online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

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 the early days of venture capital, when money was scarce, entrepreneurs often gave up control of their company in exchange for their first investment funds. Welcome, Logout.

Silicon Valley 42

Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 14, 2016

Through much of last year there was talk of a bubble in venture capital, particularly in late stage investments. NASDAQ is off about 10% since it’s Christmas peak and fears about rising interest rates, falling oil prices, weakness in China, and falling corporate earnings generally are contributing heavily to negative sentiment.

Cloud 60

Cloud Valuation Venture Capital Later Stage 60

Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2011

Is this tech bubble as broad as the 1995-2000 dot.com bubble – no. They are currently built in China.). Filed under: Family/Career , Secret History of Silicon Valley , Venture Capital. Prices for both private and public tech valuations exceed any rational valuation to their current worth.

Internet 295

Internet Silicon Valley United States .Net 295

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

There are some obvious structural reasons why a shakeout in the venture capital industry takes a long time. There was a healthy amount of capital ($20-30B annually) invested in VC funds during the 2003-2008 timeframe. In the mid 2000′s VC’s were largely prospering.

LP 154

LP Portfolio Venture Capital IRR 154

thebarefootvc

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

I knew that decentralized technology would form the thesis of the new venture capital fund I was launching, and I was interested in learning more how bitcoin would contribute to the thesis. Gox imploded and China first shut down bitcoin exchanges in April 2014, when the price hovered around $400.

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Venture Capital China Global Early Stage 49

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

O’Reilly unwittingly illustrates this point by telling the story of Sunil Paul, a friend and a successful serial entrepreneur who filed a patent on the core elements of GPS-enabled ride-hailing in 2000. Yet despite literally patenting ride-hailing in 2000, his own venture, Sidecar, lost out to the more aggressive scaling of Uber and Lyft.

Cofounder 28

Cofounder Business Model IPO Non-Compete 28

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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Angel Investor Valuation Startup Revenue 104

David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

Dan Burstein, Managing Partner, Millennium Technology Value Partners Dan Burstein founded Millennium Technology Ventures in 2000 and co-founded Millennium Technology Value Partners in 2004. Dan began making institutional venture capital investments as the Chief Investment Officer for the PS Capital funds in the second half of.

Private Equity 68

Private Equity Merger IPO Social Media 68

Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

The Internet bull market continued to run for four more years after the Open Market IPO, finally ending in the spring of 2000. The average venture capital fund raised between 1995 and 1997 returned more than 50% per year. Matrix had a fund in 1998 that yielded an eye-popping 514+% IRR.

IPO 48

IPO IRR Brazil Government 48

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. IPOs negatively impacts American entrepreneurs most of all, regardless of whether they have venture capital or private equity backing.

Delaware 37

Delaware IPO Venture Capital Private Equity 37

Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

By all accounts, the first one burst in 2000 when the NASDAQ crash brought the first dot-com era to a close. is mostly sanguine, claiming that the market’s standards for viability have increased since the 2000 bust and citing Twitter (revenue but no profit) as the model for the new public tech company.

San Francisco 20

San Francisco Silicon Valley California Oakland 20

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.

Internet 88

Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

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. I’m sure the head of the Federal Reserve Bank could spook the market or the heads of state of the US, China or Iran could.

Valuation 150

Valuation Down Round Startup Later Stage 150

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

And if you think the US government is going to allow wide-scale movement of money within the United States in which the government can’t identify the sources and uses of capital you’re kidding yourself. China has already made moves to massively curtain Bitcoin activities so that should be a clue of what is to come.

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