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.
K9 Ventures
SEPTEMBER 24, 2009
I came to the United States in 1992 at the age of 17 (so there, now you know exactly how old I am!) 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.
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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.
Seeing Both Sides
SEPTEMBER 15, 2015
of the world’s population — has more companies listed on the NASDAQ than any country in the world save the United States and China. So how do Israeli ventures scale up? To answer these questions, we built a database of 112 Israeli companies founded between 1996 and 2013 that have met or exceeded $20 million in revenue.
Reid Hoffman
MARCH 19, 2019
2018 set yet another all-time record for the number of paper books sold in the United States, as has been repeatedly true during the era of Amazon. Yet despite literally patenting ride-hailing in 2000, his own venture, Sidecar, lost out to the more aggressive scaling of Uber and Lyft. To blitzscale, or not to blitzscale?
aweissman.com
OCTOBER 21, 2016
This the building that houses the offices of the executive branch of the United States government. Some of them reflect the architecture of a building built in 1917, but they are otherwise for the most part nondescript and surely less opulent or fancy or technology-laden than the average mid-sized venture capital firm.
Pascal's View
NOVEMBER 14, 2009
which happen to all be venture?backed backed companies, went public raising less than $50 million at various times between 1971 and 1996. IPOs negatively impacts American entrepreneurs most of all, regardless of whether they have venture capital or private equity backing. jobs today. Most importantly, the absence of U.S.
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