Ben's Blog
MAY 24, 2021
billion multi-stage venture capital firm focused on IT-related investments… I also serve on various investment committees, including for the St. Jude Children’s Cancer Hospital and the Stanford Medical Center, and teach entrepreneurship and venture capital at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. 1990-1998 13.3%
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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Both Sides of the Table
JULY 16, 2010
The VC industry grew dramatically as a result of the Internet bubble - Before the Internet bubble the people who invested in VC funds (called LPs or Limited Partners) put about $50 billion into the industry and by 2001 this had grown precipitously to around $250 billion. So the people who invest in VC funds have two problems.
This is going to be BIG.
DECEMBER 2, 2014
I started a business newspaper in 1998 in college covering the stock market and the economy. I got my first job in venture--at GM--in February 2001. Venture Capital & Technology' My dad brought home an IBM PS/2 in 1987. I got an internship on the buy side at the GM pension fund in high school--in 1997.
K9 Ventures
SEPTEMBER 24, 2009
Towards the end of my OPT (mid 1998) is when the H1-B visa cap issue hit. There were a sum total of three or four “venture capital” funds in Pittsburgh at the time, and none of them had done much with this new fangled thing called the Internet. I got my greencard approval in 2001, a few months after 9/11.
Pascal's View
AUGUST 12, 2009
First, the National Venture Capital Association has published data revealing that over 90% of the jobs created by venture-backed companies occur AFTER they go public—and this relationship holds over the past 40 years. The median age of a venture-backed company at the time of its IPO has increased from 4.5
Steve Blank
MARCH 18, 2011
2001 – 2010: Back to Basics: The Lean Startup. After the dot.com bubble collapsed, venture investors spent the next three years doing triage, sorting through the rubble to find companies that weren’t bleeding cash and could actually be turned into businesses. Filed under: Technology , Venture Capital. The New Exits.
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