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An Open Letter to Startup Founders Everywhere in a Time of Crisis

David Cohen

You are the engine of our future, after all. In 1999, we sold that business and I started angel investing. In 2000, the Internet bubble burst. For the rest of our lives, we’ll all remember this global pandemic that changed everything. Now is the time for you to adapt, to show your strength. Use your advantages.

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Why Has Andreessen Horowitz Raised $2.7B in 3 Years?

Ben's Blog

After raising our first round of funding for Loudcloud in 1999, we went to visit our new venture capital firm and meet their full team. They might know executives, but not engineers. These presentations resulted in more than 3,000 introductions between portfolio companies and prospective Fortune 500/Global 2000 senior executives.

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The Rise of the Secondary Market for Emerging Growth Equities– Necessary But Insufficient

Pascal's View

ii. Bubble period 1996-2000 totals $243.6 1999 : Provisions that prohibit a bank holding company from owning other financial companies were repealed on November 12, 1999, by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. Amount of venture capital raised has exploded. i. Pre bubble period 1991-1996 totals $28 billion. cents or 6.25

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Former Head of Microsoft Israel Dreams of Billion Dollar Israeli Startups

VC Cafe

about Moshe Lichtman, and why he is one of few men or women capable of leading an Israeli startup to global billions. 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.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities. In 2000, Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr founded StubHub , a secondary ticket exchange marketplace. The company was acquired by ebay in January 2007.

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The Yo-Yo Life of a Tech Entrepreneur – A Cautionary Tale

Both Sides of the Table

Of course articles like these are going to inflame people because not everybody who is running their own business (or aspires to) wants to believe that you need to go all out to compete and win on a global scale. But … global tech does require an absolute, singular commitment level. We were based in London.

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My 2020 Vision for Graduates: How to be Optimistic in Terrible Times

Reid Hoffman

Already, thousands of people had started creating their own globally accessible web pages focused on whatever they wanted. It was 1999. Then, in 2000, after five crazy years where founders could attract millions in venture capital based on little more than a good URL, the dot-com bubble burst.