiar with the IPO process and isn’t in any hurry to repeat it. → Read More

Josh Constine
December 14th, 2011

SurveyMonkey Acquires MarketTools’ Zoomerang, ZoomPanel, and TrueSample via TPG Capital

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Question: How do you acquire your biggest rival if you don’t have the cash? Answer: Partner with a private equity firm. SurveyMonkey has done just that, buying MarketTools’ products Zoomerang, ZoomPanel, and TrueSample through a partnership with TPG Capital.

The deal gives MarketTools’ other businesses and a minority stake in SurveyMonkey to TPG, while SurveyMonkey gets the 3 products and… → Read More

Erick Schonfeld
April 25th, 2011

Another Y Combinator Win: WuFoo Exits For $35 Million, After Raising Only $118,000

Online forms are not sexy, but every Website that wants to collect information or payments from visitors needs them. Today, SurveyMonkey acquired online form maker WuFoo to its growing bevy of tools for $35 million in cash and stock. I’ve confirmed the price with a source.

What’s really great about this story is that WuFoo is another Y Combinator win. The startup launched way back in 2006 with… → Read More

Robin Wauters
January 11th, 2011

SurveyMonkey Acquires A 49.9 Percent Stake In Clicktools

Web-based survey giant SurveyMonkey has acquired a 49.9 percent interest in privately owned Clicktools, a survey provider on Salesforce.com’s business app marketplace AppExchange.

Clicktools and SurveyMonkey will also form a partnership that will provide joint customers cloud-based survey tools integrated with Salesforce CRM. → Read More

Michael Arrington
June 21st, 2010

Survey Monkey Buys Precision Polling After Seeing It On TechCrunch

These are the stories that make my job worth all the hassle and stress.

Two guys create a company called Precision Polling that allows quick and easy phone polls. We write a story in January saying it’s like Survey Monkey for phones - “Precision Polling Is A Survey Monkey For The Phone.” And a few months later – today actually – Survey Monkey acquires them.

The size of the transaction isn’t… → Read More

Michael Arrington
September 8th, 2009

Survey Monkey Growing Like A Weed, Fills Out Exec Team

Portland-born Survey Monkey, a site that lets users create surveys for customers, is a ten year old startup that mostly flew below the radar until last year. Ryan Finley started the company ten years ago in Madison, Wisconsin when he was a year out of college. Five years later he had moved it to Portland and hired his brother Chris to help him.

They never raised outside funding and grew the… → Read More

Robin Wauters
May 12th, 2009

Survs Is Now Taking Questions

Online survey tools are a dime a dozen, but you will not be sorry you’ve checked this one out.

I signed up for Survs earlier this year because I’ve tried a number of online survey applications in the past and none have proven to suit my specific needs so far, and I wanted to see if it was a match for the likes of SurveyMonkey, Zoomerang and countless others I’ve tested. Unfortunately, the startup… → Read More