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Facebook's self-underwritten IPO

by Eric Manlunas, May 21, 2010 | Comments (3)

FB should pursue a “do-it-yourself” IPO instead of hiring Wall Street and here’s why and how

Let me jump on the bandwagon and talk about Facebook. Based on various media reports and a number of Facebook insiders I’ve spoken with, this uber social networking site now has close to 450 million registered users (up from 200 million not too long ago). That is an unprecedented scale in the history of the Internet which means that this ...

A startup’s best friend

by Eric Manlunas, April 23, 2009 | Comments

Corporate paradox is a start-up's best friend

Oftentimes early-stage investors, yours truly included, get intimidated when analyzing an interesting early-stage opportunity that is attempting to compete in a space where an 800lbs gorilla seems to already be deeply entrenched. After all, while the "David & Goliath" story is awe inspiring and makes for a great bedtime story, I don't believe investors would have been willing to fund ...

Why venture capital still matters

by Eric Manlunas, February 12, 2009 | Comments (2)

The real value of venture capital investing

One of the consequences of the current financial crisis is how it has become fashionable to bash the not-so-well understood private equity asset class --- both its buyout and venture capital segments.While these two different segments are arguably very different from one another, it’s become quite convenient to lump them as “cousins” and ridicule them as a single underperforming and ...

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