Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

An obvious example is Google who may have gotten less market attention if there would have been 8 well-financed competitors during the 2001-2005 timeframe. It’s what I love about entrepreneurship and about venture capital. Those with strong business models suddenly stand out when the tide goes out.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

TL:DR : This post aims to recap significant changes in the venture capital industry over the past ten years, and then make some [biased] predictions as to major forces at play in the next five years. However, all three shifts are related and can be summed up simply as: Geeks are Taking Over Venture Capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

This lasted from about 2001-2004. Since then Mike his built his career by investing in early-stage companies (seed or series A), which is remarkable given that Polaris Ventures is a $1 billion fund. Current round: $2mm Series B from Tomorrow Ventures (Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google) and Lars Hinrichs (Xing founder).

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 3, 2013

They are why I stayed in the venture industry through a difficult decade 2001-2011 and why I’ve now moved to a place where we can make earlier stage investments. Investors will have to change the way they operate though, that’s for sure, and our aim here at Forward is to be in the vanguard of those changes.

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abovethecrowd.com

JANUARY 24, 2014

And the venture capital firms that pulled back in 1996 missed the best three years of return in the history of venture capital industry. Those that managed companies in 2008 or thirteen years ago in 2001 know exactly how fear feels. Internet Uncategorized Venture Capital Investing' And this is not it.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

There was no repeatable methodology, startups and their VC’s still operated like startups were simply a smaller version of a large company. 2001 – 2010: Back to Basics: The Lean Startup. Filed under: Technology , Venture Capital. The Business Plan (Concept- Alpha-Beta - FCS ) became the playbook for startups.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 17, 2016

In 2003 I seriously thought about quitting Mobius Venture Capital. My whole world blew up in 2001. While I was trying to be helpful in general to the firm and my partners, I didn’t like the way we were operating. For the really major decisions, I try them on for 30 days. Here’s an example.

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Pascal's View

JUNE 11, 2009

There is plenty of ink flowing with speculation on the future of the venture capital industry. Phil Wickham , CEO of the Kauffman Fellows Program , has a constructive perspective on this topic, which he expressed in his CEO recap in the Kauffman Fellows Program eBulletin that was published on June 2.

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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. So how did I come to work in the world of venture capital?

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 17, 2013

After I graduated in 2001, I remember it seeming impossible to feel the same way about living in New York City. I''ve mostly sourced people from my own network and from recommendations, but now that I''ve got this operating a little more smoothly, I''ve decided to open it up a bit. It''s My Life Venture Capital & Technology'

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Babbling VC

MARCH 18, 2018

Michael and I have fairly varied backgrounds but one way or another, they are a combination of entrepreneurship, corporate roles, venture capital and consulting. Michael and I wanted to be operational. There are already so many of those and being old enough, I saw the massacre that happened to these endeavours post 2001.

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Babbling VC

MARCH 18, 2018

Michael and I have fairly varied backgrounds but one way or another, they are a combination of entrepreneurship, corporate roles, venture capital and consulting. Michael and I wanted to be operational. There are already so many of those and being old enough, I saw the massacre that happened to these endeavours post 2001.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

I lovingly call him the curmudgeon of fintech – in this episode we go deep into how he is building a venture capital firm and practice, not just running a fund and how he views the world of fintech investing. One of the ones that really bothers me is how Venture Capitalists try and conflate what they do as being complicated.

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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). From then on, I remained convinced that SaaS was a much more efficient model, for both ISVs and customers — although many people remained skeptical on the viability of the model for a long time.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

In an interview with ReadWriteWeb, Davidson explains how the latest industry to receive the disruption treatment has been the venture capital business itself, with the epicenter of the quake right around San Francisco. The question is why? The spread he's talking about is the decimalization of the U.S.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Prior to joining ff Venture Capital , I published the first-ever study of how private equity and venture capital funds originate new investments, with my coauthor Chris Farmer , CEO of SignalFire and an experienced VC. ff Venture Capital. First Round Capital. Acquirer/ Investor. 2009) [ii].

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

I've been in venture now twice. The first time was just for a couple years, from 2001-2003, before I went to grad school. I was in Boston, working for the first time in venture capital as an analyst for this guy who was incredible and an amazing mentor. How do you develop power within a venture capital firm?

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Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Angels typically invest in companies operating in industry sectors with which they are familiar. – Need venture capital. This article was originally written in May 2001, revised extensively in January 2011 and again October 2011. Key partners in place. Need for additional rounds of funding. Another angel round.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Over the past two years, one of the most influential venture-capital firms has turned the usual rules of start-up investing on its head. In the early days of venture capital, when money was scarce, entrepreneurs often gave up control of their company in exchange for their first investment funds. LUBLIN And SPENCER E.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Founded by Michael Bruno in Paris in 2001, 1stdibs (*) is the world’s largest online marketplace for luxury one-of-a-kind antiques, high-end modern furniture, vintage fashion, jewelry, and fine art. Launched in 2005, Etsy is a leading marketplaces for the exchange of vintage and handmade items. annual GMV.

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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.”. BG NEGEV LICENSES PARKINSON’S DRUG PLATFORM.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Saba currently works as the operations manager (Sumo) at AppSumo. In October of 2001, Webster, McCarthy, and Graff decided to do just that and GoldStar was born. Opting to eschew the traditional road of venture capital funding, Tom worked both at GitHub and at a full time job, while Chris and PJ consulted on the side.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

net is the only framework in which you can build an app for all the major mobile operating systems (iphone, android, wp7). Hiring manager: If one has a lot of experience with large building cranes and operations, the hiring manager rules them out. It’s an *freaking open source*.net net implementation. Checkout [link].net

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