1999 Demand Government Venture Capital 
Ben's Blog
JANUARY 31, 2012
The two most obvious are: Why did such a new venture capital firm raise so much money? How did such a new venture capital firm raise so much money? 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.
Seeing Both Sides
APRIL 10, 2011
The average venture capital fund raised between 1995 and 1997 returned more than 50% per year. Amidst all the recent talk of boom vs. bubble , there is a hue and cry that the current environment may smack of 1999. Demand from these, now larger, economies are having a very positive effect on the US tech market.
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thebarefootvc
DECEMBER 16, 2011
2011 was finally the year when the media spotlight shone on how under-represented women are in almost all power structures in business, government, technology and media – and how crucial it is that we leverage the leadership skill set that they bring to the table to tackle the problems facing the world today.
online.wsj.com
JULY 11, 2012
Over the past two years, one of the most influential venture-capital firms has turned the usual rules of start-up investing on its head. In the early days of venture capital, when money was scarce, entrepreneurs often gave up control of their company in exchange for their first investment funds. LUBLIN And SPENCER E.
Reid Hoffman
MAY 16, 2020
How much change will you demand? And you didn’t need to get permission from the government or corporate gatekeepers. It was 1999. Then, in 2000, after five crazy years where founders could attract millions in venture capital based on little more than a good URL, the dot-com bubble burst. Is it temporary?
abovethecrowd.com
APRIL 20, 2016
About this same point in time, the journalists that focus specifically on the venture capital industry noted something quite profound. In 1999, record valuations coexisted with record IPOs and shareholder liquidity. If 1999 was a wet (read liquid) bubble, 2015 was a particularly dry one. 2015 was the exact opposite.
abovethecrowd.com
FEBRUARY 27, 2019
In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities. If you are a rural landowner, here is a way to create “money out of nowhere” with very little capital expenditures. As a result, productivity naturally improves.
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