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JUNE 27, 2013
We have previously raised funds in 1996 ($200 million), 2000 ($400 million) and 2008/9 ($200 million). VC has operated as an “old boys club”, with access to capital often requiring entrance through an elite university engineering department in one of two cities. Let’s start with the fund.
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JULY 12, 2011
He explained how users at the time were encountering “social engineering threats” rather than “technical threats” and that his company took an “East Coast” approach to the problem as they built an automated system that rated websites. Such that during that time, Chris “learned how to learn.”.
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JUNE 27, 2011
While all your competitors are trying to copy your model, you’re already on to the next thing on your engineering team. I know because I did this in early 2000. So I recommend that companies talk in detail about the puck at their feet but avoid talking about where the puck is going.
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APRIL 15, 2010
I don’t believe that search is the only answer in 2010 as it was in 2000. They bought distribution and engineering talent. So my guess is that Tweetup needs to go “multi-stream&# (as in Facebook, MySpace, etc.). There is also another inherent weakness. No big surprise. Atebits had one person if I understand correctly.
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DECEMBER 5, 2010
While you dialed AOL to get on the Internet, the goal of AOL was to keep you locked into their proprietary content and thus earned the classification of “walled garden.&# They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc.
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JUNE 22, 2011
I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. I believe a bubble occurs when a market is willing to pay greater than intrinsic value for an asset class. That asset class need not represent the broader market.
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OCTOBER 15, 2009
million which closed the first week of March 2000 – a week before the market crashed. I hired a senior exec from the building materials industry (we were a document collaboration company for the engineering & construction industry) who was also ex McKinsey. True story.) The expectations of our company having raised $16.5
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