I was reading this news Google Faces A Different World in Italy from the New York Times and it is about Google’s criminal charges related to privacy in Italy. A senior executive in Italy may get to jail because of an outcry over an online video … Read More →
Category Archives: Readings
Resources to support Entrepreneurs
MIT Open Course Ware Managing Innovation and Entrepreneurship Managing Innovation and Entrepreneurship Managing Innovation: Emerging Trends Early Stage Capital Designing and Leading the Entrepreneurial Organization Law for the Entrepreneur and Manager Entrepreneurial Marketing Entrepreneurial Finance Listening to the Customer Pricing The Nuts and Bolts of … Read More →
Book Review: Careers in Venture Capital, 2005 Edition – WetFeet Insider Guide
Incredibly enough, this is a very similar book to Vault Career in Venture Capital book. They talk about the same introductory ideas for those who wants to pursue a career in the Venture Capital industry. It does provide a short story of the industry. Some … Read More →
Venture Capital Highlights – 2009 – Week 41
How to choose your co-founders? Stanford and its $ 1 billion sell-off of private equity US investment in VC decreases to new low levels Potential recover for the VC industry Share and Enjoy:
Smartphone: the next PC industry
There is a news from the CNET that tells that Smartphones and low-cost handsets will keep dominating the wireless market. The post tells that despite the fact of economic downturn, demand for smartphone remained high and this category grew 27% compared to the same quarter … Read More →
Twitter’s founder: Evan Williams
I became aware of Evan Williams from Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days. He had a great and very interesting story about how he founded Blogger and all the hardship he had with it. I think one of the most interesting point is … Read More →
An Unlikely Marriage: Koenigsegg and Saab
I’ve been following many news related to the GM’s sale of Saab to Koenigsegg and I’m very curious about the outcome of this situation. I searched Google to see if there was any news of small companies buying big companies and I couldn’t find any … Read More →
New Funds Target Early Stage Startups
Summary: The number of new funds focused on bankrolling early-stage startups appears to be growing. Data from The Deal and other sources that focus on venture capital concluded that in the last six weeks that about $1.2 billion has been raised by firms for dedicated … Read More →
Super Angels and VCs
The importance of this article is the visibility it gives to the venture capital industry and specially in this economic downturn. I recommend reading it. Read more here: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/09_22/b4133044585602.htm Share and Enjoy:
New Valuation for Facebook
Wow, this is increadible. Facebook is receiving $ 200 million for 1.96%! To calculate the post valuation, we just need to do this: X = post-valuation X = 200 million / 0.0196 = 10 204 million = $ 10 billion roughly. Amazing how this company … Read More →
Goldman Sachs’ DreamingWith BRICs: The Path to 2050
BRIC is an acronym which means the fast growing developing economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China. The BRIC concept was developed by Goldman Sachs’ Dreaming with BRICs: The Path to 2050 article. The article states that if these countries follow some of the … Read More →
Read it later: Startups and Venture Capitalists Beware
I found an interesting post from Matt Eventoff (http://www.matteventoff.com) about how entrepreneurs should be careful of how to communicate to venture capitalists. He tell us that entrepreneurs should get a central message and practice the presentation. Basically, a lot of entrepreneurs do not get … Read More →
Article: Do Web Entrepreneurs Still Need Venture Capitalists?
There is a very interesting article about this question: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/do-web-entrepreneurs-still-need-venture-capitalists/ It basically says that given the lower cost to create web companies, the current venture capital model may not be attractive enough for those web entrepreneurs. It gives some examples such as the iPhone Apps developers … Read More →
Sadia and Perdigão became the biggest food company in Brazil
I’m posting this news because it is very impressive this merger of two most important food company in Brazil. It is going to create some market concentration concern. At the same time, it shows the M&A market potential of this country. Sadia and Perdigão are … Read More →
New York Times interviewed Steven Ballmer about Leadership
Many of you may not like Microsoft, but most people are sure that Microsoft’s CEO, Steven Ballmer, has a strong leadership presence in the company and in the market. There is an interesting short interview from New York Time with Steven. He talks about leadership, … Read More →
Stages in Venture Capital Funding
Venture Capital Investment Stages (Click the image to see the big version) This is a rough view of the venture capital investment stages. These stages are for guidance only. In the real world, there is no standard in the classification of the investment stage. Sometimes, … Read More →
Shrinking Venture Capital Market in Canada
The Canada’s Venture Capital & Private Equity Association released a report yesterday (May 12th) that the venture capital market continues to fall in the first quarter of 2009, continuing the shrinking trend from 2008. In the Canadian landscape, only $ 275 million … Read More →
A Presentation About Venture Capital from MIT OpenCourse
This is a very good and concise presentation about venture capital, the three phrases of venture capital investing, SBICSs and SSBICs (types of small business programs), state government initiatives, key challenges and best practices. Download the presentation here: http://ocw.mit.edu/NR/rdonlyres/E8256F94-7B44-4E02-8511-7366DE6B20CA/0/class16_vc.pdf Share and Enjoy:
Venture Capital Funds Return Still High
National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) reported that venture capital performance showed positive returns across all investment horizons 3 years and longer for the period ending December 31, 2008. As you can see in the table, venture returns across all horizons outperformed public market indices, … Read More →
Venture Capital Looks for Another Exit
Today, I just read an interesting article about a possible new exit event that venture capitalists, startups employees and other investors could do. SecondMarket is a marketplace where people can sell and buy “illiquid assets”. Illiquid assets are anything that people cannot … Read More →
PCCW Case: Difficult Valuation
A lot of people who invested in PCCW during that time are losing significant amount of money now. Moreover, a lot of investors do not understand why the company shares declined during all these years, if the company is still doing well and … Read More →
Link: ResultsON – Brazil Startup Magazine
This is a free online and offline magazine about Brazilian startups. Portuguese only! http://www.resultson.com.br/ Share and Enjoy:
Institutions Reduce VC Participation
Some pension funds and university endowments, which have been major sources of venture capital, have scaled back VC investments in the wake of market downturns. The $129 billion California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS), the second-largest pension fund in the US, reduced its allocation for … Read More →
Plan Raises Venture Firms’ Taxes
President Obama’s budget proposal, announced in February 2009, aims to raise taxes on carried interest, which could cause taxes on venture capital profits to more than double. The proposal calls for taxing carried interest as ordinary income, which could result in a significantly higher rate … Read More →
More Bad News for Venture Capital industry
It is quite impressive the amount of bad news from Venture capital industry. And at the same time, it is expected that this industry may suffer from the economic downturn. As many of you can recall, the dot-com burst impacted the venture capital industry much … Read More →
HSBC’s Pig Saving Ads Linked to Swine Flu’s News
Look what I found. HSBC’s ad with a pig linked to the Swine Flu News. Share and Enjoy:
Brazil is launching new banknotes soon!
The Central Bank in Brazil is launching a new set of banknotes after 15 years with the launch of Real. They are good looking. I can’t wait to have all of them. You can read more about the launch here. Share and Enjoy: