WSJ - The Accelerators

JUNE 24, 2015

Since 2000, the speed of broadband has increased more than tenfold, cloud computing and the cost of storage has become affordable to even the most nascent enterprise and the reach of mobile computing devices now puts nearly six billion consumers just a click away. Never has that statement been truer or the opportunities for startups greater.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

The investment firm Flagship Pioneering has incubated a lot of life sciences companies since it was founded in 2000. But because of the scale of the opportunity that we saw ahead of us with Valo, we actually started out by bringing in external financing partners as part of a Series A that was right around $100 million.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

No, we are not going back to the future As we ride the 2021 market roller coaster through wreckage and recovery, accompanied by a raging bull market in tech stocks, some people are wondering whether we might be re-living the dreadful dot-com boom and bust of 2000-2001. Is 2021 the new 2000? Are we heading for another bottomless crash?

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Gust

OCTOBER 17, 2012

In addition, angels were up against a selection problem: All the best entrepreneurs and opportunities would naturally gravitate to the best venture capital funds, leaving only the “scraps” for angel investors. It is not highly concentrated geographically, or in the bubble of 1998-2000, or in any industry. So which is it? and the U.K.,

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Thirdweb, with offices in London and San Francisco, enables the addition of features, including NFTs, social tokens and currencies, marketplaces for buying and selling tokens and NFT loot boxes and drops, in a few clicks. Thirdweb co-founders Steven Bartlett and Furqan Rydhan. . I’m excited to see Thirdweb accelerate this shift.

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Onevest

MARCH 19, 2015

It significantly broadens investment opportunities and a startup’s potential to raise capital through only a few legislative provisions. Otherwise called the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, the legislation modifies a series of laws that enable startups to seek funds using methods that have been illegal since FDR's Securities Act of 1933.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The e-commerce boom that started with the Covid-19 pandemic shows little sign of slowing down, and today a company called Shopware , which provides a set of open source tools to power online shopping experiences for some 100,000 mid-sized and larger brands, is announcing $100 million in funding to capture the opportunity.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Founded in 2000, Clickatell is a pioneer in this mobile communications and chat commerce space. The market opportunity for this partnership is enormous. As the largest digital platform in the world with more users than the internet’s 4.7 We had to wait for things like the WhatsApp channel to open up.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Several top-tier funds recently redefined themselves as “investment advisors,” enabling them to place long-term bets by holding rather than distributing IPO shares. The recovery following the Internet bubble collapse of 2000 similarly took three years. From VCs to Investment Advisors… and back again?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

In more than a decade of writing about the Internet and tech-enabled businesses I’ve learned that mobs don’t do nuance well. Currencies only began in earnest about 2,500 years ago and ever since have been a great enabler of democracy and social mobility, not the other way around. Regulation will come. It needs to come fast.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

In short, the opportunity for privacy tech, both B2B and consumer-facing, is growing. Nym’s white paper, for example, touts the possibility for the tech being used to enable users to prove they have the right to access a service without having to disclose their actual identity to the service provider. based cloud services.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Despite the recent slowdown, venture capital investment in the biotech sector in the US ballooned to nearly $25 billion in 2022 from just under $4 billion in 2000. Pharma R&D investment likewise increased from $38 billion in 2000 to $83 billion by 2019. Source: Andreessen Horowitz research.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 20, 2010

I never would have paid for music back in 1999 or 2000 when I was sporting my 64mb Creative Nomad, powered completely ilegally by Napster. Amazon uses the data of other humans, but not humans that you actually care about—which misses the opportunity created by influence. Remember when they said that people wouldn't pay for music?

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StartupNation

MAY 17, 2021

Instacart, the grocery delivery app, succeeded in 2012 by doing something similar to what Webvan — a startup with a similar idea that failed during the dotcom bust — tried to do in the year 2000. After Apple added the App Store to the iPhone, companies like Uber saw an opportunity to leverage the device’s internet and GPS capabilities.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 15, 2022

Since 2000 an entire generation of business owners had to learn to trust online financial services. Embedded products enable you to do that quickly and in high quality. Think about your long-term vision and don’t put yourself in a corner when you want to move to the next segment. Why do you think this is the case?

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

And this growth parallels the overall startup Series A size which has reached similar highs to rounds in 2000. The increase is driven both by larger seed round sizes enabling companies to raise later, hence more MRR, and also the greater expectations in the fundraising market given larger check sizes sought by founders.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 14, 2019

The decline doesn’t seem to be letting up in 2019, with retailers shutting down 23% more stores than they did at the start of last year (2000+ store closings), according to Coresight Research. Buyers now expect stores to offer an opportunity to connect with a brand in a way that is relational rather than purely transactional. “A

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Markets cause entrepreneurs to seek out high prices as a signal of opportunity to create new wealth by driving those prices down. Those ideas materialize in the real world as technologically enabled goods and services that never would have emerged de novo. Profits are the incentive for producing supply that fulfills demand.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

When you materially improve an offering, and create new features, functions, experiences, price points, and even enable new use cases, you can materially expand the market in the process. The service relies solely on payment enabled through a smartphone application. Scale clearly matters for these types of opportunities.

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