David Cohen

MARCH 30, 2020

In 2000, the Internet bubble burst. In 2001, the towers were hit. We raised a lifetime grand total of $100,000 for that business in the form of advance payment from early customers. In 1999, we sold that business and I started angel investing. By 2002 the NASDAQ had fallen by nearly 80%. Starting a tech company after this?

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 17, 2016

My whole world blew up in 2001. My portfolio melted down with the bursting of the Internet bubble. The depressive episode only lasted three months, but the s**t show continued through 2002 as most VCs and Internet companies suffered a massive collapse. There was no joy anywhere.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

More people than ever have taken the plunge to go self-employed; the number of self-employed workers has been increasing in the UK since 2001 — and they now account for around 15% of the working population. Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay. Have you thought about making the leap to self-employment?

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 20, 2014

But the USV Opportunity Fund was the first time, at least in the post 2001-Internet bubble cycle (or last decade, if you want to put it that way) where an early stage firm created a separate fund to invest in late stage rounds of their existing early-stage portfolio companies.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 20, 2014

But the USV Opportunity Fund was the first time, at least in the post 2001-Internet bubble cycle (or last decade, if you want to put it that way) where an early stage firm created a separate fund to invest in late stage rounds of their existing early-stage portfolio companies.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 1, 2016

That being said, plenty of the businesses mentioned below require, at a minimum, regular access to a computer, the internet, and perhaps a car. You can list your services on sites like Upwork, 99Designs, or any of the number of other freelance sites available to help build a portfolio and a client base to start. Freelance writing.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

I will use some examples from Parachute and some other portfolio companies to give you examples from our experiences of watching successful brands grow. We seed funded a company a few years ago called Parachute Home that has grown 180% CAGR (compounded annually) and is now doing tens of millions of revenue with very little capital raised.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Make sure to call the companies in that VCs portfolio that didn’t succeed. My chips were down in late 2000 / early 2001. Nobody wanted anything to do with Internet companies. When you finally get back up on your feet again, Everybody wants to be your old long-lost friend. My story briefly. I had 5 investors at the time.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 19, 2016

I began my career at McKinsey and when the Internet bubble burst in 2001, I made a shift towards online software (ASP at the time). What’s the n°1 startup that you wish you had in your portfolio? They are running a series of interviews of European VCs investing in SaaS and I was lucky to be the first one.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 12, 2014

by Forbes magazine publisher Rich Karlgaard and author of “ The Soft Edge: Where Great Companies Find Lasting Success “ Avid market watchers know that the last two months have been devastating to fast-growth Internet stocks. He has been a regular panelist on television’s Forbes on FOX since the show’s inception in 2001.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

He focuses on investments in fintech, the internet, and software. What guidance for your portfolio companies? I think every company’s portfolio is different, so they’re all different sizes, different stages, different geographies, different cash positions, and different market leadership positions. . Welcome, David.

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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. The best start-up I ever invested in went bankrupt in 2001. Also, because I have equity in multiple tech start-ups I gain portfolio diversification benefits (meaning Im more likely to get lucky).

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David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

He then led the growth of the domain services division, expanded into the aftermarket business and built Oversee’s owned and operated portfolio of domain names into one of the worlds largest, firmly establishing the company as a leader in Internet real estate. Mr. Geleerd has been a member of YPO since 2000.

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Agile VC

JULY 19, 2012

Back in the 2000-2001 timeframe, a flood of LP capital was coming into the VC asset class given the strong returns of the mid-late 90s tech boom/bubble. In the midst of the internet & telecom meltdown at the beginning of the 2000s, as a firm CRV realized there were insufficient opportunities to profitably invest $1.2B.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

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. I got my greencard approval in 2001, a few months after 9/11. Besides I was a young, first-time entrepreneur at the age of 23.

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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). More importantly, building global networks is key in order to optimize exit opportunities for portfolio companies.

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37signals.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Browse by visual style, portfolio, budget, and geographic location. Most Internet marketing does not work that way. You’re essentially saying “Don’t worry about Internet marketing. ”), but the original 2001 iPod itself had nothing to do with the internet. Looking for a job?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

This conversation seems to come up very frequently these days both with portfolio companies and with entrepreneurs just looking for mentorship. As anyone raising money in April 2000, September 2001 or September 2008 can tell you that. This would weigh into my decisioning criteria if I were raising money now.

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 8, 2012

A few months ago, my friend Joe Green sent me a video titled, “ The Internet is My Religion ”: In it, Jim Gilliam gives us a short tour of his life’s story. First, following the tragedy of September 11, 2001, Jim became an activist for a better America and produced a series of compelling documentary films to further his cause.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 14, 2011

These are some of those factors that will power change in your business: More Knowledge And Experience When I started my Internet infopreneur voyage , I didn’t even know if writing was my strong suit. Dr. Mani Get your bonus copy of my book "How To Start An Internet Business & Make Your First $1,000 Online" Download Here.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Back in 2001 I worked with a consultant who was a developer when times were really good, and a trainer when times were really bad. In fact, growth stage software and internet technology companies are taking advantage of the slow economy to upgrade their talent corps with quality IT specialists who have been laid off. at 3:47 pm [.]

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David Teten

AUGUST 1, 2020

The movement was born at the 2001 World Racism Conference at Durban as an attempt to pressure Israel, despite the ongoing support of Israel’s government and citizens for a two-state solution. . of the world’s internet population. Boycotts can be effective when buyers have an alternative.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

I don’t worry about my anti-portfolio. Just to talk a bit more about this,, I was talking with a VC that you know well about my portfolio company, Chipper Cash. Relatedly, I look at companies like Deciens’ portfolio company, Treasury Prime , or some of its peers and I wonder. Dan Kimerling: I love 2001: a Space Odyssey.

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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.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Similarly, my research on venture capital portfolio operations found that Portfolio Operator VCs such as Andreesen Horowitz , First Round Capital , ff Venture Capital , and Google Ventures are hiring unusually large teams and structuring them in traditional pyramids. Notes: Only for IT & related sectors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2011

David: I’m also a serial entrepreneur who has founded half a dozen companies, including Angelsoft, which provides the underlying Internet infrastructure for most of the world’s organized angel investing ecosystem. My first Internet venture in the early 1990s took about $20 million in venture capital to get to our product launch.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

As a registered user of The Wall Street Journal Online, you will be able to: Setup and manage your portfolio. The Wall Street Journal is phasing out support of the Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) browser. The Wall Street Journal is phasing out support of the Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) browser. Internet Explorer. Todays Paper.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 8, 2010

J erusalem Venture Partners successfully raised $25 million for an annex fund to strengthen the portfolio companies in the Israel-focused JVP IV which closed in 2001. The aim of the fund is to support existing investments by “enhancing their business propositions&# and preventing premature sales in a downturn. Will it work?

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

2001 ; Tullis et al., 2000-2001 , Tullis et al., Although studies of screen reading show no difference between reading from screen and from paper ( Dillon, 1992 ; Bernard, 2001 ), there could be some validity to this argument. However, this has not been borne out by recent evidence ( Bernard, 2001 , Boyarski et al.,

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

When I actually started my PR firm in 2001, I had the name and the LLC already, so that’s what I went with, and in 2009 we rebranded to simply be The Eisen Agency. I checked to see if any other Internet marketing companies were using it, found they were not, bought the domain name, and my business partner helped with the legal side.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

In October of 2001, Webster, McCarthy, and Graff decided to do just that and GoldStar was born. Carbonmade helps over 100,000 people create online portfolios that require zero HTML skills. The trio quickly realized that it was a lose-lose situation for both the consumers and the venues, and decided to take action. “No How’d they do it?

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BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 20, 2006

As I look across our portfolio, what is interesting is that while the comparative advantage of developing in say, India, was once 4 to 1 it is looking like it is more 2:1 or lower as you factor in costs like management overhead, travel, etc. The last graph is quite interesting as it relates to us technology folks.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

https://medium.com/media/cc969482e7abf6b75d3c0958c8ee409d/href I moved to Los Angeles in 2007 and as a VC who had built his career as a programmer, database designer, program manager, CEO then VP Products at Salesforce, I wanted to build a portfolio of software investments. I asked Jonah in my interview how he became this viral guru.

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