2008 financing incubation 
This is going to be BIG.
APRIL 21, 2011
As a Brooklyn native who has never lived outside the five boroughs—and someone who left Big Finance—I feel a special kind of pride over what’s gone on here in the last six+ years. Here's how you can prevent this NYC renaisannce from being a forest fire: Fail fast.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 1, 2010
He’s personally led more than 50 financing rounds. Founded in 2008 in Santa Monica by Ron Goldman (former CRO of shopping.com) and Rahul Sonnad. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. Offers two products: Palantir Government and Palantir Finance. It’s part of what makes him so likable.
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Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. Yes, it’s true that FOMO (fear of missing out) is driving some irrational behavior and valuations amongst uber competitive deals and well-financed VCs. LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year.
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 30, 2010
We’re still caught in the “post recession bounce” : What’s happening is that the angel & VC community is still feeling good from having bounced back from the nadir of the famous “ RIP Good Times ” funk that we felt in 2008. Either won’t bode well for angels if they’re also hurting on non tech investments.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 28, 2010
VC Financings: 1. Wildfire was one of the darlings of the fbFund incubator program. Marketing and lead automation software for businesses; claim to have largest market share in sector since March 2008. I keep meaning to get him drunk to spill the stories. Wildfire Interactive. Read more: PEHub.
TechCrunch
JUNE 9, 2022
I have experienced two major financial disruptions in my career: the bubble burst in 2000 and the financial crisis of 2008. In the past decade, we lived through an unprecedented run of optimism and climbing valuations, and the gut check we’re seeing now has been long in coming.
Haystack
APRIL 27, 2018
At a minimum, getting to the Series A derisks (perhaps temporarily) a seed investment in a world where the shapes of investment outcomes can take a decade or more (consider, Uber is now a decade old and DocuSign, which just went public, was started in 2008). Historically, startups have by default relied on venture capital as financing source.
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