Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The IPO market remained closed to IT startups, but there were big acquisitions like Google buying YouTube for $1.65B (Fall 2006) and late stage financing rounds for companies like Facebook (Microsoft round at $15B valuation in Fall 2007). In the mid 2000′s VC’s were largely prospering. So at a fund level (e.g.

LP 154

LP Portfolio Venture Capital IRR 154

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

. ———————– The First Valley IPO’s Silicon Valley first caught the eyes of east coast investors in the late 1950’s when the valleys first three IPO’s happened: Varian in 1956, Hewlett Packard in 1957, and Ampex in 1958. to spur innovation was a new government agency to fund new companies. In response, one of the many U.S.

Silicon Valley 127

Silicon Valley SBIC San Francisco RSS 127

This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 10, 2021

Last year, I went to an National Venture Capital Association dinner where the President of the organization, Bobby Franklin, spoke about all the great things our lobbying group was doing for VCs—like keeping our carried interest tax loophole. More advertisers will feel comfortable spending money on it.

Venture Capital 158

Venture Capital Cap Table Accredited Investor Silicon Valley 158