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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million. By the end of 2011 the Internet population was estimated at 2.3 Internet usage a decade ago was less than 1 hour per day and was restricted to narrowband communications.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet. It preceded the WWW but then become the onramp to the Internet for newbies. For a nanosecond Rupert Murdoch seemed like the smartest guy on the Internet. The Past (1985-2002).

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State of the internet: Mobile and social still big growth drivers

The Equity Kicker

Earlier this week Mary Meeker published an update to her by now legendary internet trends presentation and Nielsen published their Social Media Report 2012. Taken together they tell us clearly that mobile and social are still growing very fast. Mobile apps are used nearly five times as much as mobile websites.

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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

ReadWriteStart

It even penciled for Google in 1998, and it still worked well enough that Facebook chose to establish its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, in 2004. In many places, mobile data and hardwired internet were still billed based upon usage. In many places, mobile data and hardwired internet were still billed based upon usage.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet: AOL. It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. AOL was closed, the Internet was open.

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The Golden Age of the Boston Internet Entrepreneur

Genuine VC

There are a couple classic archetypes of internet/software founders, including the genius college student cooking up something quirky but ultimately disruptive in his dorm room who launches his company straight out of undergrad. Reactions when I told people I was an “internet entrepreneur” ranged from smirks to blank stares.

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Bubble Trouble? I Don’t Think So

Ben's Blog

In the great bubble of 1998-2000, the boom in public valuations mirrored the boom in private valuations. The inflation-adjusted data from the last bubble tells the story: In the 3-year period from 1998-2000, venture capital firms raised more than $200 billion, which represented about 0.55% of the national GDP.