Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Within a year, by late 2000 / early 2001 consulting firms were firing people en masse. On July 27th, 2001 Accenture IPO’s and many of the partners grew fabulously wealthy. “Reality is, at the seed stage, most rocketships look more like the cardboard variety you’d make as a kid than something NASA developed.

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Turkey Differentiation IP Technical Review 302

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

A year ago I blogged about one of my most common mantras that applies to sales, biz dev & fund raising alike: “ Time is the Enemy of all Deals.&#. million and you’re an early stage business this is probably a fair deal. As anyone raising money in April 2000, September 2001 or September 2008 can tell you that.

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Pre-Money Valuation Dilution Valuation PR 303

View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession. And even for early stage startups, VCs raise eyebrows at companies that have modest gross margins. VC funding for startups is drying up quickly. 2020 and Beyond?

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IPO Early Stage Cofounder B2C 202

entrepreMusings

APRIL 29, 2010

With about 1,000 things to juggle I can’t seem to find the time to write blog posts, let alone read which spurs some of my ideas on what to write about. So here’s a copy of what I wrote for the Austin Technology Incubator blog on the Idea to Product Competition I judged last weekend: Idea to Product Competition April 2010.

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Product Incubator Austin Later Stage 28

Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Although I don''t blog for the sake of blogging, I am committed to writing more regularly this year. Former students who are readers of this blog may recall the Amazon IPO case from Entrepreneurial Finance class. Those that managed companies in 2008 or thirteen years ago in 2001 know exactly how fear feels.

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Las Vegas IPO Pre-Money Valuation Valuation 28

David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Leading Late-Stage Technology Investors’ Portfolio by Geography, 2001-1Q2010. Battery & Sequoia data only include late stage/growth equity deals. Their late stage deals outside of the venture centers outperform by ~5% vs. those in the venture centers; early stage deals outperformed by ~4%.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Equity 114

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession. And even for early stage startups, VCs raise eyebrows at companies that have modest gross margins. VC funding for startups is drying up quickly. 2020 and Beyond?

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IPO Early Stage Cofounder B2C 100

Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

million for the year, which is the first time it has been below $5 million since 2001, a sign that capital efficiency will be even more important than it has. Blog Archive. I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases.

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Venture Capital Silicon Valley San Jose Bootstrapping 28

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2011

The second company in which I invested, back in 2001, was a novel concept from the serial entrepreneur who invented social networking. David: The exponential development of technology has begun to cause deep and fundamental changes to the world of early stage finance. The third company is still alive.

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New York Accredited Investor Advisory Board IRR 221

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch ran my article yesterday as a guest post but I wanted to have a copy here for anybody who missed it and for future readers of this blog. Then I got engaged to be married in late 2001 and had the motivation to get really serious. This is a slightly longer version and also has an update at the end. I thought that, too.

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Entrepreneur Silicon Valley San Diego Non-Compete 308

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

I have come up with several business names over the years and one of my recent ventures had a clever name that I thought fit perfect for your blog. It happens so often that we decided to include it in a Q&A Blog post on our page. #4 – We Brainstormed It. Image Credit: Andrew Greer. Thanks to Carey Balogh, Brand Groupies !

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Naming Entrepreneur LLC Software Review 48

Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

There are a number of trends concerning IPOs and capital formation to note: First, the raw number of IPOs has declined significantly: From 1980-2000, the US averaged roughly 300 IPOs per year; from 2001-2016, the average fell to 108 per year. 44% 2001-2019 13.7% First, as the below chart shows, IPO pops are not a new phenomenon.

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