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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. That happened a lot in 2002 and again in 2008. It’s what I love about entrepreneurship and about venture capital. Have a cushion. That’s not true.

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Stitch Fix: Reinventing Retail Through Personalization

abovethecrowd.com

While I am extremely proud of that team’s accomplishments (the parent company recombined Nordstrom.com in 2002 and the direct division now has revenue of over $1.25B and is the fastest growing unit inside of Nordstrom ), I built a healthy respect for the complexities and difficulties of managing women’s fashion inventory.

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The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

Philip Bouchard : You’ve started teaching at Berkeley since 2002, Columbia in 2003 and at Stanford since 2011. At Stanford, Tom Byers , who runs the innovation and entrepreneurship program inside the engineering school, has made that a big deal and it’s now part of the curriculum. Innovators are not entrepreneurs.

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Returns for brand-name VC funds

finance.fortune.cnn.com

Overall, the fund-of-funds is 97% called for 45 funds raised between 1999 and 2002. Almost all of them would be characterized as venture capital, with a few exceptions for funds managed by The Blackstone Group ( BX ), Providence Equity Partners and Spectrum Equity Investors. JK&B Capital IV (2001): 85% (15%).

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The Rise of the Secondary Market for Emerging Growth Equities– Necessary But Insufficient

Pascal's View

Amount of venture capital raised has exploded. 2002: Sarbanes-Oxley creates more friction for companies that want to go public, but likely much less of a factor than people think, by imposing accounting and compliance costs for small companies that easily exceed $2 million per year. ii. Bubble period 1996-2000 totals $243.6

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The Yo-Yo Life of a Tech Entrepreneur – A Cautionary Tale

Both Sides of the Table

We raised a seed round of capital in 1999 and our first venture capital round was the first week of March 2000 (e.g. I had very little cash in the bank yet the stories were still coming out about how we were going to change the world of online engineering and construction. We were based in London.

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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

A big part of why venture capital actually is important and enduring is because the public market is flighty and late-stage investors are flighty, and customers for that matter are flighty, and so you can’t — if you are running one of these companies you can’t — you just can’t rely on people being balanced.