There’s a wonderful blog conversation ongoing between Paul Kedrosky and Fred Wilson on the optimal number of venture capital firms. To summarize, both advocate for a reduction in amount of capital and number of VC firms participating in the market. Check out Kedrosky’s post from this week – Fred Wilson and the Venture Capital (Non-)Cartel… [Read more…]
December 11, 2009
Received an emailed list of the :most cited articles from Institutional Investor Journals. One of them caught my eye – “A Profile of Angel Investors” – published in the Journal of Private Equity. Haven’t downloaded or read the article yet, but passing along in case you should care to…
August 11, 2009
I wish I was always this good… I guessed somewhere around $50 mln in an earlier post today about Facebook’s acquisition of FriendFeed. Turns out I was pretty close according to this post in the WSJOnline late today. So it didn’t take linear algebra to make the guess, but what the heck…
January 30, 2009
Interesting post from Joanna Glanser at PEHUB about the number of private equity partnership shares trading hands. From the brief article: The forecast released this week by secondary market maker NYPPEX predicts that sales of limited partner stakes in private equity partnerships will soar by 68% to $27 billion in 2009. This highlights the stratosphere… [Read more…]
January 9, 2009
This morning’s sessions at the InmanNews Real Estate Connect Conference in New York City included a panel discussion with Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures and Jordan Levy of Softbank. Some interesting insights and perspectives regarding the state of venture capital and the general economy. From Fred Wilson (who also authors the A VC blog):… [Read more…]
December 27, 2008
In March, I noted that venture capital is moving “up the ladder” – more money was flowing into latter stage investments, with only about 10% of VC deals going to start-up stage investment (as compared to 25% in 1995). In August, I examined venture capital investments by financing round which revealed that Series E round… [Read more…]
November 14, 2008
This slideshare presentation developed by TheFunded.com audits the state of the venture capital capital. It’s a nice synopsis of a huge challenge – getting money to innovators. Whether venture capital industry is the answer doesn’t matter. What matters is that we continue to develop innovation as a pipeline to new technology leaps and healthier long… [Read more…]
November 13, 2008
From PWC’s report “Exit slowdown and the new venture capital landscape”: “In the second quarter of 2008 there were zero VC-backed exits – on the heels of five in the previous quarter which raised a thin $283 million. In the first half of 2007, by comparison, 43 VC-backed IPOs collected $6.3 billion.” From the Q3,… [Read more…]
November 8, 2008
Just picked up this link from Guy Kawasaki on Twitter. Good stuff if you have a few minutes… MIT hosted their 2nd Annual Elevator Pitch contest on October 18. Here’s the video of the event.
August 18, 2008
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been intending to comment on the recent report released by VCExperts released in June regarding trends in venture funding in Q1, 2008. The graph below illustrates some of the key data from the report. The labels of A, B, etc. refer to the Series Round of Financing. While… [Read more…]
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