2004 venture capital ventures 
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MAY 24, 2021
This “overnight success” was first financed in 2004. Entrada Ventures? —?that He writes “Half of all venture funds outperform the stock market which is the benchmark most institutions measure VC funds against.” This is true in consumer but it’s also true in enterprise software.
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MARCH 30, 2015
Would you be surprised to know that almost half of the dot com companies founded when the boom started in 1996 were still around in 2004--four years after the peak of the NASDAQ? Because most internet business concepts were not capable of productively employing tens of millions of dollars of venture capital does not mean they were bad ideas."
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JUNE 28, 2010
I had an hour to interview Mike Hirshland of Polaris Ventures. 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. Venture Financings we Discussed. Competitors: Google.
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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.
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DECEMBER 11, 2014
I started reading a great blog called Business Pundit in 2004. Fundraising for the Series A looked like it was going to be difficult--and that''s when Rich Levendov from Avalon Ventures stepped in. Venture Capital & Technology' It was written by a guy about my age down in Louisville, Kentucky.
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JULY 1, 2010
Current round: $20.0mm Series-B led by Andreesen Horowitz, with USV and O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures. led by Altos Ventures and Maverick Capital, with Larry Braitman. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. Current round: $7.0mm Series-B led by MK Capital, withClearstone Venture Partners and Shasta Ventures.
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MARCH 15, 2012
He spotted Facebook in 2004 and Spotify in 2009. Foursquare was in the same position as lots of other companies when they took that first big round from AH, but it was up to a big venture capital firm to decide that this was a company in the first inning rather than the fifth, and to give it a big runway to think much bigger.
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