Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

If you've read my first book Web Analytics: An Hour A Day, you know that I've advocated this strategy since 2008! Leaders (company is leaving China, our IPO is next week, 1,800 new stores are being opened in 180 days, our new IRR is 8%). There are four reasons, again from Web Analytics: An Hour A Day, from 2008 (!):

Analytics 135

Analytics Vertical Metrics Web 135

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

There was a healthy amount of capital ($20-30B annually) invested in VC funds during the 2003-2008 timeframe. The entire US economy was booming (in an unsustainable debt binge, in retrospect) from 2004 through much of 2008, and the tech world was booming along with it. In the mid 2000′s VC’s were largely prospering.

LP 154

LP Portfolio Venture Capital IRR 154

VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

billion in 2008 and $8.8 billion, 7 percent below 2008 levels ($2.74 The average deal size in 2009 was $40 million, an increase of 21 percent from $33 million in 2008. In 2008, Teva acquired American company Barr Pharmaceuticals, a maker of generic birth control pills, for about $7.5 billion in 2009, compared with $10.8

OTC 68

OTC Brazil Paraguay 68

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

This was supposed to be Airbnb's biggest year by many measures, including its IPO, which was one of the most anticipated since the 2008 financial crisis. 10:44) The moment the company went below 1x growth for the first time since it was founded as the pandemic hit China and then Europe. (11:50) Our China business was really affected.

Silicon Valley 60

Silicon Valley Hosting Cofounder Employee 60

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 18, 2020

Just out of college, I moved to China to seek my fortune as an entrepreneur, starting a consulting business where we helped large retailers and fashion brands manage their manufacturing infrastructure in China. I acquired my first large-company clients right before the financial crisis in 2008.

Fractional CTO 147

Fractional CTO CTO Hire China Silicon Valley 147

VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

PeerTV was linux on DSP, which aggregated content from the Internet like Boxee and BeeTV. Long story short, I ended up spending a year and a half in China from 2008 to 2010 and now I’m hard at work with BizMe2. All the peripheral services are profitable, but there was no place that aggregated everything under one roof.

Aggregator 84

Aggregator Caching PHP 84

VC Cafe

JULY 6, 2010

Looking at the aggregated list gives a quick sense of what funds are actively making investments. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Herzlia Pituach, Israel. Infinity Israel-China Fund. Several of the rounds we not disclosed – perhaps the IVC report later this month will provide a bit more information.

Private Equity 98

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity 98