Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
It was only a year ago that many in the Venture Capital industry were predicting that “winter was coming” and to be fair the author of this post was chief amongst them. Yet as we enter February 2017 the VC funding markets are booming, Snap, Inc has filed for its IPO, AppDynamics was just purchased for $3.7 Baidu alone raised $3.2
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 22, 2011
They have seen one side of a market where many of us have seen the ebb and flow multiple times. Still, market amnesia by ordinarily rational actors always surprises me. I believe a bubble occurs when a market is willing to pay greater than intrinsic value for an asset class. I spoke about a lot of things during the keynote.
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The Equity Kicker
SEPTEMBER 25, 2015
They drew on a contest run by American spies in the wake of the Iraq debacle: Begun in 2011, it posed hundreds of geopolitical questions (“Will Saudi Arabia agree to OPEC production cuts in November 2014?” By Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner, which details the characteristics of people who are good at predicting the future.
Feld Thoughts
JULY 23, 2015
In December, 1985, Saudi Arabia flooded the market for oil and by the end of 1986 the price of a barrel of oil was around $10. I didn’t work at Petcom that summer. Their phones stopped ringing. Customers went out of business right and left.
VC Cafe
MARCH 20, 2011
In 2010 not "very smart" feature phones - handsets that are dumber than smartphones - comprised over 75 percent of the mobile market. One of the differentiators of Snaptu, is that the company chose the feature-phone market as its core audience. The acquisition is supposed to close in a few weeks. source: [link].
David Teten
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
However, Israeli companies historically did not focus on marketing to their immediate neighbors. Founded by Nechemia (Chemi) Peres and Assaf Shariv, Amelia is uniquely positioned to leverage Middle East markets amidst a dynamic political environment. Our ventures, in turn, have raised over $2 million in external funding.”.
Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 28, 2020
The same thing happened with MERS, the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome 10 years later that occurred initially in Saudi Arabia and spread to a little offshoot into Korea. Eric Ries : And no one could argue that our current capital market structure is optimized for that happy medium. we're way out of whack.
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