Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Even more interesting is that at GRP Partners (the VC firm where I’m a partner) our two most successful returns from our previous fund [which is ranked as the top performing fund in the country for its 2000 vintage according to Prequin] were both run by women! But then the truth sets in.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Andy Areitio is a partner at the early-stage fund TheVentureCity , a new venture and acceleration model that helps diverse founders achieve global impact. When you’re running your own venture — especially if it’s your first — it’s unlikely you will find the time to deep dive into how venture capital firms work.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. In any given year there are about 50 venture-backed companies or so that are bought for $100 million or more. That asset class need not represent the broader market.

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Feedough

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

But, still, every startup, especially those seeking angel and venture capital funding, are conditioned to project this growth curve – because investors love it. At this stage, entrepreneurs may leverage their growth momentum to attract venture capitalists and other investors. Today, disruption is rather slow-paced.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Contact: William Paiva, Managing Partner, OLSF Ventures. BROKEN ARROW, OK – OLSF Ventures (OLSF) recently led a $4.5 OLSF Ventures was joined in the investment by Plains Venture Partners, managed by i2E Management Company, Inc. Atento Capital ; Cortado Ventures ; Sante Accel Ventures and Angel investors.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

What is happening to risk-taking in venture capital? As an entrepreneur and venture capitalist who has lived through two downturns (the post-2000 internet bubble bust and the post-2008 financial crisis), I know that entrepreneurial innovation is always alive and that company-building is a marathon, not a sprint.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

This year brought the first signs of skepticism and pressure on venture. I have experienced two major financial disruptions in my career: the bubble burst in 2000 and the financial crisis of 2008.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Venture-backed: 42 years. At the same time, according to research by All Raise, only 15 percent of all venture capital funding is allocated to female founders. Baby Einstein grew revenues from $1 million in 1998 to over $10 million just a few years later in 2000. Fastest growing 0.1 percent of companies: 45 years.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Laura Lorek has lived in the Austin area since 2000, where she's been writing about established companies like Dell, NI, IBM, Apple, Oracle, Google, Meta and tech startups like Opcity, now Realtor.com, Homeaway, now VRBO, RetailMeNot, Indeed.com, Homeward, OJO Labs and others. By then, Whurley had already moved onto his next venture.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

Rowe Price Associates co-led the round with participation from new investors Franklin Templeton, Splunk Ventures and existing investors Arena Holdings. Celonis , the late stage process mining software startup, announced a $1 billion Series D investment this morning on an eye-popping $11 billion valuation, up from $2.5

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Sparked by a pair of scissors, some pantyhose and a party where founder, Sara Blakely , wanted to look her best, Spanx officially began production in 2000 and changed women’s fashion and fit forever. Sara Blakely / Spanx. Lisa Sugar / POPSUGAR. A pop culture hobby transformed into Lisa Sugar ’s sensationally popular media company, POPSUGAR.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

As the recipients of less than 1% of venture capital raise, institutionalized systems are visibly at play. When you think about the intersection of venture capital and technology, and specifically how it works — it is being led from an engineering perspective. I was in college from 2000 to 2004.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

There’s been talk of a slowdown in venture funding recently, with TechCrunch looking at it from different angles, including the fintech sector, a PitchBook report and even earlier on how startups should prepare in case it happens. We asked Beezer Clarkson, partner at Sapphire Ventures, and Josh Lerner, the Jacob H.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

This is part of a series on building your career in venture capital: Reading list for working in private equity/venture capital , including all of the major online communities, programs, and educational options for people studying VC. How to get a job in venture capital. DATABASE OF VENTURE CAPITALISTS WITH SCOUT PROGRAMS.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In a reflection of investor confidence — or perhaps simply the demand for supply chain security solutions — Eclypsium today closed a $25 million Series B round led by Ten Eleven Ventures with participation from Global Brain’s KDDI Open Innovation Fund and J Ventures, bringing the company’s war chest to $50 million.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 24, 2023

Launched in 2022, GGV Capital’s SMBTech 50 demonstrates both the breadth and depth of the sector and the enthusiasm of venture capital investors for these companies. Launched in 2022, GGV Capital’s SMBTech 50 demonstrates both the breadth and depth of the sector and the enthusiasm of venture capital investors for these companies.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

The judges for this pitch-off will be Yoon Choi (Muirwoods Ventures), Mar Hershenson (Pear VC) and Gabriel Scheer (Elemental Excelerator) on day one; and Sven Strohband (Khosla Ventures), Victoria Beasley (Prelude Ventures) and John Du (GM Ventures) on day two. Yoon Choi — Muirwoods Ventures. Alright, alright.

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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. Jonathan Metrick, chief growth officer, Portage Ventures. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. Jack Hallam, growth and community lead, Ammo.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. In April of 2000 there were fears that the AOL / Time Warner merger would create a monopoly on the Internet. They controlled distribution to the masses. A bit laughable in 2010, just 12 years later.

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Angel Capital Association

JULY 10, 2023

Since 2000, Shipley has led the Queen City Angels group (based in Cincinnati, OH), served as a board member for the ACA including a term as Chairman of the Board and worked tirelessly for the founding of the Angel Investor Foundation and chaired its capital campaign. CB Insights ranked QCA second out of 370 national angel organizations.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

It wasn’t long before venture capital firms started up and major tech companies like Microsoft, Google and Samsung had R&D centers and accelerators located in the country. Jerusalem’s economy and therefore startup scene suffered after the second Intifada (the Palestinian uprising that began in late September 2000 and ended around 2005).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Here’s why it’s important: The security, performance and reliability company didn’t raise a corporate venture fund, typical of other companies looking to breed entrepreneur attention. Instead, Cloudflare just got dozens of venture firms to offer to invest up to $1.25 Venture investors hit the brakes on productivity software.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

With the help of the Circular Start-Up, Masha developed Each One, Teach One (formerly known as Made in Mash) a community scrap and quilting studio. Her venture works with people in low-income communities in Hackney to learn about the art of quilting. The circular start-up is designed to bring everyone into the climate action space.

entrepreneurship

StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Venture-backed: 42 years. At the same time, according to research by All Raise, only 15 percent of all venture capital funding is allocated to female founders. Baby Einstein grew revenues from $1 million in 1998 to over $10 million just a few years later in 2000. Fastest growing 0.1 percent of companies: 45 years.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

However, few investors can directly impact the value of the underlying asset, except for private equity and venture capital investors with portfolio acceleration strategies. Hedge funds on average have underperformed on a net of fees basis in both US equities and bonds since 2000. The HFRI Index returned 18.3%

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 2000, Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr founded StubHub , a secondary ticket exchange marketplace. In many cases, a deeper focus on a particular category or vertical allows these marketplaces to distinguish themselves from broader marketplaces like eBay. The company was acquired by ebay in January 2007.

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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.

disruption

This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 30, 2015

Because most internet business concepts were not capable of productively employing tens of millions of dollars of venture capital does not mean they were bad ideas." All they would have to do is cut a few hundred people or two, and stop buying growth with venture dollars. They''ll be around 10 years from now. But at what valuation?

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Unvalidated Learnings

JUNE 8, 2017

By early 2000 there were almost twenty million users, and by summer over 14,000 songs were being downloaded every minute. It is no coincidence that early participants in these ventures ended up in the founding teams of companies like Facebook and Skype. Every song ever produced anywhere could be procured in seconds.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 28, 2022

You’ve launched your venture… now what? Write down what the lowest-scoring, incomplete milestones are for your venture. About The Workshop. Startups don’t die from laziness. They die from working really hard… on the wrong things. The financial lives of your team depends on you. When do you raise money? On what terms? Your Instructor.

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Impact Hub

MARCH 12, 2021

WEF Alliance members sharing their experiences included Dr. Frank Aswani, CEO of Africa Venture Philanthropy Alliance , Drew von Glahn, Executive Director of Collaborative for Frontier Finance , and Carolien de Bruin, Head of the WEF COVID-19 Response Alliance for Social Entrepreneurs. . Supporting entrepreneurs in articulating their needs.

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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.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

I say at 500,000 a technician, I need 2000 technicians. But what we’ve learned is, private equity is warming our way, capital venture list… There’s so many people that want our cash flow, what they’re learning is, you were part of software. So, what I did is I wrote down, Grant Cardone 10 times.

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

In January of 2000 my husband, Jamie, asked me to come work with (for) him. I was excited to start this perfect wedded-working venture together. Contributed by Katty Douraghy, president at Artisan Creative , a member of EO San Franciso and the MyEO Women of EO Champion. . We would lunch together and even walk to the office together.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). Paul discussed his perspective having been at SAP Ventures. 406 Ventures.

VC

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

The framework of his book has profoundly altered how I think about the technology market and affects how I thought about building my businesses and how I think about investing in venture capital. In 1999-2000 they weren’t doing enterprise-wide installations at Merrill Lynch, Dell and Cisco. Enter Salesforce.com.

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