Can you trust any VCs under 40?
(Editor’s note: Serial entrepreneur Steve Blank is the author of Four Steps to the Epiphany. This column originally appeared on his blog.)
Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. Over the same 30 years, Venture Capital firms have honed their skills and strategies to match Wall Streets needs to achieve liquidity for their portfolio companies.
You have to wonder: does… Continue Reading
Monster IPO quarter coming — to be biggest since dot-com boom
The economy may croak from the credit crunch, but public offerings and acquisition deals are happening at the fastest pace in years. The fourth quarter is going to be monster.
Some 46 U.S. companies backed by venture capitalist registered during the third quarter to go public, according to research by Dow Jones VentureOne to be released tomorrow. Not all of them will go public within the next three months, but even if half of them do,… Continue Reading