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How and Why To Be an Angel Investor

David Teten

approx 1999-07. Villalobos & Payne: “Startup Pre-Money Valuation: The Keystone to Return on Investment” 117. 1961- 1996. John Frankel started as an individual angel investor in New York in 1999. Wiltbank & Boeker: “Returns to Angel Investors in Groups” 3,097.

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Is There a Valuation Bubble for Social Media Companies (and if so, is it Bursting)?

Pascal's View

Welcome to the latest passionate debate over the ‘valuation bubble or not?’ For me Bubble will always be inexorably linked to what went down in 1999 and 2000 in the internet sector. Specifically, too much money has gone into VC-backed Internet companies at too high a valuation. question in venture capital. It is intentional.

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Capital Market Climate Change

Ben's Blog

You probably thought that valuations would be roughly the same as they were the last time you raised money. 3/29/1996: 22.3. 3/31/1999: 49.7. And those are big companies with real earnings, so you can imagine how a private company’s valuation might fluctuate. But they most certainly are not. 3/31/1997: 23.3.

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2014: The Year of Results

Seeing Both Sides

Aileen Lee''s now-famous unicorn analysis listed 39 companies founded in the last 10 years who had achieved $1 billion plus valuations. I wrote a blog post two and a half years ago in response to cries of a bubble that it felt a lot more like 1996 than 1999 right now. And if you are worried about bubbles right now, don''t.

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Capital Market Climate Change

Ben's Blog

You probably thought that valuations would be roughly the same as they were the last time you raised money. 3/29/1996: 22.3 3/31/1999: 49.7 And those are big companies with real earnings, so you can imagine how a private company’s valuation might fluctuate. In June of 2000, I raised money at an $820M post-money valuation.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: Akamai

Seeing Both Sides

Technical founders Tom Leighton and Danny Lewin built the original prototype at their lab at MIT starting in late 1996 before raising capital, so in a sense Akamai’s Minimum Viable Product (MVP) was a prototype with the basic architecture and traffic mapping in place that validated algorithms for the founders and investors alike.

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Turing Distinguished Leader Series: With Partner David Zhang, TVC

ReadWriteStart

I’m a partner at TCV, which we founded in 1996. That’s a valuation number and pricing number. Suppose you trace the history of Netflix, which we’ve invested in since 1999 and are still one of the largest shareholders. Here is the full YouTube — Please enjoy this episode: How to Scale Unicorns.

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