Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

And so it happened that between 2000-2008 I was the biggest buzz kill at dinner parties. When the masses start all running one way without questioning “why?&# – and when it defies any logic I can figure out in my head – I call bullshit. At dinner parties I was wrong for several years but I stuck to my guns.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 16, 2018

” In 2000 I was co-chairman of a public company called Interliant. The company had gone public in 1999 and the market cap rose to just under $3 billion ($55 / share, up from $10 / share at the IPO). By the end of 2000, the stock price was at $13.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 2, 2014

In fact, since 2000, more than 10 million Americans have filed personal bankruptcy due to their employers’ failed health insurance plan. suppliers of personalized employee health benefits, Extend Health (1999) and Zane Benefits (2006). For many, it’s been a struggle. But the Affordable Care Act has changed the game.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 18, 2011

than it is to explain how the 1999 UETA and 2000 ESIGN Acts and our https framework help keep us secure. There is tremendous legal support behind our products, but people need to FEEL comfortable as well.

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OnlyOnce

OCTOBER 27, 2022

When I first met Matt and he joined me and Jack to launch Return Path in 1999, he was fresh out of business school and focused on sales and marketing from his prior career in investment banking. This started back in 2000. Our idea was that he would do the same for us as we got our product in market.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

The same spreadsheet also predicted we’d see a music downloading service in 1999 or 2000. Napster arrived in June, 1999. Nine years later, in February 2005, YouTube arrived. Streaming video had finally made it. The data has held surprisingly accurate over the long term.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 19, 2018

It has happened only one other time in my investing career – in 1999. For anyone that remembers 2000-2003, this obviously ended badly. .” We are seeing this also and have been talking about it internally, so it prompted me to say something about it. I view this is a significant negative indicator.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

The Internet bull market continued to run for four more years after the Open Market IPO, finally ending in the spring of 2000. Amidst all the recent talk of boom vs. bubble , there is a hue and cry that the current environment may smack of 1999. But what if it’s actually more akin to 1996?

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

Another important project was launched in 1999 at the UC Berkeley which has arguably become the most famous example of the volunteer computing model — the SETI@home program (if there’s a “@home” suffix in the name of a project it means that it involves exclusively home computers).

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 12, 2014

We learned this dynamic in the early 2000’s with our investment in ServiceMagic. We invested in the company in 1999 during the ascension of the Internet bubble. In 2000, Michael and Rodney cut the business drastically, changed the business model to a lead-fee system, which they pioneered online.

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David Cohen

MARCH 30, 2020

In 1999, we sold that business and I started angel investing. In 2000, the Internet bubble burst. I didn’t really see how it would affect me. We raised a lifetime grand total of $100,000 for that business in the form of advance payment from early customers. By 2002 the NASDAQ had fallen by nearly 80%. Or even working for one?

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 27, 2014

Comparing this with the chart below from the 1999 bubble and two things stand out. Firstly growth in investment is far slower now than it was then, and secondly at $8bn per quarter total investments now are less than half the Q1 2000 peak. Transaction values and volumes are rising, but not at bubble rates.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. I am very grateful to my friend Zoli Erdos for finding this retro posting for me at web.archive.org. I had kept a personal blog for more than a year and was new at keeping a professional blog.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 20, 2012

In 2000, venture capitalists poured a staggering $112.2 According to Dow Jones VentureSource Senior Manager of Corporate Communications Kim Gagliardi, 3,404 venture financing rounds were completed in 2011, down 47% from the 6,361 closed in 2000. That was up 29% over 2000 in just five years. It just doesn’t fit.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 3, 2011

In the tech industry, the great Internet bubble inflated between 1999 and 2000 and deflated (or popped) in 2001. So I spent some time on my run yesterday rolling the idea of a bubble around in my head. I remember it well as 2001 was easily the most challenging year of my business life.

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ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

His name was Mark Benioff (another former Oracle Executive) and in 1999 he had the pleasure to introduce the business world the first CRM in Cloud. In early 2000, the diffusion of Personal Computers transformed the way users made decisions and the paradigm buyer/seller changed again. The Salesforce era was only at the beginning.

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 28, 2015

It has taken us a long time to get over the 1999/2000 bubble and build a sustainable ecosystem. These are two great charts! With IPOs like this European venture funds must be performing better, and that will bring more money into the market.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

gotomeeting.com/register/638414410 On it, we will share some key statistics, especially that while from August 1982 to September 1999, the Dow Jones industrial average rose from 777 to 11,078, in comparison since 1999 it has moved only from 11,078 to 16,017 (approximately 44%). annually from 1982 to 2000 to 1.8%

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SiliconHills

JUNE 22, 2015

CTK, founded in 1999, has more than 60 employees. The company will become part of Social Solutions Global, which was founded in 2000 and has more than […] The post Social Solutions Global Buys Community Techknowledge appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Scalable Startup

DECEMBER 15, 2011

when many vaporware and vapor-businesses crash or fade away they leave damage, possibly fueling the recession (remember 1999-2000? However, the fallout from all this will set us back a few years again … many misled, unsophisticated angels will get burned and sour to good investments (not sophisticated angels, they know the risk).

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finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

The information is based on part of a confidential year-end 2011 investment report distributed to investors in a fund-of-funds that made commitments between 1999 and 2001. Overall, the fund-of-funds is 97% called for 45 funds raised between 1999 and 2002. Accel Partners VII (1999): 89% (74%). Onset Ventures IV (2000): 31% (4%).

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 9, 2012

Founded in 1999 by college student Bryn Carey, this ski and snowboard rental and delivery service is used by over 30 ski resorts in locations such as California, Colorado and British Columbia, Canada. Bought by Mike Pfieger in 2000, this company provides agricultural goods and services. CETRA Language Solutions (Great Lakes).

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

I shared some key statistics, especially that while from August 1982 to September 1999, the Dow Jones industrial average rose from 777 to 11,078, in comparison since 1999 it has moved only from 11,078 to 13,986 (approximately 25%). annually from 1982 to 2000 to 1.8% from 2000 - 2013, there is simply less money to go around.

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 5, 2018

The problem has been that many LPs lost money in European venture in the 1999-2000, were nervous about making the same mistake again, and wondered if there was a structural reason why venture capitalists seemed to be less successful here than in the US. Efficient market theory has it that money should flow into that void.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. This is my 2nd time trying this, first time was in 1999. Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO. A lot has changed. link] leehower.

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Jeff Hilimire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Sometime in the summer of 1999, I received an email from Raj telling me to get ready to answer the phone because a guy he’d been talking to in Queenstown, NZ, was interested in us building a website for him. Raj and me in New Zealand in 1999 wearing our Sunday best. We were a ragtag group of misfits if there ever was one.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. By 2000 the total LP commitments had mushroomed to more than $100 billion. So of course returns from 2000-2010 were subpar on average for the industry. In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 5, 2011

In 1999, 2000, and 2001 I had a my.yahoo.com page up with a bunch of stocks, including a number of companies I was an investor in, as my home page. This one is more specific than “ignore the macro economy&# – instead, it’s “ignore the Dow and the stock market and get back to work on your business.&#.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

By December 31, 1999, it had exploded to 11,497 -- an increase of 409% in just 10 years. From 2000 to TODAY, the Dow Jones has only moved from 11,078 to about 14,000 (only 27%). On January 1, 1990, the Dow Jones was at 2,810. But today’s stock market is BROKEN. And INFLATION has reduced purchasing power by 37%.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

The HBR study contrasts Office Depot and Staples during the 2000 recession: Office Depot cut 6% of its workforce, but it couldn’t reduce operating costs significantly. At the same time, the company contained its operating costs and came out of the recession stronger, bigger, and more profitable than it had been in 1999. Image source ).

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 20, 2012

In 2000, venture capitalists poured a staggering $112.2 According to Dow Jones VentureSource Senior Manager of Corporate Communications Kim Gagliardi, 3,404 venture financing rounds were completed in 2011, down 47% from the 6,361 closed in 2000. That was up 29% over 2000 in just five years. It just doesn’t fit.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 1, 2015

When I joined the VC industry in 1999 there was too much money in the market, and then over the course of 2000 that flipped to too little money a position from which we are only just recovering now. He was asking whether with all the new funds in town valuations are rising and returns are likely to suffer.

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Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

CLARK, a retired four-star General, was Supreme Commander of NATO from 1997 to 2000, led the alliance of military forces in the 1999 Kosovo War, and is a Senior Fellow at the Ron Burkle Center for International Relations at UCLA. Washington would be better off following a more ‘open-source’ approach to information sharing.

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Ben's Blog

JANUARY 31, 2012

After raising our first round of funding for Loudcloud in 1999, we went to visit our new venture capital firm and meet their full team. These presentations resulted in more than 3,000 introductions between portfolio companies and prospective Fortune 500/Global 2000 senior executives.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

In 1999-2000 they weren’t doing enterprise-wide installations at Merrill Lynch, Dell and Cisco. What is “disruptive&# is that is also dramatically less expensive. And the providers take a much lower margin – they have nothing to lose, nothing to protect. Enter Salesforce.com. That would have been laughable.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Before Roving Software could receive its first round of financing from professional investors, in early 1999, he had to put all the stock arrangements in writing. Copyright © 2000 inc.com. Parker, for example, often sealed his agreements with a handshake rather than on paper. Voice your views in our Discussions area. Select Services.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 These two trends had a major impact on the computing industry from 2000-2005 but the effects weren’t yet felt by the VC industry. I will argue that LPs who invest in VC funds will also need to adjust a bit as well. The Emergence of “Open Cloud&# Infrastructure.

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