BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

Year of HQ2 and Distributed Teams: It was a banner year for non-Silicon Valley cities as NYC and Northern Virginia were selected as Amazon’s HQ2. Look at 2001 and 2008’s Lehman collapse and Sequoia RIP Good Times deck for lessons learned. Google also unveiled plans to double its NYC employee base to 14k.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

This is exactly what happened in the broader VC industry between 1999-2001 as many people without the requisite skills entered the industry. But with its growth and success it will encourage many people to enter the market who will lack 5 critical success criteria for earning positive returns.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

While a flood of new VCs came into existence during the late 90’s internet boom, many had difficulty raising new funds after the crashes of 2000-2001 and 2008 , and as a result significantly fewer fund managers exist now compared to a decade ago. note: apologies in advance for the west coast bias; i’m in silicon valley).

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2016

Silicon Valley’s pay-it-forward culture means that others will help when you’re starting up. Looking to create their accelerator/incubator, Wayne and seven other founders rented a Silicon Valley house together one summer. ” This was around 2001. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. There is really no other place in the world like Silicon Valley. I am very grateful to my friend Zoli Erdos for finding this retro posting for me at web.archive.org. I had kept a personal blog for more than a year and was new at keeping a professional blog.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Theres a power struggle underway in Silicon Valley. But Andreessens approach is also exposing a rift in Silicon Valley, where a group of young and relatively untested entrepreneurs have maintained control over their rapidly growing companies. Stock Quotes. more in Tech. Find New $LINKTEXTFIND$ » smaller.

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Steve Blank

JULY 11, 2016

When Peggy first arrived in Silicon Valley, she worked for Boole & Babbage , before founding her own firm. Especially difficult were the days after the Internet bubble burst: 2001 was a staggering blow to technology. Entrepreneurship stretches from Main Street to Silicon Valley, from startups to big companies.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 26, 2018

Do you feel like a lot of people who are starting businesses look at the Silicon Valley common advice and common model and really fall prey to that in a not so positive way? I dropped out of college in 2001, so this would be 17 years in. John Jantsch: Now you’ve got a new venture going. Rand Fishkin: Oh, yeah, absolutely.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. 2001 – 2010: Back to Basics: The Lean Startup. Carpe Diem. We’re now in the second Internet bubble. Rules For the New Bubble: 2011 -2014.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 22, 2020

The Economic Antidote to COVID-19 Eric Ries & Ryan Beck In 2001, Apple's revenue fell by 33% in the depths of the dotcom bust. Many of the most successful companies in Silicon Valley were formed in the depths of the Great Recession: Slack, Uber, WhatsApp, Venmo and Square all launched in 2009. The rest is history.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 12, 2009

I liked the Friday, August 7 Wall Street Journal editorial, Washington vs. Silicon Valley , but it does not go far enough. Between 2001 and 2008 mergers and acquisitions (M&A) accounted for 87% of venture-backed company exits, up from an average of 44% in between 1992 and 2000.

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abovethecrowd.com

JANUARY 24, 2014

Over the past few months, many journalists have begun to ask the question that no one really wants to hear; “Is Silicon Valley in another technology bubble?” Silicon Valley thrives on optimism, and anyone waving the bubble flag is auditioning for the title of nonbeliever or party pooper. And this is not it.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

Valuations in startups increased dramatically during the Dot Com boom and then both valuations and the availability of investment capital nationally collapsed in 2001 with the Dot Com bust and 9/11. But the timing of the launch of these new funds almost assured their failure regardless of their investing acumen.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 24, 2018

When Steve Jobs introduced the iPod in 2001, his hook was: “What if you could put a thousand songs in your pocket?” It went like this: “When Apple was just getting started, the team and I loved to go eat at one particular sandwich shop in Silicon Valley. Your audience is now hooked and asking, “Why and how did they get banned?”.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 18, 2011

The Internet Bubble (2001 – 2002). We Need To Be Like Silicon Valley. The table of contents, as of today, follows. The Boulder Entrepreneurial Community. Boulder As A Laboratory. Before the Internet (1970 to 1994). Pre Internet Bubble (1995 – 2000). The Beginning of the Next Wave (2003 – 2011). Resources.

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Bryce Dot VC

OCTOBER 9, 2012

In 2001 I cut my teeth as a VC in Salt Lake City. Despite continually ranking highly as a hub for high growth companies SLC is still a far cry from becoming the next Silicon Valley. . There seems to be a growing meme around the ascendence and acceleration of startup communities outside of the bay area. This optimism isn’t new.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 9, 2016

When the legend becomes fact…print the legend” The Hollywoodization of Silicon Valley startup stories “prints legends,” but for most startups those stories are pure fiction. Entrepreneurship stretches from Main Street to Silicon Valley, from startups to big companies. “This is the West, sir.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2014

If you want to see a fun quote on it, read A History of Silicon Valley which quotes: “ …many venture capital pioneers think the SBIC program did little to advance the art and practice of venture investing. It was decimated because of lack of performance between 2001 and 2009, just like much of the rest of the VC industry around the US.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2010

But there are also problems / risks: - the funding environment might change dramatically – there may never be a next round (see: March 2000, September 11, 2001 and September 2008). - I’ve even heard people repeat this bullsh*t Silicon Valley mantra about “failing fast&# which is horse puckey.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Originally created in the mid 1990’s to help with the imprecise problem of how to value early stage companies, especially those in technology, I developed what soon became known as “The Berkus Method” when published in the popular book, “Winning Angels” by Harvard’s Amis and Stevenson with my permission in 2001.

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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). From then on, I remained convinced that SaaS was a much more efficient model, for both ISVs and customers — although many people remained skeptical on the viability of the model for a long time.

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thebarefootvc

MARCH 8, 2012

I talked about creative disruption and how many significant companies would be formed as a result of this (not dissimilar to what I saw in Silicon Valley while investing post 2001 crash). Talent and domain expertise in NYC’s large industries such as financial services and media, would free up.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 26, 2011

When I came to Silicon Valley, I was inducted into a body of accumulated wisdom about how to handle them. Now even though us old pros know that there are different kinds of antidilution provisions, are you absolutely sure you remember which one is the good kind and which is the horrible kind that caused all those problems in 2001?

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Fortune and CNN had a partnership; I first appeared to talk about an article I’d written in 2001 about the bubble bursting. HW: Often your coverage spans tech and media, two worlds that historically have accused the other of just not “getting it” – the gap between LA and Silicon Valley.

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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. 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. Crosslink Ventures IV (2001): 246% (104%).

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Its chaos and insanity melds into a working city that was predicted by the architect Rem Koolhaas (with the Harvard Project on the City) in the 2001 book Mutations when he said that Lagos was a city of the future and one that Western cities would eventually base themselves on. But somehow Lagos works. Slowly overcoming its reputation.

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Altgate

APRIL 28, 2012

—————————————– I’ve been collecting data about startups and compensation since 2001. Silicon Valley and New York City startups pay significantly more than startups in Austin and Washington, D.C. Noam Wasserman and myself. Myth number 4.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 22, 2010

Look at some of the uber-successful icons of Silicon Valley / Technology: Larry Ellison, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Larry/Sergey, Eric Schmidt, Andy Groves, John Doerr. When my company hit the fan in 2001 I could have easily walked and gotten a better paying job. Not job hoppers. And good VC’s feel the same way.

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www.noamwasserman.com

MARCH 26, 2012

I’ve been collecting data about startups and compensation since 2001. Silicon Valley and New York City startups pay significantly more than startups in Austin and Washington, D.C. Here’s what entrepreneurs think they know about startup pay–and what actually happens. Yet four years remains the standard.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

My wife worked at Google so while we had good income in Silicon Valley it’s hardly the life of luxury given the costs of housing. I discussed it in my post on the topic linked above. ** One small note: many VCs who got into the industry in 2001 or later have never seen a “carry&# check.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

Ultimately, we sold that company to Silicon Valley Bank and it became the genesis of Silicon Valley Bank’s open platform approach. I took on a senior role helping Silicon Valley Bank think about the future of their interactions with startup customers. On Leaving Silicon Valley Bank.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

She received the AUTM 2001 Bayh-Dole Award for her efforts in university licensing, and is currently a member of the NIH Advisory Committee to the Deputy Director of Intramural Research. Entrepreneurship stretches from Main Street to Silicon Valley, from startups to big companies. Want to be a guest on the show?

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Last year as I traveled around the world investing in emerging markets, helping them build innovation ecosystems, it was not the Silicon Valley example I used – it was the NYC story that I talked about. A handful of local VCs and angel investors (primarily from the financial sector) funded the startups.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

That option involved trying to get a job at a young Silicon Valley company that had just gone public and would, in a few short years, crash and burn, lay off everyone, and quickly fade into oblivion. And then in the space of a few short years, things changed completely, especially where I was fortunate enough to live, Silicon Valley.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. Conventional wisdom says that you can only build big businesses in Silicon Valley so as a VC you need to be there. Some of the biggest wins of the past 5 years were built outside of the Valley.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Roberts is in the news this week because of his high-profile critique of Angellist , the hot new investment network Robert Scoble has called the new Silicon Valley hype machine. He began as part of Salt Lake Citys Wasatch Venture Fund (now Epic Ventures ), an affiliate of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, in March of 2001.

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Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 27, 2010

That was my first reaction when I read what Sequoia's Doug Leone said a few weeks ago about innovation and age at a recent talk with MIT Sloan students visiting Silicon Valley, where Leone claimed that only people under the age of 30 are truly innovative. Now fast-forward to today.

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