This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 11, 2014

I started reading a great blog called Business Pundit in 2004. Venture Capital & Technology' In fact, my history with Rob and Backupify goes back almost ten years, well before the idea of cloud backup was ever a glimmer in anyone''s eye. It was written by a guy about my age down in Louisville, Kentucky.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Prior to joining Sequoia, Chen worked at Emergence Capital and McKinsey. The seed-stage venture capital firm holds more than $565 million assets under management and investments in over 150 startups. The seed-stage venture capital firm holds more than $565 million assets under management and investments in over 150 startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

This lasted from about 2001-2004. And Mike believes that entrepreneurs often need less capital to get started these days. Current round: $8.5mm Series-C led by Jafco Ventures with DCM , Emergence Capital, and August Capital participating. Tags: This Week in Venture Capital. Total raised: $19mm.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 2, 2023

Back in 2004, I was working for the General Motors pension fund, which had been making limited partnership investments in venture capital since the early 1980’s. I got to see all of the top VCs pitching their funds.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

This simple and short blog post by the folks at Correlation Ventures contains the key to venture capital returns – the hit rate. Venture capital returns are highly correlated to a fund’s hit rate. In our 2004 fund it was five companies, but that is why that fund was so good. They certainly found it here.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

And I’m sure everyone remembers the video that put them on the map – the one I first saw – which was the Bush/Kerry video This Land is Your Land (“you have more waffles than a house of pancakes), which was part of the 2004 elections and both candidates were asked about while they were campaigning.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

venture capital market. Sequoia was not the first United States-based venture capitalist to opt for RIA status, and it was also not the first venture capitalist that The Exchange tracks that moved to a more permanent-capital model. But perhaps it shouldn’t have made quite as many waves as it did. ServiceNow is up 60x.

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MAY 9, 2022

3) Do you need to raise a large amount of growth capital in 2022? Even “needing” growth capital can be problematic. Growth capital should be the kind of thing you choose to take, not need to take. 2) Do you sell something that isn’t truly a must-have product to startups or other tech companies? The incentive is too strong.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

The TL;DR answer to the stock option question is that MySpace options were cashed out at modest value at the time of the FIM merger, coming on the heels of the spin-out of MySpace into a separate subsidiary by parent company Intermix Media, with an infusion of new capital from Redpoint Ventures. Redpoint, led by Geoff Yang , invested $11.5

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. Yeah, that was when I changed for me…” “…there was so much positive feedback on demystifying this one element of venture capital. Brad’s start in Venture Capital. Venture Capital in Boulder and other smaller communities. “So was starting.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

I learned everything I know about startups in these lean years: 2001-2004. There is no “right or wrong&# as this will be a judgment call in each startup based on capital raised, stage of company, number of customers, complexity of your business, etc.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Mike Yavonditte is the founder of the “super hot&# Hashable , a startup out of NYC that has been described as a “ Mint.com for Social Capital ” Mike sold his previous company, Quigo , to Aol for $340 Million. They sold in December 2007, but he started selling Quigo in 2004. Judged his instincts, and felt it was Quigo’s time.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Menlo Park-based Structural Capital among other institutions that also joined in the strategic round totaling $35 million. IMVU has raised more than $77 million from five rounds since it was co-founded by “The Lean Startup” author Eric Ries back in 2004. The company declined to disclose its post-money valuation.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 19, 2022

It’s been a brutal year for many in the capital markets and certainly for Amazon.com shareholders. A remarkable accomplishment in the most unforgiving capital markets environment the company had seen. As of this writing, our shares are down more than 80 percent from when I wrote you last year. But he might have written it today.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t. Close shop to try and control monetization and you can only rely on your own internal innovation machine & capital. Murdoch seethed at these “startups&# getting rich off the back of MySpace.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

But that image is only one part of venture capital. These investors can also be hesitant to bet on emerging managers, whom they may perceive as higher risk than established investors, even though Cambridge Associates data shows emerging firms made up 72% of the top returning firms between 2004 and 2016.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Its seed round was led by Nexus Venture Partners, with participation from Insignia Venture Partners, Arka Venture Labs, Better Capital and Vietnam Investments Group. Founded earlier this year, Nektar has been working in stealth mode with five companies, and has plans for an early adopter release before a public launch by the end of 2021.

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Founder Bounty

JANUARY 27, 2023

Tiny Capital in 2018. After graduating from Oak Bay High School in 2004, he won a place at Ryerson University studying journalism.  Andrew started by buying some apartments, before moving on to investing in tech startups. His latest acquisition? " The billionaire has been quite a student in his time. How many has he sold?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Ant’s delay has cost its former parent company around $60 billion in market capitalization in a single day. Ant has its roots in Alipay, an online payment service founded in 2004. Alibaba is worth around $772 billion today after the news, off from a value of around $841 billion yesterday.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

As reported by Slate from a study from researchers at the University of North Carolina, “We have lost about 20 percent of local newspapers in the United States since 2004, and at least 900 communities now are without any local news source in that same time frame.” It’s the Gannett cuts that worry me the most.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2021

Jeff Farrah is the general counsel of the National Venture Capital Association. since before the dawn of the modern venture capital industry.” In fact, today we are witnessing fewer acquisitions relative to IPOs than in years past, as the average acquisition-to-IPO ratio since 2004 is approximately 15:1. Jeff Farrah.

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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. From imbalances in fundraising to minimal capital and access, Black brilliance and its cloak of resilience continues to rise. I was in college from 2000 to 2004. I’m a Black man in America — that’s hard.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

exchange or an exit via M&A from 2004-2019. While there are other intangible variables for startup success, the basic equation is the time and capital required to achieve an exit and the size of that exit. And when is the right time for those human capital resources to be introduced to make that impact?

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Ian Hathaway

JANUARY 6, 2020

In February 2004, Mark Zuckerberg famously launched Facebook from his Harvard dorm room at the age of 19. Over the next eight years, Facebook would attract half a billion users and nearly $7 billion in venture capital investment, on its way to a May 2012 IPO that valued the company at more than $81 billion.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 8, 2019

A simple metric – when I registered my first company in 2004, the naming space was wide open. The post How NZ entrepreneurs can up their capital raising game appeared first on NZ Entrepreneur Magazine. There are more customers, resources and money than arguably any other time in history.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 27, 2020

That’s usually how a business gets off the ground successfully, even ones with a lot of capital behind them. That spring of 2004, I was looking after our three kids—Emma, five; Kaitlin, three; and Keenan, two. One day in September 2004, I realized that I had learned enough and had confidence enough to make my vision a reality.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

in 2004 before falling sharply due to the economic recession of 2007-2009. Sequoia Capital led the round and was joined by Jay-Z’s Roc Nation venture investment arm Arrive, Will Smith’s Dreamers VC and existing investor Signia Venture Partners. homeownership rates in 2020 were about 65.8% according to Statista. The rate reached 63.7%

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TechCrunch

MARCH 6, 2023

Serial entrepreneur and seasoned investor Vinod Khosla has some strong, contrarian advice for the venture capital industry: don’t sit on your founders’ boards. Khosla, who spoke onstage at the Upfront Summit in Los Angeles this week, spoke about the culture of capital. The outfit plans to raise $1.5

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David Teten VC

APRIL 30, 2018

According to the NVCA 2017 Yearbook , in 2004, 77% of global VC fundraising went to US VCs, and 85% of global VC dollars went to US startups. When HOF Capital invests abroad, HOF is typically collaborating closely with the local, non-US VCs who are investing in their own backyards. Source: NVCA, Pitchbook.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

He founded Boston Logic – an integrated marketing platform and online marketing services for real estate offices and agents – in 2004. Knox plans to use its new capital to continue expanding geographically and getting the word out to more people. “We Knox co-founder and CEO David Friedman is no stranger to startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

It had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was. Close shop to try and control monetization and you can only rely on your own internal innovation machine & capital. Enter Facebook. Facebook was everything that MySpace wasn’t.

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Berkonomics

JULY 10, 2014

The first is of a 2004 startup that I cofounded and led the investment group for several early rounds, then VC rounds. The total capital raise will have been under $600,000 if all goes as planned, and the founder retains majority control of his baby through this and even one optional future round. Email readers, continue here.]

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The round was led by Mayfield, with participation from MissionBio Capital, Builders VC and VSC Ventures. Since graphene was discovered in 2004 , the material has generated a lot of hype — it was supposed to be the next silicon , though that hasn’t quite happened yet. . Graphene is a single-atom thin carbon sheet. Still, the U.K.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2023

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. Capital was extremely cheap to borrow as interest rates dipped as low as 1.67% (compared to rates in the last few years bottoming out at 0.25%). Contributor.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? First Round Capital found that among its portfolio companies, startups with female founders outperformed those without by 63%.” . If they had missed it, they would have failed to return capital after fees.”.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 30, 2020

I saw this tweet coming out of the Upfront Summit yesterday (where I will be today): Josh Kopelman of First Round Capital: we can look at every company we’ve ever funded, and learned that the time from first email/contact to term sheet has shrunk from 90 days in 2004 to just 9 today. — Dan Primack (@danprimack) January 29, 2020.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 28, 2021

The first is of a 2004 startup that I cofounded and led the investment group for several early rounds, then VC rounds. The total capital raise was under $600,000, and the founder retains majority control of his baby through this and even one optional future round. More of my stories. Let me tell you two stories that are linked.

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