{"id":2187,"date":"2008-12-11T19:27:33","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T18:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=2187"},"modified":"2008-12-11T19:30:19","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T18:30:19","slug":"thank-you-accel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=2187","title":{"rendered":"Thank you Accel!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"zemanta-img\" style=\"margin: 1em; float: right; display: block;\">\n<div>\n<dl class=\"wp-caption\" style=\"\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/financial-organization\/accel-partners\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/assets\/images\/resized\/0001\/0604\/10604v1-max-450x450.png\" alt=\"Image representing Accel Partners as depicted ...\" title=\"Image representing Accel Partners as depicted ...\" width=\"157\" height=\"42\"\/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd zemanta-img-attribution\" style=\"font-size: 0.8em;\">Image via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\">CrunchBase<\/a>, source unknown<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Wow!!!  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accel.com\/\">Accel Partners<\/a> just raised $1bn in this awful market.  I have never had Accel as an investor in any of my companies but over the years I have met some of the partners such as Simon Levene had a good overall impression of the firm overall (although my favorite VCs are still Index Ventures).  Still it seems that some guys with serious investment funds were impressed enough<a href=\"http:\/\/www.accel.com\/news\/news_one_up.php?news_id=215\"> to entrust a billion dollars to Accel<\/a>.  All this while LPs are supposed to be defaulting on Vcs.  Impressive and maybe a good sign of a market turnaround.<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\" style=\"font-size: 1em;\">Related articles by Zemanta<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2008\/12\/11\/accel-closes-two-funds-totaling-1b\/\">Accel closes two funds totaling more than $1B<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2008\/12\/10\/screw-the-downturn-accel-raises-a-cool-billion-in-new-funds\/\">Screw The Downturn. Accel Raises A Cool Billion In New Funds<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\" class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/13cfb9ca-3a67-4bec-9db7-0985c13be66e\/\" title=\"Zemified by Zemanta\"><img style=\"border: medium none ; float: right;\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?x-id=13cfb9ca-3a67-4bec-9db7-0985c13be66e\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=2187\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image via CrunchBase, source unknown Wow!!! Accel Partners just raised $1bn in this awful market. I have never had Accel as an investor in any of my companies but over the years I have met some of the partners such as Simon Levene had a good overall impression of the firm overall (although my favorite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[83],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}