Pascal's View

AUGUST 21, 2011

question in venture capital. This time, the debate centers on the “favored few” Social Media venture backed companies that have brought tremendous windfalls to a select group of venture funds and management teams, both pre- and post-IPO. We should not let the greed emotions cloud our judgement. It is intentional.

Valuation 50

Valuation Social Media Media IPO 50

Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 12, 2012

When I first entered the venture capital business 10 years ago after being an entrepereneur, my partners warned me that "my bar" for new investments would get higher over time. In other words, before they had raised a nickel, they had made as much progress as a $10 million funded Series A start-up circa 1999 or even 2004.

IPO 44

IPO Metrics Venture Capital Social Media 44

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.” Also in June, Zuora launched a new product, Z-Commerce for the Cloud , at the GigaOM’s Structure event. More than just ‘Content Marketing.’”.

Naming 119

Naming Conversion Flash Cofounder 119

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Over the past two years, one of the most influential venture-capital firms has turned the usual rules of start-up investing on its head. In the early days of venture capital, when money was scarce, entrepreneurs often gave up control of their company in exchange for their first investment funds. LUBLIN And SPENCER E.

Silicon Valley 42

Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Security, Cloud, NoSQL databases, etc. In the last five years, there’s been this sort of acknowledgment of the consumerization of the enterprise, which is consumer product development, design methods applied to business software, of which SaaS and cloud and all these things are examples. Nothing is going to stop cloud.

Software Review 22

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22

VC Cafe

JANUARY 10, 2011

As the popularity of PHP application grows on the web (with sites like Facebook and WordPress running on PHP), so grew Zend’s revenues from its web application server product line, which enables companies to run their applications on the cloud. According to Linkedin , Zend has a headcount of 130.

Private Equity 87

Private Equity Equity PHP 87

VC Cafe

JUNE 4, 2012

Founded in 1999, AeroScout’s products are used in hospitals to track patients and blood products, such as organs; to manage and monitor equipment in universities; and to keep tabs on products throughout the manufacturing process. billion in venture capital and private equity funds. Burrill already manages $1.5

San Francisco 90

San Francisco New Jersey Private Equity 90

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

2010 was the year of the “super angel&# and 2011 has to date been the year of unbelievably highly priced B,C & D rounds of venture capital. Don’t spend like it’s 1999. Businesses will continue to realize that the Internet is one big information utility and will continue to move operations to the cloud.

Stock 305

Stock Technical Review Marketing Greece 305

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Virtualization and cloud computing products allow multiple users to run on a single physical host, with each virtual machine sharing the resources of that hardware across multiple environments. From 1999 to 2009, Teva’s revenue grew to about $14 billion from $1.3 billion in 2010.

Technical Review 87

Technical Review South Korea Mexico 87

Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

“Do you know,” exclaimed an elderly venture capitalist over lunch in the Garden Court at the Palace Hotel on New Montgomery Street, “within a ten-block radius of where we are sitting is the cloud computing center of the world?” First Street and Market Street by Leo vanMunching. Beale Street and Market Street by Leo vanMunching.

San Francisco 20

San Francisco Silicon Valley California Oakland 20

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Breakout companies become much harder and this isn’t likely to improve unless we give new companies the tools and capital they need to flourish. Ask yourself this — how did it go when a bunch of Internet companies when public in 1998–1999 with limited revenues or oversight? Regulation will come. We’ll have to see how it all plays out.

Government 280

Government Distribution Stock United States 280