Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

The previous post described the evolution of the Chinese Venture Capital system. But what made the overwhelming impression for me was finding an entrepreneurial software cluster on par with the Internet software portion of Silicon Valley. China Venture Capital. venture capitalists invested $26.5

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2010

This is part of my ongoing series on Raising Venture Capital. Recently I’ve been debating with a number of young startup companies that are raising money in the next few months, “what is the right about of capital to raise at a startup?&#. It’s a tricky question with no clear answer. There are trade offs.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

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? For one thing, you’ll learn from his mistakes. Try Google.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

This is part of my ongoing series on Raising Venture Capital. Not so in venture capital. They made great introductions, they helped you get financed, the put in more money themselves, they helped you strategically and they helped you with your exit. My chips were down in late 2000 / early 2001. Except GRP.

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Interest in this waned when the Internet bust resulted in most tech start-up equity becoming worthless, but it seems to be coming back. Even the best venture capital firms have a lot of failures and few successes. The best start-up I ever invested in went bankrupt in 2001. venture capital. Business Models.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

There were a sum total of three or four “venture capital” funds in Pittsburgh at the time, and none of them had done much with this new fangled thing called the Internet. I got my greencard approval in 2001, a few months after 9/11. Besides I was a young, first-time entrepreneur at the age of 23.

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United States Founder India Venture Capital 114

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Fortunately, the rise of the Internet, and specifically Internet marketplace models, act as accelerants to the productivity benefits of the division of labour AND comparative advantage by reducing information asymmetry and increasing the likelihood of a perfect match with regard to the exchange of goods or services. annual GMV.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 19, 2016

I began my career at McKinsey and when the Internet bubble burst in 2001, I made a shift towards online software (ASP at the time). They also need VCs capable of financing their entire life cycle — on average, SaaS startups raise between $80 and $100 million before an IPO.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

In an interview with ReadWriteWeb, Davidson explains how the latest industry to receive the disruption treatment has been the venture capital business itself, with the epicenter of the quake right around San Francisco. The spread he's talking about is the decimalization of the U.S. Two orders of magnitude.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

I lovingly call him the curmudgeon of fintech – in this episode we go deep into how he is building a venture capital firm and practice, not just running a fund and how he views the world of fintech investing. One of the ones that really bothers me is how Venture Capitalists try and conflate what they do as being complicated.

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

Let’s look at public market comparables and venture capital flows to see if we can find a match. Similarly, in recent high profile private financing rounds for private technology companies with valuations over $1B, the valuation multiples were at or below corresponding multiples for publicly traded companies such as Google.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Former students who are readers of this blog may recall the Amazon IPO case from Entrepreneurial Finance class. It''s previous financing round was a little over a year prior to the IPO and was a $8M raise at a $60M pre-money valuation led by John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins. bubble IPO unicorn valuation venture capital'

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. I’ve raised money as a “hot company” and I’ve raised capital when no one would return my phone calls. I’ve raised in boom markets and when everybody thought the Internet was a fraud. Of course much of it is conflicting.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

The Wall Street Journal is phasing out support of the Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) browser. Internet Explorer. Loading… Personal Finance. Personal Finance. Over the past two years, one of the most influential venture-capital firms has turned the usual rules of start-up investing on its head.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2011

David: I’m also a serial entrepreneur who has founded half a dozen companies, including Angelsoft, which provides the underlying Internet infrastructure for most of the world’s organized angel investing ecosystem. My first Internet venture in the early 1990s took about $20 million in venture capital to get to our product launch.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

In October of 2001, Webster, McCarthy, and Graff decided to do just that and GoldStar was born. Opting to eschew the traditional road of venture capital funding, Tom worked both at GitHub and at a full time job, while Chris and PJ consulted on the side. How’d they do it?

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

billion multi-stage venture capital firm focused on IT-related investments… I also serve on various investment committees, including for the St. Jude Children’s Cancer Hospital and the Stanford Medical Center, and teach entrepreneurship and venture capital at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. 1990-1998 13.3%

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Free email providers (like gmail or hotmail) didn’t exist, and you had to pay a separate fee to dial up companies like AOL to access the internet. Eventually, Juno provided free access to browse the internet in addition to sending email. The experience was paid for by placing ads at the bottom of your internet browser.

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