Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 13, 2011
I think you have to listen to the queue’s.” “…if you look at a lot of the early stage investors, whether it be Union Square Ventures or First Round or Jeff Clavier at Softtech or Dave McClure – we want to try the product, we want to experience the product, we want to get a sense of how the entrepreneur is thinking about it.
Feld Thoughts
AUGUST 25, 2015
The key reason for the explosion in capital flowing into the industry, and therefore the large increase in practitioners, had nothing to do with 1970’s performance, early stage investing, or technology. Some were Silicon Valley early stage companies, such as Apple, Quantum, and Masstor Systems.
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Agile VC
MAY 26, 2011
I thought I’d revisit it and share the story… First, you have to rewind mentally to early 2003. Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. You can sometimes attract capital from farther away but typically harder to do at early stage. link] dazhi chen.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 16, 2009
One can even make the case that getting Market Type right is the most valuable thing a marketer can do to add value and affect success in an early stage venture. That’s no longer the case in Silicon Valley. Back in 1999, it all ended very bad. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.
thebarefootvc
MAY 8, 2012
Additionally, while we are in a very bullish funding market, this will eventually change (having invested through the boom and bust 1999-2003 in Silicon Valley and the run up and financial crash of 2004-2009 in NYC, I can virtually guarantee that cycles will continue).
crowdSPRING Blog
SEPTEMBER 6, 2012
The video above shows Billie Holiday (one of my favorite singers) singing “Strange Fruit”, a song that Time manazine named, in 1999, the “song of the century” The song is a protest against racism. Practical Advice for Raising Early Stage Venture Capital – [link].
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 14, 2010
This is exactly what happened in the broader VC industry between 1999-2001 as many people without the requisite skills entered the industry. Any big surprise that Chris is a very early investor in Twitter founded by Evan Williams who worked at Google after selling them Blogger.com? Do you have access to that kind of deal flow?
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