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 know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

This is part of my series on Understanding Venture Capital. Some wait 5-7 years but usually this is because it’s proving more difficult to raise a new fund due to market conditions or the lack of returns in their current fund. Tags: Pitching VCs Raising Venture Capital VC Industry.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

Looking for Funds in All the Right Places: The Definitive Guide to Austin Capital By David Altounian and Stephen Straus OVERVIEW For entrepreneurs: We’ve compiled a definitive list of sources of capital in Austin to help focus your fundraising efforts. We’ve compiled a definitive list of sources of startup capital in Austin.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2012

DuncanWierman : Duncan Wierman, software CEO, shares his insight into creative online marketing. yodera : CEO of Webtrends Alex Yoder talks strategic vision in digital marketing on Twitter as @yodera. FrancisBoulle : CEO of FundMine Francis Boulle talks angel investment and venture capital on @FrancisBoulle.

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

capital markets are essential and intimately linked to new funding commitments to basic scientific research. Unfortunately, Mr. Slywotzky makes an important assertion about venture capital that is incorrect. ” FULL STOP. billion in 549 deals in the first quarter of 2009, according to the MoneyTree™ Report from.

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Pascal's View

MARCH 18, 2010

This is the ninth in our series of ten frequently asked questions from investors in venture capital partnerships. Susan Mangiero , CEO of Investment Governance’s Fiduciary X , asked me the following: Question: Do you think than anemic IPO market will remain a deterrent to VC investing? equity markets. Yes I do.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 2, 2014

It''s easy to be right about market predictions eventually. My godfather got me IBM stock right after that, so that''s how I knew that a stock market and investing existed. I got an internship on the buy side at the GM pension fund in high school--in 1997. I got my first job in venture--at GM--in February 2001.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 4, 2012

By 1997, when I started investing as a venture capital investor, I was no longer reading business plans. Rather than write long exhaustive documents, entrepreneurs can rapidly prototype their product and get immediate user and market feedback. In the 1990s, business plan competitions were all the rage.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 31, 2014

The prior fund that I had co-founded – Mobius Venture Capital – had blown up after having a very successful first fund in 1997. A year or two later they had less than 3% market share on mobile. Venture Capital fundraising VC' I remember a meeting with the Microsoft Mobile 6.0 They ignored us.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

I lived in London from 1997-2005 and for 6 of those years ran my startup based out of London. I think the fact that NorCal didn’t have strong industries in financial services, manufacturing, autos, marketing or other traditional industries also made experimentation more acceptable. I remember this lesson well.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Warren Buffet, 1997. Marketing 101: Customers love free stuff. As a result, it is a common marketing practice to offer things “for free” in order to impact customer behavior or encourage customer loyalty. That’s why it is a tried and true marketing scheme. You know what customers like more than free stuff?

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

At the Clinton Global Initiative last September, Pierre Omidyar, co-founder of eBay, announced a commitment from his philanthrocapitalist firm to invest millions of dollars in mobile applications and services, with a focus on developing markets globally. eBay is likely the most efficient “accelerator” to have existed to date.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays. SALES & MARKETING. Online Marketing. Bringing Innovation to Market. Letter of Intent for a Business Venture. Back in 1997, Randy Parker was staring at a blank whiteboard, wondering where hed find the money to hire the employees and consultants he needed to build his new product. "We

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2013

Jim Hornthal splits his time between venture capital, entrepreneurship and education. Jim has founded six companies, including Preview Travel, one of the first online travel agencies, which went public in 1997 and subsequently merged to create Travelocity.com as an independent company.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

There are times when small and slow is the right strategy for a specific market opportunity. When the market conditions are right, you should blitzscale for the benefit of all stakeholders: customers, employees, investors, and society. Blitzscaling is a response to market dynamics, not the cause.

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Seeing Both Sides

OCTOBER 3, 2011

The Kauffman Foundation’s research on this matter is clear: from 1997 to 2005, job growth in the US was driven entirely by start-ups. For young companies to truly have a shot at achieving long-term success, they need to be able to access the public markets through an IPO. It’s new businesses. Policies: Achieve Long-Term Success.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

I learned a lot at Convergent, going from product marketing manager in a small startup to VP of Marketing of the Unix Division as it became a public company. His marketing and sales instincts and skills seemed magical and he built the company into a $400 million OEM supplier, ultimately selling the company to Unisys.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 1, 2010

12:30 PM: Who Needs Venture Capital? Yet entrepreneurs still obsess over traditional big meeting/big money Silicon Valley venture capital. This heated panel debates what types of companies actually benefit from VC and reviews concrete examples of alternatives to traditional venture capital.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 19, 2021

I (and many others) have spent our fair share of time criticizing venture capitalists. And there are many, many legitimate criticisms that you could accurately level against more than half of venture capitalists. But venture capital is the only profession whose members get lots of repeat practice being board members.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 3, 2017

states for fastest growth in the number of women-owned businesses — a number that grew by 98 percent between 1997 and 2014. True Wealth Ventures is excited to contribute to the much-needed growth of the funding sources in Austin, and utilizing the huge potential the Texas market has for both wealth and business talent!

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Most venture capitalists who have been in this business for a long time foresaw this correction and have been talking about it privately for the better part of the last year or two. I’ll spare you the math and point out that this means we funded 0.104% of the market. Can Investors Spook the Market into Falling?

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

In May 1996, Open Market completed a successful IPO and more than doubled on the first day of trading, ending with a $1.2 billion market capitalization. In 1997, a Charles River Ventures fund yielded a stunning 15x return, backing such superstars as Ciena, Vignette and Flycast. We had recorded $1.8

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Back in the day, tech companies typically went public at market caps in $100 - $250M range. Amazon priced it''s IPO in 1997 at approximately $500M (the $18 IPO price was an increase from the $12-$14 range) and first trade was at $29.25 or a market cap of $800M. Late private and early public investors were richly rewarded.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Once again, as we find ourselves in the middle of a significant public market correction, especially around technology stocks, there’s an enormous amount of noise in the system, as there always is. I started investing in 1994 and while there was some bumpiness in 1997 and again in 1999, the real pain happened between 2000 and 2005.

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Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

Amount of venture capital raised has exploded. Median age of a venture backed company hits 8.7 years in 2007- the longest gestation period since 1991: What has driven these changes to the capital markets and are they permanent or temporary? i. Pre bubble period 1991-1996 totals $28 billion. cents or 6.25

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Pascal's View

APRIL 19, 2009

mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">   mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> The Q1 2009 venture capital investment statistics. new capital formation from venture-backed companies because capital normally dedicated to long-term risk has been severely drained from our equity markets—both public and private. Financings.

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Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

Because reports like this stand in the way of financial market manipulation and drive home the point that not all financial innovation is good and that stocks are not fungible commodities. These companies raised just $367 million in the public markets, and they account for 470,000 U.S. don’t like this report. jobs today.

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BeyondVC

JULY 19, 2005

Robert Scoble has asked the VCs to respond to an eWeek article titled Is.Net Failing to Draw Venture Capital Loyalty? There is not much for me to add to this article as we all know that the only loyalty VCs have is to their Limited Partners to generate long-term capital gains.

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BeyondVC

JULY 16, 2007

" In fact many of these companies have market caps > than $1b each. The article is right in that alot of buzz gets centered on consumer Internet companies like Google or YouTube and that on absolute market capitalization many of the big returns are found in the B2B type deals. market cap.

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

To design like a teenager in 1997 using MS publisher is incredibly painful. The Myspace traffic numbers slipped slightly before they cleaned it up, but after the June 2008 redesign it was freefall. Ive read interviews with people at Zappos before talking about how they purposely keep the site looking like crap. (To Its the ultimate challenge.)

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