2001 Finance Internet Matching 
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
Over the same 30 years, Venture Capital firms have honed their skills and strategies to match Wall Streets needs to achieve liquidity for their portfolio companies. The boom in Internet startups would last 4½ years until it came crashing down to earth in March 2000. Warning sign? Say 40 years = 20 years real direct experience.
abovethecrowd.com
FEBRUARY 27, 2019
Fortunately, the rise of the Internet, and specifically Internet marketplace models, act as accelerants to the productivity benefits of the division of labour AND comparative advantage by reducing information asymmetry and increasing the likelihood of a perfect match with regard to the exchange of goods or services.
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genylabs.typepad.com
SEPTEMBER 24, 2011
Interest in this waned when the Internet bust resulted in most tech start-up equity becoming worthless, but it seems to be coming back. 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.
Steve Blank
JANUARY 17, 2016
The features didn’t match what ultimately the customers would buy or wanted. ” This was around 2001. Everybody doesn’t have hi-speed Internet. If you can’t hear the clip, click here. I was like, “… It’s going to be big. The lesson there is that if I believed in the vision of what things could be. …
Ben's Blog
MARCH 24, 2011
Since so many distinguished people report a broad variety of qualitative bubble signs, let’s attempt to pattern match the quantitative data. Let’s look at public market comparables and venture capital flows to see if we can find a match. The Long Awaited Arrival of the Internet Boom. And hence the great crash of 2000 and 2001.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 16, 2012
There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. I’ve raised in boom markets and when everybody thought the Internet was a fraud. I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. Of course much of it is conflicting.
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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