Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

No, the heart of the “find the next Facebook” challenge is that the vast majority of investors are either too poor or - more interestingly - too rich to even consider an investment like Peter Thiel’s $250,000 into Facebook in 2005. And, of course early-stage private equity investing requires heaping platefuls of courage and guts.

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Silicon Valley Private Equity Early Stage Equity 78

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

And the same thing happened after we sold IT WatchDogs in 2005. After all, before the house of cards inevitably tumbles, private equity investors get a tidy return. After I sold Smart Bear, that division has increased revenue and profit every year, for five years, even through the 2008/2009 economic disaster.

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IPO Flash Bootstrapping Private Equity 240

The Equity Kicker

MARCH 19, 2012

We see our LPs relatively infrequently; they each look after interests in a large number of venture capital and private equity funds, and they occasionally shift responsibility for looking after our fund to new people, so we always begin by reminding them of who we are, why we are special, and our investment strategy. Manager update.

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LP Europe Portfolio Private Equity 97

500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

Or, as my friend Marc Andreessen might say, Software Eats the Private Equity World. A few years before all this scandalous VC behavior occurred, in 2005 Paul Graham ) started Y Combinator. However, all three shifts are related and can be summed up simply as: Geeks are Taking Over Venture Capital. Mega VC, Micro VC.

Silicon Valley 74

Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Mr. Parekh started his career at Goldman Sachs, developing the firm’s equities business in the Middle East, with high net worth family offices and sovereign wealth funds. Panel 2 – How Social Investing is Disrupting Investments in Hedge Funds, Private Equity Funds, and Other Alternatives.

Technical Review 128

Technical Review Technology North Carolina Switzerland 128

Altgate

MAY 1, 2009

I’m a visual person so here’s how I see it: Entrepreneurs start companies and the founders (“F&# in my chart) invest capital which they grow with sweat equity and then limited partners (“LPs&# ) invest capital via VCs which in turn grows the pie to the eventual “exit&# (which comes in the form of M&A or IPOs).

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Sweat Equity Private Equity IPO Venture Capital 28

Altgate

JANUARY 4, 2009

We’re already starting to see layoffs at the large private equity funds where Blackstone , Carlyle and American Capital announced staff cuts between 7% and 19% in December. &# The VC stared at him with a bewildered look. But it’s not so far fetched though that layoffs will soon be coming to venture capital.

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Venture Capital Term Sheet Private Equity Early Stage 28

Altgate

MARCH 8, 2009

As I mentioned earlier, these are all private companies so data is hard to come by. What I can tell you is that total private equity assets under management was reported as $2.5 UPDATE 1 : A few people have asked me if I have any data on an impending collapse of the VC ecosystem or if this is all anecdotal.

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Later Stage Early Stage Venture Capital Portfolio 34

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

And then from there, I was running a fitness company on the west coast by the name of 24 Hour Fitness, which was private equity backed and quite a bit of debt. And half our clubs were in the state of California in 2008, so was a very interesting time to be a CEO and learned a lot. And look, it was a scary time.

Technical Review 148

Technical Review Balance Sheet Texas Austin 148

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 26, 2010

It is said to be a private equity round and at this stage it is unclear if previous investors will be allowed to participate (or just get diluted). PrimeSense was founded in 2005 by Aviad Meizlos, Ofir Sharon, Dmitri Reiss, Alex Shpunt and Tamir Berliner. Ynon Beracha serves as the company’s CEO.

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Private Equity Dilution Valuation Differentiation 111

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

iSkoot, founded in 2005, has an office in Silicon Valley and an R&D center, which employs half the company’s workforce, in Bet Shemesh, Israel. one of the largest publishers of educational books in the world, bought educational software startup Tegrity , the fourth exit for private equity firm Infinity Group in 2010.

Bandwidth 79

Bandwidth Framework Forecast 79

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents. Founder Equity Issues. Venture Hacks equity section. Legal, Equity, etc. Argonaut Private Equity. Seed Startups. VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups.

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Software Review Technical Review Startup 53