Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

My first company launched in 1999 and we were offering a SaaS document management in the cloud (we were called ASPs back then). Their first company was called Traffic.com, which they sold in March 2007 to Navteq for $180 million (not too shabby). I’ll always point out when I am.). I learned the domain lesson myself.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 19, 2018

It has happened only one other time in my investing career – in 1999. In 2003 the angels started to reappear (some of the best angel deals of all time were done between 2004 and 2007) and the super angel language started to be used around 2007. I view this is a significant negative indicator.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

I kept pointing to the artificial gains in the Nasdaq in 1999 and said, “just because you bought in Feb ’99 and sold in Sept ’99 for a large gain doesn’t meant the asset was correctly priced.&# My message to everybody at the time, “Sell! At dinner parties I was wrong for several years but I stuck to my guns.

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David Cohen

MARCH 30, 2020

In 1999, we sold that business and I started angel investing. Around 2007, the subprime mortgage crisis contributed to a recession that lasted through 2009. Founded in 2006, Techstars ran our first startup accelerator in 2007. I didn’t really see how it would affect me. In 2000, the Internet bubble burst. Fear and panic set in.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

It started in 2007 here in Austin and was founded by my friend Matt Cohen. At the beginning of Coremetrics in 1999, the market risk was whether or not companies would embrace the outsourced model (what we called ASP, or Application Service Providers, back then, and are now called SaaS, or Software as a Service, or “cloud” providers).

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Transformify

APRIL 15, 2016

The founding of M-Pesa in 2007 inspired many young people to undertake entrepreneurial risks. He has extensive experience working in Kenya’s tech industry, having founded Wananchi Online in 1999. Joseph Mucheru helps oversee Google’s operations in Africa as the Sub-Saharan Africa ambassador and East Africa Lead.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 31, 2014

This LP is also a long time investor in Union Square Ventures and was one of the first people Fred introduced us to when we started raising the first Foundry Group fund in 2007. In 2007, when we set out to raise our first Foundry Group fund, early stage tech VC was in the shitter. But is wasn’t always this way. They ignored us.

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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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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Carmon Drummond, Director of Sales and Marketing, joined MainSpring in 2007 as a business consultant (after working as a General Manager for Spirit Accessories for almost a decade), followed by two years serving as a Retail Technology Advisor. She graduated from the University of Tulsa in 1999.

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Austin Startup

MAY 11, 2011

Austin is about to witness a wave of financial liquidity in the technology community not seen since 1999. Back in 2006 and early 2007 Austin had seen a positive upswing in investment, consumer spending, and a generally healthy economy since about 2004.

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

First, the body of collaborative work on corporate governance best practices that I have developed since 1999 with other venture capitalists and professional service providers to the venture industry; and, second, the direct collaboration on venture capital that resulted from meeting Professor Mannie Manhong Liu in the summer of 2007 at the Symposium (..)

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

This is exactly what happened in the broader VC industry between 1999-2001 as many people without the requisite skills entered the industry. It’s a non-fiction story of many of the players at the heart of the financial crisis that became exposed in 2007/08. I will publish what I believe the five are in a series of articles.

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Version One Ventures

JUNE 7, 2016

When Amazon acquired Bibliofind (a competitor to my company AbeBooks ) in 1999, they expected to switch all of the Bibliofind sellers over to Amazon. eBay was relatively successful when it acquired marketplaces like Rent.com (2005) and StubHub (2007). This means that an IPO is the exit option for the most successful marketplaces.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 1, 2015

He used this chart as evidence: Second, I read Josh Kopelman’s/First Round Capital’s Open Letter to Investors from May this year which says that seed valuations are up 3x from 2007-2015 without a corresponding increase in exits. Note that we can see a similar increase in Series A valuations in Fred’s chart above.

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David Teten

APRIL 16, 2012

Since 1999, our partners have made over 150 investments in over 55 companies. Among our most successful seed investments that have reached maturity are Cornerstone OnDemand (which raised $137m in a March 2011 IPO, ticker CSOD) and Quigo Technologies (sold to AOL for a reported $340m in 2007).

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 12, 2016

The last was dinner with Alex Rigopulos, the co-founder of Harmonix, which he co-founded with Eran Egozy in 1995, sold in 2007, bought back in 2010, and is still running today. In 1999, the year an online pet store fronted by a sock puppet raised $50 million, Harmonix was laying off staff.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 20, 2012

Levy should know, in 1999 he founded eHatchery, an Atlanta-based precursor to today’s accelerators. Accelerators are also booming. So much so that Jeff Levy, an entrepreneur and investor at Lamberts Cove, believes that an accelerator bubble may be forming. Venture Capital ? Innovation. So does less venture capital mean less innovation?

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Growthink Blog

JULY 30, 2012

We are now well-beyond 13 long years of ZERO public market returns, with major indices (Dow, S & P, and NASDAQ) trading, on an inflation adjusted basis, much lower than they were in July 1999. Remember, from August 1982 to July 1999, the Dow Jones Industrial Average went from 777 to 11,031, and the NASDAQ from 159 to 2,685.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Scott co-founded Postini and a bunch of email stuff at Google after Google acquired Postini in 2007. While controversial in 1999, DNS redirect-based services have become accepted across all ports and protocols. Following are his thoughts on LinkedIn Intro. I am all for seamless integration of services.

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dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Im Anil Dash, and Ive blogged half a million words here since 1999, writing about how culture is made. Comments (HTML is okay). Earlier: Know Your Shit: Ten Years of Twitter Ads. Next: Heres Whats Up. Why, Hello! Contact me at anil@dashes.com , phone +1 646 833 8659, follow anildash on Twitter or IM, or subscribe. Still curious? Matt Haughey.

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

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. These entrepreneurs, at companies like Skype, Etsy, and Tumblr, were able to prove a lot with a little and Silicon Valley had to sit up and take notice.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2016

After spending time in Silicon Valley (from 1999-2003), Boston, London and Chicago, I moved back to NYC in 2004 and have been fortunate to witness the technology and startup growth for the past 10+ years. I remember the heady days of 1999 when everyone believed that there were new rules to investing.

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Austin Startup

JULY 23, 2010

Having been founded in 1999, Zilliant is hard to categorize as a startup anymore. Doing some research shows that their last round in 2007 was Series F, so this must be Series G. The company creates the leading software in an enterprise niche called pricing optimization and margin management. An item’s price is the price.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 20, 2012

Levy should know, in 1999 he founded eHatchery, an Atlanta-based precursor to today’s accelerators. Accelerators are also booming. So much so that Jeff Levy, an entrepreneur and investor at Lamberts Cove, believes that an accelerator bubble may be forming. Venture Capital ≠ Innovation So does less venture capital mean less innovation?

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

After spending time in Silicon Valley (from 1999-2003), Boston, London and Chicago, I moved back to NYC in 2004 and have been fortunate to witness the technology and startup growth for the past 10+ years. I remember the heady days of 1999 when everyone believed that there were new rules to investing.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 29, 2018

Since 1999 I have worked in every aspect of the import/export arena gaining extensive experience with various trade relations and regulations, utilizing my vast knowledge and experience in sales, marketing, and strategic networking. I have been an immigrant in four countries now. Where do you see your business in the next 3-5 years?

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Ben's Blog

JULY 24, 2011

Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia met at the Rhode Island School of Design and became roommates in San Francisco in 2007. I joined eBay in 1999, early in its life, and had the privilege of witnessing and contributing to the development of one of the most iconic e-commerce businesses. Talk about a business with humble roots.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 9, 2013

In a 2007 report, the Council on Competitiveness quoted a USA Today survey revealing that, “ of venture-backed software startups created since 1999, nearly 40% have employees outside the United States.”. Until recently, the designation “multinational” was reserved for giant corporations. This is no longer the case.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 9, 2018

I feel fortunate that, since 1999, KeepCool has been able to be a conduit for the growing number of people who are making such conscious choices. This was back in 2007. And that’s become something of the company motto. It’s what I wake up each morning hoping to achieve, and every day, I see a little more progress made.

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Altgate

JANUARY 18, 2009

I confess that when I first bought the book in 1999, it took me a full year to read it as it sat in my “reading rack&# in my bathroom. I read this book in 1999 at the height of the internet bubble and still wasn’t smart enough to short the market in time. But even that doesn’t go far enough.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2011

More importantly, I know them both for a while--Hilary since August of 2007 through twitter and, of course, getting to work with her at Path 101, and Kara since I used to e-mail her about her Boomtown columns in the WSJ over ten years ago. I followed her writing and bought her AOL book back in 1999.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2019

While the term was new, many of the ideas aligned with “ permission marketing ,” which Seth Godin brought into marketers’ consciousness in 1999 and contrasted with “interruption marketing.” In December 2007, HubSpot went all-in with inbound marketing. More than just ‘Content Marketing.’”.

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www.volkside.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Carsonified (2007): How To Name Your Company. The Name Inspector (2007): 10 tips for naming your company, product, or service. Guy Kawasaki (2007): How to Name a Name. Salon.com (1999): The name game. Tim Ferriss and Kevin Rose (2009): How to test company or product names using Google AdWords.

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Altgate

MAY 1, 2009

.&# According to Fred’s posts, the “math problem&# in VC is that LPs have been investing capital in VC funds at the clip of about $25 billion per year for the past decade (excluding 1999 and 2000 which were strange years).

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Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

3/31/1999: 49.7. 3/30/2007: 22.6. If markets behave rationally, one might expect the ratio of price to earnings to be reasonably stable over the period (click here for complete data set). One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0. 3/29/1996: 22.3. 3/31/1997: 23.3. 3/31/1998: 30.8. 3/31/2000: 73.4. 3/30/2001: 26.3. 3/29/2002: 82.5.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 21, 2011

For me Bubble will always be inexorably linked to what went down in 1999 and 2000 in the internet sector. tech sector have more than doubled since 2007. It is intentional. And I agree with Mike Arrington that what is going on now is different. I do not think we are in a Bubble per se.”.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

In 1999, Alibaba had to face many failures; for the first three years, the company made zero revenue. I have been running a PR Firm, Whitegate PRINC since 2007. Everyone always talks about Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but my vote goes to Jack Ma and his company Alibaba. Thanks to Ben Walker, Transcription Outsourcing ! #10-

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