1999 Global Internet Portfolio 
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
It’s also worth noting as data would suggest from this SVB venture funding report, lower costs to build tech & operate businesses implies the possibility of lower loss ratios in portfolios. In 1997, the year the Kauffman Report begins its analysis; there were 70 million users online globally. Mobility really changes everything.
VC Cafe
DECEMBER 28, 2010
Altor Networks was founded in 2007 by security and networking experts from Israel’s Internet security giant Check Point. Prestigious London-based Monocle magazine, a global briefing journal covering international affairs, business, culture and design, has chosen Haifa as the city with the most promising business potential for 2011.
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AUGUST 9, 2011
I thought about things I never had to as an entrepreneur: check size, ownership percentage, deal stage, portfolio construction and risk. When the market tanked they had the “triage problem&# – which portfolio companies to save, which to kill. Don’t spend like it’s 1999. So no new deals got done.
Cracking the Code
JUNE 24, 2021
After rapid international expansion across several continents, as the founding team brought Silicon Valley’s global ambition into Europe, and the extension of its offering to buses and multimodal transportation, BlaBlaCar is preparing for the travel rebound expected as the world reopens. In Silicon Valley, the ambition is always global.
David Teten
FEBRUARY 3, 2014
Similarly, my research on venture capital portfolio operations found that Portfolio Operator VCs such as Andreesen Horowitz , First Round Capital , ff Venture Capital , and Google Ventures are hiring unusually large teams and structuring them in traditional pyramids. Notes: Only for IT & related sectors. May 3, 2009.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 15, 2010
In 1999 I was working in the London offices of Andersen Consulting. I had been working on marketing & strategy initiatives for European telcos for the past several years helping them to think through and design Internet offerings. Does that mean that I condone this kind of behavior with portfolio companies in which I invest?
David Cohen
MARCH 30, 2020
In 1999, we sold that business and I started angel investing. In 2000, the Internet bubble burst. For the rest of our lives, we’ll all remember this global pandemic that changed everything. I didn’t really see how it would affect me. By 2002 the NASDAQ had fallen by nearly 80%. Starting a tech company after this? Sudden change.
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