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Bezos' Shareholder Letter in 2000

Tom Tunguz

Jeff Bezos wrote this to start his annual shareholder letter in the year 2000. It’s been a brutal year for many in the capital markets and certainly for Amazon.com shareholders. As of this writing, our shares are down more than 80 percent from when I wrote you last year. But he might have written it today. before falling to $0.298.

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How Similar is the Fundraising Environment Today to 2000?

Tom Tunguz

In Q2 2015, VC investment totaled $16.7B, about a 66% of the $28B deployed in Q2 2000 according to a new report. However, the number of investments per quarter is about half of 2000. And the trends shows no sign of stopping. And while the market is similar to the dotcom era in some regards, it is substantially different in others.

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Dear SaaStr: How Do You Handle Customers That Want to Build It In-House?

SaaStr

Once you are established, once you have a brand … most of your prospects and customers will know they can never commit the long-term resources to “competing” with the 200–2000 releases and updates you’ll do over the coming decade. The millions, and then tens of millions, and then hundreds of millions you’ll spend annually on R&D.

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Dear SaaStr: How Can You Land Big Customers If You’re a New Startup No One Has Heard Of?

SaaStr

If you haven’t sold to the F500 / Global 2000 before, you’ll be somewhat surprised to learn that between the CIO’s office and functional heads, at most huge companies, there is a clear goal to bring in a handful of new “innovative vendors” into the company each year.

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Lessons from Interviews of Pre-Eminent VCs in 2000

Tom Tunguz

In fact, I found only two books: a textbook on private equity and venture capital by HBS professor Joshua Lerner, and an out-of-print collection of 32 VC interviews called “ Done Deals ,” published in September 2000. By my estimates, VCs are investing less than 1 ⁄ 3 of of the roughly $100B deployed in 2000.

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Venture Capital, Withering & Dying

Tom Tunguz

So far this year, 29 venture-backed companies have tried initial offerings, compared with 252 in 2000. Most vulnerable are funds that were raised and invested at the height of the bubble, in 1999 and 2000, when 70 percent of all high-technology venture capital for the last two decades was invested. Venture capital funds lost 18.2