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- VC Valuations Are On The Rise: Is Your Startup Worth More?
- News was released today by VentureOne owned by Dow Jones,which tracks venture investment data. Venture-backed companies are now gettingpre-money valuations (pre-money means the value of the company before thecapital is invested) that are the highest they’ve been since the peak ofthe last bubble in 2000. Median pre-money valuation of...
- Blog posts 2007-02-21
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- VC Industry In Trouble But PIPEs May Save the Day --- For Some
- Battered by the slump in global markets, venture-capital firms and their private-equity counterparts are turning to investments in public companies, usually as PIPE -- private investments in public equity -- investors. It may be the only bright part for VCs these days, as the global recession has slowed new financings...
- Blog posts 2009-04-16
- Does VC Fundraising Respond To Hot IPO Markets?
- This paper investigates to what extent venture capital fundraising depends on IPO Initial Public Offering market valuations. Controlling for demand-side factors and VC venture capital reputation variables, the authors found that the amount of money left on the table in the IPO market positively explains the probability that a fund...
- White papers 2004-05-01
- The MoneyTree Shook - Q4 2006
- Colleague Mark Radcliffe was kind enough to invite me to todays Shaking the MoneyTreeTM event held at the DLA Piper offices in East Palo Alto. PricewaterhouseCoopers and the NVCA put out the report quarterly, based on data provided by Thomson Financial. The report is in its 12th year. The Master...
- Blog posts 2007-02-13
- Why Combinator? Should You Join Paul Graham's Gang For The Gifted?
- April 2 is a significant date for many early-stage entrepreneurs as this is the deadline for applying to Paul Grahams Y Combinator this summer. If you dont know about Y Combinator, then I encourage you to read up on it as they are one of the few groups doing anything...
- Blog posts 2007-03-26
- VC Funding in Bad Times: Five Steps to Better Odds
- Despite the increased difficulty of raising money in today's market, high-tech entrepreneurs fantasize about multi-million dollars venture financings at high valuations. While nothing beats a breakthrough technology and hot management team, there are other steps a company can take to smooth the way to a successful venture round. In a...
- White papers 2001-03-01
- Reid Hoffman to the Rescue!
- Reid Hoffman, one of the most connected people in Silicon Valley even before he founded LinkedIn, is out pumping long-term ideas that he thinks will help innovation. He's calling for grass-roots innovation, built around three policy shifts: Small loans -- $50,000 or so -- for small businesses...
- Blog posts 2009-03-09
- Great Cash Flow, Good Balance Sheet and Low P/E Make Incredimail a Prime LBO Target
- Benchmark VC Michael Eisenberg submits: I co-wrote this post with Elan Zivotofsky, Former Head of Goldman Sachs Israel Research GS and Former Head of Israel Technology Investment Banking, Lehman Brothers (LEHMQ.PK). Like me, Elan is also long MAIL and deserves most of the credit for this blog post.As...
- External links 2009-11-23
- No Exit For VCs
- Venture capitalists are having a confidence crisis as dwindling exit opportunities and a weak economy conspire to put the kibosh on returns. According to the Silicon Valley Venture Capital Confidence Index the second quarter registered a reading of 3.07 on a 5 point scale, down from the...
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- Give VCs a Break: Sequoia, Others Providing Good Advice
- Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures noted on his blog that there is suspicion about the motives of Sequoia Capital, Ron Conway, Benchmark Capital, and others [UPDATE: including Foundation Capital] who have been warning investors to cut spending and prepare for a very rough period. But I've got to agree...
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- 2007: The Year of Enterprise M&A
- Â Â Â +Â Â Â First week of the new year, and we have a nice-sized ($830M) acquisition of IronPort Systems by Cisco. Heres a link to the press release.All Hail The Return Of The Enterprise M&A Market!OK. So, maybe Im a bit premature with my celebration& But, I dont think so.IronPort got...
- Blog posts 2007-01-04
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