2000 Early Stage Seed Stage Viral 
Agile VC
MAY 26, 2011
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.
View from Seed
JANUARY 11, 2017
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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