Libin, who is refreshingly open about sharing figures, says Evernote currently has around 100, 000 premium users.
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Mr. Libin said growth requires building ties with local developers and app stores and patience.
And by the end of 2012, Libin expects that number to triple to 390.
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Phil Libin, CEO of Evernote, a 290-person note-taking app company based in Redwood City, Calif.
Phil Libin, its CEO, told me in a May 5th interview that an IPO is coming soon.
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"You can't use it for something that's a very hit-driven business, " added Mr. Libin, who is CEO of the Redwood, Calif.
"There's a U.S.-sized population of high-income, educated users who could become customers in China, " said Phil Libin, CEO of Evernote Corp.
In the last six months, it looks like Libin has had a change of heart when it comes to an IPO.
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This year, Ms. Callahan left Homeland Security for private practice, and Ms. Libin left the Justice Department to join a private firm.
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If Libin can pull that off, it will be quite a feat.
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"I'm genuinely excited about this, " said Phil Libin, chief executive of Evernote.
Libin has concluded that it is better to accept a lower bid from a rational investor than an extremely high price from an irrational one.
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By this point, Ms. Libin's concern that innocent people could be inadvertently targeted had been largely overruled at the Department of Justice, these people said.
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Students keep their day jobs while attending a three-and-a-half-hour class each week, run by mentors including Evernote CEO Phil Libin and Mint.com founder Aaron Patzer.
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While the company already has software for the Mac that can be downloaded online, Mr. Libin said the app format will be much easier for consumers to get.
Libin thinks Evernote is worth more than its current valuation.
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Back then he said that keeping a start-up private by selling shares through a secondary market or to other VCs would let Libin keep Evernote private while giving his investors an attractive return.
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According to Libin, the venture capital model has changed substantially in the last decade so there are now VCs who are willing to invest without a short-term exit (in the form of an IPO or acquisition).
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The key here, says Libin, is for Evernote to develop an expertise in creating apps for feature phones, rather than just the smartphones and tablets the service is currently on, to reach a broader base of consumers.
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While admitting that he may have mis-spoken in September in saying that it would remain private, Libin told me in a May 4th interview that he thinks an IPO of Evernote will happen but not anytime soon.
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Instead of following the textbook approach to starting a business find out what the market needs and build it Libin decided to build a product that would solve his problem and then assume that there would be a market for it.
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