Venture Capital
Communicating Changing Business Dynamics To Your Board And Investors
Twitter It!By A VC
We did a call today with our investors and one of the questions was about how the macroeconomic environment is impacting our portfolio companies. We explained that for most of our companies, there has not been much of an impact, but we are seeing several companies bring down aggressive numbers for 2009 [...]
Investors Invest in Management
Twitter It!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 [...]
Venture capital challenges
Twitter It!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 [...]
Selling The Company Back To The Founders
Twitter It!By A VC (original investor in Skype before it was sold to Ebay)
I read with interest the Brad Stone piece in the NY Times this morning suggesting that Niklas and Janus might buy Skype back from eBay. I think this is a wonderful idea and I hope it happens.
Back when eBay bought Skype in [...]
VC Confidence Improving
Twitter It!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) [...]