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.
The Mess of Success
A fascinating Wired magazine article about craigslist. Everyone one knows craigslist – it is the lead suspect in the death of the newspaper industry, has more job postings that Monster, CareerBuilder and HotJobs combined, and gets more online traffic than…
2Q Venture Investments: Is this the new normal?
Most media coverage of Venture Capital investments in the second quarter split the baby: the $3.7 billion invested in 612 companies was either way down (from the $7.6B raised by 1,048 companies in 2Q 2008) or heading up…
The “Promote”
Flybridge’s Jeff Bussgang has a nice blog piece where he coins a new word in the venture lexicon: the “promote” (not the Prestige). Entrepreneurs too often fixate on their pre-money valuation (the “pre”), instead of focusing on what…