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Dan Lok Explains Venture Capital Funding and How to Secure It

The Startup Magazine

Venture capital is a type of private equity. It is a type of financing that investors can provide to startups and small businesses which are believed to have the potential for success in the long term. Regular private equity investors fund larger and more established companies. What is Venture Capital Funding?

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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

Almost no financings, many VCs and tech startups cratered for the second time in less than a decade following the dot com bursting. I suppose if I loved spreadsheets and valuations and benchmarking I would work in the even more lucrative world of late-stage private equity. It’s just not me.

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What’s Really Going on in the VC Industry? What Does it Mean for Startups?

Both Sides of the Table

So even within the “alternative class&# our LPs are looking at other asset investment choices such as distressed buyout funds, private equity or hedge funds. So angel and seed stage investors’ returns will be dependent on good times continuing or on the ability of their portfolio companies to get financed.

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WP Engine passes $100M in revenue and secures $250M investment from Silver Lake

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

This week we closed $250M in financing from Silver Lake , the premier technology private equity firm. That revenue is in on 75,000 customers, earned through the hard work of 500 employees across six offices on three continents.

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ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

Steve Blank

Cheered on by finance professors, Wall Street analysts, investors and hedge funds, companies have learned how to make metrics like Internal Rate of Return look great by one; outsourcing everything, two, getting assets off their balance sheet, and three only investing in things that pay off fast. We legalized robbing the corporate treasury.

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[Review] Startup Guide For The Technopreneur

YoungUpstarts

According to Shelters, the challenge for many entrepreneurs is that they are not familiar enough with issues of finance to recognize what questions they need to ask and answer in order to learn. Too many times I have witnessed start-ups with very promising and innovative products fall victim to financial starvation,” says Shelters. .”

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My Chat with Dan Primack of PEHub

Both Sides of the Table

In the technology world there are a few websites that most startups track to keep up with the latest financings, acquisitions, product announcements and gossip: BusinessInsider, TechCrunch, Mashable, GigaOm, etc. In the VC & Private Equity world there’s a small number, too, with one of the most respected being PEHub.