This is going to be BIG.
MAY 16, 2016
There aren't many people who get the chance to analyze venture capital fund return data. Sounds like a huge amount, but only later does he say that only " 476 funds which had known Net IRR values, the overwhelming majority of which were from vintage 2002, or more recently." Analyzing venture returns without even looking at the 90's?
TechCrunch
JULY 1, 2021
Most companies don’t announce their first venture investment after almost 20 years in the business, nor do they announce that round is the equivalent of a good startup’s entire private fundraising history. CEO Adam Schwartz founded the company with his life savings in 2002 and hasn’t taken a dime of outside investment since.
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Dream It
APRIL 12, 2020
In New York, for instance, there are now venture funds with a West Coast mentality and firms with an East Coast mentality; the same is true for firms in San Francisco. Will a financial crisis affect how venture funds deploy capital? The biggest question for a venture firm is whether LPs will fail to make capital calls in a crisis. “It
This is going to be BIG.
DECEMBER 2, 2014
It''s kind of a funny answer to "When did you start Brooklyn Bridge Ventures?". So when did I really start Brooklyn Bridge Ventures? I got my first job in venture--at GM--in February 2001. I tried to write a book for college kids in 2002-2003, couldn''t get it published, so I started blogging in February of 2004.
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 happened a lot in 2002 and again in 2008.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 2, 2010
This is part of my series on Understanding Venture Capital. If the VC your talking to raised its last fund in 2002 then they likely don’t have much fire power for new investments. Tags: Pitching VCs Raising Venture Capital VC Industry. I wouldn’t say the have NO firepower but it’s not likely a lot left.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 23, 2011
In 2002 after exiting his second company he was attracted to the variety of being a VC. At the time consumer internet venture capital was still suffering from the collapse of the Tech Bubble. The idea was right but the timing was early and required a pivot into being a software company. How did you get into VC? (9:30 9:30 – 11:30).
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