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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. There are significantly more Internet users and we’re no longer newbies b. The second half of this analysis coming soon!
Ben's Blog
JUNE 28, 2011
Before my partner Marc Andreessen and his friends at the University of Illinois invented the browser in 1993, most people thought only scientists and researchers would use the Internet. The Internet was thought to be too arcane, insecure and slow to meet real business needs. The implications of the propriety vision were not good.
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Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. 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.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 16, 2012
There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. I’ve raised in boom markets and when everybody thought the Internet was a fraud. I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. Of course much of it is conflicting.
David Teten
JANUARY 8, 2013
Our research indicates that for these social media-savvy funds, their visibility to investors and potential portfolio companies more than makes up for whatever competitive edge they lose by giving outsiders insight into their activities. Social media is valuable for more than just origination. Site traffic increased by 6.5%
Scalable Startup
FEBRUARY 1, 2013
And now all of a sudden you have got this global market of all these early adopters that have smartphones connected to the Internet, and they can just pick up their things and run with them. So it would seem like they are an antidote to, or at least less offensive than, social/consumer Internet companies are to the public markets.
Both Sides of the Table
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.
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