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How’s Venture Capital Changing in 2023

VC Cafe

IRR (on average) over a 15-year horizon, Venture continues to outperform other long-term asset classes. Maybe surprisingly, but emerging managers in particular, outperformed ‘blue chip’ funds from 2004 to 2020. Eze Vidra, Remagine Ventures Venture remains attractive but LPs have been burnt With a 11.5%

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How and Why To Be an Angel Investor

David Teten

approx 2004-09. Despite the difficulties in gathering it, angel return data has gradually accumulated over time and the verdict is in: we’ve looked at a dozen different studies of angel returns , and they show returns ranging from 18% to 54%. . Average Angel Returns Over Time. Time Period. Total Investments. Exited Investments.

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When Entry Multiples Don’t Matter

Ben's Blog

When Salesforce went public in 2004 as a new kind of CRM provider, its S-1 indicated the CRM applications market was $7B. An example of such a business is Salesforce, which defined a new category for SaaS and continues to be a benchmark for SaaS companies to follow. Not too shabby!

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Playing the Long Game in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

This “overnight success” was first financed in 2004. as measured by MOIC, TVPI and IRR and by sources that don’t reveal the underlying data and who themselves have to rely on incomplete datasets. This is true in consumer but it’s also true in enterprise software. Imagine if, say, Autodesk had purchased it in 2009 for $100 million?

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The VC Shakeout: Are We There Yet?

Agile VC

The entire US economy was booming (in an unsustainable debt binge, in retrospect) from 2004 through much of 2008, and the tech world was booming along with it. typically, which in most cases would to >20% IRR. In the mid 2000′s VC’s were largely prospering. So at a fund level (e.g.

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