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A new dawn for European VC

The Equity Kicker

It’s the biggest European gathering of venture capital fund managers, private equity fund managers and LPs, the institutions that invest in both types of funds. We also had LPs who have historically invested in private equity but not venture questioning whether it was time for them to make a change.

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New Book by Professor Mannie Manhong Liu and Pascal Levensohn– Venture Capital: Theory and Practice, published by the University of International Business and Economics Press, Beijing

Pascal's View

Venture Capital started in China in 1985, when the first government-sponsored venture capital firm was established. Mannie and I share a strong interest in research in the field of venture capital and private equity. The industry built slowly until a few years into the new century. that year, accounting for 67.9%

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Connecting the Dots: How New Job Creation, IPO’s, and Venture Capital in America Are Intimately Linked

Pascal's View

government dataset compiled by the U.S. v) “Since 1999, over 60% of IPOs have been VC-backed. Private-equity and venture capital firms have been hard hit too. capital markets for listed equities have been in systemic decline since 1997, while every other major international equity market has been growing.

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409A Valuations

Venture Chronicles

Don Dodge wrote about a very dry but critically important issue facing private companies that issue equity to employees… 409A valuations : IPO bump? – If private investors have already bid up the valuation, will there be an IPO jump in the stock price? This breaks the conventional wisdom about pre-IPO stock options.

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Terry Time at the NVCA

Seeing Both Sides

  At $20-30 billion per year, the venture capital industry as a whole remains a “drop in the bucket” in terms of capital deployed relative to the over trillion dollars sitting in private equity firms.    In the private equity world, the industry leaders hang around forever well past their 50s and 60s.