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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

Both Sides of the Table

But when the finally convert the debt to equity the round gets filed with the SEC and thus journalists often pick up on it. Invidi is based in New York and founded in 2000. Sellers can lower transaction fees by aggregating purchases into fewer transactions, while also providing buyers with an attractive alternative payment method.

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Why Average VC Returns Don’t Really Matter

Agile VC

And even if they wanted the index return, there is essentially no way to buy (or sell) a broad-based basket of VC funds in the way you can trade the S&P 500 or Russell 2000 or other public equity index. But these long-term LPs are by definition using active managers in search of alpha (i.e.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

3) invest in and take equity stakes in exchange for capital. The IPO Bubble – August 1995 – March 2000 In August 1995 Netscape went public, and the world of start ups turned upside down. Yahoo would hit $104/share in March 2000 with a market cap of $104 billion.) 4) help nurture and grow the companies they invest in.

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Asset Management Is A Bizarre Industry Ripe For Disruption

David Teten

Asset management also shows the traditional earmarks of an industry ripe for disruption — most obviously, unhappy customers and extremely profitable incumbents. Despite this, it’s hard to think of good examples of disruption to asset management in the classic, Clay Christensen sense.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter October 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

Wintegra, founded in 2000, has 165 employees with the majority of its R&D development team located in Ra’anana, Israel, and Austin, Texas. Upon closing the deal, Essilor will fully consolidate Shamir Optical while keeping the Israeli management team of Shamir Optical in place. is acquiring iSkoot Technologies Inc.,

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The VC Shakeout: Are We There Yet?

Agile VC

Sarah also points to the vast global wealth that has to get allocated somewhere as well as a small bump in long term average returns, now that the generally terrible performance of funds from the 2000-2002 time frame (after the tech bubble of the late 90s crashed) no longer factor in to 10 year returns. So at a fund level (e.g.

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Why Startups Fail - 20 Top Reasons Gleaned from 32 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

www.chubbybrain.com

Marc Hedlund of Wesabe talked about this in his post-mortem stating: Between the worse data aggregation method and the much higher amount of work Wesabe made you do, it was far easier to have a good experience on Mint , and that good experience came far more quickly. During this year they. deprecated the old feature-complete product (ACS 3.4)