Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2008

Once the point is reached where you want to move ahead, we put the sales hat on and convince our partners about the incredible opportunity that we are lucky enough to be able to invest on the ground floor. This was the beginning of the dot com bust and getting a consumer deal through the partners at my venture firm was next to impossible.

San Jose 31

San Jose Technical Review Venture Capital Angel Investor 31

David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

Peter Lehrman, CEO, AxialMarket Daniel Confino, Founder, MergerID ( a Financial Times business) Dan Burstein, Managing Partner, Millennium Technology Value Partners. David Weild IV, formerly Vice Chairman of The NASDAQ Stock Market Mr. Weild is the founder of Capital Markets Advisory Partners.

Private Equity 68

Private Equity Merger IPO Equity 68

Altgate

MARCH 8, 2009

I say ecosystem as opposed to industry because it is not just the VC funds themselves that are imploding, instead the collapse includes entrepreneurs and startups that were funded by VCs, angel investors, service providers like lawyers, bankers and accountants as well as limited partner investors in VC funds.

Later Stage 34

Later Stage Early Stage Venture Capital Portfolio 34

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

I’d like to explain as best I can my opinion on what is going on because most of what I hear from entrepreneurs is not only wrong but is reminiscent of what I heard in 1997-2000. Many experienced partners are funds have 7-10 boards and most of these will need more capital. Can Investors Spook the Market into Falling?

Valuation 150

Valuation Down Round Startup Later Stage 150

David Teten

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

At my firm, ff Venture Capital, we’re trying our part to rethink how the industry works, and also actively looking for opportunities to invest in companies creatively disrupting this sector, e.g., our portfolio companies Addepar and Indiegogo. The jury is out on whether the increasing ease of angel investing will potentially lower returns.

Management 114

Management Pre-Money Valuation Venture Capital New Hampshire 114

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

declined Microsoft’s offer (summer 2000) to be the first enterprise software company with a.NET product (a Microsoft employee came back from a follow-up meeting with Allen and said “He reminds me of a lot of CEOs of companies that we’ve worked with… that have gone bankrupt.”). Company : Untitled Partners.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

He also combed the portfolios of VC firms and talked to people at start-ups, he says. The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says. David Cowan of Bessemer Venture Partners has stuck with Mr. Dreymann. Venture capitalists "bury their dead very quietly," Mr. Ghosh says.

Venture Capital 107

Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

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