abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

In addition to market concerns, I had the unique experience of working with Dan Nordstrom and the team at Nordstrom.com in August of 1999. Back in the mid 1990’s I had a front row seat to watch Dell’s ascendance from a small company in Austin, Texas to the world’s largest manufacturer of personal computers.

eCommerce 62

eCommerce Technical Review North America San Francisco 62

finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

Term Sheet The latest on private equity, M&A, deals and movements — from Wall Street to Silicon Valley. Now Fortune has obtained more granular data, including returns for dotcom-era funds managed by such firms as Accel Partners, Benchmark Capital, General Catalyst Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Term Sheet.

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Naming Term Sheet Private Equity Equity 49

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 11, 2010

The CIC, founded in 1999, is located adjacent to MIT and has more than 100,000 sq ft of space for nearby startups that qualify to be housed there. These are not to be confused with incubators like YCombinator or IdeaLab which look to invest in your company and take equity positions. Now I gotta go and build it just to prove him wrong.

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San Francisco Incubator Silicon Valley Startup 285

David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Susan Balloch, Managing Director, Golden Seeds; formerly Executive Director and Principal, The Blackstone Group. Susan Balloch, Managing Director of Golden Seeds. Susan Balloch is a Managing Director of Golden Seeds, an angel fund that invests in early stage companies founded or led by women. Click here to make a reservation.

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Private Equity North America Cofounder Angel Groups 114

Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

NetGenesis had raised some money and had created three different products – net.Forms (a web form manager), net.Thread (a web threaded discussion board), and net.Analysis (a weblog analysis tool). NetGenesis got some of eShares equity, eShare got the net.Thread product, and I joined the eShare board.

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Non-Compete LP Venture Capital Affiliate 70

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Christopher Fralic, Managing Partner, First Round Capital. Dave Tisch, Founder & Managing Director, TechStars NYC. Christopher Fralic is a Managing Partner at First Round Capital’s New York office, and has focused on a number of the firm’s investments in Advertising Technology, Social Media, Ecommerce, Gaming, Mobile and more.

Portfolio 122

Portfolio New York Social Bookmarking Philadelphia 122

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Prior to crowdSPRING, I was producer and production manager in the film and television industry and Ross was an attorney in private practice specializing in intellectual property. In January of 1999, I co-founded a marketing agency with a former boss. 3 – I was Fired Twice. Image Credit : Kent Lewis. Image Credit : Pamela Ogang.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Australia Software Review LLC 48

Austin Startup

JULY 23, 2010

Having been founded in 1999, Zilliant is hard to categorize as a startup anymore. The company creates the leading software in an enterprise niche called pricing optimization and margin management. Most people don’t really think of pricing as an elastic thing. An item’s price is the price.

Balance Sheet 67

Balance Sheet Private Equity LP IPO 67

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Unlike other incubator-led programs, this workshop is open to anyone who wants to learn, and it does not require companies take investment or give out equity. I joined a financial services tech startup in 1999. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? May 14, 2009 5:23 AM David said.

Lean 60

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Software Review 60

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

At the same time it seemed that whenever I would have a conversation with a friend, family member, colleague, manager, executive–you name it!–about I have encountered numerous companies with bad customer service, or bad financial management, or unprofessional stuff, you name it. Thanks to Young Lee, The Flame Broiler ! #51

Entrepreneur 91

Entrepreneur LLC Cofounder Green 91

Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

In the last decade Torch managed to break free of China’s state central planning bureaucracies. Set up in 1999, Innofund offers grants ($150 – $250K), loan interest subsidies and equity investment. Seed Funding (Innofund). The best analog for China’s InnoFund is the U.S. government’s SBIR and STTR programs.

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Programming Technical Review SBIR China 278

The Equity Kicker

APRIL 13, 2017

In 1999 when I started in venture capital there were no blogs and very few business books that were useful for entrepreneurs. OKRs for managing objectives). As a keen observer of startups over the last 17 years, one of the most remarkable and welcome developments has been the application of scientific method to building startups.

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Lean Startup Silicon Valley Venture Capital 90

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

Good CEOs will look inside and say: “Hey, maybe we’ve been hiring a little bit too much during the sugar rush phase of the pandemic, and what does that mean for performance management? And so a lot of it is performance management. Have we become soft? Can now use the opportunity to right-size it or improve it?”.

Partner 132

Partner Cofounder Retention Acquisition 132

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Unfortunately, he was fired and all of that potential equity disappeared. So they solved it by each department manager, the sales manager, and the owner running their own schedule and telling the junior employees what to do. In 1999, Alibaba had to face many failures; for the first three years, the company made zero revenue.

Entrepreneur 107

Entrepreneur China Incubator Philippines 107

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. It’s not impossible to manage a large fund for high returns, but it’s empirically very difficult.

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LP Securities and Exchange Commission Silicon Valley Venture Capital 114

Pascal's View

AUGUST 21, 2011

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. For me Bubble will always be inexorably linked to what went down in 1999 and 2000 in the internet sector. It is intentional.

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Valuation Social Media Media IPO 50

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

The VCs basically have liquidity in management fees along the way, in the sense they get paid decently along the way. But the day after you’ll wake up and see yourself more as a manager than an owner. Coupled with my participating preferred from 1999 and 2000 I had more than $55 million of liquidation preferences.

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Founder Liquidation Preference Term Sheet Participating Preferred 329

Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

In the last decade Torch managed to break free of China’s state central planning bureaucracies. Set up in 1999, Innofund offers grants ($150 – $250K), loan interest subsidies and equity investment. Seed Funding (Innofund). The best analog for China’s InnoFund is the U.S. government’s SBIR and STTR programs.

Programming 170

Programming Technical Review SBIR China 170

Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2020

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. The implications of this for asset managers is that they need to find yield (aka, investment returns) elsewhere. Higher demand for equities therefore drives higher prices of equities.

IPO 36

IPO Securities and Exchange Commission Demand SEC 36

David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

It might appear that origination is becoming much easier because of new tools like AngelList and the SEC moving toward adoption of rules that will allow equity based crowdfunding. We published the full report in the Journal of Private Equity ; it’s now the #2-most viewed article in the Journal’s history.

Private Equity 114

Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Equity 114

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

previously explained that it usually requires some equity, but here is some more step by step practical advice. Why Product Managers Wear Sneakers - Steve Blank , September 2, 2010 I gave a talk last night to the Silicon Valley Product Management Association. Except they won’t be called Product Managers. Let's recap.

Technology 191

Technology Product San Francisco CTO Hire 191

David Teten

JANUARY 8, 2013

Fewer private equity funds are using social media for outreach, but 2xPartners , Healthpoint Capital , and MCM Capital Partners are notable exceptions. Private equity investing is a relationship business. Since 1999, its Partners have made over 160 investments in over 55 companies.

Private Equity 114

Private Equity Social Media Equity Media 114

Seeing Both Sides

MAY 26, 2009

Amid the hoopla a few weeks ago at the annual NVCA meeting, where the focus was rightly on improving liquidity, it was barely noticed that a new chairman was elected – Polaris co-founder and managing general partner Terry McGuire, one of the leading life sciences investors in the industry.  3)      Life sciences.

Private Equity 20

Private Equity Boston Massachusetts IPO 20

VC Cafe

JANUARY 10, 2011

V iola Private Equity , an Israeli PE fund with $164 million under management for technology buyouts, has announced a $7 million investment in Zend , the leading provider of open-source and commercial solutions based on PHP web applications. According to Linkedin , Zend has a headcount of 130.

Private Equity 87

Private Equity Equity PHP 87

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

These mutual funds “mark-to-market” every day, and fund managers are compensated periodically on this performance. In 1999, record valuations coexisted with record IPOs and shareholder liquidity. If 1999 was a wet (read liquid) bubble, 2015 was a particularly dry one. Late 2015 also brought the arrival of “mutual fund markdowns.”

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IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 19, 2016

All three of these are far from easy, but it is raising capital which is the hardest, particularly here in Europe where the venture industry is only just losing the awful reputation it gained during the 1999-2000 bubble. That said, even once they have money most investors pick bad companies.

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Europe IPO LP Venture Capital 60

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. Burrill already manages $1.5 billion in venture capital and private equity funds.

San Francisco 90

San Francisco New Jersey Private Equity 90

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Both Sides of the Table , July 22, 2010 An updated Digital Trends presentation - Jeff Hilimire , June 2, 2010 I do what I hate - Jessica Mah , January 7, 2010 Startup Equity Allocation - charliecrystle.com , January 11, 2010 When good investment decisions end up backing more women CEOs: Conversation with Cameron Lester at Azure Capital.

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Silicon Valley Startup Term Sheet Venture Capital 378

Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Editor’s Note: This testimony was delivered by a16z managing partner Scott Kupor to the U.S. By way of background, I am the Managing Partner for Andreessen Horowitz, a $16.5 In fact, if you exclude the Dot Com Bubble of 1999-2000, they have been steady for nearly thirty years. 1999-2000 51.6% 1999-2000 37.5%

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SEC Accredited Investor IPO Technical Review 36

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

I need leaders who manage in good times and bad.To build a large company you need to manage through economic cycles. On the positive side, corporate profits are up, their balance sheets have been repaired and they have recapitalized themselves to have lower amounts of debt relative to equity. It’s too early.

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Stock Technical Review Marketing Greece 305

abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

When I share this, reporters often ask me, “why is management so gullible to sit there and listen to a demand imbalance goal of 30x-50x?”. It is important to note that using the one-day gains of “hot IPOs” to either attract new customers or wildly please the ones you already have is not a new concept. see below). Are We Too Gullible or Naive?

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IPO Customer Matching Silicon Valley 82