Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Over the same 30 years, Venture Capital firms have honed their skills and strategies to match Wall Streets needs to achieve liquidity for their portfolio companies. One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is misunderstanding the role of venture capital investors. What Do VC’s Do?

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Belnick founded BizChair.com with $500 in 2001. The name of this startup was Flipkart and they started it with $6,500. Carlson founded Polychain Capital in 2016. Venture capital firms Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz among others put $15 million into it. What have entrepreneurs been up to since then?

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finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

Exclusive: Returns for brand-name VC funds By Dan Primack August 20, 2012: 12:15 PM ET. FORTUNE -- Its no secret that venture capitalists were hit hard by last decades dotcom bust, considering that median returns for 1998-2001 vintage funds are all underwater. Commonwealth Capital Ventures III (2000): 110% (56%).

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Three years ago today, I grabbed the domain name BrooklynBridgeVentures.com. It''s kind of a funny answer to "When did you start Brooklyn Bridge Ventures?". Getting a domain name. So when did I really start Brooklyn Bridge Ventures? I got my first job in venture--at GM--in February 2001.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Though after the dotcom collapse of 2000-2001, there are many more than there were! If you’ve begun the process of raising capital, ask the angels or venture capital partners to recommend technologists who consult on a part-time basis. Why are consulting CTOs so scarce? Perhaps the more failures, the better?

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

What led you to the venture capital world? In late 2000, early 2001 I started my second company to test whether I can build a successful company again. MK : I chose the name K9 for two reasons. VN : Tell me a bit about your background. Where did you go to school? I started my first company when I was 20.

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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. My chips were down in late 2000 / early 2001. One small hack – go to LinkedIn and do a search for the company name. I often tell people that raising money is worse than getting married. My story briefly.

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

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. Name and email address are required. Name is required to post a comment. venture capital. However, Ive learned four lessons the hard way: 1. Your Information.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 2, 2015

After I sold my first company, I started a company called Intensity Ventures to make all my personal investments from. The name kind of says it all. When I started making venture capital investments in 1997, the pace of things, and the amount of work I did, was massive. The pace of things was incredible.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

2001 – 2010: Back to Basics: The Lean Startup. After the dot.com bubble collapsed, venture investors spent the next three years doing triage, sorting through the rubble to find companies that weren’t bleeding cash and could actually be turned into businesses. For a specific startup this list is probably a few hundred names.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 17, 2013

After I graduated in 2001, I remember it seeming impossible to feel the same way about living in New York City. When you see too many faces, you might not take the time to learn the names that go with any of them. It''s My Life Venture Capital & Technology' Also, let us know if you''re willing to host.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

Most of what I learned about operating startups I learned from the really tough years at my first company from 2001-2003. My company had raised venture capital in April 2001 but we were told that there may never be any more coming. So how did I come to work in the world of venture capital? We ARE family.

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Babbling VC

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Without naming the name of the companies, I clearly made two investments convinced of the product and that people would love it. Although I probably couldn't of avoided this mistake, I underestimated at how many tables I'd be sitting alone in 2001. I learned so much in the years I've been involved with venture capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2015

I’ve seen friends (and family members) lose much of their savings that way over the years because “Black Swans” happen and in 1987, 2001, 2003 & 2008 (just to name a few from my memory) huge market gyrations caused much financial distress to people seeking short-term gains. At least later stage investors.

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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. On Describing His Current Work without Naming His Fund/Investments. Venture Capital is not a complicated business.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

I've been in venture now twice. The first time was just for a couple years, from 2001-2003, before I went to grad school. I was in Boston, working for the first time in venture capital as an analyst for this guy who was incredible and an amazing mentor. How do you develop power within a venture capital firm?

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www.ericsink.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Many venture-capital-funded companies work this way. that the Tech-Ed speakers list had more people named Brian than women. The decision was primarily being driven by myself and one of my co-workers named Mary. Copyright 2001-2011 Eric Sink. Julia Lerman noticed. We interviewed several candidates. startupcto

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Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

Amount of venture capital raised has exploded. iii. Post bubble period 2001-2009 totals $218.2 2001: Decimalization (further loss of economics to provide market support for small companies), by reducing minimum commissions from 12.5 i. Pre bubble period 1991-1996 totals $28 billion. cents or 6.25

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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. Venture capital flows. A basic driver for a private technology market bubble is the over-supply of venture capital into the sector. If too much venture capital hits the streets, valuations will bubble up.

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David Teten

AUGUST 1, 2020

The movement was born at the 2001 World Racism Conference at Durban as an attempt to pressure Israel, despite the ongoing support of Israel’s government and citizens for a two-state solution. . In the 19 years since the 2001 decision by NGOs to ostracize Israel with BDS, Israel’s per capita GDP has grown from $19,000 to $36,200.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

First Name. 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. In the early days of venture capital, when money was scarce, entrepreneurs often gave up control of their company in exchange for their first investment funds.

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Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

– Need venture capital. This article was originally written in May 2001, revised extensively in January 2011 and again October 2011. The Ohio TechAngels adapted this valuation methodology in 2008 to meet their needs and named it the Bill Payne Method. Key partners in place. Need for additional rounds of funding.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

My generation, dubbed Generation X after a popular novel of the same name , was typically characterized as being aimless and cynical, prematurely embittered by dead-end jobs, the generally awful state of the world, and an overall sense of cultural exhaustion. The world was also in the midst of the AIDS epidemic. They were selling hot sauce.

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aweissman.com

DECEMBER 18, 2006

Famous industry names have weighed in such as Forbes/Karlgaard (not sure), Scoble (yes but its different this time), Kedrosky (not only is it not different, its actually riskier this time). A common topic of conversation these days seems to be whether or not we are in another tech/Internet bubble.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2011

After that evaporated, I didn’t invest again until just after the dotcom crash (when my long-suffering spouse grounded me from any further entrepreneurial ventures :-)). The second company in which I invested, back in 2001, was a novel concept from the serial entrepreneur who invented social networking. It, too, went down the tubes.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

We raised a seed round of capital in 1999 and our first venture capital round was the first week of March 2000 (e.g. We found a way to make our venture capital last when it shouldn’t have, at around the same time one of my all time favorite New Yorker cartoons was published on this topic. I thought that, too.

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David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

The best way you can help them is build a big business with their backing, and that requires you to appear self-made. [I should mention that disclosure of participation in the Venture Capital Access Program is optional.]. When I was running an Israel-based company in 1999-2001, my location was a significant barrier.

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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.

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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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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Mental Pandiculation » Why I Don’t Hang Out With People Named David. Name one widely acclaimed or groundbreaking technology or technique to come out of the.NET realm in the past 5 years? Now name one that didn’t come from Microsoft? I challenge you to name a 1.7 March 25, 2011 at 3:06 pm. [.]

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