TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2022

Before Karl Alomar became managing partner of VC firm M13, he led one company through the dot-com bust of 2000 and helped another survive the Great Recession of 2008. VCs flock to TikTok to reach the next generation of founders and investors. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Lerner said this point in time feels like the period between March and December 2000, “when public technology stock prices dropped dramatically and there was little apparent impact on venture capital fundraising. The biggest VC firms are managing a lot more moolah than you thought. That’s new.”. India-based 100X.VC

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

As many of you know I run a weekly webcast called This Week in VC that’s getting between 25-35,000 weekly views across ThisWeekIn.com, YouTube & mostly iTunes. They’ve worked with a few small companies like Zynga, Playdom, GroupOn and TopSpin Media. Yesterday’s show floored me. I hadn’t seen this before.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Andrew Chan is a senior associate at Builders VC , investing in early-stage companies that are transforming pen and paper industries. Gen Z VCs have raised funds, garnered social media followings and profited from the Gen Z mentality. Most importantly, though, I got my first social media account on the day I turned 13.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

And so it happened that between 2000-2008 I was the biggest buzz kill at dinner parties. We haven’t hit that wall yet for three reasons: 1) not enough elapsed time, 2) the VC market is frenzied now, too and 3) we haven’t seen a market downturn since the volume picked up. Great businesses take 7-10 years to build.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 23, 2020

Podcasts have emerged as a major new category in media/entertainment/news/education etc. Ad-buying opportunities within podcasts have historically been manual and limited, not unlike the process of purchasing web ads pre-2000.

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Onevest

MARCH 19, 2015

Garnishing media attention since before 2012, the JOBS Act's Title III is among the most important landmarks in the history of modern crowdsourcing. Even the more realistic projection, $300 billion , is 10 times the current VC investment market. The SEC seems quite okay with postponing finalization until October 2015. million to 233.7

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

Startups and VC. 10 million for science-based companies : Conscience VC raises oversubscribed fund for consumer companies rooted in science by Becca. Based on his time leading startups through the dot-com implosion in 2000 and the 2008 Great Recession, Alomar says it’s critical for founders to be strategic and not reactive.

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 13, 2021

THE ORIGIN I was the Founder & CEO of InboxDollars from 2000 to 2019. Our Leadership Team started noticing something interesting around 2010: many of our customers were VC-backed startups. About Daren Cotter : I founded InboxDollars from a dorm room (literally) as a college freshman in 2000.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2022

If it sounds odd that a Series B would be so much smaller than the Series A, that’s in part because that previous round was a mix of debt and equity: the company had raised very little since being founded in 2000 and was profitable. That is driving a market for more software automation, to take out some of the busy work.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 19, 2015

This trend opposes the broader VC market’s investment patterns. Surprisingly, media companies spiked this year, driven by a Twitch for X phenomenon. Last the decline of social media investment is consistent with the rest of the market. Looking into consumer YC startups more deeply, a few salient trends emerge.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

million which closed the first week of March 2000 – a week before the market crashed. 2 weeks later and we may never have raised any more VC. Quick aside: how can VC’s invest in online businesses, digital media, social networks or mobile applications if they don’t actually use the products actively themselves?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Of course our great technology industry did itself rise on the back of infrastructure created by telecommunications & cable infrastructure as well as decades of media production. Distribution of media is tightly controlled by YouTube, Netflix, Facebook, Amazon and a handful of others. Regulation will come. It needs to come fast.

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Jason Malki

JULY 13, 2023

Nick created Blockperfect to serve entrepreneurs who didn’t fit the typical VC model; there, he provides Venture Catalyst, a program designed to ease the friction of taking an idea from contemplation to a well-managed cash-flowing business. As Chief Technology Officer at Armor Scientific, he successfully raised $2.5

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 7, 2019

In VC, this means you source companies by talking with other VCs and tracking the investment patterns and new Linkedin connections of other VCs. You could argue that when they were [raising] oversubscribed [VC rounds], Facebook, Google, Amazon, etc., But VC is historically and consistently cyclical.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

But VC is like congress. As you can see from the chart their data suggests there are about $25 billion of VC distributions per year in the US. According to FLAG Capital there are 100 active VCs (as defined by making at least $1 million in VC per quarter for 4 consecutive quarters). Their data looks at tech VCs.

VC

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. And of course I’ve sat on the other side of the table: As a VC. This is not just the perspective of a VC although I can’t say I have zero VC bias. Neither can any VC. Executive Summary.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

My Story: The public coming out for my first company, BuildOnline, was in early 2000. Around this time B2C eCommerce had been dominating the media but the wheels were starting to come off. It kind of reminds me a bit of how “social media experts&# are talking to customers today). Mistakes we made? Listen to the data.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 10, 2021

If you can raise $250k, through at least 1000 donations of no more than $250 each, with a cap of $2000, you can qualify for an 8:1 match of taxpayer dollars. He’s deserving of a bigger look than he’s gotten, but he’s not a big social media personality type guy. Basically, if you can create a groundswell of support, you’re in the game.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2022

Mike Tong has over a decade of experience leading GTM strategy and operations for tech and data companies as part of McKinsey TMT, AtSpoke, Splunk and the VC firm B Capital. The company memorably staged an “ end of software ” protest in 2000. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Salesforce still uses that messaging.)

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Startups and VC. What can the 2000 dot-com crash teach us about the 2022 tech downturn? What can the 2000 dot-com crash teach us about the 2022 tech downturn? And we have five more for you: Speaking of Instagram : The social media app is testing out a new home screen that will be minus one shopping tab , Lauren writes.

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