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: $6.0mm in Series-D from existing investors Foundry Group, Boulder Ventures, High Country Venture.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

Look at 2001 and 2008’s Lehman collapse and Sequoia RIP Good Times deck for lessons learned. When we asked how they find new technology, their answer was clear; research on the web, word of mouth, and their teams, i.e. what are devs using.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

The previous post described the evolution of the Chinese Venture Capital system. China Venture Capital. If it’s driven by profit then the ecosystem needs both entrepreneurs as well as Venture Finance. China has the biggest Venture Capital industry outside the U.S. Entrepreneurship in Beijing.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Kumar was the Founder, President and CEO of SneakerLabs, a company which developed software and services for web-based customer interaction. He then served as the Chairman and CEO of iMeet, a provider of web-conferencing services. What led you to the venture capital world? VN : Tell me a bit about your background.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

This is part of my ongoing series on Raising Venture Capital. Not so in venture capital. Do a web search to find companies that they didn’t give you. My chips were down in late 2000 / early 2001. I often tell people that raising money is worse than getting married. My story briefly. Except GRP.

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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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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 2, 2015

After I sold my first company, I started a company called Intensity Ventures to make all my personal investments from. When I started making venture capital investments in 1997, the pace of things, and the amount of work I did, was massive. The name kind of says it all.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

2001 – 2010: Back to Basics: The Lean Startup. After the dot.com bubble collapsed, venture investors spent the next three years doing triage, sorting through the rubble to find companies that weren’t bleeding cash and could actually be turned into businesses. Filed under: Technology , Venture Capital.

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Even the best venture capital firms have a lot of failures and few successes. The best start-up I ever invested in went bankrupt in 2001. venture capital. However, Ive learned four lessons the hard way: 1. Most tech start-ups fail. Ive had the good fortune to both work for and invest in successful tech start-ups.

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Mucker Lab

DECEMBER 2, 2015

20 years ago, a majority of “Sand Hill” venture capital went into enterprise-focused startups. However, the rise of the Internet equalized if not flipped the ratio as the web (and mobile) created a new product category and distribution platform. Apple had the foresight to launch the iPod, iTunes and the Apple Store all in 2001.

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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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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 26, 2018

I think the one frustration, which Andrew Warner from Mixergy noted when I talked to him, was that there’s maybe two or three chapters that touch on SEO and web marketing kinds of things, but this is not an SEO-centric book. I dropped out of college in 2001, so this would be 17 years in. I don’t get it. 17, 18 years at Moz?

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Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic. million for the year, which is the first time it has been below $5 million since 2001, a sign that capital efficiency will be even more important than it has. Labels: bootstrapping , CFO , Fliqz , venture capital , venture financing. Venture News.

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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. Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. social network & web portal companies… I have not experienced a slowdown at all.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Roberts celebrates 10 years in venture capital this month. He began as part of Salt Lake Citys Wasatch Venture Fund (now Epic Ventures ), an affiliate of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, in March of 2001. We thought readers might like to know more about this interesting player in the tech community. startupcto

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www.ericsink.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Many venture-capital-funded companies work this way. Nolo Press has a Web page on employment law that has lots of information. column was used by someone on the Microsoft.com Web team as an example of a really bad title. Copyright 2001-2011 Eric Sink. Even still, it is always advisable to consult a local attorney.

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

Let’s look at public market comparables and venture capital flows to see if we can find a match. Venture capital flows. A basic driver for a private technology market bubble is the over-supply of venture capital into the sector. If too much venture capital hits the streets, valuations will bubble up.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

Because that company was Netscape, the company that released the first widely adopted web browser. Already, thousands of people had started creating their own globally accessible web pages focused on whatever they wanted. ” Big or small, you could build whatever you wanted on the World Wide Web. Yes, I passed up all that.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. It’s tempting to want to stay in your offices and fund raise via email or web conferencing. So why would raising venture capital be any different. I’ve raised seed rounds and A-D rounds.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

What started as a web site to trade laser pointers and Beanie Babies (the Pez dispenser start is quite literally a legend), today enables transactions of approximately $100B per year. Popular categories include web developers, mobile developers, designers, writers, and accountants. annual GMV.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

When she’s not working to create the best experience for each and every user, she spends her time scouring the web for juicy details about the startup world. In October of 2001, Webster, McCarthy, and Graff decided to do just that and GoldStar was born. Clicky is real time web analytics running on over 350,000 web sites.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

I was just looking at your web site. I do everything from raw-metal machine language to experimental languages to all the usual web front and back-end languages, and am one of those “started programming at 12 years old” types who had 5 years of college by the time I was 19. March 25, 2011 at 2:51 pm. I’m with Phil.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

They didn’t focus on building for the web and they lost a great opportunity to win the transition to browser based applications. He asked himself: programmers know how to make web sites, why couldn’t programmers create their own site and answer their own questions? How did MSFT lose the API war? Fog Creek now has 35 people.

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