Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

You’re much better off going to work for a phenomenal company, which does a great job of recruiting not just engineers, but also product managers, designers, go-to-market specialists, and many more, all of whom have a strong bias towards action, and all of whom are interested in the challenge of building a great technology company.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Balance Sheet Cofounder 69

Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

You’re much better off going to work for a phenomenal company, which does a great job of recruiting not just engineers, but also product managers, designers, go-to-market specialists, and many more, all of whom have a strong bias towards action, and all of whom are interested in the challenge of building a great technology company.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Balance Sheet Cofounder 69

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

But VC is an “illiquid asset&# so funds didn’t disappear quickly - In 2000/01 the stock market quickly adjusted punishing investors in the NASDAQ and in individual public technology stocks. After all, most people don’t understand that “venture capital is a get rich slowly&# scheme.

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LP Technical Review Early Stage Silicon Valley 311

K9 Ventures

APRIL 20, 2019

In 1998–1999, when I was running my first company, one of my investors, the late Don Jones , came by to visit us at the office. The architecture and technology will have to evolve over time. Don was totally a people person and just an all around great person to talk to.

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Technical Review San Francisco Startup Architecture 117

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 17, 2010

I started a business newspaper at my college and my first article back in February 1998 was on AOL. Still, I had no idea NYC tech even existed and I suspect that’s still the case for the majority of students today—although that’s changing with efforts like HackNY, Tech@NYU and Blue Venture Community.

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Technical Review San Francisco New York City Ruby 116

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

I’ve written on the expert network industry a fair amount in the past: see How to Earn More Consulting Revenue from Expert Networks and How Executives Can Work with Private Equity and Venture Capital Portfolio Companies. Can you give a brief overview: when you were founded, investors, current status? .

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New York Technical Review Networking Advisory Board 114

This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 2, 2014

I started a business newspaper in 1998 in college covering the stock market and the economy. I got my first job in venture--at GM--in February 2001. Venture Capital & Technology' My godfather got me IBM stock right after that, so that''s how I knew that a stock market and investing existed.

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Venture Capital Stock Naming Technology 110

K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Towards the end of my OPT (mid 1998) is when the H1-B visa cap issue hit. There were a sum total of three or four “venture capital” funds in Pittsburgh at the time, and none of them had done much with this new fangled thing called the Internet. Technology leadership and innovation knows no bounds.

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United States Founder India Venture Capital 114

Pascal's View

AUGUST 12, 2009

First, the National Venture Capital Association has published data revealing that over 90% of the jobs created by venture-backed companies occur AFTER they go public—and this relationship holds over the past 40 years. The median age of a venture-backed company at the time of its IPO has increased from 4.5

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IPO Silicon Valley Merger Sweat Equity 28

thebarefootvc

JANUARY 13, 2014

As velocity of innovation increases, it makes sense for larger companies to acquire vs build their own technologies (especially if the company is sitting on billions of cash). Steve Jobs famously said in a 1998 BusinessWeek interview: “It’s really hard to design products by focus group.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Cofounder Acquisition 94

thebarefootvc

APRIL 9, 2018

From students studying cryptoeconomics to faculty guiding independent studies on the new asset class, it is clear that the oldest university in the United States is on board with the newest technology wave. Many asked about the potential for re-centralization of technology and power, similar to what we saw with Facebook and Google.

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United States Venture Capital Government Internet 40

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Rules for building a company in 2011 are different than they were in 2008 or 1998. Filed under: Technology , Venture Capital. The revenue, profits and speed of scale of the winning companies can be breathtaking. The New Exits. Startup exits in the next three years will include IPO’s as well as acquisitions.

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Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 334

Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2016

[To listen to a recording of the webinar, Click Here ] On this recorded webinar, the Growthink Innovation Series turns to the transformative world of financial technology. Since being founded in 1998 LendingTree has facilitated more than 32 million loan requests. Mr. Alo Ghosh.

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Disintermediation Cofounder Venture Capital Angel Investor 48

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Of course our great technology industry did itself rise on the back of infrastructure created by telecommunications & cable infrastructure as well as decades of media production. Breakout companies become much harder and this isn’t likely to improve unless we give new companies the tools and capital they need to flourish.

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Government Distribution Stock United States 280

Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

in 1998 and eventually became Yahoo!Store. Magazine calls it a “hybrid venture capital fund and business school”. Watsi - the first non-profit to receive venture backing from Y Combinator. Sold to Yahoo!

Startup 80

Startup Silicon Valley Cofounder Non-Compete 80

Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 9, 2006

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Paris, November 1998. Venture Capital. (3). Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007. Explore Venture Capital. Saturday, December 09, 2006. First week on the job. internet. (6).

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Software Review Technical Review Europe Venture Capital 48

Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

He should have invested in Lawson obviously… I could not track back their stock price in 1998 when NetSuite was launched, but since Jan. Venture Capital. (3). Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007. Explore Venture Capital. 2002, the stock price went from $17.5 per share to $8.0

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Software Review Software Technical Review Cloud 48

David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

Peter Lehrman, CEO, AxialMarket Daniel Confino, Founder, MergerID ( a Financial Times business) Dan Burstein, Managing Partner, Millennium Technology Value Partners. His professional career has been substantially dedicated to building high-value technology-powered B2B marketplaces where many thought they couldn’t exist.

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Private Equity Merger IPO Equity 68

www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Its not what people learn in classes at MIT and Stanford that has made technology companiesspring up around them. In a technology startup, which most startups are, the foundersshould include technical people. The rulers of the technologybusiness tend to come from technology, not business. Its the same with technology.

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Startup Cofounder Software Stock 105

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

For every example of a successful company that proves a myth wrong, there will always be one that will prove it right, especially in today’s world of rapidly expanding technology and connectivity. When Larry and Sergey first began BackRub (which would eventually become Google), they didn’t run to a venture capital firm or angel investor.

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Washington Incubator Cofounder Angel Investor 48

Gust

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Talented entrepreneurs are nothing if not resilient in the face of change: Market forces, competitive threats, technological shifts, you name it. In recent years, government regulation has emerged as another such force to be reckoned with in the technology industry.

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IPO Prospectus SEC Intellectual Property 110

VC Cafe

MARCH 15, 2011

Israeli Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor Shalom Simhon met Chinese Commerce Minister Chen Deming vowing to to expand economic, trade and technological cooperation between the two countries. Chen also met Israeli President Shimon Peres who highlighted the key role of technology innovation in economic development of Israel and China.

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Private Equity China North America 90

Up and Running

JULY 29, 2015

This grant was launched in 1998 by Womennet to help entrepreneurs succeed. Angel investors and venture capitalists. Finding an angel investor or a venture capital group to support your business idea isn’t easy. See Also Small Business Grants: The Facts and the Fiction. Amber Grant for Women. Hatch Pitch.

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Angel Investor Equity Small Business Delaware 60

Seeing Both Sides

JULY 21, 2014

In 1998, Yom Kippur fell on September 30th. At Flybridge, we have added "business model", with a particularly weighting towards recurring models with high gross margins, as one of the important evaluation criteria when we make investment decisions alongside market and team, which are the two canonical criteria for all venture capital firms.

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Revenue Valuation Churn Rate Portfolio 54

Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

billion market capitalization. If investors observing this extraordinary phenomenon in 1996 were to have concluded that the technology market was in the midst of an unsustainable bubble, they would not have been wrong. Matrix had a fund in 1998 that yielded an eye-popping 514+% IRR. We had recorded $1.8

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IPO IRR Brazil Government 48

Altgate

DECEMBER 16, 2008

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← How Much Is A Free Customer Worth? Holiday Cards → Geek Quotes Posted on December 17, 2008 by fnazeeri Just stumbled across this list of geek quotes.  Some of these are pretty funny.

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Venture Capital Programming Technology Customer 28

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

There are actually a lot of tools and technologies available now to really streamline your day and as I said earlier it’s amazing. Bates: Josh, it reminds me of when I was doing web sites back in the day in 2000 and 1998 and instead of going and being able to buy a shopping cart you had to code the shopping cart from scratch.

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Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95

aweissman.com

DECEMBER 18, 2006

While I don't pretend to be smart enough to begin to analyze such an esoteric question, having been involved in technology venture capital since 1998, I will make a few, lightweight, observations: -At one, fundamentally important, level venture capitalists (VCs) are buyers of stock.

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Valuation Stock Venture Capital Equity 20

Seeing Both Sides

MARCH 2, 2011

I had the pleasure of teaching a new case at HBS yesterday on foursquare that I co-authored with Professors Tom Eisenmann and Mikolaj Piskorski as part of Tom's new course "Launching Technology Ventures". Now there's a future venture capitalist in the making! This is a unique and powerful aspect of the service.

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API Valuation Lean Burn Rate 44

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. 

Private Equity 20

Private Equity Boston Massachusetts IPO 20

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Back in like 1998? Tags: Venture Capital & Technology. And bouncing messages not from your friends? How is a person on the outside supposed to know what your privacy settings are? Remember when people used to say that their e-mails got lost? Now, we have a reasonable assurance that if I e-mail someone, they got it.

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SMS Venture Capital Search Naming 101

Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

Each circle represents one of the fifty largest technology companies in the city, the size of each circle determined by the number of the company’s employees. interview (3 January 2014), venture capital guru Marc Andreesen, who insists that there is no tech bubble, points out why companies like these survive and grow while others don’t.

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