2005 2006 Finance Venture Capital 
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 12, 2019
Over the past month a colleague ( Chang Xu ) and I sifted through data on the venture capital industry (as we do every year) and made a bunch of calls to VCs and LPs to confirm our hypotheses. why the hell has seed financing declined so much in the past 3 years?? The “A Round” of my startup in 1999 was $16.5
Feld Thoughts
MARCH 27, 2018
The first accelerator, YC, was founded in 2005. The second, Techstars, was founded in 2006. Accelerators and Crowd-Funding: Complementarity, Competition, or Convergence in the Earliest Stages of Financing New Ventures? Accelerators and the Regional Supply of Venture Capital Investment , Fehder and Hochberg, 9/14.
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View from Seed
DECEMBER 4, 2019
Over the last 10 years, we’ve been in a bull market with considerable froth in late stage financing activity and valuations. For example, a $10B endowment might be looking to have 10% ($1B) allocated to venture capital at any one time. This would suggest that TVPI would be performing well.
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APRIL 13, 2011
In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. Yeah, that was when I changed for me…” “…there was so much positive feedback on demystifying this one element of venture capital. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 Brad’s start in Venture Capital. was starting.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 22, 2011
It’s like people arguing that there’s a beautiful beach house in 2006 that represents great long-term value due to scarcity of similar property. All of that might be true, but the 2006 price might still be over-valued. Or worse yet they may never get financed. That doesn’t mean it’s not a bubble.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 19, 2009
On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. On December 3rd Brad Feld wrote a one paragraph blog post titled “ Raising Venture Capital &# in which he linked to my blog.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 28, 2012
million in 2005. Their patience paid off months later when big name venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital invested $25 million in Google. Since the company launched in 2006, TOMS has provided new shoes to children in need through their non-profit organization, Friends of TOMS.
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