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APRIL 2, 2010
It’s also meaningless if they had four $200 million funds and the last one they closed was in 2000. Unfortunately over the period of 2000-2010 the VC industry hasn’t performed well and therefore the number of funds going forward is likely to reduce greatly. GRP’s last fund was in 2000. What is a VC fund?
Feld Thoughts
JANUARY 2, 2023
For those of you older than 40, it sort of felt like 2000. Almost all of the prognosticating I heard in 2022 was similar to what I heard and often said in 2000. 2004 was the beginning of what I now refer to as “the grind,” which ended for me around 2007. If you are younger than 40, a massive tech bubble just burst.
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Feld Thoughts
FEBRUARY 18, 2014
When we started to use the word mentor in 2007, it required defining. And for those who don’t know Jerry’s past, he was an extremely successful venture capitalist, founding Flatiron Partners with Fred Wilson in the mid-1990s before retiring from venture capital in the early 2000′s. As a mentor. As a teacher.
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SEPTEMBER 29, 2009
Just ask anybody who was trying to close funding the fateful week of September 11, 2001 or even March 2000. It helped me avoid chasing deals (and a house) in 2007/08 and it led to GRP’s fastest pace of investment in many years in the first three quarters of 2009 at a time when many others weren’t investing.
ConversionXL
MARCH 19, 2020
The HBR study contrasts Office Depot and Staples during the 2000 recession: Office Depot cut 6% of its workforce, but it couldn’t reduce operating costs significantly. Hyundai’s Assurance program, which debuted during the 2007–08 financial crisis, is a great example. Image source ). What does a thoughtful campaign look like?
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JUNE 5, 2011
2007, 2011) and for the hottest of companies and in bad markets for fund raising (2003, 2008) prices test the bottom end of the range. It was early 2000. I saw this kind of pricing when I first entered the VC market in 2007. There is no such thing as a uniform price. I raised my A round at a $31.5 That was market.
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DECEMBER 5, 2010
Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t. In April of 2000 there were fears that the AOL / Time Warner merger would create a monopoly on the Internet. In May 2007 there were fears that Google was becoming a monopoly.
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