This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Is 2012 going to be 2000 all over again? When the bubble burst in 2000, many of us felt it in our pockets. On March 20, 2000, Barron's wrote, "America's 371 publicly traded Internet companies have grown to the point that they are collectively valued at $1.3 This brings to mind a bigger question of where we're going from here.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

billion market capitalization. If investors observing this extraordinary phenomenon in 1996 were to have concluded that the technology market was in the midst of an unsustainable bubble, they would not have been wrong. The average venture capital fund raised between 1995 and 1997 returned more than 50% per year.

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IPO IRR Brazil Government 48

Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

I happen to be fascinated by the history of the VC industry, and one of the things we discussed at a recent offsite are the common threads behind the rise and fall of great venture capital firms. Some disgruntled younger partners left in the mid-90s… two co-founded Benchmark Capital (Bruce Dunlevie & Andy Rachleff).

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Silicon Valley Carried Interest Cofounder Boston 240

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Technology. Personal Technology. TECHNOLOGY. Over the past two years, one of the most influential venture-capital firms has turned the usual rules of start-up investing on its head. in exchange for $70,000 in venture capital and a $30,000 loan from the early venture firm. Welcome, Logout.

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Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

Compounding the IPO drought is the fact that the entire NASDAQ market has shrunk—since December 2000 the NASDAQ has contracted by 38% to approximately 1,786 companies. capital markets for listed equities have been in systemic decline since 1997. This condition is clearly not the result of the technology bubble or Sarbanes Oxley.

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Delaware IPO Venture Capital Private Equity 37

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Moshe Lichtman, the man once in charge of all of Microsoft’s technology development in Israel, says that the time has come to build a billion dollar Israeli company. Among Microsoft’s 20 worldwide R&D centers, there are only three “strategic centers”: in India, China, and Israel. By Ben Bakhshi.

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Venture Capital New Zealand Startup 100

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

By aggressively launching a free to use service, Alibaba’s Taobao quickly became the leading person-to-person trading site in China. In 2000, Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr founded StubHub , a secondary ticket exchange marketplace. Four years later, in May of 2003, they launched Taobao Marketplace, Alibaba’s answer to eBay.

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Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2011

Is this tech bubble as broad as the 1995-2000 dot.com bubble – no. While labeled the “dot.com” bubble, valuations went crazy across a wide range of technology sectors including telecommunications, enterprise software and biotech, not just the Internet. They finance companies that invest in new technologies, new ideas and new products.

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Internet Silicon Valley United States .Net 297

VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

“Provigent is a unique asset with world-class microwave backhaul technology and strong engineering talent developing innovative and highly integrated semiconductor solutions for the microwave segment.&# – Rajiv Ramaswami, executive VP at Broadcom. LEADING SECURITY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY MCAFEE ACQUIRES ISRAEL’S SENTRIGO.

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Java Database Argentina 79

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

There is much discussion online and also in small, private groups, about why the price of technology companies – public and private – are falling. 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.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

Each circle represents one of the fifty largest technology companies in the city, the size of each circle determined by the number of the company’s employees. By all accounts, the first one burst in 2000 when the NASDAQ crash brought the first dot-com era to a close. So what of the tech sector and its bubbles?

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San Francisco Silicon Valley California Oakland 20

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Of course our great technology industry did itself rise on the back of infrastructure created by telecommunications & cable infrastructure as well as decades of media production. Breakout companies become much harder and this isn’t likely to improve unless we give new companies the tools and capital they need to flourish.

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