View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2017

I was an early employee at PayPal and back in the 2000-2001 timeframe, and we ended up taking a fairly significant amount of strategic investment (tens of millions of $) from various banks in the US, Europe, and Asia.

Strategic Investors 120

Strategic Investors Post-Money Valuation Seed Stage Cofounder 120

Babbling VC

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Although I probably couldn't of avoided this mistake, I underestimated at how many tables I'd be sitting alone in 2001. Running around Europe trying to find lead investors for these businesses was priority number 1. In Germany alone, there was something like 85 active funds in 2000. We never led rounds. You have to invest the time.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Europe Portfolio Germany 76

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. The information is based on part of a confidential year-end 2011 investment report distributed to investors in a fund-of-funds that made commitments between 1999 and 2001.

Naming 49

Naming Term Sheet Private Equity Equity 49

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). Media outlets, from Mashable to the Wall Street Journal, didn’t think it was an interesting story at the time and it went unpublished.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Ghana Venture Capital India 69

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

In my first company I had to raise money in April 2001 or die. I had just moved back to the US from living in Europe for 11 years. We had never purchased a house in Europe because we always knew we’d move home at some point. And importantly you start thinking about your next gig. That’s when the VC has lost.

Founder 329

Founder Liquidation Preference Term Sheet Participating Preferred 329

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2015

I saw some companies that became truly rancid – even one entrepreneur who flew to Hawaii as his company was melting down and got drunk at an M&A meeting to save his team and he ended up not paying his entire team all of their final expense payments but he flew first class to Europe. I saw this in 2001-2003 and in 2008-2010.

South Korea 150

South Korea Italy Recapitalization Germany 150

Mike Michalowicz

APRIL 11, 2016

Although Nikki spent her childhood in Bermuda, much of her life was spent in Europe attending a variety of schools and trying to escape the school system. Our Guest Although Nikki spent her childhood in Bermuda, much of her life was spent in Europe attending a variety of schools and trying to escape the school system. Our Guest .

Bahamas 60

Bahamas Europe Partner Entrepreneur 60

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. It became a social activity.

Entrepreneur 308

Entrepreneur Silicon Valley San Diego Non-Compete 308

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2009

This was a reasonable achievement when you consider that it was 2001-02, one of the worst years to be selling enterprise software and we were selling it SaaS style, which was still evangelical back then. One such meeting that he set up was with the CIO of the largest consumer products company in Europe. Let me tell you my story.

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Hiring Startup Equity Sales 327

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Netscape and Opsware, which he helped found, went public with single-class share structures in 1995 and 2001, respectively. WSJ Europe Edition. Customer Center. My Journal. Message Center ( new). Edition Home. ↓ More. WSJ.com is available in the following editions and languages: U.S. Deutschland. en Español. AllThingsD.com.

Silicon Valley 42

Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

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.”. MORFLORA FINALIST FOR 2012 RED HERRING TOP 100 EUROPE.

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Denmark Ireland Europe 96

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

DirectX uses a left-hand coordinate system because it was originally written in Europe and called Rendermorphics. Historically in 2D drafting (or ‘draughting’ in Europe) The US and Europe laid the three principal orthographic views (Top, Front, and Side) on the paper in differing layouts. RedneckCodeMachine.

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Java PHP Software Review Coder 107