David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

He is an active angel with many successful angel investments including: Rent.com, (purchased by Ebay in 2005 for $415 million), Golfnow.com (purchased by Comcast in June 2008), and Lifelock (lead investors include Bessemer Venture Partners and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers). and Tweetdeck (purchased by Twitter in June 2011).

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

The steel giant, which also invests in R&D through its privately held Postech university, considered one of Asia’s best technological institutes, first came to Israel in 2008 through the Korea-Israel Industrial Research and Development Foundation (KORIL). iSkoot is Qualcomm’s first acquisition in Israel.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 18, 2014

And for those that can still remember the 2008 talk of Doomsday and of the collapse of our financial system, it is heartening to note that the S&P is up an amazing 189% since its March 2009 nadir. Almost every day comes barely able to believe valuations on technology company financings, acquisitions, and public offerings.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

trillion) than in 2008. They and us will talk about which companies and technologies are best positioned to profit from huge government stimulus dollars being thrown at the sector, how "cloud computing" applications are beginning to see real adoption rates, and what has been driving the robust financing and acquisition activity in the sector.

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Jason Ball

JANUARY 16, 2008

I posted last year’s figures from Icon Corporate Finance, showing how exit valuations were 1.5x -2x sales. Fred summed it up well just before Christmas: funding in 2008 isn’t going to be the party its been over the past 2 years, so hold onto your hats. P.S. Bonus points for spotting Fred in a Darth Vader mask in 2008!

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Blink starts with the anecdote of the Getty Museums $10 million acquisition of a rare Greek statue dating from the 6th century BC. One other chart worth noting is the the expected returns from various private capital providers (Banks, Asset based lenders, Mezzanine, Private Equity and VC). ► 2008. (14).

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