The Next Web

MARCH 2, 2014

This was reported as being untrue by British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (BVCA) about a year ago. This is a representation of 2003 – 2013. Many entrepreneurs claim that there’s just not enough money, and that investors in Europe fear failure. But it stifles those with the potential to be great entrepreneurs.

Europe 163

Europe South Korea San Francisco Portugal 163

Pascal's View

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Kelly Slone, director of the Medical Industry Group of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA ) posted an important article on October 7 on the NVCAccess blog, clearly calling out that the unintended consequences of FDA regulations have precipitated a full-blown crisis in medical innovation in the U.S.

United States 50

United States San Francisco Venture Capital Asia 50

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. Four years later, in May of 2003, they launched Taobao Marketplace, Alibaba’s answer to eBay. billion of GSV (gross services revenue) across 2.0

Internet 88

Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

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!)

Product 166

Product Portfolio Venture Capital Vesting 166

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.

Developer 366

Developer Silicon Valley PR Las Vegas 366

VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

It is often available for subscription, so that new episodes are automatically downloaded via web syndication to the user’s own local computer, mobile application, or portable media player. Wikipedia describes a Podcast as follows: A podcast is an episodic series of digital audio files which a user can download and listen to.

Audio 109

Audio Silicon Valley Curation Cofounder 109

www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

The quantitative combination of an initial approach that is high-volume, but later selectively filtered results in a higher percentage outcome of winners, and larger dollar-weighted bets on companies that are successful. startupcto

Technical Review 50

Technical Review Due Diligence Startup Angel Investor 50

Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Philip Bouchard : You’ve started teaching at Berkeley since 2002, Columbia in 2003 and at Stanford since 2011. Today, companies face five challenges they never had to deal with: Challenge one – As companies are discovering every day, the web has changed everything. Building an entrepreneurship ecosystem.

Incubator 331

Incubator Lean Programming Government 331

VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

It is often available for subscription, so that new episodes are automatically downloaded via web syndication to the user’s own local computer, mobile application, or portable media player. Wikipedia describes a Podcast as follows: A podcast is an episodic series of digital audio files which a user can download and listen to.

Audio 60

Audio Curation Silicon Valley Media 60

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

Silicon Valley 46

Silicon Valley Semantic Social Network Cofounder 46

thebarefootvc

JANUARY 1, 2013

I invested in Silicon Valley from 1999-2003 and in NYC pre and post 2008 financial crisis. Many ideas that were generated during Web 1.0 Now, with the Web in its third or fourth iteration (depending on who you talk to), many of these barriers have fallen. I’ve seen this movie twice before as a VC.

Silicon Valley 84

Silicon Valley United States Portfolio Internet 84

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.

Valuation 98

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Merger Vesting 98

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The timing is perfect, there is more than a little overlap with Vivek Wadhwa’s guest post on venture capital earlier today. It really needs some rounded corners for that web 2.0 also, just to clarify, the first idea we worked on that we called “meebo&# back in 2003 was my idea. Johnny Good post.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

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.

IPO 110

IPO Prospectus SEC Intellectual Property 110

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. While still in college doing freelance web design they realized that there was a need for a faster and less expensive cross-browser testing tool. How’d they do it?

Bootstrapping 78

Bootstrapping Startup Cofounder Salary 78

www.readwriteweb.com

JUNE 13, 2011

startupcto

Programming 45

Programming Silicon Valley Ireland Startup 45

Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 5, 2010

For decades, the venture capital industry was like a Yale Secret Society - very clubby, discrete and opaque. Pundits will tell you that in terms of trends, 2009 was the year of the real-time Web/Twitter, smart phones/iPhone and the mainstream emergence of digital advertising. My how the world has changed in a few short years.

Boston 35

Boston Venture Capital Portfolio Advertising 35

www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Venture capital mean board meetings, which is a huge sap on time and resources. Venture capital mean board meetings, which is a huge sap on time and resources. For example, tell the bar you are having a "birthday party" instead of a corporate event (which they would charge you $5,000 for). Rent servers, dont buy them.

Entrepreneur 69

Entrepreneur Venture Capital San Francisco New Zealand 69

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

methodologies - in other words, dont invest in travel and in-person sales, but try to close as many deals as possible by phone and the Web. (On Well, my advice for Chak is to focus steadily on a worldwide list of greeting card distributors using Telewebsales and Sales 2.0 process in detail.

Marketing 52

Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

methodologies - in other words, dont invest in travel and in-person sales, but try to close as many deals as possible by phone and the Web. (On Well, my advice for Chak is to focus steadily on a worldwide list of greeting card distributors using Telewebsales and Sales 2.0 process in detail.

Marketing 52

Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

The Art & Science of Web Design by Jeffrey Veen. Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game is a book by Michael Lewis, published in 2003. Algorithms will be the heart and soul of due diligence — it’s not just a sanity- check mechanism,” said Matt Oguz, the managing partner of new investment firm Palo Alto Venture Science.

Design 100

Design Analytics Software Review Conversion 100