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On Going Public: SPACs, Direct Listings, Public Offerings, and Access to Private Markets

Ben's Blog

In fact, if you exclude the Dot Com Bubble of 1999-2000, they have been steady for nearly thirty years. 1999-2000 51.6% Time Period IPO Pop % Above IFR 1999-2000 51.6% 1999-2000 37.5% In April 2021, however, the SPAC new issue volume dropped to 13 deals, a decline of roughly 90% from the March 2021 volume. 1990-1998 13.3%

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Returns for brand-name VC funds

finance.fortune.cnn.com

The information is based on part of a confidential year-end 2011 investment report distributed to investors in a fund-of-funds that made commitments between 1999 and 2001. Overall, the fund-of-funds is 97% called for 45 funds raised between 1999 and 2002. Accel Partners VII (1999): 89% (74%). Join the Conversation.

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The Case For & Against Cryptocurrencies (for those tired of all the noise)

Both Sides of the Table

But for the same reason we have SEC oversight on trading public stocks, we need oversight or nefarious actors will manipulate the system. 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.

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It takes time to build value

BeyondVC

We did our own analysis of venture-backed software IPOs a couple of years ago (based on SEC filings, etc.) This reminds me of a conversation I had this summer with a Veritas executive who said how difficult it was to scale beyond $1-2 billion in revenue and that size matters. received its first round of funding between 1999 and 2000.

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

In fact, my first website I can’t show you, because I don’t think we have internet access, but I had a Geocities website in 1999 for a card game I used to play called Magic the Gathering. The great thing about this strategy is you already have a conversion mechanism. Improve conversions. In 2004 I began blogging.