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Version One Ventures
DECEMBER 14, 2021
2021 might be remembered as the year the world started to fully embrace the opportunity that the technology sector has to offer… . Round sizes increased significantly across all stages, as did valuations. The incredible pace of the start-up market in 2021 is also reflected in the Version One portfolio: .
VC Cafe
JANUARY 24, 2021
Covid-19 accelerated the adoption of entertainment tech, gaming and commerce. The move to remote work forced quick adoption of cloud technology and tools that were once having difficulties selling to large corporates, saw explosive growth – from Zoom to Hopin, new unicorns were born in record time. 2020… where to start?
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Version One Ventures
DECEMBER 14, 2016
Every announcement – whether it was a funding round, exit or layoffs – was analyzed within the context that the tech bubble has definitely burst or that we’re still in the bubble. In other words, any correction in public valuations happened quickly and has now stabilized. The industry entered the year bracing for an apocalypse.
Haystack
DECEMBER 29, 2018
It’s that time of year, time to look back and reflect on the most significant storylines in the tech, startup, and VC world. Technology is, like water, flowing and seeping into nearly every sector and eventually into most of the global economy. companies, more sensitivity around technology IP and security.
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 27, 2016
I still generally advise software startups to file a patent as a barrier to entry from competitors and to increase their valuation by investors, but every entrepreneur needs to understand the tradeoffs. That’s more than a lifetime in today’s technology. Patent offices can’t keep up with software technology.
Version One Ventures
DECEMBER 20, 2021
And if you haven’t seen it already, you can read our Year in Review post, where we reflect on the incredible pace of the start-up market in 2021. . Everyone (investors and founders alike) has underestimated the size of the addressable market for tech over the past decade. 3/ Visions of Web 3.0. Read the post: Visions of Web 3.
Growthink Blog
MARCH 13, 2014
I then offered to share some of our research findings as to the selection strategies that early-stage technology investors like Sequoia now utilize to identify companies with this kind of return potential. And how Sequoia’s return on that $60 million was close to $3 billion, or more than 50 times its original investment.
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