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Jun
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Much of the bubble talk surrounds five companies: Groupon, LinkedIn, Zynga, Facebook and Twitter. Mr. Thiel estimates that those five companies account for three-quarters of the value of new Web companies and, he said, five companies do not make a bubble. If they did, we have bigger problems, he said. “We need technology for our society to get better in the decades ahead,” Mr. Thiel said. “So if you say there are not even five good companies, that even those five companies are fake, that is saying that our society is completely stagnant and that nothing is happening at all.
Tags: peter thiel   bubble   groupon   twitter   zynga   facebook   linkedin   internet   entrepreneurship   venture capital  
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May
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As I’m fond of saying, startup fundraising isn’t about convincing skeptics but rather finding true believers.
Tags: linkedin   entrepreneurship   fundraising   venture capital  
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May
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B2C venture capital investments up to $5B, B2B down to $12B (via For Silicon Valley Start-Ups, Funding Boom Is Lopsided - WSJ.com)

B2C venture capital investments up to $5B, B2B down to $12B (via For Silicon Valley Start-Ups, Funding Boom Is Lopsided - WSJ.com)

Tags: venture capital   entrepreneurship   internet   B2B   B2C  
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Apr
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Apr
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Apr
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GCP California Fund Made an 8.5x Return

GCP California Fund, raised in 2002-2003 and managed by Leonard Green & Partners, is by far the top-performing fund ever among CALPERS alternative investments, with an 8.5x return.

I think that CALPERS does not invest in Sequoia and KPCB, whose single investment in Google probably delivered approximately a 10x return on their whole funds raised in the late nineties.

Tags: private equity   venture capital   gcp   calpers  
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Apr
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Mar
31st
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Here’s what those VCs (and us entrepreneurs, myself included) didn’t understand: 9 women can’t make a baby in a month.
Tags: venture capital   entrepreneurship  
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Mar
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Tags: entrepreneurship   venture capital   profitably   ange   Angel investing  
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Mar
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A pretty good overview of the VC industry latest trends (via Is Late Stage the New Early? Behind the Staggering Return of the $1B Venture Fund)

A pretty good overview of the VC industry latest trends (via Is Late Stage the New Early? Behind the Staggering Return of the $1B Venture Fund)

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