3 major reasons, why I don’t want to see VCs Venture Capital in my business
1) VC value focus is short term (at least for me) Venture Capital firms focus to create a value in my firm for the next 3 to 4 years. Even four years is a short time horizon for me. I am trying to increase my shareholder value at least for the next 10 year horizon. [...]
Within the last 12 mnths we have seen three major internet deals in Turkey
May 2007: eBay acquired a minority stake in GittiGidiyor. Dec 2007: Turkish social network Yonja has raised $12.5M in Series A funding from Greywolf Capital Partners and Tiger Global Management, reports PEWire. (Turkish media talks about a $15 million deal with Mynet) Jan 2008: Xing, the Germany-based European business social network which resembles LinkedIn, had [...]



