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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million. From this we have seen a commensurate boom in the number of startup companies.

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Boom and Bust and What Comes Next

Scalable Startup

He would know; he’s been backing tech start-ups since 1984, incubating at least one hen house full of millionaires.and probably a few empty ones. A smaller grouping of red circles on the SFBT map near AT&T Park on Third and King streets covers Multimedia Gulch, the major hub for start-ups during the first dot-com boom of the 1990s.