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Bezos' Shareholder Letter in 2000

Tomasz Tunguz

Jeff Bezos wrote this to start his annual shareholder letter in the year 2000. It’s been a brutal year for many in the capital markets and certainly for Amazon.com shareholders. As of this writing, our shares are down more than 80 percent from when I wrote you last year. But he might have written it today. before falling to $0.298.

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What can the 2000 dot-com crash teach us about the 2022 tech downturn?

TechCrunch

As Wikipedia’s Dot-com Bubble Crash page aptly explains, the Nasdaq composite rose 400% between 1995 and 2000, and everyone who mattered acted as if the party would never end. ” What can the 2000 dot-com crash teach us about the 2022 tech downturn? . ‘The macroeconomic market is just noise’. “Tell them what you need.

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Angel 101: Read This First…A Primer for New Angel Investors

The Seraf Compass

When I made my first angel investment in 2000, I wish I knew then what I know today. Experience is what you get, when you don’t get what you want. As a newly minted angel, I assumed that angel investing would be easy to jump into and become successful at. I was partially right… it was easy to jump into.

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The Year to Be Great

Andreessen Horowitz

Below, we analyzed data from 77 US-based or -centric companies founded after 2000 that have a $5B+ market cap and highlighted what it takes to be Great by the numbers—and why growth is especially important on that journey. And the best way to become Great is to refocus on generating fast growth.

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The De-Carbonization Of The Economy

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

My partner Albert told me that when you factor in the financing costs of this swap, the average home in the Northeast United States could save $1000 to $2000 a year by doing this swap. It has gotten less expensive to do this swap out as solar and heat pump costs have come down.

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Operationalize Your Startup

Paul G. Silva

Originally a computational physicist who spent many long nights at a particle accelerator, since 2000 Paul inspired thousands of people to innovate, help hundreds of startups launch, overseen investments in 50+ startups and held leadership positions in the national angel investor community. Your Instructor.

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How Similar is the Fundraising Environment Today to 2000?

Tomasz Tunguz

In Q2 2015, VC investment totaled $16.7B, about a 66% of the $28B deployed in Q2 2000 according to a new report. However, the number of investments per quarter is about half of 2000. And the trends shows no sign of stopping. And while the market is similar to the dotcom era in some regards, it is substantially different in others.