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Early Stage VCs – Be Careful Out There

Feld Thoughts

In addition to our own funds, we are investors in a number of other early-stage VC funds as part of our Foundry Group Next strategy. “Historically, the $10 million valuation mark has been somewhat of a ceiling for seed stage startups. For anyone that remembers 2000-2003, this obviously ended badly.

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What’s Really Going on in the VC Industry? What Does it Mean for Startups?

Both Sides of the Table

But VC is an “illiquid asset&# so funds didn’t disappear quickly - In 2000/01 the stock market quickly adjusted punishing investors in the NASDAQ and in individual public technology stocks. side note: our last fund at GRP Partners is currently ranked as the 5th best performing fund of the year 2000. That’s OK.

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Does the Size of a VC Fund Matter?

Both Sides of the Table

It’s also meaningless if they had four $200 million funds and the last one they closed was in 2000. Unfortunately over the period of 2000-2010 the VC industry hasn’t performed well and therefore the number of funds going forward is likely to reduce greatly. What is a VC fund?

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. I certainly bear no ill will to the various firms that ultimately passed on our fundraise… as a seed stage VC myself now I can appreciate how hard it is evaluating companies at the earliest stages of development.

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Angel Investors Do Make Money, Data Shows 2.5x Returns Overall

Gust

Conventional wisdom dictated that they made reckless investments in very early-stage ventures mostly doomed to fail. Deductions like this are problematic because early-stage venture investing does not happen in an efficient market. Let’s take a look at the actual data. (If and the U.K.,

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Taking Corporate VC: When It Makes Sense

View from Seed

I was an early employee at PayPal and back in the 2000-2001 timeframe, and we ended up taking a fairly significant amount of strategic investment (tens of millions of $) from various banks in the US, Europe, and Asia. All things being equal, seed and early stage startups are not usually well suited to take strategic investments.

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Angel Investors Do Make Money, Data Shows 2.5x Returns Overall

techcrunch.com

Conventional wisdom dictated that they made reckless investments in very early-stage ventures mostly doomed to fail. Deductions like this are problematic because early-stage venture investing does not happen in an efficient market. Let’s take a look at the actual data. (If and the U.K.,