David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

He is an active angel with many successful angel investments including: Rent.com, (purchased by Ebay in 2005 for $415 million), Golfnow.com (purchased by Comcast in June 2008), and Lifelock (lead investors include Bessemer Venture Partners and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers). and Tweetdeck (purchased by Twitter in June 2011).

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Technical Review Technology North Carolina Switzerland 128

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

As the venture capital business has come roaring back in the last 5 years, startups are awash in available capital. Since the financial crisis of 2008, policy makers have kept interest rates at near zero, flooding the market with cheap money in an attempt to restart growth. We legalized robbing the corporate treasury.

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Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 325

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

So as of 2008 total LP commitments were still at nearly $250 billion. So even within the “alternative class&# our LPs are looking at other asset investment choices such as distressed buyout funds, private equity or hedge funds. Our current fund was raised in 2008/09.] VC will shrink. Oh yes it will.

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LP Technical Review Early Stage Silicon Valley 311

VC Cafe

MAY 18, 2022

a 70% decrease in price might seem like a ‘bargain’ to buy, but in 2008, it took stocks 10 years to recover their original price following a recession, and some lost up to 90% of their original value, so it’s hard to predict how far we are from the bottom. And in the private markets (i.e.

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Term Sheet Startup Valuation Ukraine 190

Steve Blank

MARCH 17, 2020

But investors with grey hair can remember the nuclear winter after the past recessions of 2000 and 2008 and can offer some historical patterns of crashes and recovery to CEOs running early stage startups – some who weren’t born when the crash of 1987 hit, were 10 years old in the crash of 2000 and 18 in the last crash of 2008.

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Burn Rate Startup Valuation Sales Cycle 436

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

This is particularly true in New York, where their traditional financial services industry client base has sustained significant damage since the 2008 financial crisis. Like many established finance & media companies, GLG knows that the tech startup sector is a growing part of the economy.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 1, 2020

Further still are the discussions that we may eventually be stuck–similar to the Great Recession of 2008–in a recovery that excludes jobs as we emerge from this cluster. The most alarming recent data is the millions that filed for unemployment in a single week–the largest such black swan event in the history of the country.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

In North America, seed funds now represent 67 percent of all VC funds, up from 33 percent in 2008. The CEE region is no different: according to European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association, the number of seed deals has increased 19x over the past four years.

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Term Sheet North America Private Equity Seed Stage 60

VC Cafe

JULY 6, 2010

On June 22, 2010 - Perfecto Mobile closed an undisclosed third round of funding from new investor Vodafone Ventures and returning investors Carmel Ventures and Vertex Venture Capital. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Herzlia Pituach, Israel. Ofakim Hi-Tech Ventures Ltd. Poalim Ventures Ltd.;

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity 98

VC Cafe

JULY 6, 2010

On June 22, 2010 - Perfecto Mobile closed an undisclosed third round of funding from new investor Vodafone Ventures and returning investors Carmel Ventures and Vertex Venture Capital. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Herzlia Pituach, Israel. Ofakim Hi-Tech Ventures Ltd. Poalim Ventures Ltd.;

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity 98

David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Amelia Investments – “Amelia Investments is a private equity fund creating economic opportunities throughout the Middle East region. 50/50 Startups – “We’re an incubator for equally owned tech ventures by Palestinian and Israeli entrepreneurs.”. Siraj Capital. Apply here. Takwin Labs.

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UAE United Arab Emirates Technology 60

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 14, 2015

One of the points I tried to make is that as venture capital investors as an industry we seem to have a healthy disdain for public market investors. The truth is that the brutal reality of public markets is that they self correct much more quickly than our shitty little private equity illiquid corner of the universe.

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Burn Rate San Francisco Private Equity LP 150

500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

TL:DR : This post aims to recap significant changes in the venture capital industry over the past ten years, and then make some [biased] predictions as to major forces at play in the next five years. However, all three shifts are related and can be summed up simply as: Geeks are Taking Over Venture Capital.

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Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2015

I’ve seen friends (and family members) lose much of their savings that way over the years because “Black Swans” happen and in 1987, 2001, 2003 & 2008 (just to name a few from my memory) huge market gyrations caused much financial distress to people seeking short-term gains. At least later stage investors.

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Altgate

JANUARY 4, 2009

But it’s not so far fetched though that layoffs will soon be coming to venture capital. 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. Bookmark the permalink.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 13, 2012

Of course, the European venture capital industry is filled with challenges, including a negative average return of 1.9 London has the largest venture capital and private equity industries in Europe. Comparison of entrepreneurship activity in Europe by GEM (until 2008). per cent in the United States.

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Professor VC

MARCH 10, 2009

In other parts of the country, this is business as usual: Identify a customer need Build a product Sell the product In the valley, the knee jerk reaction is to start with the powerpoint deck and look for the venture capital drug. Jon Fisher purposely avoided raising venture capital in his ventures. ► 2008. (14).

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Bootstrapping San Jose Silicon Valley Software Review 28

David Teten

MARCH 2, 2013

I recently had an extensive debate with Tom about why and whether small funds (like mine, ff Venture Capital ) tend to outperform large funds (like his). I argue that, just as with hedge funds and mutual funds, the larger the venture capital fund, the more difficult it is to generate strong returns.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

I attended the annual LP meeting for a venture capital firm this week and got into a discussion about the above question. And now I know exactly where I want to spend my time" "This internship truly provide me an entry point into the private equity world. The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic.

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San Jose Silicon Valley Las Vegas Venture Capital 43

Growthink Blog

APRIL 25, 2011

On Friday Silicon Valley Bank released a survey of 375 executives at startup technology companies in the 4 core venture capital investment sectors – Software/Internet, Hardware, Life Science, and Cleantech. The study notes that in 2010, venture capitalists invested $21.8 Here is what they found: Tech. Are Bullish.

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Silicon Valley Ratchet Private Equity Startup 69

Altgate

MAY 1, 2009

Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship , Startups , Venture Capital and tagged entrepreneur , exits , IPO , limited partners , M&A , private equity , startup , venture capital. I’ll be the first to admit that I’m wrong… but show me the data! Bookmark the permalink.

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Sweat Equity Private Equity IPO Venture Capital 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 Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Venture Capital and tagged collapse , economy , series B , startups , venture capital.

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Later Stage Early Stage Venture Capital Portfolio 34

David Teten

MAY 8, 2012

Danae Ringelmann, Slava Rubin and Eric Schell co-founded Indiegogo in 2008 to enable anybody with a great idea to make that idea happen. For background, Indiegogo is an online platform for anybody to raise money for his or her campaign, whether it be an author’s novel, an entrepreneur’s invention, or a filmmaker’s documentary.

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Securities and Exchange Commission IRR Entrepreneur Angel Investor 148

The Startup Magazine

MAY 4, 2017

million valuation ($150,000 for 10 percent equity) in 2008. Here are a few particularly noteworthy startup pitches. Airbnb : The residential lodging company was seeking $150,000 at a $1.5 After a meeting with seven investors in Silicon Valley, five responded with rejections and two did not respond.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

One other chart worth noting is the the expected returns from various private capital providers (Banks, Asset based lenders, Mezzanine, Private Equity and VC). Labels: due diligence , financial analysis , venture capital. The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic. ► 2008. (14).

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