Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

This week, I want to take a local lens and analyze these special companies that have been created in Boston. We looked at the companies in New England (call them "Boston and surrounding") that had exited in the last 10 years (2003-2013) with greater than $500 million in market valuation. 2004), Kayak ($1.8B/2004)

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. A deep dive into the Foundry Group investment philosophy including an interesting discussion of their investing Themes. “… our lens is: Internet Software Companies anywhere in the U.S. If you are outside internet software we are not going to invest.

Technical Review 288

Technical Review Venture Capital Silicon Valley Software Review 288

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO. Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. conference happened at the end of 2004). link] leehower.

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

While it was still a college-focused SNS, Facebook of course launched in 2004 and there were plenty of other examples of social networking already… Friendster (2002), LinkedIn (2003), MySpace (2003), Orkut (2004). Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. All the other stuff Yahoo! Author howerl.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

It was fall 2004, and the presidential election was in full swing. The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: Five Whys Where did Silicon Valley come from? Hopefully that will take some of the sting out of the fact that you had to engage in a little trickery.

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Demand San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 167

Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

But even during the macroeconomic boom of 2004 to early 2008 (inflated by various credit bubbles – housing, sovereign debt, LBOs) tech IPOs were extremely rare and then the global economic crisis of late 2008 – 2010 only further dampened hopes for a recovery. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC.

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IPO Silicon Valley Revenue Seed Stage 100

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Founded : Spring 2004, incorporated July 2004. Facebook estimates they already have 60% of addressable US internet users. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Facebook, Inc. Read More ».

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