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. Companies are raising billions of dollars in the private markets and the valuations are enormous PRIOR to the IPO.

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Up and Running

MAY 10, 2012

“I realized that nonprofits were struggling with fund raising due to the economic downturn, and they needed a more diversified portfolio for their fundraising. We actually consult with each client, and tend to become an extension of their marketing team or development office.” .” And that’s how WeDidIt was born.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

Recently one of the startups in our portfolio, eRelevance, failed, as the Austin American-Statesman documented. As I wrote about in my post on Seven critical lessons learned in angel investing , this is painful and you must have a diversified portfolio to practice angel investing and actually make money. it was a target market pivot.

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ithacaVC

OCTOBER 30, 2014

The underlying tech was developed at Cornell (like many of the companies in the CVF portfolio). A faculty member doesn’t have the time to think about market opportunities and the time frame required to move through the business model process.”. Is this a thing where you can be successful – can you define and confine the risks?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

Some wait 5-7 years but usually this is because it’s proving more difficult to raise a new fund due to market conditions or the lack of returns in their current fund. Fred Wilson also wrote a sophisticated analysis of why he believes the market must normalize to smaller amount of money going into VC firms.

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Now while I have a very high regard for the intellectual capacity and market savvy of the typical football fan, these ads did beg the question – “Are football fans, between commercials on Sundays, really out there checking the opening of the Nikkei, gathering market intelligence, and placing their buys and sells before the game action returns?”

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thebarefootvc

MAY 8, 2012

The best VCs are the ones that balance their optimism, vision and enthusiasm for startups with realism based on very real constraints (the primary one being his/her own time, but also includes market development and exit timing). Too many pivots, and you can lose the market opportunity, even with the greatest idea.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

Secondly, the driver of returns for the funds raised in 1978 – 1981 was not their underlying portfolios, at what stage, or in what industries they were built. Instead, the driver was the 1983 bull market. Put a willing and forgiving exit market following any investment period and you get spectacular returns.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Before this, it was housed, since inception in 1999, within the walls of ATI, where the Wi-Fi Alliance and ATI built a unique, collaborative relationship. The organization was incorporated in 1999 when a number of visionary companies realized the tremendous opportunity for compatible wireless networking connectivity around the world.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

We have a theme we call Protocol, which are technology protocols and markets built around technology protocols like SMTP for email and RSS. One of the successful investments was a company called Nigenisis, which ended becoming a public company in 1999. So we have five themes – Digital Life and Distribution are the other two.”.

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David Cohen

MARCH 30, 2020

In 1999, we sold that business and I started angel investing. The financial markets quickly gave up more than a trillion dollars. The market sucked until around 2010 when everyone and their sister decided they wanted to create an accelerator too. The market was back! In 2000, the Internet bubble burst. You must be nuts.

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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?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

And without revenue how do we know if we achieved product/market fit to exit Customer Validation?” It’s an impressive portfolio. Yet some startups such as Biotech don’t have market risk, instead they are dominated by technical risk. Market Type affects your spending and sales ramp after you reach product/market fit.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 24, 2011

I joined eBay in 1999, early in its life, and had the privilege of witnessing and contributing to the development of one of the most iconic e-commerce businesses. They are extremely scrappy marketers, and have executed brilliantly to acquire hosts/properties and renters. For me, it was a true déjà vu experience.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Gordon Gekko may have a new movie coming out, but the days of the jolly old stock market he once knew are gone forever. public stock market performance over the past 11 years has been. market indices (Dow, S and P, NASDAQ) are trading lower today than they were in September 1999. And if so, what to do about it?

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

Instead, that’s the sort of pre-series-A investment where companies or founders have visions of where they think there are underserved market needs, and they’re coming up with something super excited to try to solve that. . We come in after a product has landed and found product market fit and has some escape velocity.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

I immediately reached out to the founder and CEO, Katrina Lake , who had previously worked for another Benchmark portfolio company in the fashion space, Polyvore. 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.

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Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

This company will remain in stealth mode for at least a little while and it isn’t my place to divulge their plans, but we’re very excited about the founding team, market opportunity, and syndicate we will be part of. But we will undoubtedly continue to add more hardware related businesses to our portfolio.

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Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

This company will remain in stealth mode for at least a little while and it isn’t my place to divulge their plans, but we’re very excited about the founding team, market opportunity, and syndicate we will be part of. But we will undoubtedly continue to add more hardware related businesses to our portfolio.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

If you’re in the market or thinking about VC in the future the following video may be of interest to you – click here to view. Portfolio companies – All VC’s list their portf0lio companies. Social networks - When I raised capital in 1999 it was hard to know who knew the VCs. Video is about 7 minutes.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

gotomeeting.com/register/638414410 On it, we will share some key statistics, especially that while from August 1982 to September 1999, the Dow Jones industrial average rose from 777 to 11,078, in comparison since 1999 it has moved only from 11,078 to 16,017 (approximately 44%). Give up on the public markets. Do it Right.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Last week, my column received quite a reaction as I pointed out how much of a disaster the public equity markets have been these past 14 years. Give up on the public markets. Find market inefficiencies. Well, I suggest three prescriptions: 1. Do it Right. gotomeeting.com/register/700618554 read more.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 8, 2014

Another great CEO I’ve had the honor to work with is Matt Blumberg who has led Return Path since founding the company in 1999. While Return Path has had countless twists and turns along the way, Matt has been CEO from inception and presides over a large and significant company that continues to be a leader in a market it helped create.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2016

New funds have popped up in increasing numbers over the last few years – but I saw gaps in the market that needed to be filled. There is still a lot of work ahead, but the market has been overwhelmingly responsive to the original thesis. And…I wanted to have fun and work with great people while doing so.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

MAY 5, 2016

Brian joins Lightspeed as our Partner in charge of executive level talent for Lightspeed and our portfolio of companies. Meredith joins as Vice President of Marketing to lead marketing initiatives for Lightspeed overall and support the marketing efforts of our founders and their teams.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

New funds have popped up in increasing numbers over the last few years – but I saw gaps in the market that needed to be filled. There is still a lot of work ahead, but the market has been overwhelmingly responsive to the original thesis. And…I wanted to have fun and work with great people while doing so.

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David Teten

APRIL 16, 2012

alongside our team and a few other portfolio companies, but will move out as the company grows. Since 1999, our partners have made over 150 investments in over 55 companies. The company is already funded and can readily pay market salaries. If the answer is yes to any of these, you should keep reading. Compensation expectations.

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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. Accel Partners VII (1999): 89% (74%). Market Movers. Shawn Tully.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

How to build a portfolio of startup investments. How to add value to a portfolio company. What to do when your portfolio startup pivots. Karen Bantuveris has 15 years experience as a consultant in customer centric- leadership development, marketing strategy and business process design. How to source great deals.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2015

It also helps you in keeping paperless records of your trademarks portfolio. The application number and filing confirmation is instantly generated and unnecessary delays such as errors on the data manually entered from the paper application and costs and delays to rectify these errors are avoided.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 20, 2012

Levy should know, in 1999 he founded eHatchery, an Atlanta-based precursor to today’s accelerators. Michael also founded four other startups, including MacWEEK and ICONOCAST, and authored Social Engagement Marketing, an easy-to-navigate guide to the world of social media. Accelerators are also booming.

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37signals.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Established 1999 in Chicago. Browse by visual style, portfolio, budget, and geographic location. Most Internet marketing does not work that way. You’re essentially saying “Don’t worry about Internet marketing. Making a splash means taking the marketing edge. Jobs: See more on our Job Board.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 15, 2010

Founded in Austin in 1999, Coremetrics is known as one of the high-end providers of web analytics, competing with Omniture and Webtrends. Coremetrics’ offerings are a new addition to IBM’s business analytics portfolio. Today it was announced that IBM is acquiring the company for an undisclosed sum.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

OCTOBER 16, 2011

In 1999, 80% of the portfolio went out of business with him commenting, “Thank G*d we invested in Google” SV Angel investing priority is 1) idea, 2) people, then 3) market size. His second fund raised and invested during 1999 saw a 1.5 He is one of six people for SV Angel, which is on its third fund of $30M.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

After AOL acquired Netscape in 1999, the browser wars ended and browser innovation stopped for many years. It’s a testament to the fundamental importance of the browser that these invisible, but meaningful changes created major market share shifts. Or maybe he didn’t sleep, but he would definitely think them up between 3 and 5 am.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

One doesn’t need to carry out thorough market research to understand that a customer will be more willing to make a purchase at a shop where they feel they’re getting maximum help in finding what they’re looking for as fast and easy as possible. Popular products”, “Customers who bought this also bought…”, etc.). Popular Products.

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