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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. Or worse yet they may never get financed. That happened a lot in 2002 and again in 2008. That asset class need not represent the broader market.

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Will Work for Equity - Investing in Clients - Arizona Bay

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Finance | Tuesdays. Financing a Small Business. Financing A Small Business. Personal Finance. Jumpstart was one of Grahams first clients; it signed on shortly after he founded Arizona Bay, in 2000. Theres a huge opportunity cost in not taking equity," he says. Start-up | Mondays. Technology | Thursdays.

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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

Messy cap tables can come back to haunt you when you do a financing or sell the company. Can you acquire them at a sustainable cost? Is there a development step that you must take to fulfill demand for a particular use case, and, if so, how does that cost get absorbed? Are the logistics manageable? You’ve just got to listen.

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Your Wall Is Dingy

Feld Thoughts

Between 1996 and 2002 I was co-chairman of Interliant, a company I co-founded with three other people. While I learned a ton of finance lessons from the experience, I also learned a lot a leadership lessons. We had just acquired a company (I don’t remember which one or in which city) sometime in 2000.

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Returns for brand-name VC funds

finance.fortune.cnn.com

Overall, the fund-of-funds is 97% called for 45 funds raised between 1999 and 2002. Overall, the portfolio value (including realizations) was being held at around 5% below cost. Accel Partners VII (2000): 122% (97%). ARCH Venture Fund V (2000): 41% (11%). Commonwealth Capital Ventures III (2000): 110% (56%).

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

And also there are a large number of people who would like to do startups in theory, but have high cost bases (family, real estate, school loans, whatever) that makes it very difficult to take the kinds of risks required. It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash.

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10 Tips for Enterprise Software Startups

ReadWriteStart

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. SaaS reduces your sales cost but also means that VC is needed. You need to know what cost you are replacing.

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