Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 24, 2014
I spent my first year developing proprietary deal flow and learning the business and then the Sept 2008 / Lehman Bros collapse / financial meltdown happened. As a result I didn’t write my first venture capital check until March 2009 – exactly 5 years ago. I become a venture capitalist in September 2007 – exactly 6.5
socalTECH
JUNE 27, 2013
Despite the increase in startup activity in Southern California, local venture capital funds are still few and far between, and a large chunk of the funding here is still from Sand Hill Road. Our 2008 fund is also performing incredibly strong. If I write about online education, I''ll see 25 online education plans.
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socalTECH
JUNE 8, 2011
But, with the economy turning south in 2008, lots of those customers went out of business. It looks like a lot of your execs have background at Active Network? Jimmy Hendricks: My background is I spent a year at Active.com in 2007 and 2008. As part of that, I built a ton of relationships at Active.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 1, 2011
If you take a snapshot during an extraordinary surge in valuations, M&A activity, IPOs and thus wealth creation you’d echo John Doerr’s famous quote from 1999 that, “The Internet is the greatest legal creation of wealth in history.&# I started by writing 3-4 times / week. So which is it? Feast or famine?
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 18, 2017
Recently the firms two founding partners (and also Managing Partners) — Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham — decided to transition management of the firm to Andy Weissman (who joined in 2012) and Albert Wenger (joined in 2008 and writes one of the most thoughtful blogs in our industry ).
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 3, 2012
I had been looking around at several deals in late 2008 as the markets were tanking. I got a call from a VC friend of mine who said, “we’re looking at this deal but can’t write the full check. I decided to write a $2+ million check along with my co-investor who offered $750k. I think you should look at it.”
InfoChachkie
NOVEMBER 23, 2015
There were no unicorns in sight on April 14th, 2008 when Kevin O'Connor, my Partner Jim Andelman and I met Twilio's Founder and CEO, Jeff Lawson. A true Internet Pioneer, by 2008, Kevin had already founded or co-founded two Unicorns in his own right, DoubleClick (sold to Google $3.1 billion) and ISS (sold to IBM $1.3 billion).
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