TechCrunch
JUNE 9, 2022
I have experienced two major financial disruptions in my career: the bubble burst in 2000 and the financial crisis of 2008. Markets have reacted, and valuation multiples for both public and private companies have been heavily compromised, leaving growth investors in fear of losing the opportunity to secure targeted returns.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
Twitter Space: What can today’s founders learn from the 2000 dotcom bubble burst? In 2000, many high-flying internet startups turned into smoking craters. To seize new opportunities and stay competitive as the seasons change, regulatory clarity will be key.”. . — TechCrunch (@TechCrunch) September 9, 2022.
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TechCrunch
DECEMBER 9, 2020
” The company, originally incubated in Y Combinator, has now raised $27 million. We are bullish on the massive opportunity in front of the company and are excited to get involved.” “We want to do what Peloton did for the exercise market, but with corporate training. We are aiming for a consumer-grade experience.”
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.
Y Combinator
AUGUST 5, 2019
The only model of institutional seed funding was the “business incubator” model, where VC firms would fund well-connected founders they knew and incubate them in their office. The startup is typically incubated out of the VC’s offices. Then, the cost to start a tech company plummeted.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.
TechCrunch
MARCH 9, 2021
The investment firm Flagship Pioneering has incubated a lot of life sciences companies since it was founded in 2000. That’s notable, considering that Flagship incubated 11-year-old Moderna, which currently boasts a $50 billion market cap thanks in large part its coronavirus vaccine.
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