Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

That is a 65% increase in the number of IPOs over 2012, and the highest proceeds raised since the year 2000. Twitter was one of the most notable, with a market capitalization now up to $38 billion all by itself. The percent of entrepreneurs who are Baby Boomer starting a business since 1996 has grown from 14.3 percent to 23.4

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 30, 2015

Would you be surprised to know that almost half of the dot com companies founded when the boom started in 1996 were still around in 2004--four years after the peak of the NASDAQ? Because most internet business concepts were not capable of productively employing tens of millions of dollars of venture capital does not mean they were bad ideas."

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Hockey Stick Valuation Startup Maryland 60

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

This was possible because in 2000, Donna and Handspring were in an Existing Market. Palm in a New Market What makes this example really interesting is this: rewind the story 4 years earlier to 1996. In 1996 no potential customer had even heard of a Personal Digital Assistant. End result? In essence, Palm created a New Market.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

O’Reilly unwittingly illustrates this point by telling the story of Sunil Paul, a friend and a successful serial entrepreneur who filed a patent on the core elements of GPS-enabled ride-hailing in 2000. Yet despite literally patenting ride-hailing in 2000, his own venture, Sidecar, lost out to the more aggressive scaling of Uber and Lyft.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

Last year was the most active year for IPOs in the United States since 2000. The number of entrepreneurs who are Baby Boomer starting a business has grown from 14 percent in 1996 to over 30 percent last year. Thus a record number of entrepreneurs (and employees) are getting rich.

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

Let’s look at public market comparables and venture capital flows to see if we can find a match. In the great bubble of 1998-2000, the boom in public valuations mirrored the boom in private valuations. Venture capital flows. If too much venture capital hits the streets, valuations will bubble up.

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Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

Amount of venture capital raised has exploded. i. Pre bubble period 1991-1996 totals $28 billion. ii. Bubble period 1996-2000 totals $243.6 iii. Post bubble period 2001-2009 totals $218.2 Number of IPO’s has shrunk while average size has increased. cents or 6.25

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 21, 2011

question in venture capital. This time, the debate centers on the “favored few” Social Media venture backed companies that have brought tremendous windfalls to a select group of venture funds and management teams, both pre- and post-IPO. Welcome to the latest passionate debate over the ‘valuation bubble or not?’

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Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

Compounding the IPO drought is the fact that the entire NASDAQ market has shrunk—since December 2000 the NASDAQ has contracted by 38% to approximately 1,786 companies. which happen to all be venture?backed backed companies, went public raising less than $50 million at various times between 1971 and 1996. jobs today.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 7, 2017

Len and I co-founded Interliant (originally Sage Networks) with Steve Maggs and Rajat Bhargava in 1996. At the peak in the spring of 2000 Interliant hit $55 / share and was worth over $3 billion. billion market cap) in the spring of 2000. By breakfast in the summer of 2001, the stock was trading under $1 / share.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 24, 2012

They used this to win the 1996 election by rallying people who were tired of such a weak, debt ridden economy. After the 2000 crash Profit and Revenue came back into style, spawning and reinforcing real companies like Google and Salesforce.com which are Profitable and Grow. Sound familiar? The Bubble Begins To Pop.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Truly Focused on VC / Knowledgeable About How Partnerships Work One of the things I value in an LP is a really passionate and inside knowledge of the venture capital industry. I’ve met many smart and capable people like this but it was also clear that many of them didn’t have an intimate knowledge of what is truly unique to venture.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

I have been involved in startups since I graduated from college in 1996. Bates: Josh, it reminds me of when I was doing web sites back in the day in 2000 and 1998 and instead of going and being able to buy a shopping cart you had to code the shopping cart from scratch. Bates: You know Josh—.

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