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Upfront Ventures Raised New $280 Million Fund

Both Sides of the Table

The speaks to the continued confidence in the venture capital markets and as I had predicted some time ago the VC markets right now are a great place to invest – especially relative to other places to put one’s money. Or perhaps VCs like to carefully guard who has bankrolled them so as not to attract competition?

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Maximize Your Exit By Not Selling Your Company

InfoChachkie

He told the homeowner that he represented someone who wanted to purchase the ranch at a substantial premium over its current fair market value. We boiled our alternatives down to the following: IPO – To bolster our negotiating position, I engaged an investment bank to explore the public capital markets. My House Is Not For Sale.

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Interview with Mark Suster, GRP Partners

socalTECH

Mark has also been quite active mentoring entrepreneurs, We caught up with Mark to hear about what kinds of investments GRP is looking at nowadays, his view on the software-as-a-service market, and how best to approach him with a pitch. So we think we're the right size for the market in 2009.

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Maximize Your Exit By Not Selling Your Company

InfoChachkie

He told the homeowner that he represented someone who wanted to purchase the ranch at a substantial premium over its current fair market value. Fortunately, we had several alternatives available to us, including: Access the public capital markets via an initial public offering (IPO). Do nothing – continue to run our business “as is”.

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

InfoChachkie

We typically do not ask entrepreneurs to visit our offices in Santa Barbara, but Jeff wanted to meet with Kevin, an investor in our Fund who helped us vet opportunities and occasionally invested alongside of us. The net was that 's app is too sophisticated for the five verbs. <Note: billion) and ISS (sold to IBM $1.3