Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2023

Different types of investors tend to specialize in capitalizing on businesses at different stages. Venture capital firms look for the most mature companies they can find, Angel investors typically deal a tier lower, while friends and family are most likely to help you get started.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

how on Earth could the venture capital market stand still? One of the most common questions I’m asked by people intrigued by but also scared by venture capital and technology markets is some variant of, “Aren’t technology markets way overvalued? What Does this Mean for a Venture Capital Firm?

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 2, 2023

On a global level, venture financing of private companies dropped 33% year over year, from a record $733B in 2021 to $490B in 2022. 2022 in Israeli tech and venture. Israeli venture funding dropped 40% compared to 2021, from $28.7 billion according to the 2022 Israel high tech ecosystem report by Viola Ventures.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Late 2020 revealed the depth of the Solarwinds hack, which had massive implications for government agencies and (ironically) cybersecurity provider FireEye. — Sajan Pillai is the CEO and Managing Partner of Season Two Ventures, an early-stage venture fund based in Southern California. Hardened Cybersecurity Defense.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2014

As a partner in one of the most visible VC firms in Colorado and an LP in many of the Colorado VC firms, I’ve never heard from Matthew or anyone from the SBIC. The SBIC was instrumental in the creation of the venture capital business. The US government, however, lost most of the $2 billion it put into SBIC firms.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2020

Different types of investors tend to specialize in capitalizing on businesses at different stages. Venture capital firms look for the most mature companies they can find, Angel investors typically deal a tier lower, while friends and family are most likely to help you get started.

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

If you take funding from a venture capital firm or angel investor and want to build a large, enduring company (rather than sell it to the highest bidder), this isn’t the decade to do it. The collapse of the IPO market and dysfunctional math in the venture capital community has stacked the odds against you.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Huston-Tillotson (@HustonTillotson) | Twitter Eugene Sepulveda CEO, Entrepreneurs Foundation Director, Capital Factory Sr. Advisor, Austin Mayor Steve Adler Eugene has long operated at the intersection of business, government & nonprofits, locally and nationally. Joe Beard joined Perot Jain as a Partner in 2015.

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

” Mr. Slywotzky is an “author of several books on profitability and growth” and currently a partner at the management consulting firm Oliver Wyman. capital markets are essential and intimately linked to new funding commitments to basic scientific research. More on this below. ” FULL STOP.

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2011

While this signaled that investments in technology companies could be very lucrative, both Shockley and Fairchild could only be funded through corporate partners – there was no venture capital industry. government backed venture firms and limited partnerships. This all changed in 1980 with the Genentech IPO.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2018

Different types of investors tend to specialize in capitalizing on businesses at different stages. Venture capital firms look for the most mature companies they can find, Angel investors typically deal a tier lower, while friends and family are most likely to help you get started.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

Consumer Internet investing seems to have split off from traditional Venture Capital, and is creating a new category of VC’s: Lean VC’s. Electron-based Venture Capital. When I first came to Silicon Valley the world of Venture Capital looked pretty simple. Here’s why.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

All Unicorn participants — founders, company employees, venture investors and their limited partners (LPs) — are seeing their fortunes put at risk from the very nature of the Unicorn phenomenon itself. About this same point in time, the journalists that focus specifically on the venture capital industry noted something quite profound.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2012

"A lot of the noise in the market right now is about bringing back irresponsible IPOs. This from Kate Mitchell, the former chair of the National Venture Capital Association, and current Managing Director of Scale Venture Partners. We had institutional public IPO buyers on the task force, they got two votes. (I

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

The previous post described the evolution of the Chinese Venture Capital system. I trained the Startup Weekend Next Beijing mentors and instructors, presented to several hundred entrepreneurs, and had a great fireside chat with Zhen Fund founding partner Xu Xiaoping in front of another roomful of entrepreneurs.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2022

In 2021 venture capital funds invested over $2 billion in 90+ Quantum technology companies. While most of the IPOs have been in Quantum Computing, Quantum technologies are used in three very different and distinct markets: Quantum Computing , Quantum Communications and Quantum Sensing and Metrology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2014

Different types of investors tend to specialize in capitalizing on businesses at different stages. Venture capital firms look for the most mature companies they can find, Angel investors typically deal a tier lower, while friends and family are most likely to help you get started.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Are they running from high prices, high taxes, dysfunctional government, and wildfires? All of the investors, all of the big companies, all of the government groups?—?they These are all potential customers and strategic partners for startups. Tens of thousands visit Austin every year for the Austin City Limits Music Festival.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2011

Ben and his partner Marc Andreessen (the founder of Netscape and author of the first commercial web browser on the Internet ) are the definition of Smart Money. In 5 to 10 years most of them will be worth a fraction of their IPO price. Every day hackers demonstrate how weak the security of our corporate and government resources are.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 13, 2021

The Greylock general partner and the host of The 20 Minute VC pick back up from a December 2020 episode of the popular podcast , during which Hoffman discusses his wide-ranging career and key lessons learned. If you’re a regular listener, you’ll know that Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman joined me on my show in November.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2016

Different types of investors tend to specialize in capitalizing on businesses at different stages. Venture capital firms look for the most mature companies they can find, Angel investors typically deal a tier lower, while friends and family are most likely to help you get started.

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Board Effect

MAY 10, 2019

Venture capitalists specialize in risky investments in the hopes that a big win will pay off. The goal of venture funding is to get a very high return, usually in the form of an acquisition of the startup or IPO. Working with venture capitalists is not like taking a loan. How Venture Capitalism Works.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Scott left the company, which eventually IPO’d and became Internet Brands. Makes money by partnering with brands and marketers to publish location-triggered content. Current round: $7.0mm Series-B led by MK Capital, withClearstone Venture Partners and Shasta Ventures. Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

The previous post described the evolution of the Chinese Venture Capital system. I trained the Startup Weekend Next Beijing mentors and instructors, presented to several hundred entrepreneurs, and had a great fireside chat with Zhen Fund founding partner Xu Xiaoping in front of another roomful of entrepreneurs.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Over the past two years, one of the most influential venture-capital firms has turned the usual rules of start-up investing on its head. In the early days of venture capital, when money was scarce, entrepreneurs often gave up control of their company in exchange for their first investment funds. LUBLIN And SPENCER E.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Last year I was on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley meeting with one of the most prominent venture capital firms in the country. The VC partner, somebody I greatly respect said, “Yeah, we like Gil and what they’re doing. In Washington DC you have government & defense. Brett Brewer has AdKnowledge.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 2, 2012

IPOs by year, 1980-2011, with pre-IPO last 12-month sales less than (small firms) or greater than (large firms) $50 million (2009 purchasing power). But it could affect one thing right away: the level of buzz and information surrounding young IPOs, which no longer have to keep mum. Number of U.S. Credit: Prof.

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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. Some of the firm’s partners may move on to new jobs during this phase but at least some are usually still around. 2) Rebirth of Some Firms - Mobius Venture Capital is now defunct.

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www.theverge.com

JUNE 20, 2012

After Facebooks IPO flub, value of tech startups falls back to earth. A string quartet played a medley of pop radio hits as several hundreds startup founders, Goldman Sachs bankers, and venture capital investors, chatted over drinks inside a gleaming neon temple of Angel Orensanz in lower Manhattan. By Ben Popper 06.19.2012.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Yet one of the most remarkable things about the boom in microwave and silicon startups occurring in the 1950’s and 60’s was that it was done without venture capital. These technology startups had no risk capital – just customers/purchase orders from government/military/intelligence agencies. There was none. Whitney Co.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 29, 2017

When I freed up time, I asked the partners if I could start attending the trading classes even though I hadn’t been hired into that role, and that’s how I became a trader. This was before the Facebook IPO. I was really interested in Second Market and idea of a market to trade pre-IPO shares.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

These IPOs meant that technology companies didn’t have to get acquired to raise money or get their founders and investors liquid. to spur innovation was a new government agency to fund new companies. government would invest three (up to $300,000.) In response, one of the many U.S.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 28, 2019

Facebook tried to build a crypto-alliance with Libra, but that seems to have fell flat out of the gate; at the same time, the Chinese government counter-intuitively signaled their interest in using blockchain technologies in a centralized manner for state operations.

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Pascal's View

MARCH 9, 2010

This is the second in our series of ten frequently asked questions from investors in venture capital partnerships. They key is whether you can rest assured that the general partner who is responsible for managing your investment is honoring the trust that you have placed in that manager.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. Blitzscaling is a strategic technique for moving faster, not a reckless gamble.

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Seeing Both Sides

OCTOBER 9, 2013

The success of Waze ($1B sale to Google), Wix ( IPO filed ), Outbrain ( IPO rumored to be quietly filed or in process) have entrepreneurs on the ground thinking big. The Times of Israel reports these success stories are inspiring Israeli start-ups to focus on the IPO path rather than M&A as a potential path to greatness.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

In an IPO, it might not merely addexpense, but change the outcome. Those remedial actions can delay, stall or even kill the IPO. Of course the odds of any given startup doing an IPO are small.But not as small as they might seem. Once you take money from the generalpublic youre more restricted in what you can do. [

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