Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 14, 2010
And so it happened that between 2000-2008 I was the biggest buzz kill at dinner parties. We jockey to make sure the press release has our names on it. This is the time it takes for a bankruptcy or asset sale to occur. It is the new cocktail party conversation. We list it on our bio’s as bragging rights.
YoungUpstarts
DECEMBER 2, 2014
In fact, since 2000, more than 10 million Americans have filed personal bankruptcy due to their employers’ failed health insurance plan. It’s overpriced, unreliable — you can lose your coverage if you’re sick and unable to work — and limits you to a certain group of medical providers and facilities, just to name a few.
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David Teten
MAY 16, 2011
I’m excited about the program below on “Investing in Intellectual Capital: Intellectual Capital: Patents, Trademarks, Domain Names, Litigation, Government Rights, and other Intangible Assets” Click here to make a reservation. Mr. Geleerd has been a member of YPO since 2000.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 1, 2010
But nine months after the first call was made in 1998, Iridium was in Chapter 11 bankruptcy. 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. It was a technical tour de force.
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. We were weeks from bankruptcy.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 31, 2011
Every one of these events (with names changed) has happened to companies I’ve worked at or closely with. Imagine how Flurry felt when Steve Jobs called them out by name. There are many VCs who have been made partner since 2000 and haven’t previously had an exit of their own. If anything it’s the tame version.
YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 12, 2012
In 2000, the 22,000 people on staff at Enron could be proud: they were spending their days at one of Fortune ‘s “100 Best Companies to Work For in America.” ” But on the morning of December 2, 2001, Enron declared bankruptcy. So what about Enron’s investors, and, worse, employees? They left with nothing.
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