Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 6, 2019
Yes, VC / Startup Funding is up Massively If you look at how much VC firms have raised from Limited Partners (LPs) over the past 2 decades you’ll see that we’ve returned to a level that we haven’t seen since 1999. If you fast forward one generation of tech companies it’s a completely different story.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 13, 2011
So we have five themes – Digital Life and Distribution are the other two.”. Distribution. One of the successful investments was a company called Nigenisis, which ended becoming a public company in 1999. You have a company called Oblong (in your portfolio) which is a Minority Report type company. Protocol Digital Life.
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Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 16, 2009
It’s an impressive portfolio. Even startups that are dominated by technical risk have the customer validation risk of finding positive ROI distribution in a large market. Back in 1999, it all ended very bad. Bill and his partner Fred Wilson have invested in ~30 or so companies with 27 still active.
ConversionXL
MARCH 19, 2020
At the same time, the company contained its operating costs and came out of the recession stronger, bigger, and more profitable than it had been in 1999. Use that intelligence to inform product portfolio and investment choices.”. This means more people behind a screen, which means more opportunity across distribution channels.
finance.fortune.cnn.com
AUGUST 21, 2012
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. In parenthesis is the cumulative distribution divided by called capital.
BeyondVC
JANUARY 28, 2005
Luckily, I have 2 portfolio companies that I respectively invested in during 1999 and 2000 which survived the nuclear winter and are having an opportunity to contribute to this innovation by helping make search better and easier for users. There is obviously lots of innovation happening in the search space.
Lightspeed Venture Partners
MAY 5, 2016
Brian joins Lightspeed as our Partner in charge of executive level talent for Lightspeed and our portfolio of companies. We recognized their high IQ and EQ immediately, and we’re excited to see our portfolio companies put both to good use. Brian received his undergraduate BA degree in economics from Vanderbilt University.
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