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Mattishness (Free subscription) | yesterday
At the AlwaysOn event yesterday, Frank Quattrone offered some great historical context on the current state of the Venture-backed IPO market, andby extension, the venture capital business in general: "Over the long term, venture capital firms have typically taken one-third to one-half of their companies public, Quattrone said. Today, only about 10 percent of their portfolios go public, he said. Quattrone...
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VC Ratings (Free subscription) | yesterday
The following is from Ask The VC, where Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson of Foundry Group answer questions related to venture capital investment and startups: Q: My lawyer is asking for a...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | yesterday
Entrepreneurs helping entrepreneurs is the goal of a new program -- dubbed Accelerator -- that a group of Seattle business leaders are starting this fall.
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Ask The VC (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Q: My lawyer is asking for a "success fee" for a referral to a potential investor in my business. Since he'll be doing the legal work, he's offered to charge only 3% on the amount funded (solely from this one contact) as opposed to a 5% that a typical investment banker would charge (even though he's not an investment banker himself). As this is the first venture I'm actually raising capital for, I...
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Moco News (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Here at the MobileBeat 2008 conference in Sunnyvale, Calif., Matt Marshall, editor-in-chief of VentureBeat, dove right into the first panel of the day and fired off a series of questions on the iPhone and Apple's new App Store. Has hype gotten ahead of the iPhone? Shawn Carolan, managing director at Menlo Ventures: "The hype around the iPhone is warranted in some ways and not in other ways … People...
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Market Watch (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
After years of letting the dollars flow freely, venture capital firms appear to be gradually tightening the spigot on the amount of cash they’re pouring into start-up companies. But it doesn't necessarily signal trouble across the board.
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Bits (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Venture capitalists surveyed by KPMG don't expect the IPO drought to ease until 2010 and they expect green technology to lead the turnaround.
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Broadpoint Capital, Inc., a broker-dealer subsidiary of Broadpoint Securities Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: BPSG), today announced the hiring in its Debt Capital Markets
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Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Sign of the times -- billionaire raider Carl Icahn explains his Yahoo! perspectives ... on his new blog Writing Tuesday on his freshly launched blog, The Icahn Report, the activist investor, who just reached a deal with Yahoo to end his bid for control of its board, first detailed his reasons settlement agreement. “By the end of last week, I realized that although many large shareholders supported...
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Business Week (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
It may be tempting to retain a broker for your next round of venture capital financing, but doing so might damage your chances.
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LA Biz Observed (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
You would think that the real estate business would be done with questionable resales and mortgages. Think again.
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Will Price (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Great murder mystery, 1950s Soviet Union, the next Ridley Scott project.... Child 44 . Worth ordering.
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Thoughts About K4D (Free subscription) | yesterday
Arguments about the importance of technological change in economic growth focus on the increase in . They often attribute the improvement of total factor productivity to technological change. This tends to make me think of the productivity increases in terms of technological innovation and diffusion. However, there is another important aspect of the increase in total factor productivity -- the improvement...
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US News (Free subscription) | yesterday
From taxes to gas prices, this is what the presidential candidates believe.
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bharatbookgroup | 05/26/2008
Banks cater to a wide range of services in addition to their traditional roles of providing loans, investments and other services. The reports on banking and finance provide an insight to investment banking, venture capital, commercial banking, retail and electronic banking as well as industry forecasts, projections, trends, market shares, research and development, sales and marketing strategies and...
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nitesh | 05/14/2008
This profile is the essential source for top-level industry data and information relating to LNG in Middle East & Africa. It provides asset level information relating to the LNG terminals in Middle East & Africa . The profiles of the major companies operating in the LNG sector are also included in the report. The latest news and deals pertaining to the sector are also provided and analyzed. Scope...
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nitesh | 05/14/2008
This profile is the essential source for top-level industry data and information relating to LNG in Europe. It provides asset level information relating to the LNG terminals in Europe. The profiles of the major companies operating in the LNG sector are also included in the report. The latest news and deals pertaining to the sector are also provided and analyzed. Scope Updated information relating...
