Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Prior to joining Andreessen Horowitz, I held several executive positions in a publicly-traded software company and was previous to that an investment banker. In fact, if you exclude the Dot Com Bubble of 1999-2000, they have been steady for nearly thirty years. 1999-2000 51.6% Time Period IPO Pop % Above IFR 1999-2000 51.6%

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SEC Accredited Investor IPO Technical Review 36

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

If you take a snapshot during an extraordinary surge in valuations, M&A activity, IPOs and thus wealth creation you’d echo John Doerr’s famous quote from 1999 that, “The Internet is the greatest legal creation of wealth in history.&# That’s how it felt then and a bit how it feels in May 2011.

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IPO Finance Valuation Naming 391

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Business Software. We had a rough time early on," says Parker, president and chief technology officer of Roving Software Inc. , 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. Human Resources (HR).

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

data.world and our modern catalog for data and analysis is a new category of software, much like Bazaarvoice and Coremetrics created new categories before, and the brilliant book Play Bigger helped us find it. both in the “picks and shovels” space of digital retail with very compelling software solutions.

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Software Review Sales Cofounder Analytics 48

Start Up Blog

AUGUST 25, 2013

In 1983 Alan worked on some of the first attempts at creating software which could translate human languages. They made a trade sale in late 1999. When asked how one should value a company that doesn’t make any – he said the ‘Cisco Valuation Model’ is best. Back then he thought, how hard can it be?

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Australia Startup Valuation Cofounder 80

Austin Startup

JULY 23, 2010

Having been founded in 1999, Zilliant is hard to categorize as a startup anymore. The company creates the leading software in an enterprise niche called pricing optimization and margin management. Most people don’t really think of pricing as an elastic thing. An item’s price is the price.

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Balance Sheet Private Equity LP IPO 67

thebarefootvc

AUGUST 26, 2015

I’ve seen several cycles in the market since I first started venture investing in 1999, and I believe there has been no greater potential for wealth creation in the sector than there is now. Pay attention to who you’re taking money from and aim for a reasonable valuation. Don’t be penny wise, pound foolish.

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Marketing Investment Bankers Valuation China 40

thebarefootvc

AUGUST 26, 2015

I’ve seen several cycles in the market since I first started venture investing in 1999, and I believe there has been no greater potential for wealth creation in the sector than there is now. Pay attention to who you’re taking money from and aim for a reasonable valuation. Don’t be penny wise, pound foolish.

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Marketing Investment Bankers Valuation China 40

thebarefootvc

JULY 26, 2015

I’ve seen several cycles in the market since I first started venture investing in 1999, and I believe there has been no greater potential for wealth creation in the sector than there is now. Pay attention to who you’re taking money from and aim for a reasonable valuation. Don’t be penny wise, pound foolish.

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Marketing Investment Bankers Valuation China 40

Seeing Both Sides

DECEMBER 27, 2013

Aileen Lee''s now-famous unicorn analysis listed 39 companies founded in the last 10 years who had achieved $1 billion plus valuations. I wrote a blog post two and a half years ago in response to cries of a bubble that it felt a lot more like 1996 than 1999 right now. And if you are worried about bubbles right now, don''t.

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IPO Stock Valuation Portfolio 49

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

OCTOBER 16, 2011

Since 1994, Conway has been doing angel investing in solely internet software. 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

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Silicon Valley Angel Investor Portfolio IPO 53

Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

OpenTable is still the leader in online reservations but it is also a great CRM (customer relationship manager) software. Charlie is a frequent speaker on subjects relating to Restaurant Valuations and Opening a Restaurant and I am thrilled that he has generously participated in this article. Invest in a Lead Host.

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Boston New York Hosting Cost 120

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

He focuses on investments in fintech, the internet, and software. The beauty of software, in general, is that you have this concept of MVP. Building a business around software has always been different. That’s a valuation number and pricing number. The theme of this episode is how to scale unicorns. Welcome, David.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

M y company had raised a seed round of capital in late 1999 even before either of us were full time in the company (ominous side note: on the way to pitch our seed investor, Delta Partners, a man walking right in front of me died of a massive heart attack making me late to the meeting. But that’s a story for another day.

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Founder Technical Review Startup Venture Capital 299

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

If you want to understand the details of why this is, I covered it in detail in this post, Understanding Changes in the Software Industry. Yes, it’s true that FOMO (fear of missing out) is driving some irrational behavior and valuations amongst uber competitive deals and well-financed VCs. There are 20x more consumers online.

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

BeyondVC

DECEMBER 20, 2004

We did our own analysis of venture-backed software IPOs a couple of years ago (based on SEC filings, etc.) received its first round of funding between 1999 and 2000. Before that time, the standard rule of thumb was that it took about 5-6 years for a company to reach maturity, profitability, and potentially become an IPO candidate.

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IPO SEC Valuation Revenue 60

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

", they are aimed at convincing companies to use open source software. Consumer RSS: 1999-2010 - Venture Chronicles , September 11, 2010 paidContent made an interesting connection about Bloglines being shut down and the broader question of RSS in the age of Twitter. Building a Better Product.

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Technology Product San Francisco CTO Hire 191

Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Once again, the 1999-2000 dot-com bubble period shows the highest percentage of pricing above the initial filing range – 44% of deals were priced above. Even assuming they wanted to raise the same amount of nominal dollars at the IPO as in the past, higher valuations means they can do so by issuing many fewer shares.

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IPO Securities and Exchange Commission Demand SEC 36

Seeing Both Sides

MAY 26, 2009

billion, as the company has successfully “grown into its valuation” and become the leading in the content delivery market).   Admittedly it is a distant second to California in software and Internet innovation, but as a proud Boston-based VC, I was pleased to see Terry brimming with confidence in Boston as an entrepreneurial hub. . 

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Private Equity Boston Massachusetts IPO 20

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

You can find some of the monthly ones in the following: Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010 Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010 Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 (..)

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Silicon Valley Startup Term Sheet Venture Capital 378