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.
This is going to be BIG.
MARCH 30, 2015
Most internet opportunities were of modest scale – often worth pursuing – but not usually worth taking public. It took the NASDAQ fifteen years to get back to it''s March 2000 peak--and I think that it''s possible we''re looking ahead at the same kind of period, but one without the huge trough. They''ll be around 10 years from now.
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Entrepreneurs' Organization
MAY 6, 2020
Some of us remember the 2000 dot-com crash. For entrepreneurs, the job now is to look past that daunting torrent and to the opportunity beyond it. Because there is opportunity. That’s unprecedented in Rustand’s life, too. You’ve probably never felt anything like this,” Rustand says. Others recall the 2008 financial crisis.
A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
JULY 23, 2020
Ad-buying opportunities within podcasts have historically been manual and limited, not unlike the process of purchasing web ads pre-2000. As podcasts continue to gain market share, Gumball’s self-serve ad marketplace has the opportunity to be as transformative to the podcast industry as Google Adwords was for web ads. .
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 9, 2013
Or one opportunity, to seize everything you ever wanted. But I had been down this road in 2000 and I saw how punishing markets could be when you didn’t sell and had an offer. This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo. Look, if you had, one shot. In one moment. Would you capture it, or just let it slip?
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 4, 2010
In 1999-2000 they weren’t doing enterprise-wide installations at Merrill Lynch, Dell and Cisco. But while the price points are dramatically lower this often encourages more users, more innovation in the eco-system and therefore often a bigger market opportunity than even the incumbents perceived. Enter Salesforce.com.
TechCrunch
APRIL 5, 2023
The firm was founded in 2000 and has raised $4 billion across nine previous funds. This included $675 million for early-stage focused Lux Ventures VII, and $800 million for Lux Total Opportunities Fund, a late-stage fund. The fund will combine the firm’s early and late-stage investing strategies into one pool.
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