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Benchmark Capital Likely to Invest in Public Companies
Two weeks ago, Benchmark Capital sent a note to its entrepreneurs, warning that the recent downturn in the public markets meant bad news for startups, too, including less access to other forms of...
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Q&A With Benchmark’s Bill Gurley
In an opaque market that has the world unsettled, Benchmark’s Bill Gurley has been doing his part to be more transparent. In early October, representing Benchmark, he authored a letter of advice to...
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The VC Problem Explained Simply
If you’re looking for an easy-to-understand explanation for the problems facing the VC business, check out Bill Gurley’s essay: “What Is Really Happening to the Venture Capital Industry?” It does an...
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Venture Capital Industry Shrinkage?
Benchmark Capital’s Bill Gurley yesterday wrote on his blog that the VC industry is going to shrink substantially over the next several years. Specifically, he argues that large institutional investors...
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Bill Gurley on Rivalry in the Valley, Facebook’s Future and What He Makes of...
Benchmark’s Bill Gurley is an exceedingly busy guy. He’s a dad, he’s a sought-after speaker, and he’s on the boards of 11 companies, including the real estate portal Zillow, the solar power company...
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IPO Market Not All Bad…Especially If LinkedIn Files
The IPO market for technology companies has been lousy lately. But it’s not all doom and gloom, if venture capitalists, such as Bill Gurley, are to be believed. “The buyside is hungry for growth...
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Will China Play Nice with U.S Exchanges?
Yesterday, I caught up with Doug Chu, a former investment banker turned head of the NYSE’s Silicon Valley office. It was a candid discussion that touched on a number of interesting data points, not all...
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Winning! or Losing? A Look Into the Super-Fund Movement
It’s become something of a bromide in Silicon Valley that pouring as much money into a relatively few break-out companies as quickly as possible is the only way to win in venture capital. In an...
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Android: The Ultimate Loss Leader (Also A Moat)
Bill Gurley doesn’t blog often. But when he does, his posts are often worth reading. This is the case with the Benchmark Capital general partner’s piece this week on the threat posed by Google’s...
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Bill Gurley: All Revenue Is Not Created Equal: The Keys to the 10X Revenue Club
“Don’t you know that you are a shooting star, And all the world will love you just as long, As long as you are.” – Paul Rodgers, Shooting Star With the IPO market now blown wide-open, and the media...
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Slideshow: Top 10 Hub Posts this Week Focus on Returns at CalSTRS, Scandal at...
Catch up on what your colleagues found most interesting on peHUB this week. Posts that garnered the most pageviews from regular readers from May 23 to May 27 focused on an investigation into whether...
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Silicon Valley Reacts to Jobs’ News: ‘Visionary Founders Matter Most’
“Funny how much emotion you can feel about a stranger. And yet every phone call I make, every time I’m on my computer, he’s part of it.” The words belong to writer Susan Orlean, writing yesterday about...
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One of the Most Powerful People in Silicon Valley? He Lives in Baltimore
One of the most powerful men in Silicon Valley isn’t someone who appears frequently in the tech press. He isn’t a venture capitalist or an entrepreneur. He doesn’t tweet or live in California. (And no,...
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It’s Not Politics, It’s Business — Isn’t It?
With the presidential election fast approaching, a number of startups and entrepreneurs have sought out candidates and political parties as customers. It’s easy to see why: both campaigns are expected...
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Bill Gurley to LPs: You are Blowing It
Venture capitalist Bill Gurley of Benchmark Capital has a message for institutional investors: Stop blasting money at what have historically been top-tier venture funds, please. It’s bad for the...
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Venture Alpha: The Stars Came Out to San Francisco
At Thomson Reuters’ Venture Alpha 2012 event Thursday in San Francisco, we heard from investing and entrepreneurial legends including Benchmark GP Bill Gurley, DCM founder Dixon Doll and AOL founder...
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Are Apps Like Snapchat and WhatsApp Sending an Important New Message?
Despite the popularity of Facebook and Instagram, a growing number of smartphone users are clearly looking for alternative communications platforms. The fast rise of some newer messaging platforms...
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Benchmark Capital is raising a new fund – Reuters
(Reuters) – Benchmark Capital, the firm behind companies ranging from eBay to Twitter, is raising a new venture fund, according to a person familiar with the situation. The fund will be about the same...
View ArticleAndreessen goes on epic tweet storm, advises tech community to “worry”
He didn’t use the word “bubble,” but venture capitalist Marc Andreessen went on a lengthy Twitter sermon today to tell the startup ecosystem it should “worry.” The money tweet: “When the market turns,...
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Be afraid: VC investing is on pace to match 2001
Don’t be fooled by the third-quarter numbers. It might look like venture capitalists have heeded the warnings about over-investing, but that’s just not the case. Yes, deal making slowed from the second...
View ArticleVC confidence index falls for first time in two years
Are VCs having second thoughts? The Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Confidence Index declined in the third quarter for the first time in two years, with caution over high valuations and an overheated...
View ArticleFive top VCs predict the future
Put five top venture capitalists in a room and you’re likely to get a healthy dose of theories on what the future will bring. This was true Thursday evening when five practitioners of the startup...
View ArticleThis summer slowdown and Bill Gurley’s tweetstorm
The summer investment slowdown arrived this year with the warm weather, as it does some years. But you would hardly know it from the pace of activity in the venture business. Venture deal volume fell...
View ArticleVenture capitalist Bill Gurley resigns from GrubHub board: WSJ
Venture capitalist Bill Gurley resigned from the board of GrubHub Inc (GRUB.N) last week, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. The Wall Street Journal cited a Cowen & Co analysts’ research...
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