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Another Way VCs Are Cashing Out Beyond IPOs and M&A

in News on November 4, 2009 at 1:15 pm PT

Motley Fool Holdings Inc. this week announced it raised $25 million in venture financing. Good for The Fool. But pulling back the curtain, there’s more than just a simple round of financing here. The deal points to creative ways in which venture firms are finding liquidity other than the standard acquisitions, IPOs and secondary sales.

Yahoo: The Parts of Its Sum?

in News on January 15, 2008 at 2:01 am PT

BoomTown is usually never in sync with Wall Street analysts, given that their job is too often to sell people on companies and mine is to, well, tell on companies to people. But I seem to be in violent agreement with Sanford Bernstein analyst Jeff Lindsay of late–at least with a recent report he just [...]