TechCrunch ran an article yesterday mourning the fate the tech IPO, pointing to sub-par returns at higher risk unattractive. According to Renaissance Capital, IPO returns across all sectors are down 3%. Over [...]
Yesterday’s post drew a fair amount of questions about the decline in the median investment by VCs over time. I’ve put together some more charts to explain the story in [...]
Venture investing shouldn’t be correlated to the public market. Private equity securities are by their nature illiquid; startups take between 5-8 years on average to achieve a liquidity event; venture [...]
After almost 2 years and roughly different 2,000 company pitches, I have some initial observations about successfully pitching for a fund raise that I’ve enumerated below. 1. Every business [...]
One of the main challenges I have faced working in venture capital is to find a consistent structured way of analyzing companies. The main goals in this analysis are comprehensiveness [...]
