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Stock Futures Up on Massive Central Bank Injection

2008-09-18 06:02:00 by Henry Blodget in Silicon Alley Insider
 
...Liquidity continued to dry up yesterday, as global investors and banks fled to the safety of a limited supply of T-bills or curled up in the fetal position. The Fed, ECB, Bank of Japan, and other central banks responded overnight with a coordinated injection of $180 billion into the global financial system Bloomberg: The Federal Reserve, the...
 
Tags: bank, banks, banks fled, individual central banks, swiss national bank, central banks, european central bank, swiss central bank, federal reserve actions
 
 
 
 
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The Cash Panic Sweeping The VC Industry

2008-11-07 11:55:00 by Henry Blodget in Silicon Alley Insider
 
...liquidity problems. They are having trouble meeting capital calls from Private Equity and VC firms and need to sell stocks to get cash. Much of their stock portfolios are tied up in hedge funds with lockups, however, so they can't liquidate those positions Some Limited Partners are starting to default on their commitments to VC firms [this...
 
Tags: secondary market source, secondary market, cash, equity, equity stakes, secondary, endowment scuttlebutt, endowment, equity online
 
 
 
 
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More Bloggers Raising Money. Here Come The Politics. And Here Comes My Rant.

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2008-03-19 09:52:38 by Michael Arrington in TechCrunch
...liquidity events to suggest these investments will be a success. And back then blogging was a cake walk. Most bloggers linked to eachother constantly in a state of brotherly or sisterly love. No one was making any money or getting much attention, so for the most part people got along (with notable exceptions like engadget/gizmodo, who play to...
 
Tags: bloggers, round, million round, million, million valuation, capital, political capital, raise venture capital, money
 
 
 
 
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More Facebook Stock Sale Details Revealed

2008-08-06 20:49:48 by Nick O'Neill in All Facebook
 
...liquidity event. Then again, most liquidity events result in a large team of employees leaving the company so maybe it is better to let employees exit early on. Do you think letting employees sell their shares makes much sense
 
Tags: employees, facebook employees, facebook, employees exit, shares, businessweek article, businessweek, details, start
 
 
 
 
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Super Angel Ron Conway On Angel Investing (Part Deux)

2008-10-03 14:37:00 by Vasanth Sridharan in Silicon Alley Insider
 
...liquidity paths just aren't going to be there for a while. The IPO market is completely dried up. The liquidity path that we were relying on was M&A, and with the financial markets, that's going to slow down Ron on why angels are getting more selective : 'Angel investing won't dry up. But the angel investors will get even more selective...
 
Tags: ron, ron conway, angel, ron talks, money, angel money, market, ipo market, entrepreneurs
 
 
 
 
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How The New York Times (NYT) Can Save Itself

2008-10-24 12:59:00 by Henry Blodget in Silicon Alley Insider
 
...liquidity by selling assets, the dividend has to go. (Yes, this might trigger screams of pain from the Sulzberger clan, who reportedly live off the dividend. But the alternative might be defaulting on the debt and/or severely damaging the news franchise. And those options would wipe them out 4. Shrink, sell, and/or shut down the regional...
 
Tags: york times, nyt, york times digital, company, nyt dividend cut, york times pension, million, million after-tax, debt
 
 
 
 
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Why Customer Engagement Matters More Than Ever

2008-11-10 12:01:25 by Chip Greenlee III in Adobe Blogs
 
...liquidity in the interbank markets, decisions as to accepting governmental investment and looming new regulation. In times such as these it is often easy to lose sight of the fundamentals and yet the current market conditions offers some unique opportunities to those firms ready to take advantage of this instability One clear lesson of the...
 
Tags: acquire wachovia, acquire, customers, million customers, engagement, customer engagement, market disruption, unique opportunities, current market disruption
 
 
 
 
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Implications Of How A VC Is Funded: Family Office

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2008-03-26 12:59:18 by Mark Davis in CenterNetworks
...liquidity. The impact of this would again be an inability of the fund to support you in future rounds This is a question worth asking the VCs they may or may not have protective provisions in their contract with the family that prevent sudden withdrawals Even-Keeled Investing Strategy The psychology and objectives of a VC at a fund with...
 
Tags: family office, capital constraints, capital, capital pools continue, public capital, vcs obtain capital, family, vcs, family office vcs
 
 
 
 
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EB Exchange Funds Provides Safety Net for Entrepreneurs

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2008-04-16 23:01:15 by Mark Hendrickson in TechCrunch
...liquidity events. One of those could have been Google. But EB founder Larry Albukerk didnt agree with Sergey Brin that his company should be valued at $2B in 2002. It is hard to blame him; most everyone undervalued Google those days Five years passed before the third, and most recent, fund was established on the eve of 2007. EBX3 involves 30...
 
Tags: funds, exchange funds, exchange, companies, picks suitable companies, fund, entire fund, later-stage companies, fund worthwhile