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)
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 13, 2011
In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. We just finished the second year in Boston. So having spent a lot of time thinking about this Silicon Valley is a thing in and of itself. So everybody goes through this phase of we want to be the next Silicon Valley.
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Agile VC
MAY 26, 2011
Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. conference happened at the end of 2004). Our growth started in Silicon Valley and our users were still predominantly from the tech world for the first year or two.
Agile VC
APRIL 17, 2011
Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. Founding Date: 2004. round closed in June 2004. 1.65M extension round closed Nov 2004. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC.
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! Read More ».
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.
thebarefootvc
SEPTEMBER 11, 2016
In the weeks leading up to 9/11, when I was working at Intel Capital in Silicon Valley, I was back on the east coast traveling with my family in the Berkshires and then had a meeting with a portfolio company that was headquartered in the World Trade Center. I moved back to NYC in 2004. No one had heard from him.
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