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apparently there is at least one: Photobucket’s Sale To Fox: How VC Insiders Made Big Personal Returns http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-photobuckets-sale-t
by prakash 18y ago
apparently there is at least one: Photobucket’s Sale To Fox: How VC Insiders Made Big Personal Returns
http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-photobuckets-sale-to-fox-how-vc-insiders-made-big-personal-returns/ http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-photobuckets-sale-to-fo...
- ashu 18y agoAnd this screwed the founders, how? This article is w.r.t. VC partners robbing their Limited Partners of the investment opportunity. And even at that, as many others have pointed out, it's somewhat deliberately slanderous.
- prakash 18y agoAFAIK the founders were ok, but the folks that put in money into this VC's fund probably got screwed. So, how can you really trust these guys? I am sure buxfer wouldn't raise money from these guys whatever the terms.
- ivankirigin 18y agoI just read the WSJ story on this, and the venture firms typical investments differed from the Photobucket investment. Photobucket was much smaller than their usual portfolio companies and needed much less money than the venture firm usually gave. I think that's a pretty solid excuse, though it looks bad on the face of it because the return was so good.
- prakash 18y agoI have no idea if they are an early/late stage investor. According to paidcontent the total investment was around $3 million -- that's not change.
- ivankirigin 18y agoThe average investment by the firm was $35M.
- prakash 18y agoMy bad. I take back what I said. That does qualify as a private individual investment. Is there a link to where you got that number from? Thanks!
- ivankirigin 18y agoIt was in a recent WSJ article: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121979585463374795.html http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121979585463374795.html