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. For reason number two people pay a higher price & rent in New York than they do in San Antonio, Texas. Yes, there are some factors that can affect property prices beyond these two factors (e.g.

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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. New York has leapt some way ahead of us. Venture Capital'

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Silicon Valley New York Venture Capital Acquisition 110

Pascal's View

AUGUST 28, 2010

By contrast, in their first year, new firms add an average of 3 million jobs.”. (ii) Patent Office (USPTO), could create 2.5mm new jobs over the next three years by contributing to startup formation. Source: New York Times Opinion article, Inventing Our Way Out of Joblessness by Hank Nothaft and Paul Michel, August 5, 2010 ).

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Venture Capital America Initial Public Offering IPO 56

The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

At the same time we have seen the start-up ecosystems in New York, London and Berlin emerge as meaningful competitors to Silicon Valley. In an anomalous, parallel development, the 1999-2000 bubble spawned local funds who were able to support these companies to a point, and to introduce them to their Californian counterparts.

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Silicon Valley Cost Startup Boston 97

View from Seed

JUNE 17, 2015

My first startup job was as an early employee at PayPal, where I took a job at the end of ‘1999 and started a few months later in 2000. And to be clear I split my time between Boston, New York, and SF and I’ve seen this across a broad swath of startups and individuals… both outside NextView’s portfolio and occasionally within it.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

When my Japanese husband died at a young age almost 16 years ago, I had been doing medical writing for a major New York Hospital and also helping him with his documentary films for Japanese and American public television. #2 – To Reinvent Myself After a Tragedy. Image Credit: Bess Heitner. I wish I had done this years ago.

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Entrepreneur LLC Cofounder Green 91

SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

But back in 1999, a then very young Netflix based in Los Gatos with less than 20 employees, was on the edge of going bust. Yet the team got the new service up and running and used this to power and grow their business for another 7 years, until they disrupted themselves again by moving aggressively to the streaming model.

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