BeyondVC

APRIL 12, 2005

Combine this relative value with the fact that many tech companies, particularly large software companies, derive 50-70% of their revenue from annual recurring maintenance and you have an opportunity to buy out many of these businesses due to their predictable cash flow. for a company then no public software company is sacred.

LBO 78

LBO Pre-Money Valuation Technical Review Software Review 78

BeyondVC

APRIL 12, 2005

Combine this relative value with the fact that many tech companies, particularly large software companies, derive 50-70% of their revenue from annual recurring maintenance and you have an opportunity to buy out many of these businesses due to their predictable cash flow. for a company then no public software company is sacred.

LBO 60

LBO Pre-Money Valuation Technical Review Software Review 60

Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

As dollars flowed into the industry, cooperation was replaced by competition, to the detriment of deal flow, due diligence, ability to add value and, of course, returns. “By January 1984, investors had turned away from hardware toward software.” This isn’t true. This statement is scary to me. Some worked; some did not.

Venture Capital 70

Venture Capital SBIC Technical Review Silicon Valley 70