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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

Starting in 2009 I began writing checks consistently, year-in and year-out. I had realized that I didn’t have it within me to be as good of a player as many of them did but I had the skills to help as mentor, coach, friend, sparing partner and patient capital provider. It’s just not me. So we’re back to building real businesses.

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Where are the Deals? How VCs Identify the Next Generation of Startups

David Teten

Prior to joining ff Venture Capital , I published the first-ever study of how private equity and venture capital funds originate new investments, with my coauthor Chris Farmer , CEO of SignalFire and an experienced VC. 2009) [ii]. By analogy, look at a middle market private equity firms such as the Riverside Company.

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Episode 40: Website Traffic and Online Booking with Joseph Shemesh and Ethan Anderson

Mike Michalowicz

Joseph has more than 20 years of strategic, operational and senior management experience in business ranging from early stage start-ups to private equity backed assets and from mid-stage business to large turn-around operations. Prior to Redbeacon, Ethan worked at Google as Product Manager for Image Search and Google Video.

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The Great VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) – Part 1 of 3

Both Sides of the Table

I would argue that the shut-down of September 2009 was equally severe yet there are signs that this “VC Ice Age” has begun to thaw. It helped me avoid chasing deals (and a house) in 2007/08 and it led to GRP’s fastest pace of investment in many years in the first three quarters of 2009 at a time when many others weren’t investing.

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Viola Private Equity Pumps $7 Million into Zend

VC Cafe

V iola Private Equity , an Israeli PE fund with $164 million under management for technology buyouts, has announced a $7 million investment in Zend , the leading provider of open-source and commercial solutions based on PHP web applications. According to Linkedin , Zend has a headcount of 130.

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Battery Ventures Announces New $750 Million Fund

VC Cafe

A midst a 72% decline in funds raised by Israeli venture capital funds in 2009, Battery Ventures announced the completion of its new fund, BV-9, totaling $750 million. In addition, Battery’s partners showed their commitment by putting more money into the fund themselves than in its past funds, among other moves, he said.

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The Past, Present and Future of Gender Lens Investing

Austin Startup

Since the field’s estimated beginnings in 2009 , subsegments like “feminomics” and “inclusive finance” have spun off, but at it’s core gender lens investing is: incorporating gender as a factor to guide investment strategies.