Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
Over the same 30 years, Venture Capital firms have honed their skills and strategies to match Wall Streets needs to achieve liquidity for their portfolio companies. The Rise of Mergers and Acquisitions -– March 2003 -2008 After the dot.com bubble collapsed, the IPO market (and most tech M&A deals) shutdown for technology companies.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 4, 2011
One of the things I discuss the most with the portfolio companies I’m involved with is that “you manage what you measure.”. I ran my first marathon in London this way in 2003 raising $3,000 for Parkinson’s disease (and finishing in under 4 hours – my publicly stated goal). You Manage What you Measure. In 6 months? In 3 months?
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Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 23, 2011
In 2003 one of their first investments was Qiigo, Mike Yavondite’s company. An example is Metacafe, a Highland Capital portfolio company. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories. So it is a combination of markets and people. The contextual ad market was attractive. Tell us more about MetaCafe? (37:00-40:30).
www.xconomy.com
JUNE 9, 2012
Moneyball,” of course, refers of to the 2003 book by Michael Lewis (and the 2011 film starring Brad Pitt) about the Oakland A’s baseball team—and how general manager Billy Beane began using obscure baseball statistics and a new kind of computer-generated analysis to find under-appreciated talent and build a winning team on a shoestring budget.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 22, 2019
A report that can be filtered and aggregated by data points like team, portfolio, or customer, also acts as a KPI that allows teams to identify which projects need attention, which are profiting, and which are facing losses. He has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry and has managed dozens of software development projects.
View from Seed
NOVEMBER 7, 2019
Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession. On paper, VC portfolios perform well. We’re only a few months past Sequoia’s famous “R.I.P. Good Times” presentation (Oct 2008).
Agile VC
NOVEMBER 7, 2019
Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession. On paper, VC portfolios perform well. We’re only a few months past Sequoia’s famous “R.I.P. Good Times” presentation (Oct 2008).
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