{"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\" decoding=\"async\" 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. 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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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-2187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-technology","tag-accel-partners"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.3 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"max-image-preview:large\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Martin Varsavsky\"\/>\n\t<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=2187\" \/>\n\t\t<meta name=\"generator\" content=\"All in One SEO (AIOSEO) 5.0.3\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Martin Varsavsky in English\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Thank you Accel! 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