Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

The A round was done in February 2000 (end of the bull market) and my B round was done in April 2001 (bear market). << we then discussed the need to do trademarks on your company and your key brand names. Most importantly we talked about my good friends at Okta who were financed by Andreesen Horowitz.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

There are a number of trends concerning IPOs and capital formation to note: First, the raw number of IPOs has declined significantly: From 1980-2000, the US averaged roughly 300 IPOs per year; from 2001-2016, the average fell to 108 per year. 1999-2000 51.6% Time Period IPO Pop % Above IFR 1999-2000 51.6% 1999-2000 37.5%

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

Last Tuesday, while I was enjoying a week off the grid, AvidXchange announced they had raised a $225 million financing led by Bain Capital Ventures. This was an atypical investment for us as we participated in the financing through our Foundry Group Select fund. In 2000, Mike co-founded AvidXchange and has been building it ever since.

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OnlyOnce

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Fred Wilson has been a venture investor and director in Return Path since 2000, first with Flatiron Partners and then with Union Square Ventures. A distant third price is the VC who gives you two names and ask for time to prep them ahead of time. Selecting Your Investors. We’ve been through a lot of wars together.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

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.) The boom in Internet startups would last 4½ years until it came crashing down to earth in March 2000. Warning sign?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

I’m honored to be at a university noted for knowledge, and in a city with 2000 years of history – home of Gaudí one of the 20 th century’s greatest innovators. I’m sure many of you have heard his name. President Bieto, Dean Sauquet, members of the faculty, distinguished guests, and ladies and gentlemen….Thank Now look around.

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

In the great bubble of 1998-2000, the boom in public valuations mirrored the boom in private valuations. Similarly, in recent high profile private financing rounds for private technology companies with valuations over $1B, the valuation multiples were at or below corresponding multiples for publicly traded companies such as Google.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

And so it happened that between 2000-2008 I was the biggest buzz kill at dinner parties. We jockey to make sure the press release has our names on it. That would mean that the increased number of new business startups will lead to a “funding gap&# of deals that can’t get financed. There are too many deals.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

We grew it to just under 20 people and were acquired at the height of the bubble in 2000. In late 2000, early 2001 I started my second company to test whether I can build a successful company again. MK : Initial investments are typically around $400,000 to $500,000, typically part of a Pre-Seed round of financing.

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finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

Exclusive: Returns for brand-name VC funds By Dan Primack August 20, 2012: 12:15 PM ET. We agreed to withhold the name of the fund-of-funds manager and to not post the source documents, as a condition of receiving the materials. Accel Partners VII (2000): 122% (97%). ARCH Venture Fund V (2000): 41% (11%). Finance jobs.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

That’s the deal you get when you’re raising in a good market for startup financing. It was early 2000. Why you shouldn’t stack too many brand names into a round. That’s fine. What I caution entrepreneurs from doing is raising money at significantly ABOVE market valuations. I raised my A round at a $31.5

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. It became a huge kerfuffle with many VC partners writing to thank me for the post, which exposed those that gave their industry a bad name. And then I was mortified – Valleywag figured out which firm had treated me the worst and published their names.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

My finance career began with a long commute and a cramped cubicle. 18 months and 2000 hours later I finished coding the software and released it. The name is Oh Yeah Beats and each client (big or small) can too chant Oh Yeah. Thanks to Danavir Sarria, SupplyDrop ! #4- 4- Get away from personal problems.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Finance | Tuesdays. Naming a Business. Financing a Small Business. Financing A Small Business. Personal Finance. Jumpstart was one of Grahams first clients; it signed on shortly after he founded Arizona Bay, in 2000. Kyle retained the right to name the third board member. Start-up | Mondays.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Productive Programming - Gabriel Weinberg , August 31, 2010 BIG disclaimer: I'm not formally trained in computer science (aside from two classes at MIT in 2000) and I haven't worked closely with that many programmers or teams (maybe 10 or so). Paul Graham kicked it off by noting that all the financings in the recent YC batch were converts.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2013

1990s to 2000: Infrastructure, Security, Management, etc. 2000 to 2005: CRM, SFA, ERP, Payroll, Analytics, etc. 2005 to Today: Retail, Manufacturing, Finance, Government Specific, etc. This observation is also mirrored by the higher spend in IT budgets across most industries.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2022

One when scale started to kick in, when we hit the, you know, 200 employees at the head office, 2000 employees system wide, it started to get complex and a little bit outside of my sandbox. So, you know, Brian did not need someone to run finance in it cuz he liked finance in it. I knew what to do. Let's just crank through this.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

More than 2000 years after the first coin was minted in ancient Asia Minor, the world of dollar bills, central banks and the traditional banking system is being disrupted by cryptocurrencies – and there’s way more to this new world than just Bitcoin.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Finance | Tuesdays. Naming a Business. Financing a Small Business. Financing A Small Business. Personal Finance. Before Roving Software could receive its first round of financing from professional investors, in early 1999, he had to put all the stock arrangements in writing. Copyright © 2000 inc.com.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Moreover, the American labor force gained over ten million more working proprietors between 2000 and 2011. Of course, much of the losses in wages and salaries were a result of the recession but the proprietor trend has steadily increased every year since 2000. Of course, underpinning many of these connections are payment transactions.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

Provigent, which was founded in 2000, raised $55 million from international and Israeli venture capital firms. The Tel Aviv center will support Barclay’s international finance operations and expand the British bank’s equities and prime services among others.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

NAME Comcast. NAME Verizon Communications. NAME Yahoo. NAME Shikhar Ghosh. NAME Toby Stuart. NAME Daniel Dreymann. NAME Charles Holloway. NAME David Cowan. The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says. Finance, Banking, Loans, etc.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

They made great introductions, they helped you get financed, the put in more money themselves, they helped you strategically and they helped you with your exit. My chips were down in late 2000 / early 2001. One small hack – go to LinkedIn and do a search for the company name. For some reason most entrepreneurs do.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

So when you take a look at the major causes and decrease in firm value, and once again, I'm talking fortune 2000 firms, but I think it attracts to smaller businesses too. Well, we spend upwards of 90% of our brain cycles and companies focusing on finances and operations, right? You know, the question is, you know, what are those?

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

First Name. Loading… Personal Finance. Personal Finance. that did so in 1999 and 2000, according to an analysis for The Wall Street Journal by Jay R. Ritter, a finance professor at University of Floridas business school. Finance Jobs |. Why use your real name? another account. Confirm Email.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Wintegra, founded in 2000, has 165 employees with the majority of its R&D development team located in Ra’anana, Israel, and Austin, Texas. STANLEY FISCHER NAMED WORLD’S TOP BANK GOVERNOR FOR 2010. LONELY PLANET RANKS TEL AVIV 3RD HOTTEST CITY.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

” And that turned into, at its culmination, the $2000 course kind of paradigm. Her background is finance. Danny Iny: I think that $2000 price point, which is a little bit iconic in some markets, I think it’s going to start falling away because $2000 is just too much to charge for information.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2020

The folks over at Website Setup published a study where they mentioned some average costs: “Building a good custom website could easily cost $2000 (on the low end). Without a brand name and social proof, growth can be extremely slow. If you want to contribute to general business, marketing, finance, health, etc. That’s branding.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2022

So about, this was like around 2000 ish, I think, or something like that. My name milita tub was an early investor in communities and started the community fund. Enter your name and email address below and I'll send you periodic updates about the podcast. There was a, a guide. So they're looking at for multiple things.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

Every one of these events (with names changed) has happened to companies I’ve worked at or closely with. Imagine how Flurry felt when Steve Jobs called them out by name. One investor played chicken with me by threatening not to approve my next-round financing unless I gave him more equity. Nobody really talks about this.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2010

ClickFox , the Israeli-American startup developing optimization software for customer service centers, announced it has raised $18 million in financing from a syndicate led by Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners (AIP). Founded in 2000, Clickfox was started by Tal Cohen and Nissim Harel.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 9, 2012

Or James Altucher , who has lunches with people like Stephen Dubner (Freakonomics), writes like Penelope Trunk , appears on CNBC to talk finance, and manages to be funny and poignant and inspirational even while writing daily. Of course they all do deserve to be alive, and deserve their success. It’s a milestone by convention only.

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Jeff Hilimire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

So I fly to Queenstown, Raj and I meet with the guy (I keep calling him “the guy” because I can’t remember his name, or maybe I blocked it out of my mind because of what happens next…let’s call him Fred for the rest of the story), and I heda back to the States after a week with a signed contract to build eQueenstown.com for $65,000.

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Babbling VC

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Without naming the name of the companies, I clearly made two investments convinced of the product and that people would love it. Ultimately, money ran out again and this fund decided not to participate in a further financing round. In Germany alone, there was something like 85 active funds in 2000.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

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? For one thing, you’ll learn from his mistakes.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Between working with the co-founders on the strategy, validating concepts with the users, assessing the analytics, driving features and functionality with the team, and working with finance on the new business model, marketing on acquisition, and the warehouse on fulfillment, you can imagine the workload Kate faced on a daily basis.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 17, 2018

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve walked into an organization, they’ve got 2000 names of people that have bought products from and they’ve never sent him a thing. Two weeks is just criminal, that’s a dead lead. John Jantsch: Another one that I see is just you email us. Louis Gudema: Yeah.

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