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What Type of Business Structure is Right for a SaaS, AI or IoT Company?

ReadWriteStart

However, most institutional investors (venture capital groups, for instance) don’t mind this structure, and they, in fact, prefer to invest in corporations due to protections from issuing stocks. While LLCs cannot issue stocks, they can sell bonds to investors.

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What Type of Business Structure is Right for a SaaS, AI or IoT Company?

ReadWriteStart

However, most institutional investors (venture capital groups, for instance) don’t mind this structure, and they, in fact, prefer to invest in corporations due to protections from issuing stocks. While LLCs cannot issue stocks, they can sell bonds to investors.

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Grubhub and Seamless: Effecting The Elusive Private-Private Merger

abovethecrowd.com

As Benchmark is a large institutional investor in Grubhub, we were actively involved in the merger process, and we are quite excited about the potential of the two companies coming together. Finding a way to meld two complex capital structures is non-trivial, and may require compromise from many parties involved.

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Reversing Unintended Consequences From Regulation is Critical to Restoring Small Company IPO’s

Pascal's View

First, the National Venture Capital Association has published data revealing that over 90% of the jobs created by venture-backed companies occur AFTER they go public—and this relationship holds over the past 40 years. Investors take risk in order to reap rewards.

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Update on our study on deal sourcing

David Teten

It’s been very exciting to see such a strong response to our recent research study on “Best Practices in Private Equity and Venture Capital Deal Origination”, published in the Winter 2010 Journal of Private Equity. 12/10: Mergers & Acquisitions , Where are the Deals?

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Barron’s Article on Tech IPO’s Misses the Importance of the Extinct Sub-$50 million IPO

Pascal's View

”, written by Mark Veverka, asserting that “venture capitalists want to widen the playing field for the underwriters.” ” The story includes quotes from former National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) chairman Dixon Doll of DCM and investment banker Paul Deninger, who is the vice-chairman of Jefferies & Co.

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

He was an Institutional Investor ranked analyst for several years. The second panel will focus on collaborative investing in non-public alternative investments (private equity, venture capital, receivables, etc.). . Nic Perkin is the President and Co-Founder of The Receivables Exchange.