Both Sides of the Table
JULY 16, 2010
But VC is an “illiquid asset&# so funds didn’t disappear quickly - In 2000/01 the stock market quickly adjusted punishing investors in the NASDAQ and in individual public technology stocks. side note: our last fund at GRP Partners is currently ranked as the 5th best performing fund of the year 2000.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 2, 2010
It’s also meaningless if they had four $200 million funds and the last one they closed was in 2000. Unfortunately over the period of 2000-2010 the VC industry hasn’t performed well and therefore the number of funds going forward is likely to reduce greatly. GRP’s last fund was in 2000. What is a VC fund?
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Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 12, 2010
In the technology world there are a few websites that most startups track to keep up with the latest financings, acquisitions, product announcements and gossip: BusinessInsider, TechCrunch, Mashable, GigaOm, etc. Is there a bubble going on in seed investing? A recent study said seed stage valuations have been quite static recently.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 20, 2011
Infonautics went public in 1996 and Half.com was sold to eBay in 2000. They chose the name First Round Capital because they thought capital would be deployed most efficiently at smaller seed stage rounds considering the cost to build an internet business had come down drastically. Is a completed product necessary to get funding?
Agile VC
MAY 26, 2011
Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. Yes… he was a very successful PayPal exec and previously co-founder & VP Product of SocialNet. He provided our initial seed funding to launch the website publicly on May 5, 2003. link] leehower. quite encouraging. Read More ».
Genuine VC
AUGUST 3, 2012
The company’s familiarity is along what we consider to be the three most important criteria for an investment in a seed-stage startup – team, market, and product: Team – Two of the co-founders were well-known to the NextView partnership years before a line of code was even written.
Agile VC
OCTOBER 17, 2011
What we refer to as the PC era (the ’80s, ’90s, and early 2000′s) was not just the desktop phase era but more accurately a desktop corporate computing era. It was only in 2000 that a majority of of US homes had a computer. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.
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