Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

Examples are Hollywood for movies, Milan for fashion, New York for finance and today, Silicon Valley for technology entrepreneurship. Set up in 1999, Innofund offers grants ($150 – $250K), loan interest subsidies and equity investment. Venture Guiding Fund. China Customer Development Technology Venture Capital'

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Yeah, that was when I changed for me…” “…there was so much positive feedback on demystifying this one element of venture capital. Brad’s start in Venture Capital. One of the successful investments was a company called Nigenisis, which ended becoming a public company in 1999. was starting.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. On December 3rd Brad Feld wrote a one paragraph blog post titled “ Raising Venture Capital &# in which he linked to my blog. The Original Post (after the jump): Venture Capital, By Mark Suster (December 2nd, 2006). Thus is venture capital.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 28, 2010

6) The most efficient fuel for this IPO engine is venture capital. v) “Since 1999, over 60% of IPOs have been VC-backed. This is an extraordinary percentage considering that only 1/16 th of 1% of all companies are VC-backed.” “… it is highly unlikely that a company that does not take venture capital ends up going public.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 20, 2012

Today’s venture capital deal flow to innovative new companies looks a lot like a fat man trying to squeeze into a slim Italian suit. In 2000, venture capitalists poured a staggering $112.2 Today, venture capital deal flow has slowed to a relative trickle, just $28.4 Venture Capital ? Slimmer Pickings.

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

My contributions to this undergraduate textbook, Venture Capital: Theory & Practice , are the result of two important collaborations. Venture Capital started in China in 1985, when the first government-sponsored venture capital firm was established. Venture Capital is a popular buzzword in China.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Corporate law: In Germany, most companies in general and most VC-financed companies are structured in the legal form of a “Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung” (GmbH). Often, this integration results in VC-financed GmbH companies having little to do with the GmbH as envisaged by the law. German Startups Association).

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 20, 2012

Today’s venture capital deal flow to innovative new companies looks a lot like a fat man trying to squeeze into a slim Italian suit. In 2000, venture capitalists poured a staggering $112.2 Today, venture capital deal flow has slowed to a relative trickle, just $28.4 It just doesn’t fit.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Finance where needed. 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. Venture capital is an industry best served up from 7-year aged casks. We need some visibility.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

billion multi-stage venture capital firm focused on IT-related investments… I also serve on various investment committees, including for the St. Jude Children’s Cancer Hospital and the Stanford Medical Center, and teach entrepreneurship and venture capital at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. 1999-2000 51.6%

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

I kept pointing to the artificial gains in the Nasdaq in 1999 and said, “just because you bought in Feb ’99 and sold in Sept ’99 for a large gain doesn’t meant the asset was correctly priced.&# My message to everybody at the time, “Sell! At dinner parties I was wrong for several years but I stuck to my guns.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 10, 2010

How can I raise venture capital?" And when it comes to venture capital in particular, the vast, VAST majority of entrepreneurs go about it the wrong way. And if you go about raising venture capital like MOST entrepreneurs do, then you'll probably get the same results that most entrepreneurs do.

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David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

The best way you can help them is build a big business with their backing, and that requires you to appear self-made. [I should mention that disclosure of participation in the Venture Capital Access Program is optional.]. When I was running an Israel-based company in 1999-2001, my location was a significant barrier.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

Why the Unicorn Financing Market Just Became Dangerous…For All Involved. In February of last year, Fortune magazine writers Erin Griffith and Dan Primack declared 2015 “ The Age of the Unicorns ” noting — “Fortune counts more than 80 startups that have been valued at $1 billion or more by venture capitalists.”

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 27, 2014

The data CBInsights just published on the volume of venture investment bears this out. Comparing this with the chart below from the 1999 bubble and two things stand out. I haven’t seen 2013 data for the UK yet, but in the middle of Q4 corporate finance boutique Ascendant were projecting we would see c$1.3bn over the year.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

While not 1999 all over again but I am observing first-hand the signs of funding frenzy. Also, if there is a lowering of M&A activity this will lead to increased financing needs for startups driving higher failure rates or increases in “adverse terms” entering future financing rounds. I know not everybody agrees.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 19, 2018

It has happened only one other time in my investing career – in 1999. I remember when, in a period of about six months, the ceiling on seed financings vanished. Suddenly every company was raising a seed financing of at least $5m, regardless of the experience of the team. I view this is a significant negative indicator.

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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. On August 23, Stitch Fix announced that it had shipped its 100,000th Fix , and today the company announced that it has grown 500% since its last financing round this past February.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Finance | Tuesdays. Financing a Small Business. Financing A Small Business. Personal Finance. Before Roving Software could receive its first round of financing from professional investors, in early 1999, he had to put all the stock arrangements in writing. Start-up | Mondays. Technology | Thursdays.

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David Teten

JANUARY 8, 2013

Investors can tap this network for executive talent, followon financings, and eventually an exit. For example, many leading VCs, including First Round Capital and ff Venture Capital , have made their websites hubs for job-seekers, because their portfolio companies by definition are growth firms constantly in need of the best talent.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. These include building products, recruiting, managing your finances, marketing, selling, getting feedback from customers and … fund raising. So why would raising venture capital be any different.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Loading… Personal Finance. Personal Finance. 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 exchange for $70,000 in venture capital and a $30,000 loan from the early venture firm. » More.

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Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Fralic was also one of the early employees and VP of Business Development at Half.com starting in 1999, and after the eBay acquisition, spent six years with eBay in a variety of entertainment, business development, and media roles. Mr. Fralic earned his BS in Finance from Villanova University and his MBA from St.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities. They have helped 2,000 substitute teachers get in the classroom in 2018, including 400 educators who earned permits, which Swing willingly financed.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

The framework of his book has profoundly altered how I think about the technology market and affects how I thought about building my businesses and how I think about investing in venture capital. In 1999-2000 they weren’t doing enterprise-wide installations at Merrill Lynch, Dell and Cisco. Enter Salesforce.com.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2012

But before Google became the giant corporation that it is today, it was almost sold for a shy $1 million to Excite CEO George Bell in 1999. Their patience paid off months later when big name venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital invested $25 million in Google. TOMS Shoes.

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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.

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

In an anomalous, parallel development, the 1999-2000 bubble spawned local funds who were able to support these companies to a point, and to introduce them to their Californian counterparts. Sometimes the companies simply struggle and grow as best they can with inadequate financing.

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Silicon Valley Cost Startup Boston 97

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. The bank is offering to finance mid-sized and large projects of up to 50 MW. Burrill already manages $1.5

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

I started investing in 1994 and while there was some bumpiness in 1997 and again in 1999, the real pain happened between 2000 and 2005. I watched, participated, and suffered through every type of creative financing as companies were struggling to raise capital in this time frame. Or you might need to raise it.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

In an interview with ReadWriteWeb, Davidson explains how the latest industry to receive the disruption treatment has been the venture capital business itself, with the epicenter of the quake right around San Francisco. There used to be the Four Horsemen of the IPO world, back in the '80s and '90s. The question is why?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Our startup was venture funded in 1999 and we didn’t pay enough attention to this advice! For example, our company finances renewable energy installations (solar, fuel cell, etc.) By seeing the video, I gained some more understanding of the slides and concepts (which I have read about on your blog).

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Professor VC

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Often times those involve trading within a venture capital portfolio or between two venture firms portfolios. But what about the case where both companies are well capitalized and doing well? CPF's major venture backer is Kleiner Perkins, who coincidentally, is also the majority equity holder in Kilowatt.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

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.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Terrorism at scale can only occur when these organizations can move money around to finance people who make bombs, buy guns, train recruits and so forth. 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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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Handspring in a Existing Market As an example, imagine it’s October 1999 and you are Donna Dubinsky the CEO of a feisty new startup, Handspring, entering the billion dollar Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) market. Other companies in the 1999 PDA market were Palm, the original innovator, as well Microsoft and Hewlett Packard.

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Pascal's View

MARCH 14, 2011

In his view, board practices generally in the venture industry are substandard and there are few organized resources to guide board members, outside of the work done by the National Venture Capital Association under the leadership of Pascal Levensohn of Levensohn Venture Partners. and San Mateo, Calif.

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