Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

The video below was my presentation to the group. Our startup was venture funded in 1999 and we didn’t pay enough attention to this advice! A link to it at Amazon: [link] Reply Labnotes » Customer Development: Past, Present, Future , on November 24, 2009 at 4:07 pm Said: [.]

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

In 1999 I was in Japan doing a strategy project for the board of directors of Sony. There are so many ways to present data to tell the story you want that I can’t even list every way data is skewed. Numbers are important. I’d rather make decisions with uncertain numbers than no numbers. How is it skewed?

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Ben's Blog

JANUARY 31, 2012

The two most obvious are: Why did such a new venture capital firm raise so much money? How did such a new venture capital firm raise so much money? After raising our first round of funding for Loudcloud in 1999, we went to visit our new venture capital firm and meet their full team.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2011

When I first started as a startup CEO in 1999 there were no guides on raising venture capital. And while Jason is less high profile as the ever-present Brad Feld, I think even Brad would acknowledge that when it comes to the knowledge supplied in a book like this, Jason is the man with the deep knowledge.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 19, 2018

But so far this year, we’ve seen that a number of companies, often times with nothing more than a team and a Powerpoint presentation, have had great success raising capital north of that $10 million level. It has happened only one other time in my investing career – in 1999. million to $4.0 million range.”

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Tonight I was reading a good blog post ( here ) from Sean Powers with Alistair Croll on preparing yourself for the TC50 “bump” – the rise in traffic that a company gets from presenting at TechCrunch 50. million … yes that was seed in 1999!) DO capitalize on the moment in time while you’re still part of the news cycle.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

This is a story of one of the risks of venture capital. But some companies have entrepreneurs that seem talented on paper, are in a space that seems interesting to investors and are able to raise venture capital early in the company’s existence. True story.) But my point is that I flipped burgers from day 1.

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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. Though the megafunds did underperform in absolute terms, they may have outperformed in relative terms.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Now, the present. And then there are all the dating anecdotes from my six years in NYC (but that’s a very entertaining book and I’m digressing). I have just started a new job with the Omidyar Network.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2018

Also presenting is Patrick Campbell , former Google economist and current co-founder and CEO of Price Intelligently , which pioneers a data-driven approach to subscription pricing for SaaS businesses. You will learn from their successes and their missteps alike through a series of workshops, presentations and networking events.

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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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thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2016

New York City : NYC is growing as a startup hub; yet early stage (seed, small A rounds) institutional capital has not kept up with the local growth. I remember the heady days of 1999 when everyone believed that there were new rules to investing. In fact, only 13% of VCs investing in the US are based in NYC.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

New York City : NYC is growing as a startup hub; yet early stage (seed, small A rounds) institutional capital has not kept up with the local growth. I remember the heady days of 1999 when everyone believed that there were new rules to investing. In fact, only 13% of VCs investing in the US are based in NYC.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Prior to joining ff Venture Capital , I published the first-ever study of how private equity and venture capital funds originate new investments, with my coauthor Chris Farmer , CEO of SignalFire and an experienced VC. ff Venture Capital. First Round Capital. Acquirer/ Investor. 2009) [ii].

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Campus Entrepreneurship

APRIL 18, 2012

I have worked for 3 ‘internet startups’ over the past 14 years (my first.com was in 1999) and the two that relied on ‘free’ models (even with ‘freemium services’) did not survive. To keep growing, Coursera will pull from a rich venture-capital investment provided by two prominent firms.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 12, 2012

When I first entered the venture capital business 10 years ago after being an entrepereneur, my partners warned me that "my bar" for new investments would get higher over time. In other words, before they had raised a nickel, they had made as much progress as a $10 million funded Series A start-up circa 1999 or even 2004.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

One key to this population growth has been the remarkable ease of the Unicorn fundraising process: Pick a new valuation well above your last one, put together a presentation deck, solicit offers, and watch the hundreds of million of dollars flow into your bank account. If 1999 was a wet (read liquid) bubble, 2015 was a particularly dry one.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 20, 2014

Last year, the VC industry partied like its 1999. New data from research firm Pitchbook makes it official: valuations are at an all-time high. Some of the frenzy is driven by Wall Street. The bull market will celebrate its 5 th anniversary in March (NASDAQ grew 38.3% last year, more than any other major index), and the IPO market is booming.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. 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. » More.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

Mine started this way … I started my first company in the “go-go years&# of the Internet: 1999. We raised a seed round of capital in 1999 and our first venture capital round was the first week of March 2000 (e.g. We found a way to get a round of venture capital closed after all of this.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 7, 2017

We took Interliant public in 1999 on the second attempt (the SEC didn’t clear the filing until a week after the end of the first road show, our first of many misfires with Merrill Lynch, who was our lead banker.) I’m sitting at the breakfast table at Len Fassler’s house in Harrison, New York drinking a cup of coffee and chewing on a bagel.

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David Teten

JANUARY 8, 2013

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. Since 1999, its Partners have made over 160 investments in over 55 companies.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 26, 2010

It has raised $55 million from Lightspeed Ventures , Pitango Venture Capital , Sequoia Capital , Magma Venture Partners , Delta Ventures , Globespan Capital Partners, Ascend Technology Ventures, and Stata Venture Partners. It has 120 employees.

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

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Austin Startup

MAY 3, 2017

All that said, I have started and moderate the Texas Startups group , as the uniqueness of the Texan economy, the distinction of our collective schools, the opportunity presented by the industries herein, and substantial migration of people from the coasts in to Texas, are all driving our new economy; an economy of innovation driven by Texas.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

According to Modi Rosen, general partner of Magma Ventures, “The challenge of scaling is primarily in hiring for the sales and marketing front. Having the founder [locally] present for this process can be the difference between success and failure.” Shortly after the move, the company hired 25–30 people in the U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

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. If we do head South it will take a few weeks or months until the memos to portfolio companies get published and the Powerpoint presentations get sent out. We did not.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

A brief entry further down the page from the open source, pseudonymous online journal Zero Hedge (tagline: “On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero”) points out that of the tech companies that went public in often wildly lucrative IPOs in 2013, 73 percent have never turned a profit, compared to 27 percent in 1999.

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