Genuine VC

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

There are a couple classic archetypes of internet/software founders, including the genius college student cooking up something quirky but ultimately disruptive in his dorm room who launches his company straight out of undergrad. Reactions when I told people I was an “internet entrepreneur” ranged from smirks to blank stares.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

In the early 80’s he left academia to work on venture capital investing with Jim Simons, Renaissance Technologies. The discussion with Howard Morgan starts off by acknowledging Josh Kopelman as a co-founder of First Round Capital. Prior to First Round Capital, Howard had invested in two of Josh’s companies Infonautics Corp.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

The fact that today’s Internet bubble does not represent all companies does not disprove its existence. Ah, but today’s Internet companies have real revenue! An obvious example is Google who may have gotten less market attention if there would have been 8 well-financed competitors during the 2001-2005 timeframe.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Before we filmed the segment we had the chance to chat over lunch over the direction of the Internet and how social was changing the fabric of the web. He grew up in Connecticut attended Yale undergrad and worked for IBM after graduation doing M&A, strategy and venture capital. What is your mobile strategy?

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2014

As Kraus noticed in 2005, however, things were starting to change. ” By 2005, however, “Free, open source infrastructure [was] the norm,” with the ability to “get it anytime and anywhere.” While it seems quaint now, it used to be expensive to build an app and start a company around it. You name it.”

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Mike Michalowicz

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Prior to his training career he was instrumental in helping to found and/or start up several companies including Goldstar, BigWords.com (which raised over $80 million) and VirtualVegas (the first non-cash gaming destination on the internet).

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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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Up and Running

AUGUST 1, 2017

While there’s a certain cachet that comes with being able to say you raised a round of funding for your startup, realize that it’s a lot of hard work to actually secure venture capital (VC) funding , and there are reasons you might not want to. If you’re looking to bring on a partner and money, venture capital might be the right fit.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 2, 2016

So, the lens of 2005 (history) and 2025 (future) is the one I’m currently enjoying. The Big Short is picking up major steam in 2005. ” When I go back a decade, we were just making the decision not to raise another Mobius Venture Capital fund. Venture Capital and entrepreneurship was dramatically out of favor.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 31, 2014

The prior fund that I had co-founded – Mobius Venture Capital – had blown up after having a very successful first fund in 1997. Venture Capital fundraising VC' And, in the situations where they don’t, how incredibly powerful it is. Fred, Scott, and Jack – thank you.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Fortunately, the rise of the Internet, and specifically Internet marketplace models, act as accelerants to the productivity benefits of the division of labour AND comparative advantage by reducing information asymmetry and increasing the likelihood of a perfect match with regard to the exchange of goods or services. annual GMV.

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Altgate

JUNE 7, 2009

Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship , Startups , Technology , Venture Capital and tagged blog , entrepreneur , startup , Twitter. ← Directory of Blogs by Entrepreneurs Successories’ New Line of Posters for Venture Capitalists → Comments are closed. Bookmark the permalink.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 23, 2007

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. The following chart compare the impact of the tsunami in 2005 on the website traffic vs. the viral marketing campaign that they launched in 2007 with Popular Media. Labels: internet , sales and marketing.

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Member since 01/2005. Interest in this waned when the Internet bust resulted in most tech start-up equity becoming worthless, but it seems to be coming back. Even the best venture capital firms have a lot of failures and few successes. venture capital. September 2011. August 2011. April 2011. March 2011.

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Jason Ball

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

A comment was posted earlier in the week asking what events are relevant for new arrivals in London looking to get involved in the venture/start-up comunity. I was looking for the same in 2004 and posted a short list in 2005. Open Coffee. Mashup events. Mobile Monday. Geek Dinner. Second Chance Tuesday.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 8, 2019

When I started in venture capital in the late 1990s VCs were regularly lambasted for taking long summer holidays and spending too much time on the golf course. In addition to Platform and Applied Venture strategies, the trend towards hiring ex-operators into partner roles at VC firms can be seen in this light.

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VC Cafe

MAY 29, 2014

The Internet made it easy to distribute cognitive games, and mobile devices meant they could be played anywhere. Neuroscience Solutions Corporation (founded in 2002 and rebranded to BrainHQ ), Lumosity (founded in 2005) and Fitbrains (2007, now a Rosetta Stone company) are the most well known examples of second wave cognitive gaming.

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allthingsd.com

JULY 16, 2012

Venture Capital Has Its Biggest Quarter Since Dot-Com Days. venture capitalists put $8.1 It’s clear that factors like the greater American economy and the bumpy tech IPO market don’t necessarily have a direct and/or timely correlation with venture capital spending. Liz Gannes. Follow @LizGannes.

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Up and Running

APRIL 1, 2015

The startup takes off, raising venture capital funds faster than you can say “storybook ending.”. million in venture capital —and they continue to grow, with plans for a mobile app and potential overseas expansion. An unlikely combination: Poker winnings and venture capital. See Also Market Research.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Never missing an opportunity for a good war story, I’d like to revisit one high-profile transaction, the $650 million acquisition of MySpace by Fox Interactive Media in 2005, on which I spent many sleepless nights along with the rest of the deal team. The spin-out took a few months to negotiate and didn’t actually close until February 2005.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

In an interview with ReadWriteWeb, Davidson explains how the latest industry to receive the disruption treatment has been the venture capital business itself, with the epicenter of the quake right around San Francisco. Two orders of magnitude. you're selling to a huge consumer marketplace.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Founded in 2005 by Aaron Levie (CEO) and Dylan Smith (CFO), Box provides a secure content sharing platform where content can be shared internally and externally, accessed through iPad, iPhone, Android and Windows Phone applications, among others, and extended to partner applications such as Google Apps, NetSuite and Salesforce.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

He is an active angel with many successful angel investments including: Rent.com, (purchased by Ebay in 2005 for $415 million), Golfnow.com (purchased by Comcast in June 2008), and Lifelock (lead investors include Bessemer Venture Partners and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers). and Tweetdeck (purchased by Twitter in June 2011).

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

Dan Burstein, Managing Partner, Millennium Technology Value Partners Dan Burstein founded Millennium Technology Ventures in 2000 and co-founded Millennium Technology Value Partners in 2004. Dan began making institutional venture capital investments as the Chief Investment Officer for the PS Capital funds in the second half of.

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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.

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Altgate

JUNE 20, 2009

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← The Pig in a Ham & Eggs Breakfast F the Banksta! Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Technology and tagged design , design the obvious , internet , robert hoekman , startup , web.

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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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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

When I pulled out the May 30, 2005 issue with Real Estate Gold Rush on the cover and posting the question "Inside the hot-money work of housing speculators, condo-flippers, and get-rich-quick schemers. bubble IPO unicorn valuation venture capital' Is it too late to get in?" If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

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Altgate

JANUARY 12, 2009

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Quote Of The Day Running & Reading → Why I Canceled My CO2stats Account Posted on January 12, 2009 by fnazeeri The intertubes have been full of debate about this article from The Times. 

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. I’ve raised money as a “hot company” and I’ve raised capital when no one would return my phone calls. I’ve raised in boom markets and when everybody thought the Internet was a fraud. Of course much of it is conflicting.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

the consumer internet landscape in 2004 vs. today. In 2004, the consumer internet was just beginning to rebound. In 2004, investors regained interest in the consumer internet again. And remember, LinkedIn was a consumer internet play with moderate consumer traction and without a dime of revenue. Reid Hoffman.

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Altgate

JANUARY 18, 2009

I read this book in 1999 at the height of the internet bubble and still wasn’t smart enough to short the market in time. Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Current Affairs , Entrepreneurship , Green Business , Management , Startups , Venture Capital , Venture Debt and tagged bubble , economy , irrational exuberance , real estate.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2019

As detailed in a co-authored book , Brian Halligan, a recent MIT grad in 2005, observed startups failing with “‘tried-and-true’ marketing techniques that he had seen work throughout his career; techniques such as trade shows, telemarketing, e-mail blasting and advertising.”. An eponymous book (e.g. More than just ‘Content Marketing.’”.

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Altgate

JUNE 1, 2009

  I have a few hundred feeds that I follow in Google Reader and the way that I find new ones is a random process of discovery so Larry's post was great in that he not only provided a rank-ordered list but also a convenient way to mass subscribe. Bookmark the permalink.

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VC Cafe

JULY 24, 2017

I started blogging in December 2005. Blogger in 2005 (courtesy of Internet Time Machine) . The list of top blogs in 2005 by Time Magazine is a good snapshot: the hardcore tech blogs were LifeHacker and BoingBoing (both are a bit ‘tired’ but still great) and people flocked to blogs like Overheard in New York and PostSecret.

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Up and Running

JULY 3, 2015

Finally, is the “Internet of Things” the sign of progress, or pushing us toward a grim future? The “Internet of Things” (IoT) – (22:06). Really I think what we’re talking about here what we’re transitioning seamlessly to is the topic of the internet of things. – (9:47).

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Startup Company Lawyer

MAY 26, 2012

The Internet has made it easier for individuals and organizations to raise money for charitable purposes, political campaigns, artists seeking support from fans and various other projects. In 2005, Kiva launched a micro-finance platform that allows people to lend small amounts of money to entrepreneurs in developing areas.

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