Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 11, 2022
The browser and thus the WWW and the first Internet businesses were born circa 1994–95 and there was a golden period where anything seemed possible. 2001–2007: THE BUILDING YEARS The dot com bubble had burst. There was no money train. It was 1991. There were startups and a software industry but barely. People were building.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 5, 2010
He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. In 2007 Salesforce.com wanted to buy Koral. The world had just gone into crisis and I was in a period of reflection reminiscent of September 2001. At the time he granted me permission to write about his story. Felipe grew up in Brazil.
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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. The fact that today’s Internet bubble does not represent all companies does not disprove its existence. Ah, but today’s Internet companies have real revenue!
David Cohen
MARCH 30, 2020
In 2000, the Internet bubble burst. In 2001, the towers were hit. Around 2007, the subprime mortgage crisis contributed to a recession that lasted through 2009. Founded in 2006, Techstars ran our first startup accelerator in 2007. In 1999, we sold that business and I started angel investing. Or even working for one?
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 20, 2014
But the USV Opportunity Fund was the first time, at least in the post 2001-Internet bubble cycle (or last decade, if you want to put it that way) where an early stage firm created a separate fund to invest in late stage rounds of their existing early-stage portfolio companies.
Steve Blank
APRIL 13, 2013
But what made the overwhelming impression for me was finding an entrepreneurial software cluster on par with the Internet software portion of Silicon Valley. Out of that total, they funded 967 Internet deals with $6.7 Out of that total, they funded 268 Internet deals with $3.2 To compare the two, in 2011 U.S.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 14, 2010
It is basically a return to the type of VC that was done 20 years ago long before the craziness of the Internet boom that skewed things so greatly. This is exactly what happened in the broader VC industry between 1999-2001 as many people without the requisite skills entered the industry.
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