Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

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. By 2000 the total LP commitments had mushroomed to more than $100 billion. So of course returns from 2000-2010 were subpar on average for the industry. The Funding Problem.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

The Wall Street Journal is phasing out support of the Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) browser. Internet Explorer. Craig Walker, co-founder and CEO of Firespotter Labs, a technology incubator, said it feels unnatural to bestow so much voting power on one executive. An important message from The Journal. Apple Safari. Google Chrome.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

But the Valley in 1999 was a new world of startups, venture capital, and stock options. 1999/2000 was the startup heyday, and I was in the hot space of telecoms – it all looked promising. Today, we’re a global leader in the carpooling category, but back then that was a pretty new thing in the consumer internet space.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

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. By all accounts, the first one burst in 2000 when the NASDAQ crash brought the first dot-com era to a close. So what of the tech sector and its bubbles?

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