Agile VC
JULY 11, 2012
in equity & loans which was ultimately worth >170x ($355M) when DEC went public about a decade later. Technology Venture Investors [Silicon Valley] –> Claim to fame… sole VC investor in Microsoft, which turned out ok. Big success was Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), in which ARD invested about $2.1M
Agile VC
NOVEMBER 6, 2013
1) Skepticism of Startup IPOs is Behind Us – A few years ago there was exceptional dubiousness of new technology companies, which along with the tech crash of ’01-02 and recession of ’08-09 strongly contributed to the IPO drought from 2003-2010. A couple things factor into this.
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Agile VC
OCTOBER 29, 2014
This typically has a dual purpose: generate a return on the company’s cash while also gaining insight into new startups and technologies that may be of strategic interest to the corporation. There’s a wide range of intermediaries for venture capital and private equity investment, each with its own structure and business model.
Agile VC
DECEMBER 19, 2013
In addition, investing in startup tech companies turns out to provide only a modest level of diversification… angel investments tend to form a high beta portfolio, with reasonably close correlations to public equity markets.
Agile VC
JANUARY 18, 2012
2) The Pyramid Scheme of Startup Equity - Just like multi-level marketing schemes, in startups it pays to get in on the ground floor. But founding entrepreneurs typically own an order of magnitude more equity than early hires (who themselves will have disproportionate ownership relative to later hires).
Agile VC
FEBRUARY 28, 2013
Hungary probably wouldn’t sell their sovereignty and entire economy for 1x sales, but Apple has no debt so they could probably lever the deal and borrow money on top of $137 billion in equity. More recently acquiring Quattro Wireless created the iAds mobile ad network and Siri was of course a technology acquired from SRI.
Agile VC
AUGUST 1, 2012
About 6-12 months ago you could hardly throw a rock in the startup ecosystem without hitting a VC expressing their enthusiasm for “mobile” Now the frenzy about mobile has extended into the mass media and public equity markets, though with trepidation as often as excitement.
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