24 days ago
nelson : VC cash problems - I've been hearing about this from several quarters: limited partners are out of funds to answer capital calls
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7 month ago
nelson : Beer over IP - Costik has a ground floor investment opportunity
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8 month ago
nelson : Startups and acquisition - Well known VC points out that startups almost always suffer after an acquisition. Is a liquid private equity market the solution?
deusx : A VC: We Need A New Path To Liquidity - "But who am I to complain? We got paid right? So sit down and shut up. Except I am also a user of these services. I see what happens when a company gets purchased."
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13 month ago
nelson : VC failure - Even the top VC firms at best broke even for funds 2000-2004
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13 month ago
nelson : Second Life valuation? - It's not good news when your VC sells part of your company
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22 month ago
WillPate : Fredo joins Bessemer - One of my bosses at Flock at good friend Geoffrey Arone has joined Bessemer Venture Partners as their Entrepreneur in Residence. Rawk!
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34 month ago
plasticbag : 2005 Venture Capital Web 2.0 investment statistics: US entrepreneurs raise ten times more than Europe - I don't know how much faith to put in these numbers, but the truthiness of them is beyond reproach, and that's got to count for something, right? European start-up and innovation seems generally pretty troubling to me right about now...
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38 month ago
erikbenson : Some insight into how the Robot Co-op is set up as a company - We like stories about our sites more than stories about our company, but this one is pretty well written.
ricmac : Amazon beats VCs to the punch | CNET News.com - "the arrangement with Amazon.com furnishes Robot Co-Op with a greater degree of latitude than a typical start-up."
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42 month ago
WillPate : Deal Flow Is Dead, Long Live Thesis Driven Investing - I wonder if there is a model for this in sales
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46 month ago
Andy Baio : Flickr, Yahoo deal rumored - I've been hearing these rumblings, as well
kellan : business2blog: Flickr, Yahoo Deal Rumored - Just to note, we had this like a month ago #
jimray : Flickr + (Yahoo || Google) == cha-ching! - After a year of beta, it's ALMOST ready for Google...
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