500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

TL:DR : This post aims to recap significant changes in the venture capital industry over the past ten years, and then make some [biased] predictions as to major forces at play in the next five years. However, all three shifts are related and can be summed up simply as: Geeks are Taking Over Venture Capital.

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Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

led by Altos Ventures and Maverick Capital, with Larry Braitman. Founded in 2008 in Santa Monica by Ron Goldman (former CRO of shopping.com) and Rahul Sonnad. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. Based in Palo Alto and founded in 2004 by PayPal alumni. Current round: $4. Total raised: $6.0mm.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 11, 2014

I started reading a great blog called Business Pundit in 2004. Rob messed around with some local video thing in 2008, which everyone but Rob thought was a pretty terrible idea. " — Charlie O'Donnell (@ceonyc) December 29, 2008. Venture Capital & Technology'

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Louisville Term Sheet Kentucky Ukraine 102

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

This lasted from about 2001-2004. Since then Mike his built his career by investing in early-stage companies (seed or series A), which is remarkable given that Polaris Ventures is a $1 billion fund. Spun off from Freewebs in 2008, based in Palo Alto. Tags: This Week in Venture Capital. Total raised: $19mm.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

According to a study by CB Insights (2017), a software that gathers essential data from investors, companies and industries, more than 70% of startups do not exceed the first stage of venture capital investment. The rounds were conducted from 2008 to 2010, starting from seed capital. Why do so many companies fail?

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Venture Capital Cofounder Finance United States 77

This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 30, 2015

Sam Altman of YC recently pointed out that pulling back during the downturn in 2008 would result in several big misses: In October of 2008, Sequoia Capital—arguably the best-ever in the business—gave the famous “RIP Good Times” presentation (I was there). A few months later, we funded Airbnb.

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Hockey Stick Valuation Startup Maryland 60

Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

The early history of MySpace is inextricably intertwined with that of Intermix, a small-cap publicly traded Internet company in Los Angeles where I worked as corporate counsel from 2004-06. Intermix was in a turnaround situation when I arrived in mid-2004, having been delisted from Nasdaq and nearly bankrupt.

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Merger Vesting 98

Altgate

JANUARY 27, 2009

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← How to Fail Successfully What is the World’s Largest Fraud? The full interview is less than 10 minutes and is worth a view for entrepreneurs and investors alike (note this interview was done in 2004).

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Altgate

JANUARY 28, 2009

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Randy Komisar on Failure Serial Inventor Woody Norris Talks Innovation at TED → What is the World’s Largest Fraud? Posted on January 28, 2009 by fnazeeri Hint: it’s not Bernie Madoff.

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www.thisisgoingtobebig.com

OCTOBER 25, 2010

We have equal ownership in the company and Im pretty sure he got the short end of that stick. :) Permalink | in Path 101 , Venture Capital & Technology | Share Article Reader Comments There are no comments for this journal entry. And yes, that picture is of Alex Lines , my co-founder at Path 101 , which officially launches on Tuesday.

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Technical Review Software Review Startup Due Diligence 40

Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

Since the iControl system chronicles all meetings, I was able to find the automatic picture snapped from my first meeting with the founders, Reza Raji and Chris Stevens on April 22, 2004. I took a look back at our original financial model we presented to VCs in 2004. The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic.

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San Jose Angel Investor Term Sheet Venture Capital 28

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

On a panel that I sat on with Ron in LA in 2008 he stated that there were no circumstances in which the founder should take money off of the table. Ironically our business started to perform very will by 2004 but by then management had lost the dream of a huge upside. I believe this is wrong. Let me start with a couple of stories.

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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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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

If you are an entrepreneur seeking funding, try our free Funding Recommendation Engine to identify a list of angels, venture capital and state grant programs that best match your business. Check out the Brain’s Guide to Angel Investin g and the Brain’s Guide to Venture Capital. It’s free. Get started here.

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Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

VC Cafe

JULY 9, 2010

Supersonicads was founded in 2008 by Gil Shoham (CEO) and Arik Czerniak (COO) and Nissim (Romi) Romano (CTO). The round will include participation from existing investors including Benchmark Capital, North Bridge Venture Partners, Pitango Venture Capital, and Cisco Systems. The company was founded in 2007.

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Media Stealth Venture Capital 109

VC Cafe

MAY 22, 2011

The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Boston, MA with R&D offices in Israel. VideoSurf was started by Lior Delgo, the formrer founder of FareChase (sold to Yahoo in 2004 in subsequently closed in 2008) accompanied by a very strong suit of Phd co-founders. Caminaro develops storage solutions in SSD drives.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

According to the 2019 Annual European Venture Report by PitchBook , European startups raised €32.4 Corporate venture capital (CVC) represented 45% of the total capital raised. For the purposes of this post, startups are companies started post financial crisis (since 2008), either private or public. YoY increase.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Israel’s Koor Industries, an investment company with holdings in Israeli telecom, defense electronics, agro-chemicals and venture capital markets, will retain 40% of the maker of fungicides, pesticides and herbicides. billion in 2008, and $1.54 Intel Israel exported $2.7 billion in 2010, down from $3.4 billion in 2007.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Our ventures, in turn, have raised over $2 million in external funding.”. Takwin is a venture capital fund and incubator, making early-stage investments in hi-tech companies run by Arab entrepreneurs in Israel. Sadara VC – “The only VC focused on investing in Palestinian-linked tech companies.”. Takwin Labs.

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UAE United Arab Emirates Technology 60

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

About the company and the CEO: “David Barrett founded Expensify in May 2008; Witold Stankiewicz joined him in August 2008, and together they launched an Alpha product at TechCrunch 50, taking home the “DemoPit 2nd Place” prize. Working for or started something in 2008 that may or may not make it.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

While the global financial crash of 2008 and the resulting Great Recession initially slowed job growth in Silicon Valley, the meteoric rise of smart phones and social media helped the tech industry as a whole to power ahead despite the near collapse of the global economy. A Variation on the Global Economic Crash of 2008?

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