Tag: Finance
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It should’ve been the trade of a lifetime. Instead, Carl Icahn’s bet against shopping malls has cost him $742 million — and counting. The Big Short 2.0 Reporters called it the Big Short 2.0. In 2019, the hedge fund billionaire placed a massive bet that the growth of e-commerce would…
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Startupland is all about getting big, fast. But for venture funds, smaller is better. Funds below $250 million have outperformed larger funds significantly in recent years. Smaller funds delivered comparable or better performance in most periods, according to Pitchbook data going back to 2017. Twilight of the Megafunds? The boom…
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New York pulled neck and neck with the Bay Area as a startup hub in Q3. The Big Apple inked venture deals at a blistering pace, closing 403 to the Bay Area’s 515, according to a new report from Pitchbook. The Beast from the East Before COVID, running a startup…
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Early stage startups in New York continued to slog through the downturn in Q3. Average seed round size fell 16% from Q2, according to a new report from Primary Venture Partners. It’s Not the Summer Slump The funding market is highly seasonal. There are two big fundraising seasons — spring…
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Venture funding continued to fall in Q3, according to a new report from Pitchbook. VC funding was down 63% from the peak 2 years before, with just $73 billion closing in the latest quarter. It’s Bad, And It’s Getting Worse Funding fell even from Q2’s low level. Q3 funding was…
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Hedge fund Pelham Capital is in hot water. The London-based giant has lost almost 80% of its assets after years of poor returns. From a report out overnight in The Financial Times: Pelham Capital, once one of the biggest names in London’s equity hedge fund sector, has lost more than…
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How did I break into investing with no experience and no network? How can new angel investors get started? I dug into these topics and more in a new interview with the team at PIN. Here are a few of my favorite moments… How I Became an Angel I learned…
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Let’s say you work construction. You lay down the pipes, then your co-worker pours the concrete. Oops – the pipes are in the wrong place. Now what? You have to waste a whole day jackhammering all that concrete out, then start over. But there’s a way to avoid mistakes like…
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“In early 2000 when the market melted down, we had seven months of runway left and no revenue.” Roelof Botha That’s Roelof Botha, Senior Steward of Sequoia Capital. In a revealing new interview with Bloomberg, Botha digs into the toughest times at Paypal and why great companies are built in…
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“‘It got to the point where I literally got sick to my stomach,’ she recalls. ‘Every day I got home and would think to myself, I helped set someone up for failure.’” The Greatest Trade Ever Karen Waheed, who worked at New Century Financial, was becoming increasingly worried about the…
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Tremendous 