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.

Silicon Valley 74

Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

In 2010, SailPoint closed two strategic corporate transactions to broaden its product engineering and services teams and further expand its global footprint. As part of this agreement, SailPoint also assumed responsibility for the Control-SA engineering and support team.

Global 73

Global North America Customer Cofounder 73

Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

Across our portfolio and in my own entrepreneurial experience, I have seen three main sales models work successfully in scaling B2B sales: 1) Enterprise; 2) Telephone; and 3) Developer-driven. How do I build a repeatable, scalable sales process that is like an industrial machine - not a crafts project? 3) Developer Driven Sales.

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Sales Technical Review Software Review B2B 50

BeyondVC

JANUARY 28, 2005

Luckily, I have 2 portfolio companies that I respectively invested in during 1999 and 2000 which survived the nuclear winter and are having an opportunity to contribute to this innovation by helping make search better and easier for users. There is obviously lots of innovation happening in the search space.

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Search RSS Technical Review Portfolio 60

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 23, 2011

So even as he worked full-time as an aerospace engineer, he’d work on BlogFrog. With the dotcom bubble burst in 2000, risk-averse investors wanted to invest in more than just a business plan – they wanted to see real customers and real revenue before they stumped up the money. The BlogFrog concept was born.

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Community United States Colorado Social Media 162

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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Naming Government Intellectual Property LLC 122

finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

Overall, the portfolio value (including realizations) was being held at around 5% below cost. The percentage is the 12/31/11 portfolio value (including cumulative distributions) divided by the called capital. Accel Partners VII (2000): 122% (97%). ARCH Venture Fund V (2000): 41% (11%). Onset Ventures IV (2000): 31% (4%).

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Naming Term Sheet Private Equity Equity 49

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Real-time search engine. Founded in 2000 in New Brunswick, NJ. Will expand IBM’s business analytics capabilities and become part of IBM’s application and integration middleware portfolio. But it’s a real phenomenon. You can listen to Om, Paul & I debate the topic in the video. Current round: $5.25mm in Series A from.406

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Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

Hunter Walker

APRIL 10, 2014

I’m not focused on making a log of noise but honestly it wasn’t too surprising to me when you consider: my [angel] portfolio is up 5x cash-on-cash. most of my peers from the early 2000 days of angel investing are now VC’s (Reid Hoffman, Peter Thiel, Josh Kopelman, Jeff Clavier, Mike Maples, Dave Whorton, etc).

Syndicate 121

Syndicate Syndication Hiring Cofounder 121

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2022

As an entrepreneur, you simply use their investor search engine to find appropriate investors for your business according to location, industry interest, and other relevant criteria. This is another very popular website for raising equity or debt investments for startups. Keiretsu Forum.

North America 337

North America Accredited Investor Angel Investor Angel Groups 337

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. A significant strength of Texas lies in its diversified portfolio of unique cities. In 2000 or 2010, it made sense to build in San Francisco.

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Texas San Antonio Houston Dallas 90

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. But the short answer is that the best intro is from a portfolio company of that VC or by other entrepreneurs whom that VC respects. Our 2000 fund is the single best fund of its vintage. Our 2008 fund looks spectacular.

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Developer Silicon Valley PR Las Vegas 366

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2019

As an entrepreneur, you simply use their investor search engine to find appropriate investors for your business according to location, industry interest, and other relevant criteria. This is another very popular website for raising equity or debt investments for startups. Keiretsu Forum.

Angel Investor 241

Angel Investor North America Accredited Investor Angel Groups 241

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 14, 2011

Without a budget to spend on outsourcing content creation, buying domains and web hosting, and marketing the sites to rank well on search engines, this project would have been a non-starter. More recently, I worked on a new project to develop 50 niche websites, all at once.

Entrepreneur 90

Entrepreneur Non-Compete Internet Dilution 90

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

As an entrepreneur, you simply use their investor search engine to find appropriate investors for your business according to location, industry interest and other relevant criteria. It powers over 1,000 investment Angel and VC groups in 80+ countries. More than 200,000 startups have already used the platform to connect with 45,000 investors.

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North America Rhode Island Accredited Investor Angel Investor 289

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2017

As an entrepreneur, you simply use their investor search engine to find appropriate investors for your business according to location, industry interest, and other relevant criteria. This is another very popular website for raising equity or debt investments for startups. Keiretsu Forum.

Angel Investor 167

Angel Investor North America Accredited Investor Angel Groups 167

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2013

As an entrepreneur, you simply use their investor search engine to find appropriate investors for your business according to location, industry interest and other relevant criteria. It boasts more than 1,000 member-managed groups and VCs, with 40,000 investors, and over 1,800 startups funded in the last 12 months.

Angel Investor 270

Angel Investor North America Rhode Island Accredited Investor 270

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

I’d like to explain as best I can my opinion on what is going on because most of what I hear from entrepreneurs is not only wrong but is reminiscent of what I heard in 1997-2000. So deals get delayed as investors feel out prices and also spend time worrying about their own portfolios. What is the True Sentiment of VCs?

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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. that did so in 1999 and 2000, according to an analysis for The Wall Street Journal by Jay R. Software Development Engineer, Senior-IEB-Commercial Services (795929) Job -. Create a profile for me in the Journal Community.

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Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

If you are an entrepreneur seeking funding, try our free Funding Recommendation Engine to identify a list of angels, venture capital and state grant programs that best match your business. If you’ve read this far, you definitely should : Try out our Funding Recommendation Engine. Company: Home Portfolio. It’s free.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

ScheduleOnce – Scheduling engine to get everyone who needs to meet together at one time. carbonmade Carbonmade – A free online portfolio showcase. Shockfolio – An online portfolio site for actors, musicians and photographers. Weefolio – A free online portfolio creator. Awsome post btw.

Software Review 78

Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

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.

Software Review 22

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22

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. Engineering & Accounting Svcs. Venture capitalists "bury their dead very quietly," Mr. Ghosh says. Amusement & Recreation. Legal Services.

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Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 6, 2016

One of our portfolio companies (sprung out of Paul Graham's Y-Combinator), Codecademy , aspires to teach the world to code for free. A company I co-founded back in 2000, Upromise , is focused on helping families save money for college, a necessary ticket to the American Dream.

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Massachusetts Government Cofounder 20

Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

1999/2000 was the startup heyday, and I was in the hot space of telecoms – it all looked promising. A platform will become more complex as it grows over time and will need to be re-engineered. It was like a foreign language to me - I’d never heard of any of this before. And that was the start of an interesting journey.

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Global Europe France Cofounder 62

David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Phoenix will act as a platform to channel Gulf investment into OurCrowd’s 220 portfolio companies, building on the pent-up demand in the UAE for opportunities in the thriving Israeli start-up scene. I’m just highlighting here a few companies who have made recruiting Arab engineers a focus. SUGGESTED BACKGROUND READING.

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UAE United Arab Emirates Technology 60

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

In addition, Cellguide’s GPSense engine is chip agnostic and could use pseudo- ranges from any GNSS receiver thus creating a fully featured locaiton and navigation engine. Dasur’s solution is based on a unique, patented pattern recognition engine. Series ORG-2000 is OriginGPS smallest fully featured GPS receiver.

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Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103