Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

The biggest happened much earlier in my career, in 1995.”. I’m sure it sounds unbelievable today, but in 1995, Fujitsu was a much bigger company than Apple in those days. And you didn’t need to get permission from the government or corporate gatekeepers. In January 1995, it had around 100 employees.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 7, 2008

It means that guys like Mark Cuban were not simply lucky for starting a streaming video company in 1995 and selling it to Yahoo for $6 billion in 1998. For subsequent ventures, successful entrepreneurs raise venture capital earlier than do first time entrepreneurs. Think about that. Bookmark the permalink.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

If O’Reilly had that same insight in 1995, it could have been an amazing blitzscaling opportunity. He also had backing from well-known venture capital investors like Union Square Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Google Ventures, and even Richard Branson. To blitzscale, or not to blitzscale?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2011

Is this tech bubble as broad as the 1995-2000 dot.com bubble – no. In the 21 st century, authoritarian governments still fear their own people talking to each other and asking questions. When governments shut down Google, Twitter, Facebook, et al, they are building the 21 st century equivalent of the Berlin Wall.

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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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Seeing Both Sides

MAY 26, 2009

  At $20-30 billion per year, the venture capital industry as a whole remains a “drop in the bucket” in terms of capital deployed relative to the over trillion dollars sitting in private equity firms.    Yet the impact is enormous, with 18% of GDP provided by venture-backed companies. 

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Microsoft did not open a Washington office until 1995. As they can’t provide the scale to attract venture capital, they fund their businesses via friends/family or small business loans. Unlike small businesses, scalable startups are what Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and their venture investors do. Fast forward to today.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Pierre Omidyar founded AuctionWeb in September of 1995, and its rise to fame is legendary. Exchange of Goods Marketplaces. Any discussion of Internet marketplaces begins with the first quintessential marketplace, ebay (*).

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VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

Provigent, which was founded in 2000, raised $55 million from international and Israeli venture capital firms. The government will pay 40 percent of the wages of employees, up to a maximum wage of 25,000 shekels ($7,000) per month, during the first year of operation of the Barclays center. Unemployment fell to 6.1%

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2012

This from Kate Mitchell, the former chair of the National Venture Capital Association, and current Managing Director of Scale Venture Partners. economy and for maintaining competitiveness, 86% of CEOs surveyed said that going public was a less attractive option for businesses today than in 1995.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The next round of funding is the one in which you might deal with actual venture capital firms. Since I couldnt bear the thought of programming in another language (this was 1995,remember, when "another language" meant C++) the only option seemedto be to start a new company using Lisp. VCs are slow tomake up their minds.

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