1999 2000 Acquisition Metrics 
Agile VC
MAY 26, 2011
Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round).
ConversionXL
MARCH 19, 2020
The HBR study contrasts Office Depot and Staples during the 2000 recession: Office Depot cut 6% of its workforce, but it couldn’t reduce operating costs significantly. At the same time, the company contained its operating costs and came out of the recession stronger, bigger, and more profitable than it had been in 1999. Image source ).
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Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. By 2000 the total LP commitments had mushroomed to more than $100 billion. The numbers of potential buyers had decreased dramatically both because large companies were shedding jobs and because many past buyers simply lacked resources to make acquisitions.
Pascal's View
AUGUST 21, 2011
For me Bubble will always be inexorably linked to what went down in 1999 and 2000 in the internet sector. I will post separately on valuation metrics and the implications of the dichotomy between recent public company valuations and merger & acquisition statistics. It is intentional.
Ben's Blog
OCTOBER 29, 2020
IPO “over-subscription” has also become a vanity metric for the bankers and the issuing company. Once again, the 1999-2000 dot-com bubble period shows the highest percentage of pricing above the initial filing range – 44% of deals were priced above. Scarcity of IPOs. What do the data tell us?
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 31, 2010
Mine started this way … I started my first company in the “go-go years&# of the Internet: 1999. We raised a seed round of capital in 1999 and our first venture capital round was the first week of March 2000 (e.g. But this was early 2000 and our US competitors had already closed rounds North of $45 million.
Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
JUNE 19, 2010
In fact, my first website I can’t show you, because I don’t think we have internet access, but I had a Geocities website in 1999 for a card game I used to play called Magic the Gathering. I got out of the university in early 2000 and I never went on to a full-time job, so it’s always been an online business for me.
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