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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

Both Sides of the Table

Invidi is based in New York and founded in 2000. Sellers can lower transaction fees by aggregating purchases into fewer transactions, while also providing buyers with an attractive alternative payment method. Klarna is apparently the first European board for legendary Sequoia partner, Michael Moritz.

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A New Era For Entrepreneurs And Startups Has Begun

Startup Professionals Musings

in 2013, with aggregate proceeds of over $38 billion. That is a 65% increase in the number of IPOs over 2012, and the highest proceeds raised since the year 2000. According to a report just out, a record 156 operating companies went public in the U.S.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

The IPO Bubble – August 1995 – March 2000 In August 1995 Netscape went public, and the world of start ups turned upside down. Yahoo would hit $104/share in March 2000 with a market cap of $104 billion.) The boom in Internet startups would last 4½ years until it came crashing down to earth in March 2000.

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The Crucial Questions Every Project Manager Needs To Ask – And The KPIs To Answer Them

YoungUpstarts

A report that can be filtered and aggregated by data points like team, portfolio, or customer, also acts as a KPI that allows teams to identify which projects need attention, which are profiting, and which are facing losses. Vadim Katcherovski is the Founder and CEO of Project Management software platform, Easy Projects.

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Why Average VC Returns Don’t Really Matter

Agile VC

And even if they wanted the index return, there is essentially no way to buy (or sell) a broad-based basket of VC funds in the way you can trade the S&P 500 or Russell 2000 or other public equity index. LPs investing in venture hold a subset of all the funds in the VC universe by design (see #4 & 5).

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Conversion: The Most Important Internet Metric of All (Revisited)

abovethecrowd.com

Over 13 years ago, in March of 2000, I wrote a blog post titled “ The Most Powerful Internet Metric of All. ” Unfortunately, conversion improvements typically are the aggregate gain of 100 tiny improvements, not one silver bullet.

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PC For Rent – How To Make Money Searching For Extraterrestrial Intelligence

YoungUpstarts

As of December 2017, the GIMPS project had reached an aggregate computing power of approximately 320 TeraFLOPS (320 trillion floating-point operations per second). The aggregate computing power of the project is more than 960 TFLOPS. In the early 2000’s, he launched several games, whose audience is over 30 million active users.

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