Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 20, 2011
One example is that they introduced a program where their founders can pool together shares from their company and exchange them for a small portfolio of other First Round Capital companies. Infonautics went public in 1996 and Half.com was sold to eBay in 2000. I'm a huge fan of this innovation. and Half.com. Investing Strategy.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 13, 2011
There was a lot of consumer internet activity again…resurgence of things, but it was still mysterious, venture capital was still kind of closed, 1st time entrepreneurs had a lot of questions that were unanswered, and there was still some sort of hand waiving around all the financing stuff and so we took it on….”. was starting.
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David Teten
JANUARY 10, 2012
Mr. Fralic has 25 years of technology industry experience, with significant Internet business development roles since 1996. Christopher Fralic, Managing Partner, First Round Capital. Prior to joining First Round in early 2006, Mr. Fralic was VP of Business Development at social bookmarking and tagging company del.icio.us
Ben's Blog
JUNE 28, 2011
Before my partner Marc Andreessen and his friends at the University of Illinois invented the browser in 1993, most people thought only scientists and researchers would use the Internet. The Internet was thought to be too arcane, insecure and slow to meet real business needs. The implications of the propriety vision were not good.
Lightspeed Venture Partners
FEBRUARY 29, 2012
Dane Stangler of the Kauffman Foundation studied American firms founded in 1996-2007. The Kauffman Foundation’s most recent study of start-ups discovered that people aged 55 to 64 accounted for nearly 23% of new entrepreneurs in 2010, compared with under 15% in 1996. founders startups infrastructure internet VC'
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 20, 2010
In the early days of the Internet as an advertising medium the industry organized to create “standard ad units&# for which most media companies would sell their inventory. The standards were set by the IAB ( Interactive Advertising Bureau ), which was founded in 1996. I’m forwarding it to all of my portfolio companies).
K9 Ventures
SEPTEMBER 24, 2009
In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug. in December 1996, while on a student visa. I always knew that I would someday start my own company. couldn’t draw a salary). I formed SneakerLabs, Inc.
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