Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

In an over-funding environment companies are encouraged to eschew revenues in a land grab to acquire eyeballs, clicks, page views or whatever other vanity metrics give VCs the false comfort that they’re sitting on a gold mine. So of course returns from 2000-2010 were subpar on average for the industry. Today’s Normalization.

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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. Tom draws on two metrics to demonstrate that larger funds are, in fact, more likely to be top performers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

In the summer of 1999, I started working on a startup from my college dorm. Id been on the internet since I was playing MUDs as a kid, but by 1999 I felt Id already missed the boat. You can even see the humiliating evidence of my smug incompetence in this absurd article from 1999.) I pretty much missed all the trends.

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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. I do not think we are in a Bubble per se.”.

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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. from 2010-2019.

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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. So no prizes for guessing my New Year’s resolution for 2010. We were based in London.

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

5; in Lund, 1999 ). Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ). Most disappointing however, is that in more than one hundred years of legibility research, researchers have failed to form a concrete body of theoretical knowledge on the part that serifs may play in legibility ( Lund, 1999 ). Dowding 1957, p.5; Typographical features.

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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. Until the first seed round in 2010 we were building the company with no funding. And that was the start of an interesting journey.

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