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Praying to the God of Valuation

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Nobody cared about our valuations any more. If they didn’t care about him they certainly didn’t care about me or Jason Lemkin or Jason Calacanis or any of us. Between 2006–2008 I sold both companies that I had started and became a VC. But this is still all about valuations and none of it is any fun anymore.

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When Does Venture Debt Make Sense For Your Startup? - The Other Green Money

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By combining our equity investment with a tranche of venture debt, the company has avoided a larger equity round, which would have significantly diluted the Founders’ ownership share. Dollar Blend – Many venture debt lenders require that their funds be accompanied by an equity investment, generally from legitimate venture capitalists.

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How TVC Aims At Acquisitions, Not IPOs, with Jeb Spencer

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One of the few local funds to recently raise a fund is TVC Capital (www.tvccapital.com), which just closed TVC Capital II, a $75 million growth equity and buyout fund. As a reminder to our readers, can you talk briefly about TVC and what kinds of companies you invest in? Jeb Spencer: We consider ourselves a private equity firm.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

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I spoke about a lot of things during the keynote. I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. I will write more about this in the next 2 weeks. I will write more about this in the next 2 weeks.

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This Week in VC: Michael Montgomery (President, Montgomery & Co.)

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For entrepreneurs who want to learn about how to work with investment banks, how to position yourself to be acquired and what the IPO markets look like this is the episode to watch. Founded in 2002 and expanded after founders graduated from CMU in 2006. Shame they didn’t like his suggested name for the company: DreamWorks SKG-MM.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Their first fund was a $75 million fund raised in 2006 and they very recently announced a brand new $130 million fund. In the intro section of the show we talked a lot about why VC funds are becoming smaller again and where Greycroft fits. Founded in October 2006 by Jonah Peretti (co-founder of Huffington Post). Go Boulder!

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Why The Growth Of The Internet Is Driving EdgeCast's Revenues

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What is it about the content delivery network market which has enabled Santa Monica-based EdgeCast to go from startup to over $100M in revenues in only a few, short years? For those who don't know about EdgeCast, CDN services, who/what kind of clients you serve? James Segil: EdgeCast is the fastest growing CDN in the world.

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