Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 12, 2010

In the VC & Private Equity world there’s a small number, too, with one of the most respected being PEHub. But there are also going to be those companies that require capex and growth equity (Zynga, Facebook, etc). Retail investors were burned in IPOs in 2000, Consumers getting burned by services disappearing) Minutes 31-35.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2011

Lastly, he touched on the distrust of equity following the bubble in 2000, and that, particularly on the East Coast, people need to see good exits and good exits that reward employees. 7. After McAfee bought SiteAdvisor, Chris worked there for 15 months.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2011

MicroVentures isn't disclosing a lot of details about the first three deals that it's funded, but it says that these ranged from $2000 to $25,000 increments, with the average investment roughly $5000. Everything is disclosed fully to potential investors, who make their investments in exchange for equity in the companies.

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Software Review Accredited Investor Due Diligence Burn Rate 122

Agile VC

OCTOBER 23, 2012

And even if they wanted the index return, there is essentially no way to buy (or sell) a broad-based basket of VC funds in the way you can trade the S&P 500 or Russell 2000 or other public equity index. What about fund of funds (FoF), you ask? Aren’t they a form of bundled investment into the VC asset class?

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2012

Although Syracuse offers a heavy amount of help, students are able to maintain 100% equity in their companies, making this a valuable opportunity for entrepreneurial-minded Syracuse students. Current participants include Craftistas, CrowdRouser, and Flat Shoes Tattoos.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

I’m honored to be at a university noted for knowledge, and in a city with 2000 years of history – home of Gaudí one of the 20 th century’s greatest innovators. Today billions of dollars that companies could have invested in innovation are sitting in the hands of private equity funds. Thank you for the kind introduction.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Last week, my column received quite a reaction as I pointed out how much of a disaster the public equity markets have been these past 14 years. annually from 1982 to 2000 to 1.8% from 2000 - 2013, there is simply less money to go around. To this, a lot of folks came back with basically two questions / comments: 1.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

We’re hosting a webinar today at 4 pm PT about equity investing in 2014, and you’re invited to attend. annually from 1982 to 2000 to 1.8% from 2000 - 2014, there is simply less money to go around. To register, click here: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/638414410 So, on the webinar we will explain: 1.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 17, 2020

But investors with grey hair can remember the nuclear winter after the past recessions of 2000 and 2008 and can offer some historical patterns of crashes and recovery to CEOs running early stage startups – some who weren’t born when the crash of 1987 hit, were 10 years old in the crash of 2000 and 18 in the last crash of 2008.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 9, 2019

Is equity investment accessible. For instance, if your net worth reads $10,000 and you want to embark on a small online business which would require an overall startup capital of $2000. If so, debt funding, and not equity investment, is your best bet. Is equity investment accessible? Existing source of income.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

3) invest in and take equity stakes in exchange for capital. The IPO Bubble – August 1995 – March 2000 In August 1995 Netscape went public, and the world of start ups turned upside down. Yahoo would hit $104/share in March 2000 with a market cap of $104 billion.) 4) help nurture and grow the companies they invest in.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Direct seed funding, for a share of the equity, and introductions to investors. Assuming 60 companies are accepted in a specific batch, that would mean around 2000 companies applied. Mentoring and technical assistance from volunteer or paid experts. Peer-to-peer networking with other startups and founders in the same stage.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 6, 2019

I get 2000 things passing through my inbox in any given year, and I make about ten investments per year. How excited do you think I am if I’m only picking the top 10 out of 2000? Maybe it means giving extra equity to a standout hire that really takes your team to the next level. That’s because of the simple math of competition.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

How Much Equity Do Your Employees Deserve? The Ultimate Photoshop Patterns Collection: 2000+ Patterns – [link]. Checking off our our to-dos makes us happy, and others, too | GigaOM Pro – [link]. Teaching the Support team how to fish | by Mig Reyes of 37signals – [link]. Quora – [link]. – [link].

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 8, 2021

They happily traded equities for me, which mostly just cost me fees in the end, although I covered it all with a crazy transaction into a weird Exchange Fund that GS created in 2000. I got sucked into giving some of my money to a money manager at Goldman Sachs and one at Lehman. my investment.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

s form of no-holds-barred capitalism, our financial markets were slow to adopt the idea, with the trend really only taking hold during the heady securitization period of the mid-2000’ s. The buyers (or lessees) in these transactions are pension funds, insurance companies, or private equity representing other institutions.

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socialmatchbox.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The generally accepted hourly wage calculation used by the staffing industry is Annual Salary divided by 2000 Hours. If you sum up these costs and divide them by 2000 Hours then you are looking at $1.15 Another option is sweat equity. Motivation to work for sweat equity is something else that founders tend to take for granted.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2014

Institutional venture capital dispensed thus far in 2014 has been up significantly over the last few years, but is still less than half of the peak hit way back in the year 2000 (over $100 billion). It’s the right way to get money without giving up too much equity or control of your business.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Another company which is going to have widespread impact is eShares, eShares is going to change the way the private companies manage their equity. We grew it to just under 20 people and were acquired at the height of the bubble in 2000. VN : What do you look for in companies that you put money in?

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 5, 2018

It’s the biggest European gathering of venture capital fund managers, private equity fund managers and LPs, the institutions that invest in both types of funds. I remember vividly one year, I think it was 2012, when a placement agent (industry jargon for a broker that helps raise private equity and venture funds) had surveyed 83 LPs.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Up until late August, Lightning Labs had capped the channel capacity and payment size for users of their popular implementation of the network to ~$2000 USD and ~$500 respectively to better protect user funds with experimental software. .

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. I believe a bubble occurs when a market is willing to pay greater than intrinsic value for an asset class. That asset class need not represent the broader market.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Just ask anybody who was trying to close funding the fateful week of September 11, 2001 or even March 2000. This came in part due to the huge influx of money into VC but also because hedge funds and private equity shops with no VC experience wanted part of the action.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

In 2021, the startup landscape looks much different than it did in 2000. Employee ownership gives these entrepreneurs this autonomy as well as equity in the startup! For starters, there are more startups. The number of new companies that launched each year has increased 234% since 1990. What’s behind this boom?

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Jeff Bezos’s private space technology company Blue Origin was founded back in 2000. Can you capture more brand equity by executing marketing tactics in new or better ways? You’d think that no one could recreate a product so sophisticated and advanced as space rockets, right? In 2002, Elon Musk created Space X.

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Marketing Social Media Non-Compete Audience 109

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2012

Remember that equity investments are not like loans with interest. But since the Internet bubble burst in the year 2000, the IPO rate has declined every year until 2010, and is now at about 15%. It’s going to be so successful and so much fun that you don’t need to think about what comes after. Initial Public Offering (IPO).

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Direct seed funding, for a share of the equity, and introductions to investors. Assuming 60 companies are accepted in a specific batch, that would mean around 2000 companies applied. Mentoring and technical assistance from volunteer or paid experts. Peer-to-peer networking with other startups and founders in the same stage.

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Incubator Silicon Valley Startup Small Business Administration 120

David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

I hope that you can join us Monday night, April 4, midtown NYC, at a panel on “Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO” The program is sponsored by the HBS Club of New York and the HBS Angels of NY.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 28, 2010

Private-equity and venture capital firms have been hard hit too. capital markets for listed equities have been in systemic decline since 1997, while every other major international equity market has been growing. The biggest industry waiting is computers and electronics with 23 deals seeking to raise as much as $4.8

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 7, 2013

These firms have had a significant impact on growth over the last 20 years through the bubbles and crashes they create – e.g. the Long-Term Capital Management crash of 1998, the Dot-Com crash of 2000, and the housing meltdown of 2008.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

With a catalog of over 2000 videos and with over 30 million lessons delivered, Khan Academy has become the world's most popular educational website. And while the videos aren't particularly in-depth, they do provide a great introduction to some of the concepts around valuation, equity, and investment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2011

Remember that equity investments are not like loans with interest. But since the Internet bubble burst in the year 2000, the IPO rate has declined every year until 2010, and is now at about 15%. It’s going to be so successful and so much fun that you don’t need to think about what comes after. Initial Public Offering (IPO).

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finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

Term Sheet The latest on private equity, M&A, deals and movements — from Wall Street to Silicon Valley. Almost all of them would be characterized as venture capital, with a few exceptions for funds managed by The Blackstone Group ( BX ), Providence Equity Partners and Spectrum Equity Investors. Term Sheet.

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Naming Term Sheet Private Equity Equity 49

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 8, 2021

They happily traded equities for me, which mostly just cost me fees in the end, although I covered it all with a crazy transaction into a weird Exchange Fund that GS created in 2000. I got sucked into giving some of my money to a money manager at Goldman Sachs and one at Lehman. my investment.

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Stock SEC Equity Matching 70

Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

They’re looking to be paid properly in the context of the overall salary structure, including cash, benefits, and equity, and to be paid commensurate with performance. Many of us suffered in the 2000–2002 dotcom crash and/or the 2007–2009 Great Recession; others hardly noticed a blip. The World will conclude this list for today.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

And finally, you may be able to avoid diluting your equity. Preserve your equity by using a consulting CTO to ramp up your company before securing early-stage financing and hiring a permanent technology partner. Though after the dotcom collapse of 2000-2001, there are many more than there were! Why are consulting CTOs so scarce?

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 5, 2016

We had just acquired a company (I don’t remember which one or in which city) sometime in 2000. If I could teleport myself back to that hallway in 2000, I’d say “Wow – your wall is dingy, and I love it, because it reminds me how frugal you are.” Your wall is dingy is one of them.

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