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APRIL 2, 2010
It’s also meaningless if they had four $200 million funds and the last one they closed was in 2000. Unfortunately over the period of 2000-2010 the VC industry hasn’t performed well and therefore the number of funds going forward is likely to reduce greatly. GRP’s last fund was in 2000. What is a VC fund?
Agile VC
OCTOBER 23, 2012
Typically it’s when Cambridge Associates releases their benchmark data on the VC asset class ( here’s a 2010 example article from TechCrunch ) or an organization like the Kauffman Foundation publishes a white paper ( a 2012 example article from Business Insider here ). What about fund of funds (FoF), you ask?
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MAY 23, 2012
But in 2012 a visit to any major college in America will show you the massive increase in aspirations of our young talent to become the next Mark Zuckerberg and build a future Facebook. In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. By 2000 the total LP commitments had mushroomed to more than $100 billion.
Cracking the Code
NOVEMBER 13, 2008
A few days ago, Bessemer West Coast SaaS Practice - David Cowan , Byron Deeter and myself, hosted a CFO Dinner for our SaaS portfolio at John Bentleys in Redwood City. Fifteen CFOs participated - about half of them from Bessemer portfolio SaaS companies (Cornerstone On Demand, Intacct. Portfolio. (3). ► 2012. (1).
finance.fortune.cnn.com
AUGUST 21, 2012
Exclusive: Returns for brand-name VC funds By Dan Primack August 20, 2012: 12:15 PM ET. Overall, the portfolio value (including realizations) was being held at around 5% below cost. The percentage is the 12/31/11 portfolio value (including cumulative distributions) divided by the called capital. Beyond the dotcom-era benchmarks.
ReadWriteStart
NOVEMBER 5, 2019
These conclusions coincide with an investigation carried out in 2012 by Harvard Bussiness School professor Shikhar Ghosh, who, in addition to studying more than 2000 companies that received venture capital investments of at least one million dollars from 2004 to 2010, interviewed to entrepreneurs and carefully registered the portfolios of investment (..)
Cracking the Code
OCTOBER 12, 2012
This post is a translation of the article: « Pigeons » : le cri d'alarme d'un fonds américain published on LaTribune (12/10/2012) and is a response to the proposed tax law proposed by the government of Francois Hollande, suggesting to tax all capital gain at the same level than salaries or 60%. So why twelve years? Why not take a chance?
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