Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Editor’s Note: This testimony was delivered by a16z managing partner Scott Kupor to the U.S. By way of background, I am the Managing Partner for Andreessen Horowitz, a $16.5 In fact, if you exclude the Dot Com Bubble of 1999-2000, they have been steady for nearly thirty years. 1999-2000 51.6% IPO market. 1990-1998 13.3%

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SEC Accredited Investor IPO Technical Review 36

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

3) invest in and take equity stakes in exchange for capital. The IPO Bubble – August 1995 – March 2000 In August 1995 Netscape went public, and the world of start ups turned upside down. Yahoo would hit $104/share in March 2000 with a market cap of $104 billion.) 4) help nurture and grow the companies they invest in.

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Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. This software platform is used by most local Angel organizations for managing deal flow. This is another very popular website for raising equity or debt investments for startups. Here are the largest flocks: Gust (formerly AngelSoft).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2017

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. This software platform is used by many local angel organizations for managing deal flow. This is another very popular website for raising equity or debt investments for startups. Here are the largest flocks: Gust (formerly AngelSoft).

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Angel Investor North America Accredited Investor Angel Groups 167

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2017

We are a group who support mental health practitioners with office management and administrative tasks remotely. I have been working with my Partners since November 2000. However, as most entrepreneurs will experience, when equity and pay come into play, relationships tend to warp. 6- Flexibility, ownership and to help others.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2013

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. This software platform is used by most local Angel organizations for managing deal flow. 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.

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Angel Investor North America Rhode Island Accredited Investor 270

500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

Or, as my friend Marc Andreessen might say, Software Eats the Private Equity World. 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.

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Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

David Teten

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Asset management also shows the traditional earmarks of an industry ripe for disruption — most obviously, unhappy customers and extremely profitable incumbents. Despite this, it’s hard to think of good examples of disruption to asset management in the classic, Clay Christensen sense.

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Management Pre-Money Valuation Venture Capital New Hampshire 114

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

PMC-Sierra, a premier Internet infrastructure semiconductor solution provider, is purchasing Wintegra Inc. , Wintegra, founded in 2000, has 165 employees with the majority of its R&D development team located in Ra’anana, Israel, and Austin, Texas. US CHIPMAKER PMC SIERRA ACQUIRES ISRAELI WINTEGRA.

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Bandwidth Framework Forecast 79

David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

Joe Chernesky, Vice President and General Manager of Global Licensing Sales, Intellectual Ventures. Prior to joining Oversee, he spent 10 years in executive leadership positions building SaaS-businesses that leveraged the power of the Internet as a platform for growth and efficiency. Mr. Geleerd has been a member of YPO since 2000.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

And finally, you may be able to avoid diluting your equity. Preserve your equity by using a consulting CTO to ramp up your company before securing early-stage financing and hiring a permanent technology partner. Though after the dotcom collapse of 2000-2001, there are many more than there were! Why are consulting CTOs so scarce?

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

I hope that you can join us Monday night, April 4, midtown NYC, at a panel on “Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO” The program is sponsored by the HBS Club of New York and the HBS Angels of NY. the 1990s.

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Private Equity Merger IPO Equity 68

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. One investor played chicken with me by threatening not to approve my next-round financing unless I gave him more equity. The management team wasn’t strong enough. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0,

Entrepreneur 384

Entrepreneur Startup Salary Egypt 384

The Equity Kicker

JULY 8, 2019

From around 2000, and perhaps coinciding with the need to work harder to win deals as opportunities dried up after the internet bubble burst, individual partners at VC firms began adding ‘helping CEOs win’ to their job descriptions. . The most visible symptom of this trend was VCs writing blogs to show just how value add they were.

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Portfolio LP Venture Capital Partner 84

Feld Thoughts

MAY 5, 2016

We had just acquired a company (I don’t remember which one or in which city) sometime in 2000. If I could teleport myself back to that hallway in 2000, I’d say “Wow – your wall is dingy, and I love it, because it reminds me how frugal you are.” Your wall is dingy is one of them.

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Anyone reading this blog will have noticed that the internet has transformed retail. Phase 1 – Offline retail – golden period: before 2000. Retailers managed customer acquisition, stock and logistics. Phase 2 – Online retail – golden period: 2000-201? They still managed customer acquisition, stock, and logistics.

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www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

I was lucky to sign on as advisor and investor the founder of a very high-profile consumer Internet site who happens to also be a former engineer, who I will call Richard. Size of Opportunity - market size, revenue or usage, exit outcome and their ability to get equity early are all important. Dove Ad Casts Spotlight On Madison Avenue.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2010

Let me assume for this discussion it’s a garden variety 2010 IT or Internet business (as opposed to something requiring capital equipment or a life sciences project). Let’s assume that the $2 million buys 25% of your company, which is the norm in an equity financing. It’s a tricky question with no clear answer.

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Venture Capital Startup Silicon Valley Warrant 319

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

20:32) On believing in the internet as an immune system, then learning it's not and taking responsibility.(22:55) 20:32) On believing in the internet as an immune system, then learning it's not and taking responsibility.(22:55) He was the co-founder of Intel and he probably wrote some of the very best books on modern management.

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Silicon Valley Hosting Cofounder Employee 60

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

When it comes to founders, Texas has jewelry mogul, Kendra Scott; Mavericks owner, Mark Cuban of Shark Tank; Whitney Wolfe Herd of Bumble; video game developer, John Carmack; Vista Equity Partners Founder, Robert Smith; Michael Dell of Dell Technologies; and now Elon Musk of SpaceX and Tesla!

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Agile VC

JULY 19, 2012

Back in the 2000-2001 timeframe, a flood of LP capital was coming into the VC asset class given the strong returns of the mid-late 90s tech boom/bubble. In the midst of the internet & telecom meltdown at the beginning of the 2000s, as a firm CRV realized there were insufficient opportunities to profitably invest $1.2B.

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Cofounder Limited Partner Early Stage LP 193

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Oversi offers a multi-service platform for over-the-top (OTT) content, including Internet video, peer-to-peer (P2P) and other media applications. Oversi, the global leader in OTT Internet Video and P2P caching solutions, announced today that it has completed a new investment round, totaling US$ 4.9 PRESS RELEASE. About Oversi.

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Caching Venture Capital Private Equity 79

The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 11, 2013

I think that if you believed everything in the table above and you backed yourself to be able pick a good fund manager you would be pretty keen on investing in European venture. I’m betting my career on this case and I’d like to get it right, so don’t treat this as a polemic from an interested party, but as an honest, intellectual enquiry.

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LP Europe Institutional Investors Venture Capital 143

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Two, I’m a small business owner or manager. Two, I’m a small business owner or manager. Bates: Josh, it reminds me of when I was doing web sites back in the day in 2000 and 1998 and instead of going and being able to buy a shopping cart you had to code the shopping cart from scratch. My name is John Bates.

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Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Instead of spending 4 years at university, I spend 4 years starting 2 internet companies that failed. What is the first step in creating an internet-based business (After planning) ? Ideally you can pay them based + equity so that you’ll get their attention and focus on the project. The way I do it. How does that usually work?

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Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

David Teten

JUNE 7, 2011

Until recently, most Internet innovation has centered around improvements — big improvements, but incremental ones nonetheless — to existing business models and familiar social structures: Amazon is the ultimate retail destination, Zipcar the ubiquitous rental-car agency; Meetup is a sewing circle on steroids.

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Darfur Sudan Cofounder United Kingdom 122

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. One investor played chicken with me by threatening not to approve my next-round financing unless I gave him more equity. The management team wasn’t strong enough. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0,

Entrepreneur 176

Entrepreneur Startup Salary Egypt 176

Austin Startup

JULY 23, 2010

The company creates the leading software in an enterprise niche called pricing optimization and margin management. So why would you not think that internet retailers are interested in maximizing pricing as well? Most people don’t really think of pricing as an elastic thing. An item’s price is the price.

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Balance Sheet Private Equity LP IPO 67

Pascal's View

AUGUST 21, 2011

This time, the debate centers on the “favored few” Social Media venture backed companies that have brought tremendous windfalls to a select group of venture funds and management teams, both pre- and post-IPO. For me Bubble will always be inexorably linked to what went down in 1999 and 2000 in the internet sector.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

declined Microsoft’s offer (summer 2000) to be the first enterprise software company with a.NET product (a Microsoft employee came back from a follow-up meeting with Allen and said “He reminds me of a lot of CEOs of companies that we’ve worked with… that have gone bankrupt.”). During this year they.

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Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The team over at Overto felt the lack of at least one full-time resource was the primary reason for their failure writing : We thought we’d able to run internet service after hours. So, the best way of dealing with this issue is to take a long, long vesting period for all major sweat equity founders.”. To some point that was true.

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Cofounder Startup Technical Cofounder CTO Hire 89

Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2013

With the internet access available almost everywhere finding an investor, nowadays, is just a Google search away. The site has more than 1,000 member-managed groups and VCs, with 40,000 investors and more than 1,800 startups funded in the last 12 months. It is more of a social networking for raising equity. Startup Funding'

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North America Angel Investor Accredited Investor Silicon Valley 40

The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

“Many of you in this room in 20 years time will be in business and you’ll be managers. Living in the inner city of Manchester gave me the experience to draw on as a manager later in life. There have been a few VCs that I’ve worked with that have management experience in internet businesses.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I soon found that yoga taught me 2000-year-old strategies, to be more present with my kids, be more patient with my family and feel more calm and energized at the same time! At the same time it seemed that whenever I would have a conversation with a friend, family member, colleague, manager, executive–you name it!–about

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