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Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 11, 2022
2001–2007: THE BUILDING YEARS The dot com bubble had burst. Something happened in the past 7 years in the startup and venture capital world that I hadn’t experienced since the late 90’s — we all began praying to the God of Valuation. It wasn’t always like this and frankly it took a lot of joy out of the industry for me personally.
InfoChachkie
OCTOBER 20, 2010
Although Mr. Jackson was assuredly a superstar baseball player, he failed to realize that even though he was indispensable, he was not irreplaceable. However, unlike Mr. Jackson, Cal was a selfless, self-effacing player who routinely played with injuries and placed his team’s victories ahead of his personal statistics. Cal Ripkin, Jr.
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InfoChachkie
SEPTEMBER 1, 2009
As stated in its official rules, the object of Monopoly is to, “become the wealthiest player through buying, renting and selling property”. A more negative way of looking at this objective is to “drive all the other players into complete and utter bankruptcy”. This is a reposting of a ‘classic’ popular post.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 28, 2018
My friend Michael Broukhim, founder & co-CEO of FabFitFun and I recently had a catch-up meeting for 3-miles on the Santa Monica “Bird Trail” No company has ever elicited so many questions by friends, colleagues, entrepreneurs, fellow VCs and journalists as has Bird, the company that pioneered the electronic scooter as a service market.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 22, 2015
msuster looking for an inspired post on when an exclusivity deal (w/ major industry player) works (cons as well) for an early stage tech co. — As the desk-based Internet emerged it was initially sold through telecom carriers (after players like AOL and EarthLink innovated the market). PR Malloy (@diddly_do_indy) June 13, 2015.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 23, 2014
The VC market has right-sized (returned back to mid 90′s levels & less competition). The poor performance of the asset class (this analysis has largely been wrong as I pointed out here –> most analyses were clumsy rear-view mirror looks at the data). We are in a bubble (with so many private $1bn+ valuations). Why is this?
socalTECH
MAY 8, 2013
Cloud storage is a competitive market, with dozens of cloud storage providers hoping to gain a big chunk of the market. Raghu Kulkami: We started our IDRIVE service around 2007, but we had been around before that. Companies like Dropbox, Microsoft, Google, and many others are setting the standard for those cloud services.
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