Blog: The Ripple
We love what we do, so ClearCreek writes and publishes pieces for a somewhat irregular blog about emerging companies and the capital markets. Or we did for a while anyway, then we did less, and apparently we stopped entirely. But we kept the old posts below. Any errors are ours exclusively while the occasional sharp insight is probably borrowed. We hope you find them of interest, and we always welcome feedback.
Series B is for Suckers
2011 saw a modest recovery, as venture capital firms raised $18.2 billion from their limited partners – up from $13.8 billion the year before. However, most of the money was raised by established funds with very few new entrants and a number of VC’s morphing into the Walking Dead…
Five Best Blogs: January 2011
his month’s list includes: The Early Failures of Famous Entrepreneurs, Rob Go on Startup Takeaways from 2010, a WSJ piece on What Is That VC Really Thinking During Your Pitch,…
Venture Voodoo, all over again…
Exactly a year ago we saw media reports on venture fundraising that contorted themselves, depending if the half they saw was empty or full. So here we go again, but now it’s not even clear how much water the glass holds. The WSJ uses data…