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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. During this era, from 2009–2015, most founders I knew were in it for building great & sustainable companies. Deep down I love working with founders and products, strategy, go-to-market, financial management, pricing and all aspects of building a startup.

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Reasons For Surge In Mexico’s Private Equity Industry

YoungUpstarts

For years Mexico lagged behind a lot of other Latin America countries when it came to private equity. As well as this, their private equity investments have surpassed the likes of Russia and Turkey – meaning that the nation is slowly but surely becoming a real force. Now, things have been transformed.

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WP Engine passes $100M in revenue and secures $250M investment from Silver Lake

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

This week we closed $250M in financing from Silver Lake , the premier technology private equity firm. The Silicon Valley-oriented technology press outlets don’t cover us because we’re not in San Francisco, even though we’re more successful than most of the startups they cover. We just announced a few more things.

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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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IVC PE Survey: Private Equity Deals Booming in Israel

VC Cafe

I sraeli Private Equity is experiencing some serious growth, according to the IVC- GKH Quarterly Private Equity (PE) Survey conducted by IVC Research Center. Private Equity is relatively less developed than VC in Israel but with deep pockets. No distressed debt deals were reported in Q3 2009. (4)turnaround/

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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. Watch this space.