2005 incubation ventures 
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. This article originally ran on PEHub.
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.
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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. But access to those venture capital firms was limited. In the venture creation model, the VC firm creates the company.
Venture Hacks
APRIL 17, 2019
You can’t build a portfolio of pre-traction companies at $8-10M pre-money and expect to make a venture return. Valuations for pre-traction companies between 2005-2010 were $1-5M pre-money for the first non-friends-and-family round. Without these large exits, your portfolio will not achieve a venture return. Otherwise, pass.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 5, 2011
Chris Devore & Andy Sack have created Founder’s Coop with the goal of funding, incubating & launching more early-stage ventures in Seattle. When I saw what BuddyTV is working on and how long they’ve been the market (since 2005) I realized that this has huge potential to help disrupt the television market.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 25, 2016
Marketing with long payback is precisely what requires venture capital. 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.
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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