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WP Engine passes $100M in revenue and secures $250M investment from Silver Lake

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

This week we closed $250M in financing from Silver Lake , the premier technology private equity firm. The Silicon Valley-oriented technology press outlets don’t cover us because we’re not in San Francisco, even though we’re more successful than most of the startups they cover.

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April 4-Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO

David Teten

I hope that you can join us Monday night, April 4, midtown NYC, at a panel on “Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO” The program is sponsored by the HBS Club of New York and the HBS Angels of NY.

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Today’s Market: A Bubble Waiting to Burst?

Growthink Blog

As detailed last week , since March 2009 the S&P index has almost tripled, while real estate prices are up 10.5% Political instability, corruption, immature financial systems and securities laws close off private equity-type investments close to home. And if so, when and how it will burst.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter October 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

rise in 2009, while investment in fixed assets is estimated to grow 6.2% drop in 2009. Shamir Optical reported revenues of $142 million in 2009, generated mainly in Europe and the United States, and has about 1,400 employees. Exports, which comprise more than 40% of Israel’s economic activity, had dropped 12.5%