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Is Twitter Worth $3.7 Billion? Not in the Real World
3:30PM 12/17/2010
That's the value a $200 million venture investment led by Kleiner Perkins this week implies. But that means Twitter would have a price-to-sales ratio of 840 compared to Facebook's 26 -- or Google's 8.7. And Twitter's growth may be stalling.
Increasingly, It's Angels, Not VCs, Giving Tech Startups Wings
9:10AM 8/16/2010
Web startups are now so cheap to build out and can fail so quickly that very early stage funding, when angel investors tend to participate, has risen in prominence. Venture capital, which usually enters at a later stage, is playing a shrinking role.
Private equity returns down 30 percent -- and that's the good news
9:30AM 10/19/2009
For the past year, silver linings have been in short supply. Even as financial markets claw their way back up, the wealth lost has been neither forgotten nor completely recovered. In the private equity sector, the good news is that, frankly, the situation could have been worse. Though returns...
Kai-fu Lee has $115 million, and he wants to put it to work. Monday, he announced that his new angel-focused venture fund, Innovation Works, is targeting a rate of five successful Chinese start-ups a year. Previously, Lee was in charge of Google's (GOOG) operations in China.
The new endeavor is...
Ex-Googler Lee lands in China
6:00PM 9/07/2009
It didn't even take a full weekend for the former head of Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) China operation, Kai-fu Lee to find a new home. The recently departed executive announced on Sunday that he was planning to start his own business in the coming week, funding technology startups in China. So, he'll be...
Amicable Split for Zivity and VC Investors
5:35PM 7/24/2009
Two years after it grabbed the public's attention by securing $7 million in venture capital financing, Zivity, a social networking company that focuses on art nude photography, has voluntarily parted ways with much of its staff and capital. And, in a rarity when large amounts of cash are involved,...
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