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Rally Software Acquired By CA Technologies for $480 Million

Feld Thoughts

For example, from a post in 2008 about Rally’s $16.85m financing , I riffed on the origins of the company. I remember my friend Ryan Martens sitting down with me and Chris Wand around 2001 and walking us through his idea for changing the how he approached managing the software development process. Get Agile with Rally Release 5.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

Or worse yet they may never get financed. Raise at “ the top end of normal &# but not so high that future financings in a corrected market become impossible. An obvious example is Google who may have gotten less market attention if there would have been 8 well-financed competitors during the 2001-2005 timeframe.

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Meet Manu Kumar, Chief Firestarter at K9 Ventures

K9 Ventures

In late 2000, early 2001 I started my second company to test whether I can build a successful company again. That company merged with another company in Boston and grew to about 80 people and was acquired in 2005. MK : Initial investments are typically around $400,000 to $500,000, typically part of a Pre-Seed round of financing.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. We will hopefully close on a $2-3 million financing round at some point in January and I can get back to the full time work of running my business. I am very grateful to my friend Zoli Erdos for finding this retro posting for me at web.archive.org.

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I Encourage Entrepreneurs To Ignore The Word “Bubble”

Feld Thoughts

This has been going on for at least a quarter or two, but the velocity of it seems to have picked up with a wave of high priced financings along with large financings for nascent companies. In the tech industry, the great Internet bubble inflated between 1999 and 2000 and deflated (or popped) in 2001.

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Working for Equity Instead of Cash

genylabs.typepad.com

Member since 01/2005. I wont bother going into details on start-up financing terms ( see this post for an overview of typical VC terms) except to say if you dont know and understand: the firms cap table and valuation. The best start-up I ever invested in went bankrupt in 2001. September 2011. August 2011. April 2011. March 2011.

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VC Evolution: Physician, Scale Thyself.

500hats.com

While a flood of new VCs came into existence during the late 90’s internet boom, many had difficulty raising new funds after the crashes of 2000-2001 and 2008 , and as a result significantly fewer fund managers exist now compared to a decade ago. In the past ten years there have been several dramatic changes in venture capital.