Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

2 preamble issues having read the comments on TC today: 1: I know that the prices of startup companies is much great in Silicon Valley than in smaller towns / less tech focused areas in the US and the US prices higher than many foreign markets. It was early 2000. This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. That was market.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 17, 2017

We just closed out in 2017 our 10-year early-stage venture fund started in 2000. Venture funds are often measured against the median returns for their vintage, and, while we may have performed better than most, one can only beat the market averages by so much absent a lucky unicorn in the mix. Yes, that has multiple meanings!)

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2014

Examples of some leaders in this space include Ron Conway in Silicon Valley and Brian Cohen , chairman of the New York Angels, who each may have over 500 startups in their portfolio. Individual angel investors have been filling the gap, and now match VCs in total amount invested.

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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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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 27, 2014

Recently I’ve been hearing a lot that there is a new bubble in Silicon Valley. Firstly growth in investment is far slower now than it was then, and secondly at $8bn per quarter total investments now are less than half the Q1 2000 peak. Venture Capital' New York has leapt some way ahead of us.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. August 1995 – March 2000: The Dot.Com Bubble. Filed under: Technology , Venture Capital. Carpe Diem. Breathtaking Scale.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

By attending, you’ll make connections with 80+ of the world’s top social media pros (plus 2000 of your peers) and you’ll discover amazing ideas that’ll transform your social media marketing. Venture Summit Silicon Valley. TechCrunch Disrupt NYC. InfusionCon.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 12, 2009

I liked the Friday, August 7 Wall Street Journal editorial, Washington vs. Silicon Valley , but it does not go far enough. economy: “… Sarbanes-Oxley compliance costs, Eliot-Spitzer’s stock analyst settlement and the economic downturn have created an historic drought in venture-backed companies going public. .

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Gust

OCTOBER 17, 2012

In addition, angels were up against a selection problem: All the best entrepreneurs and opportunities would naturally gravitate to the best venture capital funds, leaving only the “scraps” for angel investors. This is absolutely competitive with venture capital returns. So which is it? Only they’re not.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

The second wave of companies were mainly concentrated in Silicon Valley, and coincided with the rise of platforms (Google, Facebook, etc.) 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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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

At the same time we have seen the start-up ecosystems in New York, London and Berlin emerge as meaningful competitors to Silicon Valley. Those VCs were nearly all situated in Silicon Valley and most companies couldn’t get very far without going to them. It’s no coincidence that these two developments have come together.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2010

This is part of my ongoing series on Raising Venture Capital. Recently I’ve been debating with a number of young startup companies that are raising money in the next few months, “what is the right about of capital to raise at a startup?&#. It’s a tricky question with no clear answer. There are trade offs.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Theres a power struggle underway in Silicon Valley. 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. For now, venture investors are relatively content with the arrangement, as theyve made immense sums along the way. "We

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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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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 18, 2011

Pre Internet Bubble (1995 – 2000). We Need To Be Like Silicon Valley. Venture Capital Matters. The table of contents, as of today, follows. The Boulder Entrepreneurial Community. Boulder As A Laboratory. Before the Internet (1970 to 1994). The Internet Bubble (2001 – 2002). Led By Entrepreneurs.

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 17, 2015

Twenty years ago 3i dominated venture capital in the UK with a very low touch model. Transparency provided by the internet makes this true at all stages, but it’s especially true at the earliest stages where capital requirements have declined precipitously. Uncategorized Venture Capital'

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 13, 2012

In addition, angels were up against a selection problem: All the best entrepreneurs and opportunities would naturally gravitate to the best venture capital funds, leaving only the “scraps” for angel investors. This is absolutely competitive with venture capital returns. So which is it? Only they’re not.

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

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 third wave of podcasting. Podcasts have been around for some time. itunes.apple.com. Masters of Scale?—?

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The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 24, 2012

This comes on top of a lot of other negative news, including leading investors selling shares in the companies above at minimal profits, and CalPERS, traditionally one of the largest investors in venture capital, announcing that they have made a terrible 0.0 per cent return on venture over the last ten years. Here’s why.

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thebarefootvc

AUGUST 31, 2018

Dfinity, an ambitious new protocol for blockchain based cloud computing, raised over $100M in pre-sale funding from Silicon Valley investors including a16z Crypto. The writer would have probably written a similar piece about the internet in 2000. Complete Newsletter linked here: The FPV Blockchain Weekly #28, August 31, 2018.

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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 mid-90s… two co-founded Benchmark Capital (Bruce Dunlevie & Andy Rachleff).

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finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

Term Sheet The latest on private equity, M&A, deals and movements — from Wall Street to Silicon Valley. 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%).

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

And venture capital and entrepreneurship has made life even tougher for the modern corporation. Over the last 35 years venture capital has funded nimble new entrants (on a scale never imagined by Schumpeter ) who exist to exploit discontinuities in technology or customer behavior. It would be nice to hear your thoughts.

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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? Order Here. Now In Print!

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David Cohen

JANUARY 26, 2017

It will probably not be a big surprise to you to know that there is already vibrant startup activity there, as well as some strong venture capital funds. We also talked about the natural rivalry between cities in Australia and related that back to our own experiences with Boulder (vs Denver, vs Silicon Valley, vs the world).

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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. So why would raising venture capital be any different. Conventional wisdom says that you can only build big businesses in Silicon Valley so as a VC you need to be there. ” We went the opposite way.

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Pascal's View

APRIL 5, 2016

But the fundamental concept that entrepreneurs have the freedom to fail, and that, if they are worthy, the resources are out there to support them to try again, is at the core of the culture of entrepreneurial success that defines Silicon Valley. Why is this the case?

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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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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

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 third wave of podcasting. Podcasts have been around for some time. itunes.apple.com.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2008

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. I have noticed this same feeling when making a venture capital or angel investment. Labels: angel investing , entrepreneurship , venture capital. The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic. Congratulations on the Best Venture Capital Investment.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 21, 2011

question in venture capital. This time, the debate centers on the “favored few” Social Media venture backed companies that have brought tremendous windfalls to a select group of venture funds and management teams, both pre- and post-IPO. Welcome to the latest passionate debate over the ‘valuation bubble or not?’

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abovethecrowd.com

AUGUST 23, 2020

If you are looking past or through Covid — and why not, all of Wall Street is — the topic du jour in Silicon Valley is Special Purpose Acquisition Companies, or SPACs. The traditional way of going public is systematically broken and is robbing Silicon Valley founders, employees, and investors of billions of dollars each year.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Coupled with my participating preferred from 1999 and 2000 I had more than $55 million of liquidation preferences. I’m assuming this in Silicon Valley, LA or similar locations. Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capital. married with kids vs. single and 25 years old).

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

That option involved trying to get a job at a young Silicon Valley company that had just gone public and would, in a few short years, crash and burn, lay off everyone, and quickly fade into oblivion. And then in the space of a few short years, things changed completely, especially where I was fortunate enough to live, Silicon Valley.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2011

Is this tech bubble as broad as the 1995-2000 dot.com bubble – no. And it appears that at least in Silicon Valley, a larger percentage of money made in the last tech bubble is recirculated back into investments into the next generation of tech startups. In 5 to 10 years most of them will be worth a fraction of their IPO price.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch Europe ran an article in November of last year that European startups need to work as hard as those in Silicon Valley and I echoed the sentiment in my post about the need for entrepreneurs to be maniacal about their businesses if one wants to work in the hyper competitive tech world. I thought that, too.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

The firm was founded more than 35 years ago and the team quickly realised that innovation was not confined to Silicon Valley. We opened our office in London in 2000, followed a few years later by Bangalore. Accel has been a big believer in cloud since the early days of this shift.

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