Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

If you take a snapshot during an extraordinary surge in valuations, M&A activity, IPOs and thus wealth creation you’d echo John Doerr’s famous quote from 1999 that, “The Internet is the greatest legal creation of wealth in history.&# I still have to get sales, operations, finance, HR & corp dev right to win.

IPO 391

IPO Finance Valuation Naming 391

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Back in 1999, it all ended very bad. I don’t think you need operational experience to be a good VC but Mark Suster’s great new post illustrates the difference. [.] Just like revenues are the right metric for businesses that aim to sell products directly, one can probably deduce a global metric for other types of businesses.

Customer Development 223

Customer Development Web Developer Customer 223

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. And that’s both how and why we raised $2.7

Venture Capital 78

Venture Capital Portfolio Cofounder Partner 78

David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Speakers: - Bob Dahl, HBS Alumni Angel, formerly head of Global Healthcare for the Carlyle Group. From April 1999 until June 2006, Mr. Dahl served as the head of Global Healthcare for the Carlyle Group, a leading private equity firm, where he was responsible for the firm’s investments in the healthcare field.

Private Equity 114

Private Equity North America Cofounder Angel Groups 114

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. The company supports organizations including Translators Without Borders, the Philadelphia Global Water Initiative and the American Red Cross.

Small Business 140

Small Business New York Denmark America 140

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

For a technology startup company to launch an initial product and survive long enough to gauge its success, requires two-orders-of-magnitude less money today than at the start of the previous decade. They all went away; they got rolled up in 1999 and 2000 into these too-big-to-fail banking operations," Davidson tells us.

IPO 115

IPO Stock San Francisco Lean 115

thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

As I reflected on FPV’s first full year of operation, I thought back to my original thesis and reasons for starting the fund. 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.

North America 40

North America Early Stage New York City Portfolio 40

thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2016

As I reflected on FPV’s first full year of operation, I thought back to my original thesis and reasons for starting the fund. 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.

North America 40

North America Early Stage New York City Portfolio 40

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

It’s also worth noting as data would suggest from this SVB venture funding report, lower costs to build tech & operate businesses implies the possibility of lower loss ratios in portfolios. In 1997, the year the Kauffman Report begins its analysis; there were 70 million users online globally. There are 20x more consumers online.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

thebarefootvc

JANUARY 1, 2013

I invested in Silicon Valley from 1999-2003 and in NYC pre and post 2008 financial crisis. The most exciting part of this future is the far-reaching global innovation and increased participation by women that I haven’t seen in previous cycles. I’ve seen this movie twice before as a VC.

Silicon Valley 84

Silicon Valley United States Portfolio Internet 84

Pascal's View

AUGUST 11, 2009

The abundance of risk capital during America’s technology bubble in 1999 and 2000 effectively financed the launch of the technology innovation ecosystems that now thrive in China, India, Singapore and other emerging (and increasingly robust) economies. We must stop damaging America’s global competitiveness.

Global 31

Global Offshore United States Singapore 31

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

When it launched in 97 it was a DVD rental business whose only real value proposition was the mail-order element of its operation. First they pivoted from video rentals by mail to smart suggestions by algorithm then they followed by leading the streaming revolution to now global domination. Photo Credit: Deborah Sweeney.

Entrepreneur 107

Entrepreneur China Incubator Philippines 107

Start Up Blog

JUNE 14, 2011

I was recently asked some questions about changes afoot in the creative, technology and media space. We’ve already seen this in other areas influenced by technology and we need to learn from it: computer companies entering phones (Apple), web companies entering hardware (Google), software / web are entering music.

Social Media 69

Social Media Mobile Security Media 69

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Statistically, less than 50 percent of small businesses are still operational after five years. Globalization has increased the level of competition and introduced more turmoil to the business environment. million in 1999, Zappos is now worth $1 billion. Here are five ways to keep your small business growing.

Small Business 60

Small Business Non-Compete Europe Philippines 60

Start Up Blog

JUNE 14, 2011

I was recently asked some questions about changes afoot in the creative, technology and media space. We’ve already seen this in other areas influenced by technology and we need to learn from it: computer companies entering phones (Apple), web companies entering hardware (Google), software / web are entering music.

Media 59

Media Social Media Government Mobile 59

BeyondVC

OCTOBER 27, 2004

Total cash and savings for companies in the S&P 500 have doubled since 1999 and is equal to half a trillion dollars which means companies have added almost 300 billion dollars to their balance sheet in the last 5 years. “Technology is coming to us in much smaller bundles that cost a lot less,” said Robert B.

Balance Sheet 60

Balance Sheet Architecture New York America 60

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. Without the proper technology to match people who wanted a ride with people who could provide that service, taxi and chauffeur companies were drastically underserving the potential market.

Internet 88

Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Similarly, my research on venture capital portfolio operations found that Portfolio Operator VCs such as Andreesen Horowitz , First Round Capital , ff Venture Capital , and Google Ventures are hiring unusually large teams and structuring them in traditional pyramids. Notes: Only for IT & related sectors.

Private Equity 114

Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Equity 114

Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

For decades, technology entrepreneurs have had an affinity for pirates. Piracy became so associated with startups that when, in 1999, the cable network TNT released a movie about the heated rivalry between Steve Jobs and Apple, and Bill Gates and Microsoft, it was titled, “Pirates of Silicon Valley.”

Silicon Valley 36

Silicon Valley Early Stage Software Review Employee 36

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Technology. Personal Technology. TECHNOLOGY. Craig Walker, co-founder and CEO of Firespotter Labs, a technology incubator, said it feels unnatural to bestow so much voting power on one executive. This time around, technology entrepreneurs are being more assertive. WSJ Classroom. Ran gold Resources Ltd. My Journal.

Silicon Valley 42

Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MAY 4, 2013

Can any other organization offer a kinesthetic and whole-brained process for turning global trends into new strategies and breakthrough ideas for your organization? “Now that our operations have scaled, we can offer IdeaKeg editions on a one-off basis. Does anyone else have a service like IdeaKeg?

Boston 101

Boston United Kingdom North America Early Stage 101

Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Decades ago, the thesis of Yossi Vardi , a prolific technology entrepreneur who has invested in 75 Israeli startups, was that Israeli entrepreneurs should seek quick exit opportunities through global corporations interested in buying a window into Israeli talent and technology. We think so. Today, this thesis is less relevant.

Cofounder 20

Cofounder Technical Review United States 20

Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

I’m a self confessed lover of technology and how empowering it can be. I make my career from evangelising the benefits of technology and I wrote my first lines of code on a 16k RAM-only computer, way before any of this was trendy. After the Dot Com crash of 1999, most yet-to-be-disrupted big firms got back to business.

Government 79

Government Algorithm Artificial Inteligence Social Media 79

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Wired Magazine has crowned Tel Aviv the world’s second largest center for technology start-ups after Silicon Valley. In its September issue, the science and technology magazine created a list of 10 European cities that constitute significant centers for high-tech activity. See the headlines below. .

El Salvador 97

El Salvador San Diego Silicon Valley 97

VC Cafe

JUNE 4, 2012

Global provider of business collaboration and communications solutions Avaya, based in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, recently announced its purchase of RADVISION for $230m. XtremeIO is a maker of flash memory storage technology, and will now become an R&D unit of EMC. Israel has been a birthplace for water irrigation technologies.

San Francisco 90

San Francisco New Jersey Private Equity 90

alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

Legibility is concerned with the very fine details of typeface design, and in an operational context this usually means the ability to recognise individual letters or words. 5; in Lund, 1999 ). Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ). Part 2 reviews the evidence for and against the legibility of serif and sans serif typefaces. Definitions.

Technical Review 85

Technical Review Software Review Design Web 85

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Juniper Networks Inc acquired Altor Networks, a company specializing in security for virtualization technology. Virtualization technology is increasingly in demand as large corporations try to cut back on hardware in their data centers. The technology was developed in collaboration with Bar-Ilan University.

Technical Review 87

Technical Review South Korea Mexico 87

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Mostly we got to see the team operate in stressful times and that changed my perspective on the deal. Don’t spend like it’s 1999. The last big recession was in the early 90′s where IT and globalization were in their infancy in terms of impact. I’m long on payment technologies. Depressing.

Stock 305

Stock Technical Review Marketing Greece 305

The Next Web

JANUARY 4, 2014

The concepts of branding that once applied to physical things got transferred to digital assets such as websites and operating systems. The “insanely great” Apple operating system and Amazon’s “crush-all-competitors” online marketplace transformed the digital world. This is the “brand experience.”. Where do we go from here?

Operations 144

Operations Architecture Cofounder DC 144