Up and Running

JULY 29, 2015

Let’s start with a website that functions like a grant search engine. This grant was launched in 1998 by Womennet to help entrepreneurs succeed. Angel investors and venture capitalists. Finding an angel investor or a venture capital group to support your business idea isn’t easy. Business USA.

Angel Investor 60

Angel Investor Equity Small Business Delaware 60

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

He worked on his MBA at MIT’s Sloan School of Management (leaving in the middle for a job at Microsoft in Israel) and received his computer engineering degree from the Technion in Haifa, Israel. His ability to lead large teams of engineers had made him one of the most influential executives at Microsoft and the world.

Venture Capital 100

Venture Capital New Zealand Startup 100

Seeing Both Sides

MAY 26, 2009

  At $20-30 billion per year, the venture capital industry as a whole remains a “drop in the bucket” in terms of capital deployed relative to the over trillion dollars sitting in private equity firms.    Yet the impact is enormous, with 18% of GDP provided by venture-backed companies. 

Private Equity 20

Private Equity Boston Massachusetts IPO 20

www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

You make elaborate plans for a product, hire a team of engineers to develop it (people who do this tend to use the term "engineer" for hackers), and then find after a year that youve spent two milliondollars to develop something no one wants. Back in 1998 our CFOtried to talk me into it. VCs are slow tomake up their minds.

Startup 105

Startup Cofounder Software Stock 105

VC Cafe

MARCH 15, 2011

MobileAccess, formerly Foxcom Wireless, was founded in 1998. The web answers search engine, one of the world’s leading Q&A sites with 5.5 Summit Partners, founded in 1984, has raised more than $11 billion in growth capital, and has invested in more than 320 growing businesses across North America, Europe and Asia.

Private Equity 90

Private Equity China North America 90

www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

When we sold our startup in 1998 I thought one day Id do some angelinvesting. Suppose its 1998. All the search engines are trying toget people to start calling them "portals" instead. The rest exist to satisfy demandamong fund managers for venture capital as an asset class. Seven years later I still hadnt started.

Angel Investor 63

Angel Investor Syndicate Syndication Dilution 63

This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 30, 2017

That probably won't have a positive effect on venture capital returns. I mean, think about it--how well do you think those late 1930's German venture capital vintages did? How about Venezuela funds from 1998? Get ready to have to start paying your software engineers even more so they can afford to live.

Venezuela 60

Venezuela Russia Venture Capital Software Engineering 60

Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

Another group, launched just before or after 2000, were stable enough to succeed while newer companies like Salesforce (1999), Google (1998), Twitter (2006), and Yelp (2004) have taken off like jackrabbits.

San Francisco 20

San Francisco Silicon Valley California Oakland 20