A must read. A great list of immensely successful companies that Bessemer passed up on for ‘obvious’ reasons.
Link: Bessemer Venture Partners – Our Portfolio.
Bessemer Venture Partners is perhaps the nation’s oldest venture capital firm, carrying on an unbroken practice of venture capital investing that stretches back to 1911. This long and storied history has afforded our firm an unparalleled number of opportunities to completely screw up.
The antiportfolio – how VCs sometimes screw up real bad
But they do really have a good sense of humour, as the antiporfolio is on their corporate site ! Bessemer Venture Partners is perhaps the nation’s oldest venture capital firm, carrying on an unbroken practice of venture capital investing that