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Bill Gurley

Bill Gurley on the Newest Super Fund Trend

On Monday, the National Venture Capital Association and Thomson Reuters released some surprising data. Despite few opportunities to exit from their investments, 57 venture firms managed to raise $12 billion in the first quarter — more money than VCs have raised since the second quarter of 2006. More, just seven firms counted for nearly two-thirds […]

Filed Under: Morning Summary Tagged With: Bill Gurley, Chris Dixon, Mark Suster

Benchmark’s Newest Partner, Eric Vishria, On Year One at the Powerhouse Firm

In July of last year, Eric Vishria, a longtime Opsware executive who became co-founder and CEO of the social browsing startup Rockmelt, joined the Sand Hill Road firm Benchmark as its fifth general partner. It’s an enviable position, given the reputation of the 20-year-old firm, which has backed Uber, Snapchat, and the publicly traded companies […]

Filed Under: Firm Dynamics Tagged With: Benchmark, Bill Gurley, Bugsnap, Confluent, Eric Vishria, Marc Andreessen

StrictlyVC: October 24, 2014

Good Friday morning, readers! We hope you’re in for a terrific weekend. Also, if you missed StrictlyVC yesterday (a few of you told us it landed in your spam boxes), you can check it out here. —– Top News in the A.M. Airbnb is discussing a new round that could total more than $50 million […]

Filed Under: Morning Summary Tagged With: Airbnb, Bill Gurley, secondary

Bill Gurley: Those Earlier Warnings are Making an Impact

Venture capitalist Bill Gurley appeared on CNBC’s “Squawk Alley” show earlier this week to clarify some of the comments he’d made in mid-September to the Wall Street Journal – comments that Gurley thinks were misconstrued in follow-on reports that confused risk with valuations. “I was talking about risk and I didn’t say a word about […]

Filed Under: Morning Summary Tagged With: Benchmark, Bill Gurley, cash burn, risk

Don’t Panic: On VCs and Bubble Trouble

Several of the country’s most prominent venture capitalists have sent the startup world into a hysteria in recent weeks. Bill Gurley of Benchmark kicked off the panic when in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, he lamented that companies have taken their burn rates to levels not seen since 1999 and noted that “more […]

Filed Under: Firm Dynamics Tagged With: Bill Gurley, burn rates, Fred Wilson, Marc Andreessen

Venture Heavyweights Sit Back as Deal Sizes Soar

It’s been a banner week for a number of Internet companies. Last Wednesday, social network Pinterest acknowledged closing on a $225 million round that valued the company at $3.8 billion. Shortly thereafter, AllThingsD reported that Snapchat, the messaging app, is now weighing a $200 million investment round that would value the company at $3.5 billion. And just yesterday, NextDoor, […]

Filed Under: Entrepreneurs, Firm Dynamics Tagged With: Andreessen Horowitz, Benchmark, Bill Gurley, Marc Andreessen, New Enterprise Associates, Nextdoor, Pinterest, Ravi Viswanathan, Snapchat

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