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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. New investors hate down rounds. So I’m not advocating panic or a need to rush your funding round. That happened a lot in 2002 and again in 2008.

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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

It was very educational for a lot of us to go through the dot-com crash, because you remember, in 2002, like there were a number of universal truths asserted in 2002; the Internet didn’t matter, consumer Internet business was dead. And they don’t buy sales-force automation software, they rent on Salesforce.com.