1999 2000 Internet Revenue 
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 28, 2009
I started my first company in 1999 in London at the height of the dot com craze. My competitors from those days STILL love to talk about how much money we raised in February 2000 (get over it already!). I know that we haven’t brought in revenue as quickly as we had hoped. They haven’t hit their revenue targets.
Agile VC
MAY 26, 2011
is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO. Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. One partnership was clearly very divided and a vocal minority of GPs thought consumer internet companies were a massive waste of time and money. link] leehower.
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Seeing Both Sides
APRIL 10, 2011
million in revenue the year before. . But if that observation led them to refrain from investing in the Internet sector, they would have missed one of the most stunning legal creations of wealth in history. The Internet bull market continued to run for four more years after the Open Market IPO, finally ending in the spring of 2000.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 4, 2010
In 1999-2000 they weren’t doing enterprise-wide installations at Merrill Lynch, Dell and Cisco. Think Compaq when Dell first went direct over the phone then Internet. You can’t take a $5 billion revenue stream and say “Fuck it. What future have telcos for call-based revenue in the era of Skype?
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. So of course returns from 2000-2010 were subpar on average for the industry. In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million.
This is going to be BIG.
NOVEMBER 7, 2011
Is 2012 going to be 2000 all over again? The difference between many of these companies and what we saw back in 1999 is that there are real revenues and revenue growth at many of these companies--and their costs are largely in people, which can always be trimmed down. Facebook is doing billions in revenues.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 13, 2010
By 1999 we had grown into the largest independent consulting firm in the world. By 1999 it seemed like everybody was growing, though. Increasingly it became difficult to tell any system integration company apart and there was a whole new breed of competitors in the market helping companies build Internet businesses.
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