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 […]
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Todd Chaffee on IVP’s Twitter Stake: Fred Wilson Was “Instrumental”
Any day now, it’s expected that Twitter will make its IPO filing public, revealing exactly who owns what. No one yet knows Institutional Venture Partners’s stake in Twitter, but based on the $35 million Series C round for the company that IVP led in January 2009, it’s clear the Sand Hill Road firm will generate a […]