This is going to be BIG.
FEBRUARY 15, 2012
There's no specific agenda or goal, other than to bring together all of the people that have an interest in this great community and its ability to incubate cutting edge and creative ideas. Honestly, it was a fair bit of hand waving and maybe a little smoke and mirrors--saying in 2005 that we had a ton of startup-ready tech talent.
Y Combinator
AUGUST 5, 2019
How tech startup fundraising changed from 2005 to now. In 2005, when Y Combinator started, there was already a well developed ecosystem of venture capital firms in Silicon Valley and Boston. The startup is typically incubated out of the VC’s offices. But access to those venture capital firms was limited.
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Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year. If you want to understand the details of why this is, I covered it in detail in this post, Understanding Changes in the Software Industry.
Venture Hacks
APRIL 17, 2019
Valuations for pre-traction companies between 2005-2010 were $1-5M pre-money for the first non-friends-and-family round. Incentives influence the advice you get from VCs, lawyers, incubators, and everybody else. You can see dealflow from your friends, your incubator, demo days, and AngelList. Anecdotal valuation data.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 25, 2016
If you create a business and start building products and go into an incubator or raise angel/seed money and don’t think about Market Size and Market Structure I only have one question: Why? But that’s harder to build in 2016 than it was in say 2005. Incumbent Strengths & Weaknesses. But you should.
Jason Calacanis
DECEMBER 10, 2023
Github, AWS, WeWork, Fivver, Upwork, and the global workforce meant a startup could launch a product in a 12-week incubator and scale it to millions in revenue in a few years. ” “If only I had started a company at the start of the internet!” ” “If only I had started a company during web 2.0
Gust
NOVEMBER 4, 2011
Never missing an opportunity for a good war story, I’d like to revisit one high-profile transaction, the $650 million acquisition of MySpace by Fox Interactive Media in 2005, on which I spent many sleepless nights along with the rest of the deal team. The spin-out took a few months to negotiate and didn’t actually close until February 2005.
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