Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

This is part of my series on Understanding Venture Capital. I saw it myself in 1999-2002 when it was hard to charge for my product because all of my competitors raised large rounds of capital and were giving away their products free fueled by large VC rounds.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 20, 2012

Today’s venture capital deal flow to innovative new companies looks a lot like a fat man trying to squeeze into a slim Italian suit. In 2000, venture capitalists poured a staggering $112.2 In 2000, venture capitalists poured a staggering $112.2 Today, venture capital deal flow has slowed to a relative trickle, just $28.4

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 12, 2009

First, the National Venture Capital Association has published data revealing that over 90% of the jobs created by venture-backed companies occur AFTER they go public—and this relationship holds over the past 40 years. The median age of a venture-backed company at the time of its IPO has increased from 4.5

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 17, 2015

And Fred has been ranting about this since at least 2008 when he made a public plea to bury the name Silicon Alley. The questions were great, but some of what they were hearing about venture capital was scary as s**t. billion going into venture capital. New York isn’t Silicon Alley. It’s New York.

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abovethecrowd.com

JANUARY 24, 2014

And the venture capital firms that pulled back in 1996 missed the best three years of return in the history of venture capital industry. Those that managed companies in 2008 or thirteen years ago in 2001 know exactly how fear feels. What was that percentage in 1999? And this is not it. What was it in 2003?

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Companies such as Warby Parker , which offers high quality prescription eyewear for $95 online and donates a pair for each pair bought, raised a significant round of funding from venture investors. However, large companies are recovering from the shock of the 2008 collapse and re-aligning to the New Normal.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2012

But before Google became the giant corporation that it is today, it was almost sold for a shy $1 million to Excite CEO George Bell in 1999. Their patience paid off months later when big name venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital invested $25 million in Google. TOMS Shoes.

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David Teten

MARCH 2, 2013

An article on the New Enterprise Associates blog by Partner Tom Grossi , however, makes an interesting point: most of the megafunds were raised since 1999, a period in which the entire industry did poorly. Though the megafunds did underperform in absolute terms, they may have outperformed in relative terms. First, it isn’t very precise.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

When I was raising money for my first company we had closed a seed round in 1999 and were working on our A round. We had many term sheets (it was 1999 and we had a pulse) and we were deciding which one to take. It was December 1999. It quickly became impossible to raise venture capital. Let me start with a story.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

While I spent the past three incredibly fulfilling and fun years helping build the tech entrepreneurship sector in NYC, which is now thriving wonderfully (but wasn’t in 2008!), I have the opportunity to build bridges from NYC to Nairobi, from Dhaka to Denver, from Silicon Valley to Singapore.

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Altgate

JANUARY 18, 2009

I confess that when I first bought the book in 1999, it took me a full year to read it as it sat in my “reading rack&# in my bathroom. I read this book in 1999 at the height of the internet bubble and still wasn’t smart enough to short the market in time. But even that doesn’t go far enough. Bookmark the permalink.

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Altgate

MAY 1, 2009

According to Fred’s posts, the “math problem&# in VC is that LPs have been investing capital in VC funds at the clip of about $25 billion per year for the past decade (excluding 1999 and 2000 which were strange years). I’ll be the first to admit that I’m wrong… but show me the data! Bookmark the permalink.

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thebarefootvc

JANUARY 1, 2013

I invested in Silicon Valley from 1999-2003 and in NYC pre and post 2008 financial crisis. And now I can’t open a tech blog without reading about the new bubble or the Series A crunch. I’ve seen this movie twice before as a VC. Two significant boom and bust cycles of the modern era.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and 9 Tips To Get Started - OnStartups , September 27, 2010 "The best part of blogging is the people you will meet"- Hugh MacLeod repeating wisdom from Loic Lemeur to me at the Big Pink at 2 am in South Beach after the Future of Web Apps 2008. Why You Should Write. Some have made the model work.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Only a handful of so-called unicorns — companies that have achieved a valuation of over $1 billion in the last 10 years — come from Israel, and only one Israeli firm, Teva, ranks in the world’s 500 largest companies by market capitalization. That’s disappointing for a country with so much potential. But is all of that changing?

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thebarefootvc

AUGUST 26, 2015

If you doubt that, take a look at the following chart I spotted on Twitter today: I’m long term bullish on technology which is why I run a venture fund. I’ve seen several cycles in the market since I first started venture investing in 1999, and I believe there has been no greater potential for wealth creation in the sector than there is now.

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thebarefootvc

AUGUST 26, 2015

If you doubt that, take a look at the following chart I spotted on Twitter today: I’m long term bullish on technology which is why I run a venture fund. I’ve seen several cycles in the market since I first started venture investing in 1999, and I believe there has been no greater potential for wealth creation in the sector than there is now.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 26, 2015

If you doubt that, take a look at the following chart I spotted on Twitter today: I’m long term bullish on technology which is why I run a venture fund. I’ve seen several cycles in the market since I first started venture investing in 1999, and I believe there has been no greater potential for wealth creation in the sector than there is now.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

On a panel that I sat on with Ron in LA in 2008 he stated that there were no circumstances in which the founder should take money off of the table. Coupled with my participating preferred from 1999 and 2000 I had more than $55 million of liquidation preferences. I believe this is wrong. Let me start with a couple of stories.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And that’s been reflected in the entrepreneurial community, where entrepreneurs, especially between 2000 and 2008, entrepreneurs really only wanted to do — for the most part wanted to do consumer software, because that’s the only software that they could actually get anybody to adopt. So that’s the big, big, big change that’s happened.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2019

While the term was new, many of the ideas aligned with “ permission marketing ,” which Seth Godin brought into marketers’ consciousness in 1999 and contrasted with “interruption marketing.” More than just ‘Content Marketing.’”. In December 2007, HubSpot went all-in with inbound marketing.

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Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

Amount of venture capital raised has exploded. 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. i. Pre bubble period 1991-1996 totals $28 billion. ii. Bubble period 1996-2000 totals $243.6 cents or 6.25

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. So why would raising venture capital be any different. Our 2008 fund looks spectacular. I’ve raised in boom markets and when everybody thought the Internet was a fraud.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

While the global financial crash of 2008 and the resulting Great Recession initially slowed job growth in Silicon Valley, the meteoric rise of smart phones and social media helped the tech industry as a whole to power ahead despite the near collapse of the global economy. A Variation on the Global Economic Crash of 2008?

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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. We found a way to get a round of venture capital closed after all of this.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities. With the launch of Airbnb in 2008 and Uber (*) in 2009, these two companies established a new category of marketplaces known as the “sharing economy.” SHARING ECONOMY MARKETPLACES.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

By 2008 I had gotten more serious about championing companies through our investment process. It was September 2008. The following is a 2-week graph of the end-of-week price of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) in Autumn 2008. Don’t spend like it’s 1999. The market had tanked. We did not.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

We’re still caught in the “post recession bounce” : What’s happening is that the angel & VC community is still feeling good from having bounced back from the nadir of the famous “ RIP Good Times ” funk that we felt in 2008. While not 1999 all over again but I am observing first-hand the signs of funding frenzy. In the end.

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