Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Over the same 30 years, Venture Capital firms have honed their skills and strategies to match Wall Streets needs to achieve liquidity for their portfolio companies. One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is misunderstanding the role of venture capital investors. What Do VC’s Do?

Silicon Valley 217

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

In the early 80’s he left academia to work on venture capital investing with Jim Simons, Renaissance Technologies. The discussion with Howard Morgan starts off by acknowledging Josh Kopelman as a co-founder of First Round Capital. Prior to First Round Capital, Howard had invested in two of Josh’s companies Infonautics Corp.

Pre-Money Valuation 284

Pre-Money Valuation Technical Review Cofounder Cram Down 284

David Teten

AUGUST 7, 2019

Today, some Momentum-centric venture capital investors have high paper returns. Simple reason: most of them have known only a rising market in their careers, and in such a market the companies that are already hot can usually raise more capital and force growth. But VC is historically and consistently cyclical.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Valuation Stock NDA 60

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. As the venture capital business has come roaring back in the last 5 years, startups are awash in available capital.

Private Equity 325

Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 325

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. They have marked-up paper gains propped up by an over excited venture capital market that has validated their investments. We jockey to make sure the press release has our names on it. It is the new cocktail party conversation.

Florida 299

Florida Technical Review San Antonio Los Angeles 299

finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

Exclusive: Returns for brand-name VC funds By Dan Primack August 20, 2012: 12:15 PM ET. FORTUNE -- Its no secret that venture capitalists were hit hard by last decades dotcom bust, considering that median returns for 1998-2001 vintage funds are all underwater. Accel Partners VII (2000): 122% (97%). Posted in: Venture Capital.

Naming 49

Naming Term Sheet Private Equity Equity 49

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Naming a Business. Dave Graham Business Venture Capital Private Equity GlobalLogic Inc. Venture Capital Firms. 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. Tools & Research. Newsletters.

Arizona 40

Arizona Equity Iowa Venture Capital 40

K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

What led you to the venture capital world? 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 : I chose the name K9 for two reasons. Where did you go to school?

San Francisco 48

San Francisco Early Stage Portfolio Software Engineering 48

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

This is part of my ongoing series on Raising Venture Capital. Not so in venture capital. My chips were down in late 2000 / early 2001. One small hack – go to LinkedIn and do a search for the company name. I often tell people that raising money is worse than getting married. My story briefly.

Venture Capital 288

Venture Capital Term Sheet Cofounder Partner 288

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability. August 1995 – March 2000: The Dot.Com Bubble. For a specific startup this list is probably a few hundred names. Wide Adoption. You have to deliver.

Internet 334

Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 334

rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Though after the dotcom collapse of 2000-2001, there are many more than there were! If you’ve begun the process of raising capital, ask the angels or venture capital partners to recommend technologists who consult on a part-time basis. Why are consulting CTOs so scarce? Perhaps the more failures, the better?

Fractional CTO 40

Fractional CTO CTO CTO Hire Fractional VPE 40

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

It was early 2000. We had companies pitching us that had almost no revenue at all and they were raising $10-15 million in capital at a $40-50 million pre-money valuation. Why you shouldn’t stack too many brand names into a round. I raised my A round at a $31.5 million post-money valuation with no revenue. That was market.

Pre-Money Valuation 336

Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Silicon Valley Stock 336

Feld Thoughts

JULY 31, 2014

His name will be familiar to plenty of you – it’s Fred Wilson. This LP is also a long time investor in Union Square Ventures and was one of the first people Fred introduced us to when we started raising the first Foundry Group fund in 2007. Venture Capital fundraising VC'

LP 155

LP Advisory Board Venture Capital Early Stage 155

www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

But the ventures launched in recent years with gobs of venture-capital funding and targeting niche markets have accelerated the movement with user-friendly designs and a tight knit to social networks Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. The dot-com boom of early 2000 saw a proliferation of similar anything-at-your-service start-ups.

San Francisco 105

San Francisco Technical Review Zimbabwe New York City 105

Steve Blank

JUNE 17, 2011

Ben offers that as Apple, Google and Amazon survived the dot.com crash, we can ignore the fate of the thousands of failed public and private dot.com companies when the bubble burst in March of 2000. While Shills have no credibility, Promoters have “brand-name” credibility that makes the Marks trust them.

Investment Bankers 310

Investment Bankers Stock Valuation Venture Capital 310

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

These names aren’t the end of the story?—?they I expect to see more announcements of big name people and companies moving to Texas every month in 2021. in the last four years we’ve seen a 250% increase in venture capital funding and have doubled the number of startup development organizations in our community.”

Texas 90

Texas San Antonio Houston Dallas 90

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Naming a Business. For example, Morse notes that neither C corporations nor venture capital funds structured as partnerships can, by law, be S corporation shareholders. Copyright © 2000 inc.com. Tools & Research. Newsletters. Subscriptions. Advisor. ); STARTUP. Writing A Business Plan. Running A Home-Based Business.

Fractional CTO 40

Fractional CTO Equity Iowa Technical Cofounder 40

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

The DEMO conferences for years has served as the launchpad event for big name companies and has a well earned reputation for consistently identifying tomorrow’s cutting-edge technologies. . Techweek brings together a mixture of entrepreneurs, visionaries, and thought leaders for a week-long celebration of all things tech. Google I/O.

Las Vegas 165

Las Vegas North America Silicon Valley New York City 165

VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

their brands are less developed, so most people would struggle to name a show. In September 2000, the first system that enabled the selection, automatic downloading and storage of serial episodic audio content on PCs and portable devices was launched [6] from early MP3 player manufacturer, i2Go. The second level?—?they’re

Audio 109

Audio Silicon Valley Curation Cofounder 109

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Founded in 2000, Clickfox was started by Tal Cohen and Nissim Harel. Israel’s Jerusalem Venture Partners sold part of its stake in Qlik Technologies Inc. for $112 million in a transaction that returned almost 40 times the Jerusalem-based venture capital fund’s initial investment.

Stock 90

Stock Syndicate Syndication Database 90

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. Is a just and unbiased world of work really possible at this rate?

South Africa 49

South Africa Venture Capital Austin Africa 49

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. SIGNIFICANCE PROMINENT. --> The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail. COMPANY AOL COMPANY|AOL. Ghoshs research.

Venture Capital 107

Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

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. In Germany alone, there was something like 85 active funds in 2000. I learned so much in the years I've been involved with venture capital. Therefore there was a ton of VC's.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Europe Portfolio Germany 76

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

“I don’t know the exact math, but I hear it again and again: the top 2% of firms generate 98% of the returns in venture capital.” In 2000 our industry had more than $100 billion in LP money. By 2009 had reduced to around $15 billion in capital from LPs. So let’s look at the main assertions.

LP 374

LP Later Stage IRR Term Sheet 374

Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

Let’s look at public market comparables and venture capital flows to see if we can find a match. In the great bubble of 1998-2000, the boom in public valuations mirrored the boom in private valuations. Venture capital flows. If too much venture capital hits the streets, valuations will bubble up.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Venture Capital Valuation Database 78

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 14, 2022

She has spent twelve years in startups and built three successful companies without venture capital backing. Because I'm used to doing this live thing and I'm used to making people feel, feel special by calling out their name or answering the question. So my name is Melissa K w a N. This is John Jantsch. Yeah, yeah.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Demand Cofounder Video 84

Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

The remaining company kept the Hewlett Packard name and focussed on computers. And venture capital and entrepreneurship has made life even tougher for the modern corporation. If you drop the sentimentality, a company is a merely a brand-name for a historical context. Agilent is a $5.8

Silicon Valley 164

Silicon Valley RSS California Agile 164

Growthink Blog

APRIL 26, 2017

Yesterday, the NASDAQ crossed the 6,000 mark, its first breakthrough "round number" since 2000 when the widely followed technology index reached 5,000 for the first time. Looking at these famous names and these astronomical numbers, our first thought often can be great for them , but what does it have to do with me and my business ?

Intellectual Property 48

Intellectual Property Social Media Cloud Technology 48

VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

their brands are less developed, so most people would struggle to name a show. In September 2000, the first system that enabled the selection, automatic downloading and storage of serial episodic audio content on PCs and portable devices was launched [6] from early MP3 player manufacturer, i2Go. The second level?—?they’re

Audio 60

Audio Curation Silicon Valley Media 60

David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

In addition, SecondMarket was named one of the Top Fifty Tech Startups You Should Know by BusinessWeek and recognized by Fast Company as one of eight startups "brimming with hope" for the financial industry. Barry was also recognized by Fortune as “One to Watch” in the publication’s annual 40 Under 40 issue.

Private Equity 68

Private Equity Merger IPO Equity 68

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

How To Pitch A Product - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , August 4, 2010 I've said a bunch of times on this blog that the perfect pitch is a very short intro to provide context followed immediately by a demo. More tiers = more complication = more confusion. Dec 26, 2009). Final Thought. and Flipboard newspapers.

Startup 191

Startup CTO Hire Cofounder Venture Capital 191

Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

I happen to be fascinated by the history of the VC industry, and one of the things we discussed at a recent offsite are the common threads behind the rise and fall of great venture capital firms. Some disgruntled younger partners left in the 90s to form what is now Redpoint Ventures (IT team) and Versant Ventures (healthcare team).

Silicon Valley 240

Silicon Valley Carried Interest Cofounder Boston 240

Campus Entrepreneurship

MARCH 19, 2012

From DeSantis : Investments in education-technology companies nationwide tripled in the last decade, shooting up to $429-million in 2011 from $146-million in 2002, according to the Na­tional Venture Capital Association. This isn’t the first ed-tech boom to crowd the market with companies whose names sound alike.

Indiana 54

Indiana Cofounder Chicago Venture Capital 54

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

This was possible because in 2000, Donna and Handspring were in an Existing Market. In contrast, in 2000 Handspring entered an Existing Market. (“ Disruptive ” and “sustaining” innovations, eloquently described by Clayton Christensen , are another way to describe new and existing Market Types.) End result? It was a new product.

Customer Development 196

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 196

Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

Compounding the IPO drought is the fact that the entire NASDAQ market has shrunk—since December 2000 the NASDAQ has contracted by 38% to approximately 1,786 companies. IPOs negatively impacts American entrepreneurs most of all, regardless of whether they have venture capital or private equity backing.

Delaware 37

Delaware IPO Venture Capital Private Equity 37

Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

Amount of venture capital raised has exploded. ii. Bubble period 1996-2000 totals $243.6 Consider the following companies that all raised $50 mm or less when they went public: ADOBE, AMAT, EA SPORTS, YAHOO, XILINX, INTEL , ORACLE, EMC, DELL SYMANTEC, COMPUTER ASSOCIATES, INTUIT, NETAPP, AND PAYCHEX, to name a few.

Equity 31

Equity Securities and Exchange Commission IPO Marketing 31

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

First Name. 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.

Silicon Valley 42

Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42