VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

There’s a question on whether all this GPU hogging, and building capacity is not just a bubble waiting to pop, similar to the Telecom crash in the early 2000’s. But builders who see AI as the driving force behind product development and GTM strategy will actually create new markets and experiences that never existed before.

Generative AI 78

Generative AI ChatGPT Artificial Inteligence Cofounder 78

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability. August 1995 – March 2000: The Dot.Com Bubble. Software companies had to buy specialized computers and license expensive software.

Internet 334

Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 334

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Research & Development. Dave Graham Business Venture Capital Private Equity GlobalLogic Inc. Venture Capital Firms. Jumpstart was one of Grahams first clients; it signed on shortly after he founded Arizona Bay, in 2000. TECHNOLOGY. Internet and Online Business. Business Software. Computer Security.

Arizona 40

Arizona Equity Iowa Venture Capital 40

500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

TL:DR : This post aims to recap significant changes in the venture capital industry over the past ten years, and then make some [biased] predictions as to major forces at play in the next five years. However, all three shifts are related and can be summed up simply as: Geeks are Taking Over Venture Capital.

Silicon Valley 74

Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

Gust

OCTOBER 17, 2012

In addition, angels were up against a selection problem: All the best entrepreneurs and opportunities would naturally gravitate to the best venture capital funds, leaving only the “scraps” for angel investors. This is absolutely competitive with venture capital returns. The distribution of returns from the different U.S.

Angel Investor 152

Angel Investor Venture Capital Seed Stage Silicon Valley 152

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). Founded in 2000 in New Brunswick, NJ. 406 Ventures. OTHER DEALS: 1.

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Join others who code to change the world for the better and explore distributed computing, examine the confluence between businesses and technology, and debate the power of technology on urban development. Approach the future from different angles at the FutureStack Conference. Tech-savvy minds, this is the conference for you.

Las Vegas 165

Las Vegas North America Silicon Valley New York City 165

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. And Apple used the capacitive touch screen to develop a new paradigm for computing. Uber and Lyft blitzscaled. Sidecar didn’t.

Cofounder 28

Cofounder Business Model IPO Non-Compete 28

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

The newest development phase dubbed “TMC3” will lead the world in life sciences research commercialization. In short, the first wave of internet companies were widely distributed and brought people online (AOL in Virginia, Microsoft in Albuquerque and Seattle, Dell in Austin, etc.) Texas dominates every top ten list.

Texas 90

Texas San Antonio Houston Dallas 90

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 13, 2012

In addition, angels were up against a selection problem: All the best entrepreneurs and opportunities would naturally gravitate to the best venture capital funds, leaving only the “scraps” for angel investors. This is absolutely competitive with venture capital returns. The distribution of returns from the different U.S.

Angel Investor 103

Angel Investor Venture Capital Seed Stage Silicon Valley 103

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Research & Development. For example, Morse notes that neither C corporations nor venture capital funds structured as partnerships can, by law, be S corporation shareholders. Copyright © 2000 inc.com. CDW your 1-stop resource for configuration, activation & distribution. TECHNOLOGY. Internet and Online Business.

Fractional CTO 40

Fractional CTO Equity Iowa Technical Cofounder 40

The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

As we all know, the last ten years has seen a near-total collapse of the innovation cost curve, thanks to the perfect storm of open-source, cloud infrastructure, and “free” global distribution via search, social and app stores. It’s no coincidence that these two developments have come together. The former enables the latter.

Silicon Valley 97

Silicon Valley Cost Startup Boston 97

The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

I’ve worked in digital businesses since 2000 as Product Manager, ECommerce Operations Director and most recently as Chief Operating Officer (3 companies). There are few VC firms in the US taking this approach and at Forward Partners we intend to lead with this approach in the UK and reinvent venture capital.

Partner 91

Partner Early Stage Business Model HTML 91

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. SIGNIFICANCE PROMINENT. --> The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail. Venture capitalists "bury their dead very quietly," Mr. Ghosh says.

Venture Capital 107

Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

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. How do you deal with a severely uneven distribution of investment success between individuals or groups of partners?

Silicon Valley 240

Silicon Valley Carried Interest Cofounder Boston 240

Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

Amount of venture capital raised has exploded. ii. Bubble period 1996-2000 totals $243.6 This enabled consolidation among the brokerage houses and banks, which led to the loss of multiple distribution channels for securities and reduced the ability for small players to survive. cents or 6.25

Equity 31

Equity Securities and Exchange Commission IPO Marketing 31

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. 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.

Silicon Valley 42

Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

I just knew that subscription-based dial-up services like CompuServe and America Online, and the one I’d been working on at Apple, eWorld , could potentially distribute information in far more powerful ways than what you could do with books, TV, and other traditional forms of media. So how do you do this?

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Internet Networking Salary 69

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 1817, David Ricardo published On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation where he expanded upon Smith’s work in developing the theory of Comparative Advantage. In 2000, Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr founded StubHub , a secondary ticket exchange marketplace. billion of GSV (gross services revenue) across 2.0

Internet 88

Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

The development of Azure and the shift to the cloud has propelled the company to new heights. We opened our office in London in 2000, followed a few years later by Bangalore. The company weighs in at more than half (55%) of the entire group and grew its market cap by $600B+ - more than the nine other companies combined!

Global 62

Global Europe Software Review 62

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The negativity either impacted investment funding (venture capital fell off a cliff in 2009) or the customers they were targeted as was the case for Untitled Partners who were building a platform for fractional art ownership. Posted in Analysis , Venture Capital. You can guess how it influenced user experience.

Cofounder 89

Cofounder Startup Technical Cofounder CTO Hire 89

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital. We also discussed having distributed teams (e.g. Social network app developer and ad network. We discussed NY vs. Silicon Valley and NY vs. Boston.

Venture Capital 217

Venture Capital Los Angeles Oakland Asia 217

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

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

To develop the list, we surveyed more than 1,500 European and Israeli private SaaS companies across 20 countries and a number of categories. In 2000 and 2008, the economic crises had a dramatic impact on the tech ecosystem, but 2020 seems to be very different. It is as if 99% of the world could read but only 1% could write.

Europe 71

Europe Cloud Silicon Valley 71

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

I joined when there were around seven people there and ran business development there for a little over a year. 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. Bates: Fantastic.

Small Business 95

Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

I also hope to lay out a way to develop a healthy degree of skepticism for the more outlandish arguments. I believe this use of cryptocurrency will develop and flourish long after the dust settles from the hype and crash of cryptocurrencies that we’re experiencing in 2017. Our social graphs are locked in Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat.

Government 280

Government Distribution Stock United States 280