Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

I believe that, if he understood the reality of the venture capital industry today and its inextricable link to the Initial Public Offering (IPO) drought, his otherwise well-written article would have taken a markedly different direction. But from 2000 to the end of 2007, the rate plunged to 900,000 a year. In the 1990s the U.S.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

.” Here’s the summary of his track record (excerpted from the Fast Company article): Forefront — IPO’ed in 1995 by CBT — CBT stock fell 85% in 1998 and prompted class-action lawsuits. invested, IPO’ed in 2000 for $32/share — stock price now $2. from an IPO under a year ago of $10.

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www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

However, we needed a head of engineering to recruit and lead a larger team to accomplish our larger goals. I felt that I had to re-educate myself on the engineering talent landscape given how fast it is evolving, and had a deep curiosity regarding what the best engineering leaders of right now looked like.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it. At IMVU , our engineering team accumulated thousands upon thousands of tests, and we had a build cluster (using BuildBot ) that ran them. At IMVU, our rule was that a new engineer needed to push code to production on their first day. Completely necessary.

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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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Agile VC

MAY 23, 2012

In the wake of the undue frenzy leading up to and now ex post recriminations about Facebook’s IPO, the mainstream media and normal folks keep wondering if the non-existent “bubble” for internet companies has now popped. The End of “Internet” Companies. May 23, 2012. Silly stuff like this.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. Blitzscaling is a strategic technique for moving faster, not a reckless gamble.

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David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

Mr. Geleerd acquired the stadium out of highly publicized bankruptcy and turned around its financial position and ultimately engineered the sale back to the Toronto Blue Jays in 2005. Mr. Geleerd has been a member of YPO since 2000. In addition Geleerd was recognized by Crain’s Business Chicago 40 Under 40.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Eric, I wrote up the outline for a government program to promote entrepreneurship I call the "Civilian Innovation Corps" This would be a program supported jointly by government and private investors and would immediately jumpstart the innovation engine in this country. All three of the pillars have been under attack since 2000.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says. Less than 1% are currently in IPO registration. Engineering & Accounting Svcs. DJVentureWire : Friday IPOs Fail to Price as Thursdays Rally Doesnt Carry [link]. There are also different definitions of failure. 15 hrs ago.

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

And going even further back there have been a few random ones have been built before like Salesforce.com and e-tailer RedEnvelope (IPO’d in 2003 though now defunct as a company). If my memory serves me, <10% of our pre-IPO employees at PayPal lived in SF and literally 1 of the first 40-50 folks at LinkedIn were city-dwellers.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

In the 1990s Internet boom, easy money helped founders maintain more control early in a companys evolution, but founder CEOs without voting control often got replaced by a professional manager ahead of an IPO. ignited the current trend by adopting a dual-class voting structure before its IPO in 2004. Enlarge Image Close. Google Inc.

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Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

The rapacious credit derivative and mortgage market financial engineers should have succeeded in proving the dangers of ‘one-size-fits-all’ thinking– to the world’s great detriment. It is a fact that the lack of IPOs is harmful to job creation and to the American economy. jobs today. Predictions that U.S.

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Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

ii. Bubble period 1996-2000 totals $243.6 Number of IPO’s has shrunk while average size has increased. i. Pre-bubble average 520 IPO’s per year. 80% of IPO’s <$50MM. We should all be concerned about this because small companies are the engines for job growth and new job creation in America. cents or 6.25

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

This was supposed to be Airbnb's biggest year by many measures, including its IPO, which was one of the most anticipated since the 2008 financial crisis. I'm perhaps an oddity of Silicon Valley because I'm not an engineer by training. And of course, this is 2000. And so the oven is like being an IPO. Brian Chesky : Yeah.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

By all accounts, the first one burst in 2000 when the NASDAQ crash brought the first dot-com era to a close. is mostly sanguine, claiming that the market’s standards for viability have increased since the 2000 bust and citing Twitter (revenue but no profit) as the model for the new public tech company.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

With science and engineering breakthroughs ingrained in the fabric of Houston’s economy, the region has become a thriving hub of digital technology talent. In 2000 or 2010, it made sense to build in San Francisco.

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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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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Many of our job postings for Engineering positions describe the company as a place “where the word ‘millions’ is used frequently and in many contexts&#. The collapse of the IPO market and dysfunctional math in the venture capital community has stacked the odds against you. I got a taste of that within my first weeks on the job.

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