Sebastian’s Pamphlets If you’ve read my articles somewhere on the Internet, expect something different here. Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener Posted on 30 December, 2009 This pamphlet is somewhat geeky. Please note that my design suggestions ain’t black nor white. MORE >>

If a VC fund you’re talking to raised a fund in 2005 or early and hasn’t yet raised a new fund they certainly will be thinking about it and trying to figure out how and when to raise a fund. This is part of my series on Understanding Venture Capital. What is total assets under management? What is a VC fund? Maybe even less. MORE >>

Imaging3 went public in 2005 on the OTC Bulletin Board, touting a breakthrough in medical technology that could produce 3-D images of a patient’s body in real time to be used in everything from cardiology to sports medicine. Since 2007, the company’s annual revenues have totaled $6.7 From the Los Angeles Business Journal. Big promises. MORE >>

Among the highest acquisition values were MySpace ($580M in 2005), Shopzilla ($560M in 2005), Rent.com ($430M in 2004), Lowermybills ($330M in 2005) and Sandpiper Networks ($630M in 1999). Funk then focused the analysis on the 731 documented exits for the period 1995-2009. IPO in 1996). MORE >>

Yahoo acquired something like six companies in 2007; Google acquired 17, including the giant acquisition of DoubleClick, which is not relevant to startups; Microsoft only acquired 8 companies in 2007. It’s fairly instructive to look at depth at the firms Microsoft bought in 2007. startup rich. startups, either. MORE >>