2000 Demand Internet Venture Capital 
Steve Blank
MARCH 18, 2011
We’re now in the second Internet bubble. Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability. August 1995 – March 2000: The Dot.Com Bubble. Filed under: Technology , Venture Capital.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 5, 2011
It is highly dependent upon many factors: experience of the team, type of opportunity (a big biotech or semi-conductor A round is likely to look different from an Internet A round), geography, etc. It was early 2000. So the ranges you would expect can be highly imprecise. I raised my A round at a $31.5 That was market.
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rapidrollout.wordpress.com
JANUARY 15, 2011
He or she might call himself a “consulting CTO,&# “freelance CTO,&# “on-demand CTO,&# “CTO on call,&# “CTO for hire,&# or just a “technology strategy advisor.&# Though after the dotcom collapse of 2000-2001, there are many more than there were! Why are consulting CTOs so scarce? Try Google.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 4, 2010
The framework of his book has profoundly altered how I think about the technology market and affects how I thought about building my businesses and how I think about investing in venture capital. This is important because the customers they serve (the red line) demand a product that meets their complex requirements.
abovethecrowd.com
JULY 10, 2014
I find it surprising that a finance professor like Damodaran did not consider the impact of price on demand. The relationship between price and demand is well understood, and while Damodaran may not have the numbers he would need to calculate Uber’s specific price elasticity , let me assure you that it is high. Different Economics.
The Equity Kicker
JULY 8, 2019
When I started in venture capital in the late 1990s VCs were regularly lambasted for taking long summer holidays and spending too much time on the golf course. Moreover, if the VC is high quality, the portfolio companies will be high quality and hence very demanding of the value add team. . Low handicaps weren’t good!
This is going to be BIG.
MARCH 30, 2015
Most internet opportunities were of modest scale – often worth pursuing – but not usually worth taking public. Because most internet business concepts were not capable of productively employing tens of millions of dollars of venture capital does not mean they were bad ideas." There are lots of those around.
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