Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. The Funding Problem.
Ben's Blog
MAY 24, 2021
billion multi-stage venture capital firm focused on IT-related investments… I also serve on various investment committees, including for the St. Jude Children’s Cancer Hospital and the Stanford Medical Center, and teach entrepreneurship and venture capital at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. 1999-2000 51.6%
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VC Cafe
MARCH 8, 2010
Only three Israeli venture capital funds completed their fund raising efforts in 2009: Sequoia Capital Israel , announced final closing of Sequoia IV, a $200 million vintage 2009 fund. as its main investor). These losses have reduced capital available for investments. A sign of the times or lack of performance?
Agile VC
OCTOBER 23, 2012
LPs investing in venture hold a subset of all the funds in the VC universe by design (see #4 & 5). 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.
Pascal's View
AUGUST 12, 2009
First, the National Venture Capital Association has published data revealing that over 90% of the jobs created by venture-backed companies occur AFTER they go public—and this relationship holds over the past 40 years. Investors take risk in order to reap rewards.
Steve Blank
JUNE 17, 2011
Ben offers that as Apple, Google and Amazon survived the dot.com crash, we can ignore the fate of the thousands of failed public and private dot.com companies when the bubble burst in March of 2000. Filed under: Venture Capital. There’s a saying in Poker, “If you can’t figure out who the Mark is at the table, it’s you.”.
The Equity Kicker
JANUARY 11, 2013
I was chatting with a friend last night about the lack of institutional investor (LP) interest in European venture capital as an asset class. But I don’t think it will be easy.
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