Ben's Blog

JANUARY 31, 2012

As founding CEO, I remember being quite excited to meet our financial backers and talk about how we could partner to build a great company. That excitement took a sharp downhill turn when one of the top partners said to me, in front of my co-founders, “When are you going to get a real CEO?”. That question tortured me for months.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Jeff Bezos’s private space technology company Blue Origin was founded back in 2000. It helps them audit existing content portfolios (blog posts, landing pages, etc.) Share content exploring what it’s like to work at your organization, such as remote working, away days, professional development programs, etc. Image source.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 8, 2019

From around 2000, and perhaps coinciding with the need to work harder to win deals as opportunities dried up after the internet bubble burst, individual partners at VC firms began adding ‘helping CEOs win’ to their job descriptions. . The most visible symptom of this trend was VCs writing blogs to show just how value add they were.

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The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

I’m excited to let you know that David Norris joined us today as my Partner. Today I am proud to join Forward Partners as a VC. I’ve worked in digital businesses since 2000 as Product Manager, ECommerce Operations Director and most recently as Chief Operating Officer (3 companies). Forward Partners, London.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. And I also now have to raise money myself, but this time from bigger institutions that our industry calls LPs (limited partners). Partners make investment decisions. Meet in person. They’re buying you.

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

The two decades from 1979 when pension funds fueled the expansion of venture capital to 2000 when the dot-com bubble burst were the Golden Age for entrepreneurs and venture capital firms. VC’s invested their limited partners’ “risk capital” in a portfolio of startups in exchange for illiquid stock. Source: NVCA.).

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

While a flood of new VCs came into existence during the late 90’s internet boom, many had difficulty raising new funds after the crashes of 2000-2001 and 2008 , and as a result significantly fewer fund managers exist now compared to a decade ago. In the past ten years there have been several dramatic changes in venture capital.

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

You dive deep into a customer development process, working closely with a few customers who feed you requirements and are willing to trial an imperfect product that is evolving quickly. a third sales model has emerged which I''ll call "Developer Driven". 3) Developer Driven Sales.

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BeyondVC

JULY 7, 2010

Little do people know that when Dawntreader first funded Dali Media along with Impact Venture Partners and Primedia Ventures that the company was called Dali Media and then Metapa, standing for media to all places. After all these years, I am glad to see that EMC and others have caught on to both of these facts.

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Ben's Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

When my partner Marc asked me whether we should be backing an entrepreneur who is already rich, I replied: “it depends on whether we should believe my beautiful theory or my lying eyes.” Today, only 8 months after launch, the SnapStore has 63 supported snaps representing around 2000 integrations. Conclusion.

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BeyondVC

JULY 7, 2010

Little do people know that when Dawntreader first funded Dali Media along with Impact Venture Partners and Primedia Ventures that the company was called Dali Media and then Metapa, standing for media to all places. After all these years, I am glad to see that EMC and others have caught on to both of these facts.

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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). His view: sometimes entrepreneurs expect too much value from the partner.

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Agile VC

JULY 19, 2012

This is true not only in a firm’s dealings with entrepreneurs but also with it’s limited partners and even within the firm among its partners. Back in the 2000-2001 timeframe, a flood of LP capital was coming into the VC asset class given the strong returns of the mid-late 90s tech boom/bubble.

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David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

He then led the growth of the domain services division, expanded into the aftermarket business and built Oversee’s owned and operated portfolio of domain names into one of the worlds largest, firmly establishing the company as a leader in Internet real estate. Mr. Geleerd has been a member of YPO since 2000.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

These are all potential customers and strategic partners for startups. The newest development phase dubbed “TMC3” will lead the world in life sciences research commercialization. Research Institute, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, and several public universities and Department of Defense research and development programs.

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 17, 2015

As you probably know, Forward Partners bundles help from our startup team, our proven methodologies and office space with our cash investment so I will be talking my own book tomorrow and hence here. The gaps that we most often fill are product, development, design, marketing, recruitment and fundraising.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2011

For a sense of the extent of how bad this problem is, a partner I know at a prominent venture capital firm estimates that of the 30+ companies that his firm has invested in since 2000, only two of them have consistently met or exceeded their financial projections. And also let’s not assume that my friend just works for a lousy fund.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 12, 2012

France has proven its ability to develop innovative internet models Over the past three years, we have invested over $60 million in French technology start-ups with Showroomprive (number 2 in Europe for online private sales), BlaBlaCar ( Covoiturage.fr Why should they be penalised in such an arbitrary way? So why twelve years?

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 13, 2012

He is on the board of the Angel Resource Institute, and is a partner with Montlake Capital (a late stage growth capital fund) and with Revenue Capital Management (a royalty based lender). Second, a portfolio of investments, even in angel investing, is a great approach. Many other approaches develop all of the time. It is risky.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

Peter Lehrman, CEO, AxialMarket Daniel Confino, Founder, MergerID ( a Financial Times business) Dan Burstein, Managing Partner, Millennium Technology Value Partners. David Weild IV, formerly Vice Chairman of The NASDAQ Stock Market Mr. Weild is the founder of Capital Markets Advisory Partners.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2008

Once the point is reached where you want to move ahead, we put the sales hat on and convince our partners about the incredible opportunity that we are lucky enough to be able to invest on the ground floor. This was the beginning of the dot com bust and getting a consumer deal through the partners at my venture firm was next to impossible.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 14, 2011

More recently, I worked on a new project to develop 50 niche websites, all at once. In 2001, when I launched my first foray into becoming a serious information marketer and built a portfolio of infoproducts, my goal was to be able to fund one heart operation from business profits. The status quo just got a lot more shaky and uncertain!

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

As a registered user of The Wall Street Journal Online, you will be able to: Setup and manage your portfolio. gave up 70% of the company to American Research & Development Corp. that did so in 1999 and 2000, according to an analysis for The Wall Street Journal by Jay R. Create a profile for me in the Journal Community.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

declined Microsoft’s offer (summer 2000) to be the first enterprise software company with a.NET product (a Microsoft employee came back from a follow-up meeting with Allen and said “He reminds me of a lot of CEOs of companies that we’ve worked with… that have gone bankrupt.”). Company : Untitled Partners.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Google buzz Advertise Network Blippr iPhone App Mashable France MashDeck Twitter App Mobile Site Social Media Events Twitter Guide Book Facebook Guide Book Partners App Development WordPress Expert Rackspace Hosting MaxCDN Content Delivery Dynect Managed DNS ConVerdge Communities About Us Submit a Tip!

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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.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

He also combed the portfolios of VC firms and talked to people at start-ups, he says. The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says. David Cowan of Bessemer Venture Partners has stuck with Mr. Dreymann. DJVentureWire : Clinical Development News, Sept. the previous year.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

We've invested $5B+ in more than 250 companies and feel privileged to have partnered with category-defining companies such as Atlassian, Crowdstrike, Docusign, Dropbox, Slack and UiPath. To develop the list, we surveyed more than 1,500 European and Israeli private SaaS companies across 20 countries and a number of categories.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 8, 2010

Adding Convergin products to Oracle Communications portfolio is expected to enable customers with next-generation solutions to address network migration to an all IP core at significantly lower integration and hardware costs. Formerly known as PhoneDo Networks, Convergin was founded in 2000. DVTel, Inc.,

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Founded in 2003, ASOCS develops and markets MultiComms.processors that provide seamless connectivity over diverse wireless networks. Xeligence automatically generates all DM model development and deployment processes. The ASOCS MP100 processor, featuring the ModemX™ core, represents a evolutionary approach to communications.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Amelia spurs growth and development by providing capital, professional support and mentoring to entrepreneurs and joint ventures that further regional collaboration and economic opportunity. Phoenix Capital , a tie-up between OurCrowd and Abdullah Al Naboodah’s business development unit.

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