Dream It

APRIL 12, 2020

Martino founded Bullpen in 2010 with a focus on post-seed, pre-Series A startups, and he led the fund’s investments in companies like FanDuel, Namely, Ipsy, SpotHero, Classy, and Airmap. This geographic distinction is now less about actual geography and more about mentality and style of investing of these types of firms.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Founded by Tanya Van Court, who lost over $1 million in the 2001 bubble burst, the platform teaches financial literacy to children of all ages, helping them learn economic concepts, lingo and the principles of financial health. Brown, Ryan Bathe, CC Sabathia and Amber Sabathia. That teaches them how to spend money.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School, to weigh in on what we are seeing, and while they’re trying to make sense of things, too, they noted a couple of things that could impact the velocity of deal-making that we’ve been seeing. We asked Beezer Clarkson, partner at Sapphire Ventures, and Josh Lerner, the Jacob H.

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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. That spurred investments in riskier assets. Natalia Holgado Sanchez. Contributor. It’s usually a version of: “Will my equity ever be worth something?”.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 27, 2024

Their DNA was wrapped up in a VC mindset that starting valuations were less important given the lofty later stage valuations and frothiness at that end of the market (hence over 1000 “unicorns” today vs only 8 in 2008 and 1 in 2001). Those micro VC funds need to be invested or they will have to return the capital, hence valuations are bid up.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

“We’ve seen that all before … what’s new-ish (at least since 2001) is the massive overhang of growth investments that will take startups years to grow into,” he wrote. ” The ‘unicorn glut’ theory of startup misery. ” Armed with experience, insurtech MGAs are paving the way for insurtech 2.0.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

This lasted from about 2001-2004. Since then Mike his built his career by investing in early-stage companies (seed or series A), which is remarkable given that Polaris Ventures is a $1 billion fund. Simple: according to Mike Polaris has followed on nearly every seed investment that they’ve done. Total raised: $30mm.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Yoon founded a seed fund, Forest Ventures focusing in automotive sector and was an investment director at SAIC capital, one of the leaders in China’s automotive industry. Before SAIC, she led the Corporate Venture Group at Maxim Integrated, where she led multiple strategic technology acquisitions and venture investments.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

industry, financing, patenting, location) and outcomes (i.e. There’s also been tremendous growth when it comes to dollars invested in female-founded companies. Additionally, research from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation found that women-led teams generate a 35 percent higher return on investment than all-male teams.

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Feedough

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Usually, entrepreneurs use bootstrapping to finance their expenses. As the entrepreneurs are hardly making any money to pay their personal bills, they devote a great deal of time and energy in making elaborate pitches for raising investment capital. Surging Growth: This period started in 2001. Go On, Tell Us What You Think!

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 13, 2023

Virtually zero investment, and in return, he learned that there was a market for shoes online and which ones appealed the most — instant market knowledge and research. originally coined the term in 2001, and it was then adopted by author Steve Blank. It is a tester of your idea with a minimal investment. Remember Nick?

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Me: Raising convertible notes as a seed round is one of the biggest disservices our industry has done to entrepreneurs since 2001-2003 when there were “full ratchets” and “multiple liquidation preferences” – the most hostile terms anybody found in term sheets 10 years ago. It’s like we need a finance 101 course for entrepreneurs.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Within a year, by late 2000 / early 2001 consulting firms were firing people en masse. On July 27th, 2001 Accenture IPO’s and many of the partners grew fabulously wealthy. Don’t be psyched out by your competitors big financing round, latest product release or business development deal.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

The VC industry grew dramatically as a result of the Internet bubble - Before the Internet bubble the people who invested in VC funds (called LPs or Limited Partners) put about $50 billion into the industry and by 2001 this had grown precipitously to around $250 billion. So the people who invest in VC funds have two problems.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

million pre-money valuation is now raising $1 million at a $12 million valuation the next investor has nowhere to go but up (or sit out the investment). Just because the valuation in absolute terms isn’t a big difference does not mean that people aren’t paying higher than intrinsic value for these investments.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

The VC industry has different segments in it that have different fund sizes, different investment amounts and different risk / return expectations. If you’re an angel you invest your own money and you have nobody to answer to except your spouse. If you invest it in startups you’re a VC professional money manager.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

We went “nuclear&# and slimmed down to 33 people (yes, I know, still large by today’s standards but this was 2001), raised $10 million and we built a real company. I learned everything I know about startups in these lean years: 2001-2004. Even better if he/she can double as a VP Operations & HR.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

industry, financing, patenting, location) and outcomes (i.e. There’s also been tremendous growth when it comes to dollars invested in female-founded companies. Additionally, research from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation found that women-led teams generate a 35 percent higher return on investment than all-male teams.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Click below to invest. No, we are not going back to the future As we ride the 2021 market roller coaster through wreckage and recovery, accompanied by a raging bull market in tech stocks, some people are wondering whether we might be re-living the dreadful dot-com boom and bust of 2000-2001. Click here to see the technology in action.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

In fact, they will think better of you because you’re demonstrating that you’re the kind of thorough person that they wanted to invest money into in the first place. They made great introductions, they helped you get financed, the put in more money themselves, they helped you strategically and they helped you with your exit.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

In 2001, Salesforce spent $35.6M How many salary dollars does a business invest to generate one dollar of revenue. Other businesses may have very high OERs because they have amassed a large enough balance sheet to finance larger operations. What percentage of revenue should be spent on payroll? on payroll and generated $5.4M

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

tevye2009 , Q: “can you briefly explain why it’s best to get a small valuation when getting investment.&# The A round was done in February 2000 (end of the bull market) and my B round was done in April 2001 (bear market). 6: @ marklanday Q: “Do you make personal angel investments and if so what are your criteria?&#

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 18, 2009

That next round of investment is proving difficult. This was soon after the bursting of the dot com bubble – in early 2001. I jumped on a plane and immediately flew to New York for just 1 day to meet with the Chief Investment Officer of ETF. It’s a gritty existence. Customers are harder to sign than you want.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

When venture capitalists scale back investing activities it can be very swift and leave many companies that are in the process of fund raising hung out to dry. Just ask anybody who was trying to close funding the fateful week of September 11, 2001 or even March 2000. The best MBA class I took was an investment strategy class.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 14, 2014

And as DeCambre points out, so far through 2014, the ten largest startup financings have yielded about twice as much capital as the ten largest IPOs. The chart above compares the total number of MegaRounds, those VC investments of $50M or more, from 2001 through 2013. Last year, there was 1 MegaRound for every 2 IPOs.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

In short, small caps are utterly unattractive investment candidates for public market investors. Instead, venture capital growth funds are financing these companies at these stages. The fraction of small IPOs with negative EBITDA has doubled to nearly 90% in about 30 years. Small IPOs. . Large IPOs. . Number. % < 0.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The acquisition brings together some powerful technology executives, with Apex run by former Oracle CFO Jeff Epstein and former Goldman Sachs head of technology investment banking Brad Koenig, who will now be working closely with AvePoint’s CEO Tianyi Jiang. Apex filed for a $305 million SPAC in September 2019.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Melas-Kyriazi will be based in the firm’s San Francisco office and focus on seed and Series A investments in emerging fintech and commerce companies — two core areas of focus for the firm. More than half of our investing dollars go to work in those two categories. Since BCV’s first fund in 2001, the firm has invested over $4.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

Mercedes Bent and Bradley Twohig , partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners (a multistage generalist fund with investments including Forage, Clever and Outschool). Rising African venture investment powers fintech, clean tech bets in 2020. Rising African venture investment powers fintech, clean tech bets in 2020. yourprotagonist.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. Partners make investment decisions. ” In VC terms that means the key questions you need to answer are, is this investor: Geographically focused and have they invested in my geography before? Meet in person.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. I later learned that they were a spin out from an investment bank. I visited 14 VC’s, got 8 call-backs for second meetings, had 6 firms indicate an interest to explore an investment and possibly submit a term sheet and 3 companies actually say they were ready to write a check.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2022

Gen Z is getting a dose of some economic medicine that has older generations recalling 2008 and 2001, and Uprise is here for it. Around the same time, they were seeing younger people invest randomly in certain stocks or cryptocurrency with no real education behind it — and losing money. Image Credits: Uprise.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

In addition, he created Ecliptic Capital, a $100 million evergreen investment fund that could grow to $150 million by the end of the year. Ecliptic Capital provides seed-stage, and early-stage investment to startups. In 2001, for six months, Whurley left Austin to follow a girl to Las Vegas and to break into casinos as a hired hacker.

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