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MARCH 30, 2015

It took the NASDAQ fifteen years to get back to it''s March 2000 peak--and I think that it''s possible we''re looking ahead at the same kind of period, but one without the huge trough. They''re not going out of business, nor are 100''s of other new companies created during this time. They''ll be around 10 years from now.

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APRIL 11, 2022

4) Don’t push for me to say yes or no right then—because I see 2000 things in a year and do 8-10 of them. You can follow up with an e-mail subject like, “Kale, Pizza Hut and my Pitch” and then I’m going to know exactly who you are and will be curious to hear more and hopefully learn more random facts.

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JUNE 27, 2013

We have previously raised funds in 1996 ($200 million), 2000 ($400 million) and 2008/9 ($200 million). I am super excited to announce that today is a day of lots of new things for my partners & me: A new fund, a new office and a new brand. Let’s start with the fund. This month we closed our 4th fund of $200 million.

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JANUARY 6, 2019

I get 2000 things passing through my inbox in any given year, and I make about ten investments per year. How excited do you think I am if I’m only picking the top 10 out of 2000? That’s because of the simple math of competition. Do you think any of those handful of deals are seven out of ten?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

As Wikipedia’s Dot-com Bubble Crash page aptly explains, the Nasdaq composite rose 400% between 1995 and 2000, and everyone who mattered acted as if the party would never end. ” What can the 2000 dot-com crash teach us about the 2022 tech downturn? . ‘The macroeconomic market is just noise’. “Tell them what you need.

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APRIL 2, 2010

It’s also meaningless if they had four $200 million funds and the last one they closed was in 2000. Unfortunately over the period of 2000-2010 the VC industry hasn’t performed well and therefore the number of funds going forward is likely to reduce greatly. GRP’s last fund was in 2000. What is a VC fund?

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

In January of 2000 my husband, Jamie, asked me to come work with (for) him. Contributed by Katty Douraghy, president at Artisan Creative , a member of EO San Franciso and the MyEO Women of EO Champion. .

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 6, 2020

Some of us remember the 2000 dot-com crash. That’s unprecedented in Rustand’s life, too. You’ve probably never felt anything like this,” Rustand says. But we’ve all dealt with things that felt new and terrible at the time. Others recall the 2008 financial crisis. Think of the challenges you’ve already faced,” Rustand says.

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JULY 12, 2011

Lastly, he touched on the distrust of equity following the bubble in 2000, and that, particularly on the East Coast, people need to see good exits and good exits that reward employees. He added that current Internet trends favor NYC, given the reliance on creativity, design, and the importance of consumers – all areas in which NYC excels.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 23, 2020

Ad-buying opportunities within podcasts have historically been manual and limited, not unlike the process of purchasing web ads pre-2000. Gumball is a marketplace where advertisers post live read ads and podcasters pick them up and read them on their shows.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2010

In 1999-2000 they weren’t doing enterprise-wide installations at Merrill Lynch, Dell and Cisco. What is “disruptive&# is that is also dramatically less expensive. And the providers take a much lower margin – they have nothing to lose, nothing to protect. Enter Salesforce.com. That would have been laughable.

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JANUARY 31, 2010

We raised a seed round of capital in 1999 and our first venture capital round was the first week of March 2000 (e.g. But this was early 2000 and our US competitors had already closed rounds North of $45 million. We had a $40 million round lined up to close in the Autumn of 2000. Our first big institutional round was $16.5

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JUNE 28, 2011

These two trends had a major impact on the computing industry from 2000-2005 but the effects weren’t yet felt by the VC industry. We had to learn how to be better at “load balancing & replication&# – meaning how we managed data across all the boxes since they weren’t centralized on one box.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

The other interesting thing about that chart is why the hit rates and returns in the venture capital industry have not returned to pre-2000 levels. Before 2000, the venture capital business was a bit of a cottage industry. I think that is all about the amount of capital in the business now.

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MAY 11, 2012

Personally, I think it would be pretty awesome if all of the people who subscribe to my weekly newsletter could put $2000 towards supporting the early stage tech ecosystem in NYC. [scratches bald head]. At least it would be diversified across 25-30 companies--there's no such requirement in crowdfunding.

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JUNE 8, 2011

I'd say just about everyone in my LinkedIn network , all 2000 of them, are people who I've at least had the equivilant of a 1:1 lunch with. While it may be true that the most serondipitous of connections from from loose connections, there's no substitute for a few really strong bonds to hold it all together.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 31, 2022

The carnage has been massive and reminds me of what happened to the web sector in 2000/2001. Many large centralized entities; lenders, exchanges, crypto funds, etc, blew up when the value of web3 assets declined 70-90% over the course of 2022. Some of this has been markets doing their thing, but not all of it was.

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OCTOBER 9, 2013

But I had been down this road in 2000 and I saw how punishing markets could be when you didn’t sell and had an offer. In hindsight we know the market was sure there (whether or not we would have captured it is a different story). VCs even offered me to cash out seven figures personally not to sell.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2011

They never did any PR or marketing to get their videos to first get shown on the news during the 2000 election. All viral adoption starts with one thing – great content. That’s what JibJab focused on. They did a rap battle between Bush & Gore – I tracked it down. I hadn’t seen this before.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Companies in developed markets have churned out profits at a historic pace, despite massive economic dislocations like the bursting of the dot-com bubble in 2000 and the global financial crisis eight years later. While GDP in the developed world has grown a robust 3.6 Terrorism, immigration crises, Brexit, chronic geopolitical instability?none

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JANUARY 31, 2011

If you became a principal or a new partner in 2000/01 you had a good salary but as it turns out you were very unlikely to see a large upside “carry” return for quite some time. There are many VCs who have been made partner since 2000 and haven’t previously had an exit of their own. Nobody really talks about this.

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MARCH 21, 2011

If there’s a jobs startup within 2000 miles of NYC, I will see it. Everyone sends me startups in this space because of my experience with Path 101 and my passion for helping people with their careers. I feel terrible, because I hate these meetings and couldn’t be less interested in this space.

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APRIL 20, 2011

Infonautics went public in 1996 and Half.com was sold to eBay in 2000. Prior to First Round Capital, Howard had invested in two of Josh’s companies Infonautics Corp. and Half.com. Josh and Howard began co-investing as angels and in 2005 they started a $10 million fund.

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JULY 27, 2014

Mark pointed out that on the one hand 6 months ago one of Silicon Valley’s best known ibankers told him that SaaS public valuations were the most over-valued since the dot com bubble in 2000. Yet Mark also pointed out that the recent corrections in the public market valuations and the scrutiny new IPOs have undergone is a health sign.

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JULY 5, 2011

Look more modern than our previous website, which had a very 2000 feel to it. Anything that works well was her implementation. I did anything that seems kludged – I assure you. Demonstrate the deep relationships we have with the CEO’s with whom we work. We’re almost always the lead investor and usually the most active, too.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 23, 2021

The even bigger issue to making home automation ubiquitous is cost: Since 2000, the cost of homes has outpaced household income in all but the years 2007–2012. So, home affordability is a real issue that is top of mind of every production builder in North America.

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JUNE 18, 2010

Founded in 2000 in New Brunswick, NJ. -Customers Include: Reuters, Associated Press, , Dow Jones, Ask.com , healthcare companies, and major investment banks and hedge funds. Competitors: InformationBuilders , DataWatch. Current round: $5.25mm in Series A from.406 406 Ventures. Total raised; $5.25mm plus undisclosed seed.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2010

And so it happened that between 2000-2008 I was the biggest buzz kill at dinner parties. When the masses start all running one way without questioning “why?&# – and when it defies any logic I can figure out in my head – I call bullshit.

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APRIL 15, 2010

I don’t believe that search is the only answer in 2010 as it was in 2000. So my guess is that Tweetup needs to go “multi-stream&# (as in Facebook, MySpace, etc.). There is also another inherent weakness. Now you follow people (publish & subscribe) and you click on the links they share.

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JUNE 12, 2010

Founded in January 2000 in Oakland by Tim Westergren; new CFO, Steve Cakebread was previously CFO of Salesforce.com. -Premium experience ($36/yr) offers a desktop application option, unlimited listening, no ads, higher quality audio and more skips. Metrics: 50mm users (up from 40mm in Dec 2009), -Competition includes: Spotify , Last.fm.

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AUGUST 20, 2010

I never would have paid for music back in 1999 or 2000 when I was sporting my 64mb Creative Nomad, powered completely ilegally by Napster. Remember when they said that people wouldn't pay for music? What Apple proved, and what I suspect is the issue with web content, is that monetization was a product problem.

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MAY 15, 2010

Invidi is based in New York and founded in 2000. Following Microsoft’s addressable advertising trials with NBC in June 2009, many suspect that Google’s investment may have some defensive motivations, as well.

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JUNE 29, 2017

Dating back to Upfront II in 2000 (the single best performing fund in the US for that vintage) 2 of our 3 best returns were driven by companies with female founders / CEOs. We believe this isn’t just a market statement — it is where we will drive huge and differentiated returns.

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DECEMBER 13, 2010

Within a year, by late 2000 / early 2001 consulting firms were firing people en masse. Andersen had lost its long-time CEO, George Shaheen, was hemorrhaging staff and wasn’t exactly known as being an Internet pioneer. Ameet said, “Don’t worry, we’ll be fine, just wait for the next downturn.&#.

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Feedough

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Blade Years: The blade years lasted for at least 3 years from 1997 to 2000, where its revenue was around 1.5 Growth Inflection point: Netflix hit its growth inflexion point in 2000 with its revenue at 41 million. It was during this period that Netflix stopped selling DVDs and launched subscription services.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Even though our 2000 fund was the single best performing fund in the United States for that vintage, continuing to get investments wasn’t possible so we had to rebuild. As venture fell out of favor all three pulled out of the asset class.

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