David Teten

MARCH 12, 2012

Fitness/life guru Tim Ferriss just posted my guest article on ff Venture Capital ‘s approach to building a fitness office. UPDATE: ff Venture Capital was recently profiled in The Roger, an online magazine that profiles creative workspaces. According to a 2003-2004 U.S. Thanks Tim!)

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Product Portfolio Venture Capital Vesting 166

Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Last week , I wrote about the strong ambition across the globe to have a "Silicon Valley of One''s Own," and to replicate the otherworldly innovation of a region that has produced more than 75% of the World’s Unicorns - technology companies started since 2003 that now have valuations of more than $1 billion. trillion in cash held by big tech.

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Silicon Valley Private Equity Venture Capital IPO 63

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

In the late 90’s he saw the internet boom and helped start IronPlanet.com, a construction equipment marketplace that is nearing an IPO. He was introduced through mutual friends to Highland Capital. At the time consumer internet venture capital was still suffering from the collapse of the Tech Bubble. 5:00 – 5:55).

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Vertical Curation Boston Burn Rate 265

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

There are some obvious structural reasons why a shakeout in the venture capital industry takes a long time. There was a healthy amount of capital ($20-30B annually) invested in VC funds during the 2003-2008 timeframe. 2) Rebirth of Some Firms - Mobius Venture Capital is now defunct.

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LP Portfolio Venture Capital IRR 154

Gust

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Facebook, which did not exist in 2003, is now valued at nearly $100 billion. SOPA would disproportionately alter the risk profile for new startups, which are thinly capitalized compared to the giants like Google and Facebook. Google, which incorporated in 1998, has a market cap of $200 billion and employs more than 30,000 people.

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IPO Prospectus SEC Intellectual Property 110

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

in the last four years we’ve seen a 250% increase in venture capital funding and have doubled the number of startup development organizations in our community.” It is the tech hub of Texas and has the most local venture capital and attracts the most venture capital. Austin Ventures.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Me: So, you raised venture capital? Me: Raising convertible notes as a seed round is one of the biggest disservices our industry has done to entrepreneurs since 2001-2003 when there were “full ratchets” and “multiple liquidation preferences” – the most hostile terms anybody found in term sheets 10 years ago. On the phone ….

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Liquidation Preference Valuation Term Sheet Stock 153

reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Friendster was at its height, strongly battling MySpace after raising its premium round from Benchmark and Kleiner in the fall of 2003. Friendster raised a big round in 2003; MySpace started gaining traction. The usual tempo for raising money from venture capital is at a minimum of a year between financings.

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Entrepreneur Revenue Viral Networking 111

Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

MySpace was incubated by a small team of employees within Intermix in 2003 (Chris DeWolfe, Tom Anderson and four others). VantagePoint Venture Partners came to the rescue in late 2003 with an infusion of $15 million in capital, adding Andrew Sheehan (now at Sutter Hill Ventures ) and David Carlick (now at Rho Ventures ) to the Board.

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Merger Vesting 98

Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

It was still a year away from its IPO. After failing dismally at making disposable digital cameras in 2003 Pure Digital Technologies reinvented their company in 2007 to make the Flip line of camcorders. And venture capital and entrepreneurship has made life even tougher for the modern corporation.

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Silicon Valley RSS California Agile 164

Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

Amount of venture capital raised has exploded. 2003: Spitzer’s Global Research Analyst Settlement, which had the unintended effect of depriving small companies from getting research coverage. And let’s remember that, at the time of these IPO’s, few if any of these companies were household names. cents or 6.25

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Equity Securities and Exchange Commission IPO Marketing 31

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Juno IPO’d while Joel was there, and it was the first “broken&# IPO of the dot-com era.

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