1995 Hiring Internet Venture Capital 
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
The billion dollars he just raised is on top of the $750 million NewTV’s parent company, WndrCo, has raised for the venture. He just hired Meg Whitman. Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. After the crash, venture capital was scarce to non-existent.
Feld Thoughts
JANUARY 2, 2014
When people ask me how they can become a VC, I point them to my partner Seth Levine’s excellent blog posts How to become a venture capitalist and How to get a job in venture capital (revisited). Charley was a partner at a firm called VIMAC and was looking at some Internet stuff. Do you want to help out?”
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Steve Blank
MARCH 18, 2011
We’re now in the second Internet bubble. The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. 1970 – 1995: The Golden Age. The world of building profitable startups ended in 1995. Carpe Diem.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 5, 2010
Consumer Internet investing seems to have split off from traditional Venture Capital, and is creating a new category of VC’s: Lean VC’s. Electron-based Venture Capital. When I first came to Silicon Valley the world of Venture Capital looked pretty simple. Here’s why.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 7, 2011
Before we filmed the segment we had the chance to chat over lunch over the direction of the Internet and how social was changing the fabric of the web. Again, Seth: “One of the things I noticed when I looked around at startups is that often the founding teams hired people just like themselves. We then spoke about startups.
Up and Running
JULY 11, 2014
In 1995 Paul started a company that aimed to put art galleries online. Magazine calls it a “hybrid venture capital fund and business school”. Watsi - the first non-profit to receive venture backing from Y Combinator. Harness the internet to validate your business idea.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 24, 2017
Hire a CEO to Go Public. The VCs would hire a CEO with a track record who looked and acted like the type of CEO Wall Street bankers expected to see in large companies. The role of the independent member was typically to tell the founding CEO that the VCs were hiring a new CEO.). People had to actually pay you for your product.
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