K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Diego and I first met in 1997. IndexTank (@ IndexTank ) has been acquired by LinkedIn ! Huge congratulations to the entire IndexTank Team and especially to IndexTank’s founder Diego Basch (@ dbasch ). I had recently finished the Master of Software Engineering ( MSE ) program at Carnegie Mellon and gone full time on my first startup.

Pennsylvania 90

Pennsylvania Search Acquisition Software Engineering 90

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 18, 2011

Guest author Chris Heilmann has been a professional Web developer since 1997 and has worked in various agencies and corporations on large, international products. Seeing that Web developers take a lot of pride in their online portfolios and keep their LinkedIn profile up to date this just appears incredibly dated.

Europe 139

Europe India Hiring Engineer 139

The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Clayton Christensen’s book The Innovators Dilemma , originally published in 1997, changed my understanding of innovation, the evolution of value chains and gave me a theory of disruption that has served me very well over the years.

Open Source 60

Open Source Portfolio Naming Technology 60

Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

It went bankrupt in 1997.). The Renminbi funds have fewer restrictions on what industries the fund can invest in, less regulatory oversight and access to listing a portfolio company in China. A few foreign VC firms like IDG Capital Partners entered China in the early 1990s.

Venture Capital 163

Venture Capital China Offshore SBIR 163

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

When he entered the industry he caught the tail end of the dot com bubble and then was immediately thrust into a 3-year period of “triage&# where VC’s had to deal with problems in portfolio companies. This lasted from about 2001-2004.

San Francisco 230

San Francisco Los Angeles Cofounder SMS 230

Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

A strategy for meeting these investors in Austin is to figure out the board schedule of their portfolio companies, as they they will likely travel here for those meeting. This list is venture funds that have invested in two or more Austin-based companies over the past two years. link] Click here to download a PDF with all of the tables above.

Venture Capital 54

Venture Capital Austin Texas Private Equity 54

Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

In our portfolio, we generally don’t have this problem because we aren’t big fans of either (a) overfunding companies or (b) escalating burn rates based on headcount. 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. It’s simply not true.

Cap Table 70

Cap Table Down Round Liquidation Preference Founder 70

K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

I graduated from Carnegie Mellon in 1997 and decided to use my OPT to give the company a proper shot. The latter was fine by me since there was no money in the company for me to draw a salary any way. I formed SneakerLabs, Inc. in December 1996, while on a student visa.

United States 114

United States Founder India Venture Capital 114

Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 1, 2008

 We had an engaging and candid conversation, which included fielding questions from audience members including  Laurie Yoler, Managing Director of GrowthPoint Technology Partners.

Vertical 28

Vertical Syndicate Syndication Forecast 28

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

The VC sense of accomplishment or failure is blunted by being slightly removed and by the portfolio effect. Let’s say you became a partner in a VC fund in 1995 and started investing heavily in 1997-99. I’m enjoying the diversity of working with 6-7 portfolio teams on a regular basis on strategic issues. Let me explain.

Entrepreneur 384

Entrepreneur Startup Salary Egypt 384

Hearpreneur

MAY 18, 2015

My wife Julia and I founded the company as Rainbow Academy in 1997. This system allows us to create electronic portfolios and track developmental milestones for each child. We spoke with Guy to learn more about his business, the future of his business, and advice for franchise owners.

New Jersey 48

New Jersey Technology Maryland Pennsylvania 48

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

It’s also worth noting as data would suggest from this SVB venture funding report, lower costs to build tech & operate businesses implies the possibility of lower loss ratios in portfolios. In 1997, the year the Kauffman Report begins its analysis; there were 70 million users online globally. There are 20x more consumers online.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

The VC sense of accomplishment or failure is blunted by being slightly removed and by the portfolio effect. Let’s say you became a partner in a VC fund in 1995 and started investing heavily in 1997-99. I’m enjoying the diversity of working with 6-7 portfolio teams on a regular basis on strategic issues. Let me explain.

Entrepreneur 176

Entrepreneur Startup Salary Egypt 176

BeyondVC

OCTOBER 18, 2007

Anyway, I happened to be in San Francisco for a portfolio company board meeting and some other events. In a scary way, it felt like it was 1997 all over again, and we were at a networking event in New York talking about their first startups. I never made it to the Web 2.0

San Francisco 60

San Francisco New York Silicon Valley Portfolio 60

Version One Ventures

APRIL 14, 2021

Today our portfolio company Coinbase went public via a direct listing. Relative to how the Internet developed, we might only be in 1997/98. With an initial market cap of over $100b, it is one of the most valuable public listings of all times in the US. We got to invest into Coinbase when we joined their Series D in fall of 2017.

IPO 121

IPO Later Stage Early Stage Portfolio 121

BeyondVC

JULY 19, 2005

It reminds me of a panel that I spoke on in 1997 at the Red Herring Java Technology Conference. That being said, most of the fund’s portfolio companies (90%+) are not using a.Net platform. " To that end, let me talk about.Net.

.Net 60

.Net Java Limited Partner Venture Capital 60

Software By Rob

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Within a year, I had a large format camera of my own, a growing portfolio, and a long list of tricks he taught me from his years in the art show business. Rogue Wave’s fall began during Java’s rise to power in 1997-8. I was hooked. I ended up befriending this large-format photographer and learning the ropes.

Java 66

Java Product Software Developers Software Development 66

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

I’d like to explain as best I can my opinion on what is going on because most of what I hear from entrepreneurs is not only wrong but is reminiscent of what I heard in 1997-2000. So deals get delayed as investors feel out prices and also spend time worrying about their own portfolios. What is the True Sentiment of VCs?

Valuation 150

Valuation Down Round Startup Later Stage 150

Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 19, 2021

For example, in 1997, I had not realized that you need to invent and reinvent your go to market strategy together with your product idea. To paraphrase JFK, ask not what your portfolio can do for you, ask what you can do for your portfolio! As SocialNet was my first startup, I began with many bad theories of the startup game.

Startup 36

Startup Cofounder Advertising Hiring 36

alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ). Alex Poole. User experience design and research. Site français. Skip to content. Deliverables. Applications. Case study: Icon design. ← How do people find and recognise browser bookmarks? Give direction → Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces? Posted on February 17, 2008 by Alex Poole.

Technical Review 85

Technical Review Software Review Design Web 85