Up and Running

AUGUST 18, 2014

Apart from having different ways of thinking about ‘growth’, startups seek financial investment differently than most small business operations. Startups tend to rely on capital that comes via angel investors or venture capital firms while small business operations may rely on loans and grants.

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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?

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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.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

That’s a sizeable amount, especially in comparison to the US venture capital industry, which similarly invests over $20 billion annually. In 2013, 298,800 angels invested in 70,730 entrepreneurial ventures, according to the 2013 Angel Market Analysis by the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

Howard Morgan earned a PhD in Operations Research/Computer Science in 1968. In the early 80’s he left academia to work on venture capital investing with Jim Simons, Renaissance Technologies. Prior to First Round Capital, Howard had invested in two of Josh’s companies Infonautics Corp. and Half.com.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 23, 2012

Venture capital and other forms of seed funding have been crucial for the development of the best online colleges. Many third-party educational organizations exist to maintain online schooling ventures, and these organizations typically receive most of their funding from venture capital firms. By Estelle Shumann*.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. It’s what I love about entrepreneurship and about venture capital. That asset class need not represent the broader market. Why I will still be investing.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 17, 2020

Here are a few thoughts about operating in uncertainty in a pandemic. Revise your sales revenue goals, product timelines and create a new business model and operating plan – and communicate them clearly to your investors and then to your employees. And what’s in my lifeboat?”.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

TL:DR : This post aims to recap significant changes in the venture capital industry over the past ten years, and then make some [biased] predictions as to major forces at play in the next five years. However, all three shifts are related and can be summed up simply as: Geeks are Taking Over Venture Capital.

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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. In fact, it was only 7 years ago that Apple shipped its first iPhone and Google introduced its Android operating system. Thank you for the kind introduction.

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Ben's Blog

JANUARY 31, 2012

The two most obvious are: Why did such a new venture capital firm raise so much money? How did such a new venture capital firm raise so much money? After raising our first round of funding for Loudcloud in 1999, we went to visit our new venture capital firm and meet their full team.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Office and Operations. 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. Naming a Business. How to Incorporate. Financing a Small Business. Franchises. Industries.

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VC Adventure

APRIL 2, 2020

First, the overall trends, which show both a steady increase of returns post the 2000 bubble and show the specific increases post 9/11 and post the 2008 market crash. Focus can be sharper with fewer market distractions as well as the pressure that comes from having somewhat more limited margins within which to operate.

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Altgate

MARCH 3, 2011

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← The Real Reason Google May Fail Operating System for the Classroom Posted on March 3, 2011 by admin By now most people have heard of Sal Khan and the Khan Academy.

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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. There was no repeatable methodology, startups and their VC’s still operated like startups were simply a smaller version of a large company. You have to deliver.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 17, 2017

We all need some disturbance to keep us operating at our potential. We just closed out in 2017 our 10-year early-stage venture fund started in 2000. I heard this morning at All Saint’s Episcopal in Atlanta this excerpt from a pulpit prayer: “Disturb us, Lord, when our dreams come true because we dream too lowly.” Do the math.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). Founded in 2000 in New Brunswick, NJ. 406 Ventures.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 27, 2015

Owner-operated companies with approximately 5-15 employees, VSBs drive one-third of the national economy. Today, that classification has expanded to include the more than three million virtual workers who make a living as freelancers, agencies and e-commerce operators. Hungry for technology.

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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.

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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. billion dollars while admitting it will have operating losses through the end of fiscal 2012.) Filed under: Venture Capital.

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 11, 2013

I was chatting with a friend last night about the lack of institutional investor (LP) interest in European venture capital as an asset class. We both believe that now is an attractive time to invest in European technology startups and started why we think so differently to most of the people we would like to invest in our funds.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 8, 2019

When I started in venture capital in the late 1990s VCs were regularly lambasted for taking long summer holidays and spending too much time on the golf course. This trend accelerated through the emergence of VC and operator blogging in the early 2000s. . Low handicaps weren’t good!

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

This is a story of one of the risks of venture capital. But some companies have entrepreneurs that seem talented on paper, are in a space that seems interesting to investors and are able to raise venture capital early in the company’s existence. He was to head up UK operations. True story.)

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Office and Operations. 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. Naming a Business. How to Incorporate. Financing a Small Business. Buying a Small Business. Franchises. RUNNING A BUSINESS.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

O’Reilly unwittingly illustrates this point by telling the story of Sunil Paul, a friend and a successful serial entrepreneur who filed a patent on the core elements of GPS-enabled ride-hailing in 2000. Yet despite literally patenting ride-hailing in 2000, his own venture, Sidecar, lost out to the more aggressive scaling of Uber and Lyft.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Other companies, like Blue Origin, Firefly Space and Space X are all conducting operations in Texas, both together with NASA and for their own unique space ventures. 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.”

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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. Venture Capital. (3). Explore Venture Capital. So were do we go from here? Favorite Podcasts. (1).

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

According to a report just out, a record 156 operating companies went public in the U.S. That is a 65% increase in the number of IPOs over 2012, and the highest proceeds raised since the year 2000. Twitter was one of the most notable, with a market capitalization now up to $38 billion all by itself.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

Because of the magical ordering system and the ability to efficiently organize a distributed set of drivers, Uber can operate effectively in markets where it simply didn’t make sense to have a dense supply of taxis. The consultant’s prediction, 900,000 subscribers, was less than 1% of the actual figure, 109 Million. New Use Cases.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 30, 2015

Because most internet business concepts were not capable of productively employing tens of millions of dollars of venture capital does not mean they were bad ideas." They might even find themselves operating more efficiently than they ever had been--newly focused on core metrics. They''ll be around 10 years from now.

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The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

I’ve worked in digital businesses since 2000 as Product Manager, ECommerce Operations Director and most recently as Chief Operating Officer (3 companies). The next generation of successful VC firms will combine robust investment experience with practical operational experience.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

SIGNIFICANCE PROMINENT. --> The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. The National Venture Capital Association estimates that 25% to 30% of venture-backed businesses fail. NAME David Cowan.

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Spencer Fry

APRIL 17, 2017

Having started and sold 3 successful bootstrapped businesses, and am now running 1 venture capital backed business ( Coach ), this is a topic I know a thing or two about. Long story short, it’s just not 2000's anymore. The quality bar has never been higher. You’ve raised. But that’s for another blog post.).

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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.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

" Barry Silbert, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, SecondMarket As the Founder and CEO, Barry Silbert is responsible for overseeing the strategic direction and operation of all its markets. Dan began making institutional venture capital investments as the Chief Investment Officer for the PS Capital funds in the second half of.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

In an interview with ReadWriteWeb, Davidson explains how the latest industry to receive the disruption treatment has been the venture capital business itself, with the epicenter of the quake right around San Francisco. They were some great, small banks: Robertson Stephens, Hambrecht & Quist, Alex. The question is why?

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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. Know Your Objective. We declined.

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