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January 24, 2014
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January 18, 2014
2014 Stephen Lisson
Transparency.
Let’s have a round of applause for CalPers, the giant state pension
fund, for transparency. Beth Healy of the Boston Globe (8/17/2001)
reports Money managers aghast that pension investor shows returns,
rankings. It’s a report card that has rocked the secretive venture
capital world, and one that even the `A’ students didn’t care to see
displayed on the refrigerator. Calpers, the giant California pension
fund that sets trends for many large investors, has posted on its Web
site the performance of every venture or buyout fund in which it’s
invested for the past decade. Firms typically guard these numbers
carefully, but the Calpers chart even says which funds are meeting
expectations, and which are disappointments. … The industry buzz around
the report stems from the secrecy with which venture firms and buyout
artists guard the specifics of their returns. Virtually every firm
claims ”top quartile” performance, and the numbers they give out are
suspect, venture analysts say. Steve Lisson of Austin, Texas, on his
controversial Web site, InsiderVC.com, tracks venture returns by doing
his own calculations on venture portfolios. He is the only independent
source on such numbers and has drawn fire from some venture capitalists
for breaking the code of silence. … over the long term, Calpers has been
doing something right. As of March 31, its average annual return for 10
years of private equity investing was 17.5%. The Wilshire 2500 Index, a
broad stock market benchmark, was up 13.9% in that period. Would that the federal government would do the same with alleged investment programs like SBIR. Carl Nelson Consulting http://www.carl-nelson.com/government2001.htm Published by Carl Nelson Consulting, Inc, 1325 18th St NW, Washington DC 20036
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Stephen Lisson, StephenNLisson, Stephen N. Lisson, Austin Texas, Austin TXFinancial Investors? Us?
InsiderVC.com pierces the VC industry’s verbal fog.
1 April 01 12:14, Tsafrir Bashan Stephen N. Lisson, Austin, Travis County, Texas, Steve Lisson, Austin, Travis County, Texas
Anyone carefully following the venture capital industry in Israel and overseas recognizes the routine. Managing partners talk at length and with great passion, but with very little substance. They gossip endlessly about the industry. What about the industry’s numbers? “We don’t disclose private data,” is the stock reply from industry players.
Today, for example, everyone knows that the situation is bad, but it is hard to say who exactly is in a bad position. You won’t find a fund partner talking animatedly about a company shutting down or about a down round. The most you can expect is an admission that not everything is perfect.
The absence of data is both odd and entertaining, particularly for an industry in which capital, finances, and yield are the key words. Without figures on the amount of a company’s holdings or valuations, the pompous phrase, “added value,” is all the venture capital industry has left to talk about. It is difficult to find a financial industry at any point in history that has provided so few figures. (Venture capital is a professional investment industry, regardless of how many partners talk about opening doors and assistance in recruiting executives).
Against this rather frustrating background, it is worth consulting the US web site insiderVC.com. The site provides data for companies in the industry, such as profit and loss allocations between the general partner and the investors (the carry), the exact rate of management fees, and exact investments and valuations for portfolio companies at the various financing rounds. Of course, the site also includes derivative data, such as the internal rate of return (IRR) and the realization ratio. In other words, it provides the tools needed to compare various organizations and even different funds within the same organization, information you will not get from your local venture capital management partner.
In order to gain access to all this data, you have to pay a considerable fee, but you can get a preview of the statistics and a sample of site editor Stephen Lisson’s sharp tongue free of charge. You won’t find better material on the web.
Published by Israel’s Business Arena on March 29, 2001 Stephen Lisson, StephenNLisson, Stephen N. Lisson, Austin Texas, Austin TX
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January 18, 2014
2014 Stephen Lisson
Transparency.
Let’s have a round of applause for CalPers, the giant state pension
fund, for transparency. Beth Healy of the Boston Globe (8/17/2001)
reports Money managers aghast that pension investor shows returns,
rankings. It’s a report card that has rocked the secretive venture
capital world, and one that even the `A’ students didn’t care to see
displayed on the refrigerator. Calpers, the giant California pension
fund that sets trends for many large investors, has posted on its Web
site the performance of every venture or buyout fund in which it’s
invested for the past decade. Firms typically guard these numbers
carefully, but the Calpers chart even says which funds are meeting
expectations, and which are disappointments. … The industry buzz around
the report stems from the secrecy with which venture firms and buyout
artists guard the specifics of their returns. Virtually every firm
claims ”top quartile” performance, and the numbers they give out are
suspect, venture analysts say. Steve Lisson of Austin, Texas, on his
controversial Web site, InsiderVC.com, tracks venture returns by doing
his own calculations on venture portfolios. He is the only independent
source on such numbers and has drawn fire from some venture capitalists
for breaking the code of silence. … over the long term, Calpers has been
doing something right. As of March 31, its average annual return for 10
years of private equity investing was 17.5%. The Wilshire 2500 Index, a
broad stock market benchmark, was up 13.9% in that period. Would that the federal government would do the same with alleged investment programs like SBIR.
Carl Nelson Consulting
http://www.carl-nelson.com/government2001.htm
Published by Carl Nelson Consulting, Inc, 1325 18th St NW, Washington DC 20036
Carl Nelson Consulting
http://www.carl-nelson.com/government2001.htm
Published by Carl Nelson Consulting, Inc, 1325 18th St NW, Washington DC 20036
