BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

Along these lines, we are starting to hear serverless more and more from the Fortune 500 and see this trend reflected in the sales pipeline at iopipe which has gone from mostly startups to larger companies. Look at 2001 and 2008’s Lehman collapse and Sequoia RIP Good Times deck for lessons learned.

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Stealth Advisory Board Cloud Virginia 79

genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Before you agree to take equity in lieu of cash, you need to understand that any individual early stage start-up company equity is most likely going to be worthless. The best start-up I ever invested in went bankrupt in 2001. Even the best venture capital firms have a lot of failures and few successes. what your rights are.

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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. During the down market they were able to double down on recruiting, sales, outsourcing, new market entries and marketing (yes, with Tiger ads ).

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Turkey Differentiation IP Technical Review 302

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 2, 2012

IPOs by year, 1980-2011, with pre-IPO last 12-month sales less than (small firms) or greater than (large firms) $50 million (2009 purchasing power). The real truth is, since the "Internet bubble" burst in 2001, initial public offerings have not resumed the vitality levels of the late 1980s, let alone the boom years of the '90s.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

Bullpen is one of a growing number of early-stage funds - or, perhaps more accurately, "earlier-stage," since even his is no longer the first out of the gate. stock market: The change led by NASDAQ in early 2001 to valuing stocks in increments from one-eighth of a dollar down to one cent. Number of U.S.

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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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thebarefootvc

AUGUST 26, 2015

However, many variables come into play when investing at the early stage. A VC’s job is to spot sustainable trends while they are in formation stages, and form a point of view on the timing of the adoption of those trends.

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thebarefootvc

AUGUST 26, 2015

However, many variables come into play when investing at the early stage. A VC’s job is to spot sustainable trends while they are in formation stages, and form a point of view on the timing of the adoption of those trends.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 26, 2015

However, many variables come into play when investing at the early stage. A VC’s job is to spot sustainable trends while they are in formation stages, and form a point of view on the timing of the adoption of those trends.

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Marketing Investment Bankers Valuation China 40

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. Fund raising (as is much of life) is a sale – pure and simple. As with any sales campaign you need to: Qualify your buyers early so you focus your scarce resources on people likely to buy your product. .

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Developer Silicon Valley PR Las Vegas 366

Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Marketing/Sales Channels/Partnerships 0-10%. Looking at the strength of the competition in the market, the target is weaker (75% of norm) but early customer feedback on the product is excellent (Other = 100%). The company needs some additional work on building sales channels and partnerships (80% of norm).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

I lived through this again September 2001. VC, sales, biz dev, M&A or otherwise. I’ve offered to fund an early stage company where I promised cash in bank in less than 30 days. I lived through this again September 2001. VC, sales, biz dev, M&A or otherwise. Anybody who didn’t close was dead.

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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. At Fliqz, we met or exceeded the sales plan every month during the due diligence process. Total amount raised fell from $7.5 billion to $5.5 billion quarter over quarter.

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Venture Capital Silicon Valley San Jose Bootstrapping 28

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

I stayed up late every night after a day of meetings doing email until 3am so that I didn’t feel out of touch with our product and sales pipelines. Then I got engaged to be married in late 2001 and had the motivation to get really serious. Dinners were consumed with customers or in hotels and often past 10pm.

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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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David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

That sales process is harder when strangers are biased against people like you. One of the reasons I wrote a book about online networks a decade ago was that I saw their power to make sales more efficient, particularly for people who were not a priori in the right networks. For early-stage founders, I suggest AngelList and Crunchbase.

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