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- Selling Shares of Your Business
- People sell shares of a company to raise funds or to eventually sell the company. Shares can be sold to angel investors, venture capitalists, individuals, and other businesses. These different types of buyers will have different motives for buying, expectations of the dividends they may receive, and intentions for selling...
- Articles 2007-09-27
- Tech IPO market suffers from chronic problems; Even Google couldn't turn the tide for VC-backed technology companies.(News)
- Byline: Brooke Southall SAN FRANCISCO - A bewildered venture capital industry is licking its wounds now that the market for initial public offerings of technology firms has hit the skids again. Only 10 venture-backed companies pulled...
- Research articles 2005-08-22
- Tech Watch: After market's tumble, investors hedge bets.(Statistical Data Included)
- Venture backers' phones -- eerily silent during the stock market's recent record plunge -- suddenly are ringing again. But the callers have changed their tunes. Entrepreneurs are less cocky. Investors are more cautious. Venture capitalists are dem Venture backers' phones -- eerily silent...
- Research articles 2000-04-24
- Venture capitalists prosper despite Google setback; While IPOs have fizzled, mergers and acquisitions are hot.(News)
- Byline: Brooke Southall SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc.'s initial public offering three weeks ago humbled two top venture capital firms. They stood by and watched the Mountain View, Calif.-based search engine company go public without cashin...
- Research articles 2004-09-13
- Venture-Capital Activity Focused on Rebuilding in 2004; First Year of Positive Growth in Investing and Liquidity Since the Bubble, According to VentureOne and Ernst & Young LLP
- SAN FRANCISCO & NEW YORK & LONDON -- Venture-capital activity in 2004 is expected to complete the year on a positive note, based on investments recorded through the end of the third quarter by the Venture Capital Report compiled by Ernst & Young LLP and VentureOne, a unit of Dow...
- Research articles 2004-12-13
- Hurt By Hard Times, Financial Services Firms Seek New Directions
- The article says that past decade has been a tumultuous one for investors and for the financial services industry. The last half of the 1990s seemed, in many ways, the best of times. A soaring stock market created vast amounts of wealth and funded the startup of thousands of new...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- The Role of the Value Added by the Venture Capitalists in Timing and Extent of IPOs
- The article says that a venture capitalist may decide to take a company public or to liquidate it after one or two financing periods. A longer venture capitalist's participation in a firm later IPO may increase its value while also increasing costs for the venture capitalist. Due to his active...
- White papers 2003-07-01
- Acquiring For Cash
- With IPOs out of the question, some venture capital-backed companies are buying entities for their liquid assets. Buying a company for its cash rather than its business may seem avaricious, but experts say the merger-and-acquisition technique is being used increasingly in the current downturn to gain liquidity at relatively little...
- White papers 2002-11-01
- Analyze This! An IRR Report Card for the Class of 1999-2000
- Venture capital firms are playing hard to get these days, claiming that they have learned their lessons from last year's devastating market losses. The article looks at the IRRs for group of companies that went public between the last quarter of 1999 and the last quarter of 2000. It selects...
- White papers 2001-01-25
- Private-to-Public Investing
- A general rule in investing is that the earlier in the life of a company you invest, the greater the potential reward. Venture capitalists investing in embryonic companies receive far more equity for the cost than those who invest later on at the initial public offering stage IPO. In return...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Where's the Money? A Survey of Massachusetts Venture Capital Funds
- It is no secret that venture capital is much harder to find than it was a year ago. With the drubbing taken by many funds that invested heavily in Internet based startups, and the disappearance of the market for initial public offerings IPOs, the industry received a one/two punch. The...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- The Extent of Venture Capital Exits: Evidence From Canada and the US
- This paper considers the issue of when venture capitalists VCs make a partial, as opposed to a full exit, for the full range of exit vehicles. A full exit for an IPO involves a sale of all of the venture capitalist's holdings within one year of the IPO; a partial...
- White papers 2001-02-19
- More Aftermath of the Bubble
- Valuations for venture-backed companies in many sectors that soared in the late 1990s come crashing down in 2003. Liquidity options for these companies are now limited as the IPO market currently appears dead. The crisis in the venture capital industry in the year 2003 was making it necessary, in some...
- White papers 2003-03-12
- Venture Capital Investments by IPO Underwriters: Certification or Conflict of Interest?
- The paper studies IPO pricing when underwriters are venture capital investors in issuers and evaluates whether this creates a serious conflict of interest with IPO investors. Theoretically, prior underwriter venture investment has two effects. First, it can improve underwriter access to IPO issuer information, thereby enhancing the credibility of its...
- White papers 2003-06-11
- Venture Capital and Corporate Governance in the Newly Public Firm
- This paper examines the effects of pre-IPO venture capital backing on the corporate governance of the IPO firm. Three sets of tests are conducted which examines effectively how governance and monitoring might differ for venture and non-venture backed firms. It is found that venture-backed IPO firms have lower earnings management,...
- White papers 2004-09-25
- Institutional Affiliation and the Role of Venture Capital: Evidence From Initial Public Offerings in Japan
- The presence of venture capital in the ownership structure of U.S. firms going public has been associated with both improved long-term performance and superior "certification" at the time of the IPOs. Many of the major venture capital firms in Japan are subsidiaries of securities firms that may face a conflict...
- White papers 2000-03-01
- The Role of Venture Capital Backing in Initial Public Offerings: Certification, Screening, or Market Power?
- This paper empirically distinguishes between three possible roles of venture backing in Initial Public Offerings: certification, screening and monitoring, and market power. The paper argues that Initial Public Offerings underpricing is not the appropriate measure to evaluate the role of venture backing in Initial Public Offerings. Instead, the paper compares...
- White papers 2004-09-23
- A New Empirical Study of Grandstanding in the Venture Capital Industry
- Grandstanding is the act by a venture capitalist of taking a firm public prematurely in order to obtain a reputation. This paper examines the grandstanding hypothesis with data from a more current period, 1992-2001, and for another industry, the communications industry. The firm age at the time of its IPO...
- White papers 2003-01-30
- IPOs, Trade Sales and Liquidations: Modelling Venture Capital Exits Using Survival Analysis
- Using a detailed sample made up of more than 20,000 investment rounds, this paper analyzes the time to 'IPO', 'trade sale' and 'liquidation' for about 6,000 venture backed firms. The paper models these exit times using competing risks models. Biotech and internet firms have the fastest IPO exits. Internet firms...
- White papers 2003-10-09
- Liabilities of General Partners of Venture Capital Funds: Old Legal Theories Create New Business Realities, Part 2
- Until 2002, general partners of venture capital funds have been virtually immune to legal actions by their limited partners, portfolio companies, and third parties. Previous significant liquidity events through initial public offerings or acquisitions based on exceptionally high multiples of earnings and associated returns made the liabilities theoretical only. This...
- White papers 2002-11-12
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