The Startup Magazine

JULY 4, 2017

The venture requires a massive financial investment due to the numerous expenses that include marketing, payment services, license acquisition alongside an early license fee. The launching of the site took happened in the year 2000, and since then, it continues to leave a mark in the people’s lives.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 11, 2021

From 1996 to 2001, I spent a lot of time with Len in New York, where Interliant was headquartered. I remember clearly a phone call on 12/1/2000 where Len called me from NYC. He told me that Cable & Wireless wasn’t moving forward with the acquisition of Interliant – the deal was all but done.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 23, 2016

It’s currently at $42 / share so if I got the splits right, after its collapse in 2001 to a low of around $5 / share it took it 15 years to claw its way back to $42 / share (a 10x from the low, 40% of its high at the peak.). 2000 was the Peak of Inflated Expectations. 1995 – 2000 was the climb up to the Peak.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2017

I was an early employee at PayPal and back in the 2000-2001 timeframe, and we ended up taking a fairly significant amount of strategic investment (tens of millions of $) from various banks in the US, Europe, and Asia. It doesn’t mean it can’t be done, but having say Google as an investor can make it tricky to work with say Apple.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 12, 2009

Second, emerging growth companies lose negotiating leverage in acquisitions when they have no other viable liquidity alternatives. Between 2001 and 2008 mergers and acquisitions (M&A) accounted for 87% of venture-backed company exits, up from an average of 44% in between 1992 and 2000.

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David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

Kevin Barhydt, Head of Acquisitions, RPX. Mr. Geleerd has been a member of YPO since 2000. Kevin Barhydt, Head of Acquisitions, RPX. Earlier in his tenure at IV, Mr. Barhydt successfully designed and implemented the targeted patent acquisition program and developed processes and metrics to improve licensing operations.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2010

But there are also problems / risks: - the funding environment might change dramatically – there may never be a next round (see: March 2000, September 11, 2001 and September 2008). - They can fund a deal if necessary and valid at the time you present an acquisition target to them. .&# If it works you’re a hero.

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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. Interestingly the data for the 1990-98 and 2001-19 time periods are roughly the same – approximately one-quarter of deals priced above the initial filing range. Scarcity of IPOs.

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Babbling VC

JUNE 15, 2010

I started interacting with the venture industry back in 1998 when still with Davis Polk & Wardwell but I didn't actually become a VC on paper until August of 2000. I rode down the whole VC cycle from 2000 to it's doldrums in 2001 and 2002. Now that was great timing, wasn't it? Call it what you will. So now what?

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Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

ii. Bubble period 1996-2000 totals $243.6 iii. Post bubble period 2001-2009 totals $218.2 2001: Decimalization (further loss of economics to provide market support for small companies), by reducing minimum commissions from 12.5 Amount of venture capital raised has exploded. i. Pre-bubble average 520 IPO’s per year.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 10, 2008

How much would an extra $1000 or $2000 per month help during that time? Back in 2001 I worked with a consultant who was a developer when times were really good, and a trainer when times were really bad. The average U.S. recession lasts 10 months and we’re supposedly 12 months into our current situation.

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 5, 2003

As for IBM’s $50mm investment in the company, who knows, but that could be a stepping stone for a possible acquisition if Novell is able to pull off its amibitious plans. ” We did not get very far with that vision as the supply chain market dissolved along with the rest of the software industry in 2001.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

We raised a seed round of capital in 1999 and our first venture capital round was the first week of March 2000 (e.g. But this was early 2000 and our US competitors had already closed rounds North of $45 million. We had a $40 million round lined up to close in the Autumn of 2000. Our first big institutional round was $16.5

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

There are a number of trends concerning IPOs and capital formation to note: First, the raw number of IPOs has declined significantly: From 1980-2000, the US averaged roughly 300 IPOs per year; from 2001-2016, the average fell to 108 per year. 1999-2000 51.6% Time Period IPO Pop % Above IFR 1999-2000 51.6% 1990-1998 13.3%

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