Agile VC

JANUARY 21, 2015

A population of founders, employees, investors, advisors, and others all aligned in trying to build large disruptive businesses is naturally prone to lofty, even over-the-top language. Not every round of funding is closed at a “monster” valuation. We went public in 2002 and eBay bought the company later that year for over $1.5

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2017

Google Ventures was one of our co-investors, and in addition to all the other typical support GV provides their portfolio, this startup gained some unique insights for their organic and paid search strategy which were impactful and couldn’t have been gleaned elsewhere. .

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View from Seed

JANUARY 20, 2015

A population of founders, employees, investors, advisors, and others all aligned in trying to build large disruptive businesses is naturally prone to lofty, even over-the-top language. Not every round of funding is closed at a “monster” valuation. We went public in 2002 and eBay bought the company later that year for over $1.5

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Chip Morse , cofounder and partner with Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton P.C., As you think about how much equity to offer, have a reasonable valuation in mind thats been determined using professional advice. Copyright © 2000 inc.com. Durkin , managing partner with the Boston -based law firm Lucash, Gesmer & Updegrove LLP.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 21, 2015

A population of founders, employees, investors, advisors, and others all aligned in trying to build large disruptive businesses is naturally prone to lofty, even over-the-top language. Not every round of funding is closed at a “monster” valuation. We went public in 2002 and eBay bought the company later that year for over $1.5

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Cofounder Seed Stage Employee PR 100

Start Up Blog

APRIL 12, 2012

Who was the co-founder of Microsoft with Bill Gates? Does the NASDAQ have a higher or lower valuation now, than it did in the year 2000? Who is the founder of Amazon? What year was the first phone call made from a mobile / cellular phone on a cellular network? Which company made this phone call?

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Is it $2000, $3000, five, six, or seven clients per month? When Steve Jobs was 12 years of age, he called the co-founder of Hewlett Packard, Bill, to ask for spare parts to build a frequency counter. Groupon, the second fastest company to ever reach a billion dollars in valuation, started with a WordPress blog.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 12, 2012

Who was the co-founder of Microsoft with Bill Gates? Does the NASDAQ have a higher or lower valuation now, than it did in the year 2000? Who is the founder of Amazon? What year was the first phone call made from a mobile / cellular phone on a cellular network? Which company made this phone call?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

million which closed the first week of March 2000 – a week before the market crashed. Back to BuildOnline, following the staggering decline in public market valuations throughout 2000 we were forced to cut our staff dramatically going from 92 employees to 38 in just one day (and down to 33 a month later). True story.)

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

With over $1 billion in revenue, 2000 employees and a market capitalization of over $6 billion, Akamai has become a role model for scalable start-ups. But the second year (2000) was simply astounding: nearly $90 million! Even more tragically, the company's founder, Danny Lewin, was killed on one of the 9/11 airplanes.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

million at a $15 million pre-money valuation. My co-founder and other management team members wanted us to hold off and see whether we could get the deal done at a higher price. We moved into the legal process and final due diligence in January and February of 2000. Our final closure was the first week of March 2000.

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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 have been talking about my concerns about valuations for the past couple of years because, well, they’ve been rising very rapidly the past two years!

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Sarah also points to the vast global wealth that has to get allocated somewhere as well as a small bump in long term average returns, now that the generally terrible performance of funds from the 2000-2002 time frame (after the tech bubble of the late 90s crashed) no longer factor in to 10 year returns.

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Cracking the Code

JULY 15, 2020

- This article was co-authored with my colleagues Varun Purandare and Candice du Fretay and published initially on Tech.eu. As a consequence, SaaS public multiples and private company valuations are at an all time high, and the pace of cloud innovation is accelerating. The Accel 2020 Euroscape will be presented at SaaStock in October.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

- This article was co-authored with my colleagues Varun Purandare and Candice du Fretay and published initially on Tech.eu. This summer saw two record transactions within a month, as UiPath became the first European Cloud decacorn in July and Visma, a Norwegian company, became the world’s largest ever software buyout with a $12B+ valuation.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 12, 2020

So for other companies, especially for this next generation of founders who look up to you and what you have accomplished here, what do you want them to take away from your example here? And what's your vision for what this new community of founders and leaders might build when we get to the new normal? What are your values?

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2011

ICQ FOUNDER SELLS ISRAEL’S DOTOMI FOR $295 MLN. Dotomi founder Yair Goldfinger also co-founded ICQ, the technology known today as instant messaging. a privately held maker of at-home dermatological products, is merging with US company Photomedex in a share swap deal that gives Radiancy a $175 million valuation.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

There were over 2000 participants and around 100 speakers from all over the world. The US markets have generally proven themselves as giving better valuations, and long term liquidity.”. Founders are often restricted to how many shares they can sell in the IPO, and this is to keep their skin in the game.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

My founders and I started the company about three years ago. Bates: Josh, it reminds me of when I was doing web sites back in the day in 2000 and 1998 and instead of going and being able to buy a shopping cart you had to code the shopping cart from scratch. I really think of entrepreneurship as the chance to solve a problem.

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