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A Venture Capital History Perspective From Jack Tankersley

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In January, Jerry Neumann wrote a long and detailed analysis of his view of the VC industry in the 1980’s titled Heat Death: Venture Capital in the 1980’s. None of these companies fit Mr. Neumann’s definition of the era’s venture deals and each generated returns we would welcome today.

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Love and Venture Capital

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eThread was acquired by Melita International in 1999 after a crazy ride that included a midnight negotiating session on the 173rd floor of some building in midtown Manhattan to try to merge with iChat. Welcome to 1999. The post Love and Venture Capital appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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The Great Internet Stock Correction of 1997, or 1999, or …

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We were in the middle of fundraising for Softbank Venture Capital (which became Mobius Venture Capital.) In 1999 we filed an S-1 to take Sage Networks public. The post The Great Internet Stock Correction of 1997, or 1999, or … appeared first on Feld Thoughts. I was a co-founder and co-chairman.

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Are Things Moving Faster Than In 1999?

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After I sold my first company, I started a company called Intensity Ventures to make all my personal investments from. When I started making venture capital investments in 1997, the pace of things, and the amount of work I did, was massive. In 1999 things were moving so theoretically quickly that everything was a total blur.

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The Long Arc of A CEO / Investor Friendship

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I’ve been involved in Return Path as an investor since 2001 when Return Path and Veripost merged as part of a funding done by Sutter Hill (Greg Sands), Flatiron Partners (Fred Wilson), and Mobius Venture Capital (me). I wrote the very long story in a post titled Return Path Acquires Netcreations in 2004.

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When VCs Don’t B t You

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The prior fund that I had co-founded – Mobius Venture Capital – had blown up after having a very successful first fund in 1997. Venture Capital fundraising VC' And, in the situations where they don’t, how incredibly powerful it is. Fred, Scott, and Jack – thank you.

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History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, But It Does Rhyme

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The questions were great, but some of what they were hearing about venture capital was scary as s**t. A handful of them had jobs in venture capital firms and we talked about how to be effective as a freshly minted associated. billion going into venture capital. ” Um.