1999 Marketing Syndication Valuation 
Feld Thoughts
AUGUST 25, 2015
Instead, the driver was the 1983 bull market. Put a willing and forgiving exit market following any investment period and you get spectacular returns. Take a look at the founding syndicates of each: Masstor Sytems (5/1979). Quantum Corporation (6/1980). CIVC. $ 250,000. CIVC. $ 200,000.
thebarefootvc
MAY 8, 2012
The best VCs are the ones that balance their optimism, vision and enthusiasm for startups with realism based on very real constraints (the primary one being his/her own time, but also includes market development and exit timing). Too many pivots, and you can lose the market opportunity, even with the greatest idea.
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Agile VC
MAY 26, 2011
The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. To give you a sense, for 2002 the entire US online ad market was $6B and had shrunk year over year (it was $25B+ for 2010). It was a pretty good valuation for the time. It was a $4.7M link] leehower.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 25, 2010
When I was raising money for my first company we had closed a seed round in 1999 and were working on our A round. We had many term sheets (it was 1999 and we had a pulse) and we were deciding which one to take. We were trying to optimize around a few criteria: price, size of round, number of syndicate partners and, of course, terms.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 27, 2015
Not the successful companies themselves but the entire b t culture of swash-buckling startups who define themselves by hitting some magical $1 billion valuation number and the financiers who back them irrespective of metrics that justify it. That’s how markets go. And I blame unicorns. ” No. We f **g don’t.
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