Pascal's View

AUGUST 12, 2009

First, the National Venture Capital Association has published data revealing that over 90% of the jobs created by venture-backed companies occur AFTER they go public—and this relationship holds over the past 40 years.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Are they running from high prices, high taxes, dysfunctional government, and wildfires? Or are they running to a fresh perspective, a massive talent pool, and an innovation culture that balances social impact with global domination? All of the investors, all of the big companies, all of the government groups?—?they

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

There are some obvious structural reasons why a shakeout in the venture capital industry takes a long time. There was a healthy amount of capital ($20-30B annually) invested in VC funds during the 2003-2008 timeframe. In the mid 2000′s VC’s were largely prospering.

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

As we all know, the last ten years has seen a near-total collapse of the innovation cost curve, thanks to the perfect storm of open-source, cloud infrastructure, and “free” global distribution via search, social and app stores. When the cost to start a company fell dramatically things started to change.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Over the past two years, one of the most influential venture-capital firms has turned the usual rules of start-up investing on its head. In the early days of venture capital, when money was scarce, entrepreneurs often gave up control of their company in exchange for their first investment funds. LUBLIN And SPENCER E.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

Already, thousands of people had started creating their own globally accessible web pages focused on whatever they wanted. And you didn’t need to get permission from the government or corporate gatekeepers. It was a much, much bigger deal — a new, open, incredibly generative way of connecting and empowering people.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

It is also intriguing to see that the market bottom was reached only two years after the start of the decline for the 1929, 1973 and 2000 crises, so we might need another year before the market reaches it lowest point. Is Government a good idea? Venture Capital. (3). Global warming: a plague for humanity?

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Pascal's View

APRIL 5, 2016

My inaugural keynote lecture focused on the challenges and opportunities for Salzburg to become a global center of innovation excellence. But it is not enough to simply have technology tools and risk capital in hand to build a sustainable innovation ecosystem. In my view this commitment to collaborate is in place.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 6, 2019

She is the Founder and Managing Partner of Backstage Capital, a venture capital firm dedicated to minimizing funding disparities in tech by investing in high-potential founders who are people of color, women, and/or LGBT. They play a significant role in unlocking tech diversity. The @HBCUCaucus is headed to @SXSW !

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

O’Reilly’s article describes two businesses from his own career at O’Reilly—the Global Network Navigator (GNN) web portal, which he sold to AOL, and the Website web server, which eventually fell by the wayside. Thanks to the internet and other globalizing technologies, the entire world has entered the Networked Age.

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thebarefootvc

AUGUST 31, 2018

Interestingly, Satis, a blockchain advisory firm, published a report this past week (link below) that predicts offshore markets for cryptocurrency will be main drivers of crypto market growth, citing a loss of confidence in government monetary policy around the world. The post Drinking from a Firehose appeared first on The Barefoot VC.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

The Internet bull market continued to run for four more years after the Open Market IPO, finally ending in the spring of 2000. The average venture capital fund raised between 1995 and 1997 returned more than 50% per year. Matrix had a fund in 1998 that yielded an eye-popping 514+% IRR. The point here isn’t to be Pollyannaish.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And then medium-size businesses start to use it, and then large businesses start to use it, and then eventually the government starts to use it. And now all of a sudden you have got this global market of all these early adopters that have smartphones connected to the Internet, and they can just pick up their things and run with them.

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Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 6, 2016

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. Both of these companies are mission-driven, bottom-line for profit companies that raised lots of venture capital money, hired great people and built businesses focused on generating profits.

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Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

Amount of venture capital raised has exploded. ii. Bubble period 1996-2000 totals $243.6 2003: Spitzer’s Global Research Analyst Settlement, which had the unintended effect of depriving small companies from getting research coverage. i. Pre bubble period 1991-1996 totals $28 billion. cents or 6.25 cents or 6.25

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