Pandora
Pandora Puts The "P" In IPO — Our Talk With Them On The Big Day
Three years ago, I got a phone call — Pandora was about to die. Things were not going well for the Internet radio service at that point. The economy was…
Pandora Opens At $20 Per Share With A Market Cap Of $3.2 Billion
Yesterday, music streaming service Pandora priced its IPO at $16 per share (valuing the company at $2.6 billion). The company originally set the range of its IPO at $7 to…
First Silicon Valley Consumer Internet Company Joins The Wall Street Single Letter Club
As we reported earlier, Pandora will start trading tomorrow on the New York Stock Exchange under the single letter symbol “P”. By doing so, it becomes the first Silicon Valley…
Pandora Prices IPO At $16 Per Share, Now Valued At $2.6 Billion
Music streaming service Pandora has priced its IPO at $16 per share, valuing the company at $2.6 billion. The company originally set the range of its IPO at $7 to…
Pandora Ups Price Of IPO To $10 To $12 Per Share, Now Valued At $1.9 Billion
Music streaming service Pandora has just filed a new version of its S-1 that indicates the company will be upping the price range of its stock to $10 to $12…
Note to Self: If the Halls Clear at Conferences, IPOs Are Near
In Silicon Valley the terms of venture capital deals, the prices of valuations and the real stories of ousters are routinely dished, whether they always show up in the press…
Pandora Prices IPO At $7 To $9 Per Share At Valuation Over $1B, Raising $141.6M
Music streaming service Pandora has just filed a new version of its S-1 that indicates the company will be pricing its stock at $7 to $9 per share. Pandora’s stock…
Pandora Is Now 10 Billion Thumbs Strong
Personalized radio service Pandora has reached a major milestone: last week it recorded its 10 billionth thumb (and it was a thumbs up). Avid fans of the popular service already…
Welcome To The U.S.! What Spotify Can Expect When It Arrives
I just read that Spotify is coming to the U.S! Oh, wait. That was an article from 2009. I hope they really mean it this time. I love the product.…
Is Late Stage the New Early? Behind the Staggering Return of the $1B Venture Fund
In Silicon Valley it’s not just who you invest in that matters– it’s also when you invest in them. The earlier the investment, the riskier the bet. But the more…
Big Appetite: Greylock Sends Entrepreneurs a Message with Expanded $1 Billion Fund
In case you missed it, being a super angel is officially passe. The new hotness is having a late-stage growth cash. Sequoia Capital is doing it. Andreessen Horowitz is doing…
(Founder Stories) Fred Wilson Explains Why He Wouldn't Invest In Groupon Or Pandora
Few VCs have a hotter hand right now than Fred Wilson. His firm, Union Square Ventures, is an investor in Twitter, Zynga, Foursquare, Tumblr, Etsy, Clickable, and more . In…
With 80 Million Users, Pandora Files To Go Public
Music streaming service Pandora has filed to go public. It could end up raising as much as $100 million. Morgan Stanley and J.P. Morgan are co-managing the deal. The filing…
Pandora and the Final, Crucial Internet Radio Frontier: The Car (TCTV)
At CES this week, Pandora made two announcements that get its popular Internet radio service into cars, one for Toyota and one for BMW. But while exciting, the reality is…
The Pandora-Elevation Deal that Never Closed and a Mid-2011 IPO?
Back in August we reported that Elevation Partners had signed a letter of intent to buy secondary shares in Pandora, the long-suffering, now-hot online radio station. I wondered what ever…
Social Networking: The Future
Editor’s note: This is the third of a three-part guest post by venture capitalist Mark Suster of GRP Partners on “Social Networking: The Past, Present, And Future.” Read Part I…
Less Spotify, more Pandora – We7 shifts focus to more economical 'Internet Radio Plus'
Navigating the choppy waters of ad-supported music, We7 hasn’t been afraid to change course. The UK startup began life as an innovative free music download service before transitioning to an…
Less Spotify, More Pandora – We7 Shifts Focus To More Economical ‘Internet Radio Plus’
Navigating the choppy waters of ad-supported music, We7 hasn’t been afraid to change course. The UK startup began life as an innovative free music download service before transitioning to an…
Thumbplay Rocks 500,000 Downloads For Paid Music Apps Across iPhone, Android, And Blackberry
Who says nobody will consider paying for streaming music? Thumbplay Music, which offers unlimited music streaming apps for a monthly subscription across iPhone (iTunes link), Android, and Blackberry, reports that…
So now that we’re very much approaching Opie & Anthony D-Day—Friday is the contract deadline, even though the contract actually expires on October 1—we need to ask ourselves: are we…
TiVo already has an impressive lineup of internet apps on their DVRs but the offering just got a little more musical thanks to Pandora. Nearly all of Pandora’s trademark features…
Remember the Pandora handheld gaming console? The one that runs Linux, is open source, and designed by committee? Well, they did finally get the first 1,000 pre-orders shipped, and they…
Elevation's LPs Refuse Extension for New Deals, Fund Riding on Facebook and Yelp
The hits just keep on coming for Elevation Partners, the one-time digital media, private equity dream team that has reconfigured itself as an investor in late stage Web 2.0 treasures.…
You Are On Pandora: Service Hits 60 Million Listeners, Adding Users Faster Than Ever
Yesterday at the New Music Seminar in New York, the streaming music recommendation service Pandora announced that they now have 60 million listeners registered. This is up from 50 million…
Pandora Founder Tells Charlie Rose The iPhone "Almost Doubled" Growth "Overnight"
With more than 50 million users and a recent infusion of cash, music streaming service Pandora is really hitting its stride. Founder Tim Westergren had his Charlie Rose moment last…
TC Teardown: Pandora – The Tough Business of Webcasting
This is a guest post from Michael Robertson, a 12-year veteran of the digital music business. He is the founder and former CEO of digital music pioneer MP3.com. He is…
Pandora Working In The Background On iPhone 4. Awesome. [Video]
By now, you’ve undoubtedly heard about all the big features of both iPhone 4 and iOS 4 (the artist formerly known as iPhone OS 4, which we heard about previously).…
Its Mobile Usage Poised To Explode With iPhone 4.0 OS, Pandora Raises More Money
Remember when Pandora was on its deathbed? Yeah, those days are long gone. The service has just raised yet another round of funding, we’ve confirmed. The round was led GGV Capital…
Pioneer is taking a big step in bridging the two landmasses of Internet radio and vehicle entertainment. By utilizing a free iPhone app, Pandora Link, the company is bringing Pandora…
Believe it or not, it’s actually quite hard to take an idea from concept to render to prototype to production. Sure, inside Microsoft you can do it in a couple…