For the right company in the right time and place, it's a buyer's market. One half of this amount went into internet-related ventures. More recently, however, VC investments have focused on niche strategies in the access business. Experienced management Growth Secure market niche Penn also mentioned that in a number of such investment scenarios, his organization requires an equity contribution from a third party source. A second panelist, Tim Dibble, of Alta Communications, a venture capital firm out of Boston and San Francisco, discussed current dynamics in capital markets.
Today there's too much investment chasing too few opportunities.
As investors, we don't have staffing and resources to do deep research on startups, so we look for companies with experienced management and net equity value. Try hard to give honest comparables with publicly funded companies. If your understanding of the market you're in is unrealistic, we'll back off. In a final comment, Dibble observed once again that the tables have turned in this business arena. Incorporated All Rights Reserved.