finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

Overall, the fund-of-funds is 97% called for 45 funds raised between 1999 and 2002. Accel Partners VII (2000): 122% (97%). ARCH Venture Fund V (2000): 41% (11%). Commonwealth Capital Ventures III (2000): 110% (56%). HIG Venture Partners (2000): 44% (22%). Insight Venture Partners IV (2000): 169% (119%).

Naming 49

Naming Term Sheet Private Equity Equity 49

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.

Equity 31

Equity Securities and Exchange Commission IPO Marketing 31

Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Not in a 2021 tweet covering Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of the metaverse, but in an early 2000’s magazine article forecasting a rosy future for the virtual world Second Life (SL). It’s why metaverse platform builders need anthropologists not just engineers. I hope it doesn’t get lost just because it’s ‘old’ (2002–2009).

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Forecast Hosting Engineer Design 96

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Past (1985-2002). They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. 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.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

And they rolled all of this up into a set of financial forecasts with a “size of market” forecast from brand name management consulting firms that said they’d have 42 million customers by 2002. Second, since it knew the solution, it went into a 8 -year Waterfall engineering development process. A Business Plan Frozen in Time.

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Business Plan Customer Business Model Customer Development 335

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

Entrepreneur 308

Entrepreneur Silicon Valley San Diego Non-Compete 308

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And that’s been reflected in the entrepreneurial community, where entrepreneurs, especially between 2000 and 2008, entrepreneurs really only wanted to do — for the most part wanted to do consumer software, because that’s the only software that they could actually get anybody to adopt. So that’s the big, big, big change that’s happened.

Software Review 22

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Homebrew, an early stage venture firm focused on this same revolution has illustrated the following: An engineer or designer gets work by offering his skills via vertical marketplaces. Moreover, the American labor force gained over ten million more working proprietors between 2000 and 2011.

Silicon Valley 208

Silicon Valley API Cofounder Salary 208

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. A platform will become more complex as it grows over time and will need to be re-engineered. And that was the start of an interesting journey.

Global 62

Global Europe France Cofounder 62