Venture Capital
Candidate Selection for an IPO
Presented to the Babson Research Conference, June 2005-03-29
By Tom Mckaskill
Principle Topic
There is little in the prior literature to help a firm decide if it is a good candidate for a IPO, [...]
IPO Exit Strategies: Lessons from the Biotechnology Sector
Presented at ANZAM 2003 Fremantle, Western Australia
By Tom Mckaskill
Abstract
Founders and private equity investors need to have an exit strategy to liquidate their shares in [...]
The Next Generation of Venture Capital: Hot Ideas from Sand Hill Road
Great video from the Milken Institute Global Conference 2009
Speakers:
Alec Ellison, Co-Head of Investment Banking; Chairman, Technology, Media and Telecom Group, Jefferies & Company Inc.
Steve Jurvetson, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Eric McAfee, Chairman, McAfee Capital
Ford Tamer, Operating Partner, Khosla Ventures
Moderator:
Kara Swisher, Co-Executive Editor, All Things Digital
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Investors Invest in Management
Column by Michael Lechter Inc.com
Investors Invest in Management
The team you have in place will figure prominently in an investor’s decision to fund your business.
One factor that almost always figures into a savvy potential investor’s evaluation of your company is your “team” — key management and advisers. This is particularly true for a young company with [...]
Venture capital challenges
India and China aren’t just attracting entrepreneurs who are returning from overseas, but also venture capitalists. At a recent Quality of Management panel discussion at INSEAD’s Asia campus in Singapore, Chan Tze Hoe, investment manager with CAP Vista in Singapore, said that as markets grow in both countries, people who were born there but then [...]
VC Confidence Improving
I read this post in Sophisticated Finance by Bob Hacker, great signal that the economy is improving.
Venture capitalist confidence in the economy may be improving for the first time since 1st quarter 2007. As reported by Mark Cannice at the University of San Francisco:
“The quarterly Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Confidence Index™ (Bloomberg ticker symbol:
USFSVVCI) is [...]
Why cleantech investor Vinod Khosla spreads his wealth all over the table
Khosla makes $500 million bet on cleantech
San Francisco Business Times – by Lindsay Riddell
Vinod Khosla is a betting man.
Khosla Ventures, the Menlo Park-based venture firm he formed in 2004, has invested more than $500 million of his own money, mostly in clean technology companies that fight climate change and oil dependence.
If it sounds daunting, Khosla [...]
One Thing You Don't Need To Be An Entrepreneur: A College Degree
By AVC
We were in a board meeting today and the founder/CEO made a comment about a deal he’s working on and I said “well you learned that well in school.” He smiled and said, “we didn’t go to school” (meaning college). I didn’t actually know that, but it did not surprise me. I have learned [...]
Start Up the Risk-Takers
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/thomaslfriedman/index.html?inline=nyt-per
Reading the news that General Motors and Chrysler are now lining up for another $20 billion or so in government aid — on top of the billions they’ve already received or requested — leaves me with the sick feeling that we are subsidizing the losers and for only one reason: because [...]
Founder Dilution – How Much Is "Normal"?
By AVC
This is a subject near and dear to entrepreneurs, maybe the dearest subject of them all. Founders start out with 100% of the company and every time they raise capital and/or issue stock and options to their management team, that number goes down.
Founders who “go all the way” through the process of building a [...]