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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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Even the best venture capital firms have a lot of failures and few successes. The best start-up I ever invested in went bankrupt in 2001. Posted by: Atlanta Search Engine Optimization | April 16, 2008 at 07:38 AM. venture capital. However, Ive learned four lessons the hard way: 1. Most tech start-ups fail.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug. There were a sum total of three or four “venture capital” funds in Pittsburgh at the time, and none of them had done much with this new fangled thing called the Internet.

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finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

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. Commonwealth Capital Ventures III (2000): 110% (56%). Crosslink Ventures IV (2001): 246% (104%). General Catalyst II (2001): 149% (53%).

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 26, 2018

Rand Fishkin: I think one of the challenges is that Silicon Valley startups are built for a very specific asset class, venture capital, which is an asset class that’s designed to invest in 100 companies and three or four of them will return the entire fund and another 10 will be doing okay. I don’t get it. Yeah, yeah.

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Babbling VC

MARCH 18, 2018

Michael and I have fairly varied backgrounds but one way or another, they are a combination of entrepreneurship, corporate roles, venture capital and consulting. As a VC we felt we were more focused on the financial engineering side of things and found the role to be almost boring when compared to actually building businesses.

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thebarefootvc

MARCH 8, 2012

I talked about creative disruption and how many significant companies would be formed as a result of this (not dissimilar to what I saw in Silicon Valley while investing post 2001 crash). While the seed capital gap has closed, there are still only a handful of venture capital firms here in NYC investing in the crucial Series A/B rounds.

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Babbling VC

MARCH 18, 2018

Michael and I have fairly varied backgrounds but one way or another, they are a combination of entrepreneurship, corporate roles, venture capital and consulting. As a VC we felt we were more focused on the financial engineering side of things and found the role to be almost boring when compared to actually building businesses.

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Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

Amount of venture capital raised has exploded. iii. Post bubble period 2001-2009 totals $218.2 2001: Decimalization (further loss of economics to provide market support for small companies), by reducing minimum commissions from 12.5 i. Pre bubble period 1991-1996 totals $28 billion. cents or 6.25

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

I've been in venture now twice. The first time was just for a couple years, from 2001-2003, before I went to grad school. I was in Boston, working for the first time in venture capital as an analyst for this guy who was incredible and an amazing mentor. How do you develop power within a venture capital firm?

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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. And the great monetization engines of the Internet were built in LA – Overture (AdWords) & Applied Semantics (AdSense).

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

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. In the early days of venture capital, when money was scarce, entrepreneurs often gave up control of their company in exchange for their first investment funds. LUBLIN And SPENCER E.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

For example, if you were paying close attention to the rise of YouTube in the mid-2000s, you would have understood it wasn’t just going to create new jobs for software engineers – but also a much larger number of new jobs in video production, advertising, entertainment, education, and more. In this regard, I was extremely fortunate.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

We raised a seed round of capital in 1999 and our first venture capital round was the first week of March 2000 (e.g. I had very little cash in the bank yet the stories were still coming out about how we were going to change the world of online engineering and construction. We were based in London.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Founded by Michael Bruno in Paris in 2001, 1stdibs (*) is the world’s largest online marketplace for luxury one-of-a-kind antiques, high-end modern furniture, vintage fashion, jewelry, and fine art. Launched in 2005, Etsy is a leading marketplaces for the exchange of vintage and handmade items. annual GMV.

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VC Cafe

MAY 3, 2012

Inventor Benny Landa, who previously founded digital printing technology company Indigo, which was sold to HP in 2001 for $830 million said:“Each press can print in up to eight colors and operate at 600 dpi or 1200 dpi resolution, at speeds up to 11,000 sheets per hour.”. BG NEGEV LICENSES PARKINSON’S DRUG PLATFORM.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

I am the VP of Engineering at a cutting-edge startup that sells software built on the.NET platform. You whine about how hard it is to find good engineers, then go on and on about how you intentionally avoid at least half of the market for skilled people? It’s also missing the point of engineering anything. Elaine Kenny.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Mark: Google had trouble dealing with customers and contracts because they historically were so engineering driven. While that happens sometimes, it was a challenge for Google because it frequently had trouble adapting from an engineering driven culture. What is the best reporting structure for an engineering team.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Our ventures, in turn, have raised over $2 million in external funding.”. Takwin is a venture capital fund and incubator, making early-stage investments in hi-tech companies run by Arab entrepreneurs in Israel. I’m just highlighting here a few companies who have made recruiting Arab engineers a focus. Takwin Labs.

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