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by Nat Goldhaber on October 9th, 2011 
October 9, 2011 source: San Francisco Chronicle, SFGate
Venture capitalists have long been known to toss the occasional bone to an entrepreneur working 100-hour weeks on a meager startup salary. But we’re talking pay-down-the-mortgage money, not retire-on-a-private-island money. – Nat Goldhaber
Early payouts to startup execs a troubling trend
by James Temple, San Francisco Chronicle
An embarrassing e-mail that recently leaked onto tech blogs revealed that Airbnb’s latest venture capital round includes a . . .
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by Randy Hawks on February 16th, 2011 February 16, 2011 source: this guest blog post originally appeared on peHUB
There has been a lot of buzz around highflying companies allowing sales of their stock on secondary trading platforms. There have always been opportunities for individual secondary sales in private companies but nothing to match the current level of action. Before, occasional private party sales were allowed by company boards for purposes such as individuals buying a new house and funding . . .
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by Randy Hawks on September 21st, 2010 Jamie Montgomery with Nat Goldhaber
On Wednesday September 15, my partners and I joined 22 of our portfolio companies and the Claremont Creek hosted speaker– investment bankers Jamie Montgomery, Eric Wagner, and Jason Yip– for our second Turbo Talks event this year. Turbo Talks refers to the gathering we created for our portfolio where we discuss timely topics of interest to many of them. During Turbo Talks, we get acquainted with each other and build . . .
→ Read full post: Turbo Talks: Insights Into IPOs and Mergers & Acquisitions
by Claremont Creek Alerts on July 21st, 2010 Randy Hawks, interviewed by reporter Tomio Geron for this article in the Wall Street Journal who believes that investors are more positive today. While many investors say they still invest at the same pace during a downturn, investor psychology is a factor, and it has improved recently, said Randy Hawks, managing director at Claremont Creek Ventures. “Maybe there’s been some lubrication because everyone feels more confident about the exit environment,” Hawks said. . . .
→ Read full post: “VCs Opened Their Wallets Wider In 2Q, But It’s All Relative”
by Ted Driscoll on June 16th, 2010 The classical view of venture capital is that a VC invests in a company, grows it into revenue and breakeven, and then sells equity in it to the public in an IPO. The exit part is the VC’s can then sell their ownership interest in the startup to that public market of buyers as the company grows in value, or distribute their now-liquid shares to their limited partner investors to sell . . .
→ Read full post: What makes a good VC? — Exits
by Ted Driscoll on June 15th, 2010 After making a venture investment and building value in the startup, in preparation for an exit. This is the operational part of the job — how do you help a startup succeed? . . .
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by Ted Driscoll on June 5th, 2010 This is the very belated third installment of my running saga about what makes a good VC. I have previously laid out a framework for identifying the skills that make a good VC, in rough chronological order through the process. Each installment covers a stage: Finding Deals Evaluating and Picking Deals Executing an Investment Managing and Growing the Deal After Investment Finding a Successful Exit Lets have a discussion of the skills involved in executing an . . .
→ Read full post: What makes a good VC? — Executing an Investment
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