Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. You can sometimes attract capital from farther away but typically harder to do at early stage. Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO.

Term Sheet 178

Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

And while the internet created both tremendous reward and tremendous investment carnage leading up to and after the 2000 tech bubble, it’s created long run disruption of broad sectors of media, advertising, business software & computing, and retail commerce and VCs that missed this shift have faced real struggles.

Silicon Valley 240

Silicon Valley Carried Interest Cofounder Boston 240

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

We were trying to optimize around a few criteria: price, size of round, number of syndicate partners and, of course, terms. We moved into the legal process and final due diligence in January and February of 2000. Our final closure was the first week of March 2000. We ended up agreeing a term sheet for $16.5 We hit sub 2 weeks.

Technical Review 301

Technical Review Term Sheet Due Diligence Venture Capital 301

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Texas is well capitalized Silicon Valley has traditionally received a disproportionate share of private, early-stage funding compared to other geographies given its density of firms focused on these types of investments and the number of start-ups and private companies in the region. all Bay Area firms?—?

Texas 90

Texas San Antonio Houston Dallas 90

David Teten

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

This may make sense from the individual perspective of a given VC, but collectively it ensures that early-stage companies are overvalued. This option-based valuation methodology can also be used to explain the early 2000 internet/telecom bubble in the public markets.

Management 114

Management Pre-Money Valuation Venture Capital New Hampshire 114

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Though this was 2000 , and all startup & VC blogs we've grown to love didn't exist yet, I did have mentors available. The process is called mass syndication, or a party round. Wannabe entrepreneur symptoms and cures - Gabriel Weinberg , July 25, 2010 I was once a wannabe entrepreneur.

Software Review 217

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Technical Review 217