Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

The browser and thus the WWW and the first Internet businesses were born circa 1994–95 and there was a golden period where anything seemed possible. SEEING THINGS FROM THE VC SIDE OF THE TABLE While I was a VC in 2007 & 2008 those were dead years because the market again evaporated due the the Global Financial Crisis (GFC).

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Michael Parekh , a Wall Streeter for over 20 years, former Partner at Goldman Sachs, and Founder of its Internet Research effort in 1994, Michael has been living online since the early days of CompuServe in the 80s and AOL in the ’90s. Previously, he was Vice President of Global Business Development for Massive, Inc.,

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Howard Schultz brought the espresso bar concept from Italy to the United States and grew Starbucks into a global phenomenon. And when Jeff Bezos started Amazon in 1994, many people had never even heard of something called the internet. True, your business aspirations may be on a more modest scale than these world-famous brands.

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Up and Running

MAY 30, 2013

Howard Schultz brought the espresso bar concept from Italy to the United States and grew Starbucks into a global phenomenon. And when Jeff Bezos started Amazon.com in 1994, many people had never even heard of something called the Internet. True, your business aspirations may be on a more modest scale than these world-famous brands.

Sweat Equity 96

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BeyondVC

MARCH 24, 2006

In 1994, the smartest guys in the financial trading and academic world got together to start Long Term Capital. At one point in time, $5b of equity was levered up to a $130b of total assets or bets outstanding.

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