Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. By 2000 the total LP commitments had mushroomed to more than $100 billion. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin!

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

The management team wasn’t strong enough. The VC sense of accomplishment or failure is blunted by being slightly removed and by the portfolio effect. before the really profitable years of social networking and when many in the industry were despondent. I think it looks something like the graph below. It was 2007.

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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.”). Company: Home Portfolio.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

The management team wasn’t strong enough. The VC sense of accomplishment or failure is blunted by being slightly removed and by the portfolio effect. before the really profitable years of social networking and when many in the industry were despondent. I think it looks something like the graph below. It was 2007.

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Entrepreneur Startup Salary Egypt 176

Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2013

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. 3) Keiretsu Forum - Founded in 2000, it claims to be the largest angel investor network in the world. Startup Funding'

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 10, 2008

No manager in their right mind would fire the technical lead of a big software project. And if your manage isn’t in their right mind, it’s probably time to find another job. If you were a manager forced to layoff 10% of your team, who would you let go? Start a MicroISV Build it or buy it , it doesn’t matter.

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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. In the era of social networks, LinkedIn, Facebook messaging, Quora and email addresses that are easily guessable, it’s easy to think that maybe you should just approach a VC directly. They seem so reachable.

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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. There were no social networks, let alone sharing economy then, so it took a while to take off. In your first M&A, it’s easy to believe you can manage two brands and two platforms. It becomes too complicated.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Its i-nigma solution comprises of a mobile multi-barcode reader application and an integrated platform for managing barcode services. This allows customers to create, manage and track processes that include tagging of physical objects using barcodes. Flash Networks. Established back in 2003, Comarcom Ltd.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2008

Bessemer Venture Partners lists an anti-portfolio of investments they passed on that includes Apple, Ebay, Intel, and Google. I was previously a founder of Bizmetric in 2000 (your firm chose not to invest) and am now working on a startup using 3D architectural visualization for green building. February 15, 2008 2:08 PM. Anonymous said.

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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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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. Social networking finally came of age connected the planet and leading to enormous wealth creation for Facebook employees and investors.

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