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Confessions Of A VC Who Raised Money During Financial Armageddon
We started to plan for our fundraising for Greycroft II, our second fund, around Christmas 2008. This was a few months after Lehman Brothers collapsed.Our team of four partners agreed among ourselves...
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You Think It's Hard To Raise Money For A Company? Try Raising It For A VC Firm
We started to plan for our fundraising for Greycroft II, our second fund, around Christmas 2008. This was a few months after Lehman Brothers collapsed.Our team of four partners agreed among ourselves...
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iPad News Reader Pulse Raises $9 Million Series A From NEA, Greycroft and...
Pulse, a news-reader for iPads, has raised a $9 million Series A round from NEA, Greycroft Partners, and Lerer Ventures.The year-old startup was cofounded by Akshay Kothari and has more than 4 million...
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Greycroft: 'We Have Too Many Startups At The Moment'
There has been a lot of talk lately about a Series A funding cliff and how it's becoming harder for early stage startups to raise money.But Greycroft Managing Director Alan Patricof said at our...
View ArticleAlan Patricof: There Are Too Many Startups
Alan Patricof has been investing in startups for a long time.A pioneer in the venture capital and private equities industries, the founder of Apax Partners and more recently Greycroft Partners, it is...
View ArticleAlan Patricof On Startups: It's Going To Be Survival Of The Fittest
While startups are popping up everywhere, it is hard for angel investors or smaller private equity funds to keep up.One solution could be to loosen or change restrictions on IPOs to allow investors to...
View ArticlePATRICOF: The Dynamics Needed For Small Market Cap IPOs No Longer Exists
In 1971, Intel went public with an initial offering of 350,000 shares at $25 per share. A group of 63 firms underwrote the modest $8 million offering.The small scale of this IPO is impossible to...
View ArticleAlan Patricof Explained Why He Ditched His $40 Billion Fund For A $75 Million...
In 1969, Alan Patricof founded Patricof and Co., an early venture capital firm. Over the next 40 years, he turned that into Apax, one of the largest private equity firms in the world. And then he left...
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DARK POOLS ON MADISON AVE: Big Ad Agency Now Launching Same Secret...
Dark pools on Wall Street were once heralded as a way for clients to get better deals on stock trades, but now they are associated with fraud and market manipulation.In the latest dark pool scandal...
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VC: Too many entrepreneurs' business models rely on a 'cascade of miracles'
“A Cascade of Miracles” – I’ve found myself using this catchy phrase more and more frequently these days, which was first introduced to me about 20 years ago by Monty Shapiro who was the superb CEO of...
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A legendary venture capitalist hired a 26-year-old homeless artist to paint a...
For the past two years, Stephen Redmond has sat outside of Grand Central Station in New York City, on Park Avenue, with a sketchbook and a "Homeless Artist" sign.During the day, he paints and sketches...
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A New York VC firm that invested in The Huffington Post and Venmo just closed...
New York City venture capital firm Greycroft Partners has closed its fourth early-stage fund.The New York and Los Angeles based firm's portfolio includes companies like The Huffington Post, Maker...
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Here's why you should worry if a company sends around its performance results...
For some time now I have informally guided my team at Greycroft and others in the venture capital business to base their expectations for monthly performance of portfolio companies using a certain...
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Confessions Of A VC Who Raised Money During Financial Armageddon
We started to plan for our fundraising for Greycroft II, our second fund, around Christmas 2008. This was a few months after Lehman Brothers collapsed.Our team of four partners agreed among ourselves...
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You Think It's Hard To Raise Money For A Company? Try Raising It For A VC Firm
We started to plan for our fundraising for Greycroft II, our second fund, around Christmas 2008. This was a few months after Lehman Brothers collapsed.Our team of four partners agreed among ourselves...
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iPad News Reader Pulse Raises $9 Million Series A From NEA, Greycroft and...
Pulse, a news-reader for iPads, has raised a $9 million Series A round from NEA, Greycroft Partners, and Lerer Ventures.The year-old startup was cofounded by Akshay Kothari and has more than 4 million...
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Greycroft: 'We Have Too Many Startups At The Moment'
There has been a lot of talk lately about a Series A funding cliff and how it's becoming harder for early stage startups to raise money.But Greycroft Managing Director Alan Patricof said at our...
View ArticleAlan Patricof: There Are Too Many Startups
Alan Patricof has been investing in startups for a long time.A pioneer in the venture capital and private equities industries, the founder of Apax Partners and more recently Greycroft Partners, it is...
View ArticleAlan Patricof On Startups: It's Going To Be Survival Of The Fittest
While startups are popping up everywhere, it is hard for angel investors or smaller private equity funds to keep up.One solution could be to loosen or change restrictions on IPOs to allow investors to...
View ArticlePATRICOF: The Dynamics Needed For Small Market Cap IPOs No Longer Exists
In 1971, Intel went public with an initial offering of 350,000 shares at $25 per share. A group of 63 firms underwrote the modest $8 million offering.The small scale of this IPO is impossible to...
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