2001 IP Partner Technical Review 
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 13, 2010
Within a year, by late 2000 / early 2001 consulting firms were firing people en masse. On July 27th, 2001 Accenture IPO’s and many of the partners grew fabulously wealthy. The size of magazines seems to be expanding, marketing seems to be up and the number of tech announcements per day is dizzying.
dashes.com
SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
Its great that were in such a fertile phase for the tech industry that lots of people have new ideas, and Im very flattered that people value my input or ideas enough to want to share their projects with me. I have to pay a lawyer to review a document without having any idea why Im making that investment. But signing an NDA ?
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Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 25, 2010
We were trying to optimize around a few criteria: price, size of round, number of syndicate partners and, of course, terms. We moved into the legal process and final due diligence in January and February of 2000. I lived through this again September 2001. We ended up agreeing a term sheet for $16.5 Yes, this was stupid.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 27, 2010
Most of what I learned about operating startups I learned from the really tough years at my first company from 2001-2003. My company had raised venture capital in April 2001 but we were told that there may never be any more coming. I learned how to do a pipeline review with sales people without getting bullshitted to.
blog.expensify.com
APRIL 24, 2012
Guess which technology we have the least trouble with. You have a CEO that clearly hasn’t taken the time to understand a technology platform. who forms technology biases based on old Visual Basic stereotypes or shallow interpretations of. ability based on one of many technologies. March 25, 2011 at 1:36 pm.
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