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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

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. Or worse yet they may never get financed. That happened a lot in 2002 and again in 2008. That asset class need not represent the broader market. Have a cushion.

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Why Web3?

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

It reminds me of the early days of web2 in 2001/2002/2003, when we started USV. As such Web3 can, if properly developed and with the right kind of regulation, provide a meaningful shift in power back to individuals and communities. The good news is there are literally tens of thousands of teams building new things on a web3 stack now.

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How Venture Funding For Early-Stage Startups Will Change During the COVID-19 Crisis

Dream It

eBay hosted a jobs fair in 2002 for 75 jobs and 2,000 people showed up,” states Martino. Liquidation preferences may change in later financing rounds, but probably too significantly. It went from 1 million employed people to 750k employed people within 18 months. It wasn’t fear, it was boredom,” states Martino.

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Bezos' Shareholder Letter in 2000

Tomasz Tunguz

Just as important, though, Amazon managed their finances well. Throughout those 15 years, Amazon constructed a monolith heavier and more valuable than almost every other business in the world, despite the vacillations on Wall Street. Amazon stood fast to their principles throughout. Net Income, $m. Cash & ST Equivalents, $m.

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Some Career Advice for Aspiring Tech CEOs

Both Sides of the Table

Maybe they were in their 20s in 2002 when being a startup CEO wasn’t really available to most? We did the early round of financing and the founding team walked when the market turned and when the situation got tough. But I also have advice for the 15% that really do want to be a startup CEO. ” (Warren Buffett).

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. One investor played chicken with me by threatening not to approve my next-round financing unless I gave him more equity. Imagine how Flurry felt when Steve Jobs called them out by name. They seem to have bounced back nicely.

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When will IPOs return? The past may hold some clues

TechCrunch

Natalia Holgado Sanchez is head of capital markets at Secfi , an equity planning, stock option financing and wealth management platform for startup executives and employees. The crisis of 2002: The dot-com bubble. Natalia Holgado Sanchez. Contributor. It’s usually a version of: “Will my equity ever be worth something?”. What happened?