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- Top 10 Slideshows this Week Focus on Most Active VCs, Zynga, Buyouts Chicago
Want to catch up on the slideshows that your peers found most interesting on peHUB this week? Here are the top 10 slideshows that garnered the most pageviews from regular readers from July 4 to July 8. They focused on the most active venture investors in the first half of the year, CalPERS' dwindling commitments to venture funds, photos and opinions from Buyouts Chicago, Zynga's largest shareholders and Q2 cleantech data. 1. Slideshow: Most Active VC Firms to Date in 2011 /110867/slideshow-most-active-vc-firms-to-date-in-2011/ by Alastair Goldfisher 2. Slideshow: Chicago Shindig Photos — Lots of ‘em /login.php?p=/110598/slideshow-chicago-shindig-photos-lots-of-em/ (subscription required), by Lawrence Aragon 3. Slideshow: CalPERS Trims Venture Commitments Except To Khosla: ’09 And ’10 Funds And IRRs /110857/slideshow-calpers-trims-venture-commitments-except-to-khosla-%E2%80%9909-and-%E2%80%9910-funds-and-irrs/ by Mark Boslet 4. Slideshow: Who Are Zynga’s Biggest Shareholders? /110814/slideshow-who-are-zyngas-biggest-shareholders/ by Lawrence Aragon 5. The Country ‘Needs a PE President’: Slide Show From Buyouts Chicago /111308/the-country-needs-a-pe-president-slide-show-from-buyouts-chicago/ by David Toll 6. Slideshow: Audience Opinion At Buyouts Chicago /111062/slide-show-audience-opinion-at-buyouts-chicago/ by Steve Bills 7. Slideshow: IRRs From CalPERS’ Brand Name Venture Funds Underwhelm (Part I) /login.php?p=/110243/slideshow-irrs-from-calpers-brand-name-venture-funds-underwhelm-part-i/ (subscription required), by Mark Boslet 8. Slideshow: CalPERS’ Recent Vintage Brand Name Venture Funds Show Promising IRRs, Largely (Part II) /login.php?p=/110320/slideshow-calpers-recent-vintage-brand-name-venture-funds-show-promising-irrs-largely-part-ii/ (subscription required), by Mark Boslet 9. Kleiner Perkins and Andreessen Horowitz: Separated at Birth? /login.php?p=/110583/kleiner-perkins-and-andreessen-horowitz-separated-at-birth/ (subscription required), by Connie Loizos 10. Slideshow: Big Deals Fall In Cleantech, But M&A Stays Hot In 2Q; Here’s The Data /111262/slideshow-big-deals-fall-in-cleantech-but-m-here%E2%80%99s-the-data/ by Mark Boslet
- Top 10 Hub Posts this Week Focus on Shindig Pics, CalPERS' IRRs, Zynga and Striking Similarities Between KP and A16Z
Catch up with what your peers found most interesting on peHUB this week. The top 10 posts that garnered the most pageviews from regular readers from June 27 to July 1 include GRP Partner Mark Suster's take on how changes in the software industry will impact venture investing, a giant slideshow of photos from our Chicago Shindig, IRRs from CalPERS, the uncanny similarities between Andreessen Horowitz (aka A16Z) and Kleiner Perkins and the biggest owners of Zynga (which filed to go public today). 1. Slideshow: Chicago Shindig Photos — Lots of ‘em https://admin.venturecapitaljournal.com/110598/slideshow-chicago-shindig-photos-lots-of-em/ by Lawrence Aragon 2. Slideshow: IRRs From CalPERS’ Brand Name Venture Funds Underwhelm (Part I) https://admin.venturecapitaljournal.com/110243/slideshow-irrs-from-calpers-brand-name-venture-funds-underwhelm-part-i/ by Mark Boslet 3. Slideshow: CalPERS’ Recent Vintage Brand Name Venture Funds Show Promising IRRs, Largely (Part II) https://admin.venturecapitaljournal.com/110320/slideshow-calpers-recent-vintage-brand-name-venture-funds-show-promising-irrs-largely-part-ii/ by Mark Boslet 4. Slideshow: Top 10 PE-backed Deals This Year https://admin.venturecapitaljournal.com/110128/slideshow-top-10-pe-backed-deals-this-year/ by Luisa Beltran 5. Kleiner Perkins and Andreessen Horowitz: Separated at Birth? https://admin.venturecapitaljournal.com/110583/kleiner-perkins-and-andreessen-horowitz-separated-at-birth/ by Connie Loizos 6. Understanding the Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries https://admin.venturecapitaljournal.com/110112/mark-suster-understanding-the-changes-in-the-software-venture-capital-industries/ by Mark Suster, general partner with GRP Partners 7. Slideshow: Who Are Zynga’s Biggest Shareholders? https://admin.venturecapitaljournal.com/110814/slideshow-who-are-zyngas-biggest-shareholders/ by Lawrence Aragon 8. Slideshow: 10 Largest Pending Q2 LBOs https://admin.venturecapitaljournal.com/110582/slideshow-10-largest-pending-q2-lbos/ by Bernard Vaughan 9. Here Comes the Deal That Will Save Kleiner Perkins’ Bacon https://admin.venturecapitaljournal.com/110362/here-comes-the-deal-that-will-save-kleiner-perkins%E2%80%99-bacon/ by Connie Loizos 10. Slideshow: Accel-erating Returns at the Top-Tier VC https://admin.venturecapitaljournal.com/109670/slideshow-accel-erating-returns-at-the-top-tier-vc/ by Jonathan Marino (subscribers only)
- Zynga Finally Files for $1 Bln IPO
Zynga filed Friday for its highly anticipated IPO that could raise as much as $1 billion http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1439404/000119312511180285/ds1.htm#toc198836_14 San Francisco-based Zynga, maker of Facebook games like FarmVille and Mafia Wars, did not reveal how many shares it would sell or their price range. That will come in future filings. The company also did not disclose on what exchange its shares would trade or their ticker. As expected, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs are joint bookrunners on the deal. Other underwriters include BofA Merrill Lynch, Barclays Capital, J.P Morgan and Allen & Co.
- KPCB Closes TAS Deal
TAS Energy, the Houston-based provider of renewable and energy products, took a late stage financing from California VC Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers. Specifics of the deal were not publicized, but KPCB partner John Denniston will jump on board with TAS Energy.
- Poll Results: Celebrity Hires Don't Produce Real ROI for VC or PE Firms
You’re just as skeptical as we are about the merits of a VC or PE firm adding a celebrity to its roster. In this week’s poll /110517/question-of-the-week-do-celebrity-hires-produce-real-roi/ 27% of peHUB readers said celebrity hires produce real ROI for VC and/or PE firms, but 73% said such hires are little more than publicity stunts. “I think this collision of pop culture and VC produces great PR and thus probably some great deal flow, but actual returns? Hard to see the direct connection,” wrote Lisa Suennen, founding partner of venture firm Psilos Group Managers and a peHUB contributor. “I did write about this very topic recently on VentureValkyrie http://www.venturevalkyrie.com/2011/04/26/mc-vc/2090 when MC Hammer joined up with venture incubator NewME.” Three others who wrote extended comments said the real benefit of bringing on a big name is that it helps with
- VC People Moves, July 2011
New hires and promotions at Venrock, Kleiner Perkins, VantagePoint, Canaan and other VC firms
- Kleiner Perkins and Andreessen Horowitz: Separated at Birth?
When entrepreneur Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz burst onto the venture scene two short years ago, they planned to be a different kind of venture firm, one that would have a very small number of GPs, and pour the “majority” of its capital into seed-stage companies along with “two to three late-stage deals, or something like that,” Andreessen told me at the time. Even the best laid plans change. Andresseen Horowitz suddenly has four five GPs http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/30/andreessen-horowitz-adds-jeff-jordan-as-partner-leads-5m-likealittle-series-a/ a venture partner, and a very special, special advisor: former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers. Meanwhile, it has sunk enormous chunks of its capital into Facebook, Twitter, Groupon, Kno, Aliph, Skype, RockMelt, Zynga, Fusion-io. It’s no big deal, except that Andreessen Horowitz is beginning to less like a pioneer and more like Kleiner Perkins with its own numerous GPs, part-time partners, and love of late-stage deals. Certainly, there are worse firms to emulate. And Andreessen no doubt learned much at the knee of John Doerr, who long sat on the board of Netscape. (In 1994, KP scored 25 percent of the company for $4 million, profiting handsomely when it went public the following year.) Still, the growing similarities are striking, even a little comical -- or so we think in our current, overtired state. (No one has ever accused us of having the world’s greatest sense of humor.) Herewith, a slideshow to make our case: