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. While there was an occasional bad apple, the public markets rewarded companies with revenue growth and sustainable profits.

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Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217

K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Direct Revenue, meaning no three-way business models and no advertising, media, or content. In late 2000, early 2001 I started my second company to test whether I can build a successful company again. MK : Initial investments are typically around $400,000 to $500,000, typically part of a Pre-Seed round of financing.

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San Francisco Early Stage Portfolio Software Engineering 48

Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 5, 2011

Today is Finance Friday and post #2 has been drafted by the Finance Friday team from University of Chicago Booth and is waiting for my edits. In 1999, 2000, and 2001 I had a my.yahoo.com page up with a bunch of stocks, including a number of companies I was an investor in, as my home page. It’s just sport.

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Stock Entrepreneur Chicago Finance 155

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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Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

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. And hence the great crash of 2000 and 2001. It’s the valuation:value ratio. Much better.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Valuation Database 78

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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SEC Accredited Investor IPO Technical Review 36