View from Seed

JANUARY 20, 2015

And even acquisitions painted as successes may look very different below the (typically confidential) surface. We went public in 2002 and eBay bought the company later that year for over $1.5 But the reality of tech entrepreneurship is that not everyone is “killing it,” and certainly not all of the time.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 21, 2015

And even acquisitions painted as successes may look very different below the (typically confidential) surface. We went public in 2002 and eBay bought the company later that year for over $1.5 But the reality of tech entrepreneurship is that not everyone is “killing it,” and certainly not all of the time.

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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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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Being enterprise scale means that your representatives have regular dialogue at CXO or at least VP level with Global 2000 accounts are they are bringing in millions of revenue from those accounts every year. You may sell into enterprises from day one but you are not enterprise-scale until you reach enterprise scale and that takes time.

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Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

ii. Bubble period 1996-2000 totals $243.6 2000: Regulation FD was passed to create a “level playing field”, reacting against whisper numbers, favored research analysts, and the “hedge fund information advantage”—all in the name of giving everyone simultaneous access to the same corporate disclosures—which absolutely did not happen.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Past (1985-2002). After a few acquisitions they offered many of the services you think about as foundations to social networks today. Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king. What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? The Present Era.

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Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

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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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Sarah also points to the vast global wealth that has to get allocated somewhere as well as a small bump in long term average returns, now that the generally terrible performance of funds from the 2000-2002 time frame (after the tech bubble of the late 90s crashed) no longer factor in to 10 year returns.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

1999/2000 was the startup heyday, and I was in the hot space of telecoms – it all looked promising. But then came 9/11 and the severe downturn in the Valley in 2002. With competitors in the US often 10 times bigger, they’d become an acquisition target. When would you go for an acquisition versus an organic launch?

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Global Europe France Cofounder 62