April 2009

Fred Wilson's VC math problem

	Venture capital math 'works as long as you don't put too many zeros on the end of the numbers,' blogs Union Square Ventures co-founder Fred Wilson. Continue reading
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• Chrysler Ch. 11 filing doesn't rattle markets
• Who's advising Enterprise on Teppco offer?
• Proskauer's Marwil on Chrysler's, GM's future
• Disney buys into Hulu, scares cable
• Is Chrysler PE's worst deal ever?
• House panel targets predatory lending
• When arias turn to dirges
• Bondholders prepare new GM offer
• Chrysler bankruptcy petition document
• AIG strategy may change if AIU spins out
• Aldus' founder Meyer charged in 'pay to play'
• Chrysler set to deploy bankruptcy air bag
• Yahoo! Personals could be Bartz's next cut
• Redstone likes life at CBS, Viacom
• Moelis hires Close Bros. Euro restructuring chief
• Church's Chicken ready to fly the coop
• Finance Layoffs: Bank of Montreal and more
• Microsemi buys Endwave assets
• Tropicana AC enters Chapter 11 to sell casino
• Who is to blame if Chrysler files?
• Citadel looks to mortgage securities for new busin
• Senate set to quash 'cramdown'
• Fortress grabs D.B. Zwirn assets for a song
• National Post to take Mondays off
• Regulation part of NVCA plan to restore liquidity
• Three nos for 3i?
• San Miguel's Goldman connection could land deal
• Roll Call: A Belated Chrysler/GM Bankruptcy?
• EC proposes tougher rules for private equity
• Is bankruptcy Chrysler's best hope?
• BofA Ken Lewis loses chairman role
• BofA's Lewis to stay; shareholders react
• Bulls charge on BofA's back
• Citi loses banker to new firm
• French banking bosses quit
• Morgan Stanley's Mack focuses on future
• Frontier on five-month roll
• Could E*Trade's mortgage snafu prompt a sale?
• More than 100 apply to participate in PPIP
• First-quarter tech M&A continues slide
• Clock ticks on Chrysler
• Google draws new antitrust ire
• Kwak, Johnson on cleaning up crony capitalism
• Reputation Institute ranks best, worst companies
• BofA's annual meeting a raucous affair
• IAC, Amazon love iPhone apps
• Teppco rejects Enterprise offer
• Kennedy, Kerry appeal to Sulzberger over Globe
• Finance Layoffs: BearingPoint and more
• Time Warner's spinoffs propel earnings
• Kucinich on Kashkari: I didn't mean it
• Lenders to gain control of Source Interlink
• SEC may form SWAT teams
• Citi to pay retention bonuses?
• Chrysler deal close, but not certain
• Belt tightening at BofA's annual meeting?
• PEMGroup's Pang arrested by FBI
• Quantenna raises $13.85M
• Gordon Gekko's return
• Roll Call: BofA actually needs $70B
• Tough integration ahead for WME Entertainment
• SocGen's Bouton resigns, ending era
• Hurdles remain for Chrysler
• Sumitomo Mitsui moves on Citigroup assets
• Moody's earnings preview
• Latest fraudster Nadel indicted
• Finger on Ken Lewis' survival rate
• Sun's losses widen
• Markets look moribund as Chrysler survives
• NVCA to launch exit initiative at annual meeting
• WaMu zombie sues J.P. Morgan
• Citi, BofA may need more capital
• SPAC may buy NHL's Panthers
• Bank of America annual meeting preview
• California pensions to vote against BofA board
• Former Star-Ledger staffers start N.J. news site
• Chrysler closes in on deal with bankers
• IDT hires Barclays in Tundra Semi bid
• Supreme Court sides with FCC
• GM, Chrysler venue hunting Ch. 11 filings
• Broadcom still awaits Emulex's response
• Bankers give politicians the cold shoulder?
• Source Interlink rides bankruptcy bandwagon
• Allianz, AmEx sell ICBC stock
• Finance Layoffs: Deutsche Bank, BofA and more
• NY Times could put radio station on the block
• LP defaults, CLO restructures: Deal readers speak
• Inside Geithner's brain, day two
• Dreier will plead guilty
• Alan Schwartz to become a Goldman dealmaker?
• Nortel seeks protection extension
• Hearst raises bid for broadcaster
• Moelis hiring spree endures two years later
• Will the stress test seal Ken Lewis' fate?
• SEC charges Pang
• CIT may need more capital
• Hiring: Bankers apply to be Jack Bauer?
• General Motors' looming debt-swap showdown
• Recessionwire: When Plan B Becomes Plan A
• Roll Call: 'The Godfather' and swine flu edition
• When Steve Wynn returned to Las Vegas
• Olympus backs steel mill services
• William Morris, Endeavor deal inspires no sequels
• Amazon acquires iPhone app maker Lexcycle
• GM surges on possibility of more government aid
• Falcone to repeat McCaw's mistakes?
• President Obama picks Google, Microsoft execs
• Two brewers to gain new owners
• Harbinger's NY Times stake draws attention
• SEC's Schapiro outlines reforms
• 3i buys ... 3i
• Remembering Louis Lowenstein
• Ross, Lefrak set up mortgage fund
• AIG to sell ILFC at fire sale price?
• GM pulls out paring knife again
• GM, Chrysler should file in Detroit
• Bair calls for new authority
• FDIC to pick a foreign buyer for BankUnited?
• Portfolio as a bubble phenomenon
• Debt revamps hindered by credit default swaps
• Apple investors approve 'say on pay'
• William Morris Endeavors to reshape talent biz
• Wall St. and Washington: Conspiracy or screwup?
• Pfizer first-quarter earnings preview
• Finance Layoffs: Amex, HSBC, Legg Mason and more
• Did BofA make John Thain the fall guy?
• Moelis hires Dermont for expanding bankruptcy team
• Four more banks fail, surpassing 2008 total
• Private equity fundraising blooms in April
• Trinity Ventures' $300M fund: Lessons learned
• Vedanta positioning itself for HudBay run
• Chrysler, unions agree on cuts
• mediabistro.com's Laurel Touby on mutating media
• Roll Call: Watch out for low-flying jets
• DFJ Frontier closes $55M fund
• Introducing the new TheDeal.com
• Citi shareholders on Pandit, BofA's Lewis
• Cemig bags Terna Participações for $1B
• Verizon Wireless seeks more time from FCC
• Banks stress test criteria
• The week in deals: April 20-24, 2009
• Safran to buy GE unit
• Dearth of new auction block activity
• Texas board wants Exelon delayed
• Varney sworn in at DOJ
• Moody's sends bad news to NYT, McClatchy
• SEC gives activists a boost
• Museum's trustee: Be good sports, athletes
• Fred Wilson: GeoCities was my first 'megadeal'
• Chapter 11 looms larger in Chrysler's future
• Citigroup's Pandit takes more heat
• Finance Layoffs: HSBC, Nomura and more
• Citi teaches children about finance
• FTC reordering may affect drug mergers
• Restructurings hindered by default swap
• LeFrak pushing citizenship for 'American Dream'
• Castor Pollux gets rivals for Madoff unit
• House tries mortgage reform redux
• Hiring: Jefferies Group, Moelis & Co and more
• Finance Layoffs: Wells Fargo cuts 150 i-bankers
• Roll Call: Stressed Out Banks!
• Australia clears Oz Minerals deal
• Bartz's latest victim: GeoCities
• Microsoft: First year-to-year revenue drop
• BofA soars as markets spring forward
• Court approves sale of Asarco
• Millennium gets Facebook stake on the cheap
• McClatchy goes from prince to pauper
• Obama: A socialist, a fascist, now a capitalist
• Bidders line up for BankUnited
• BofA's shareholders react to Lewis' testimony
• Chrysler lenders get revised offer
• Yankees, Mets top Forbes' MLB valuation list
• The American media and the IMF
• Madoff: The Movie
• NY Observer not on auction block, yet
• Stress test details due
• TheDeal.com relaunch is coming April 27
• Bank CEOs get their final grades Friday
• The correct thinking on Bank of America and life
• Icahn to Amylin: War's not over
• Stress tests grading Wall Street on a curve?
• Finance Layoffs: Lloyds, BofA, Capital One and mor
• NY puts kibosh on placement agents
• Roll Call: Confessions of a TARP Wife
• When Renault bought Samsung
• Next move belongs to Agrium in CF Industries fight
• Microsoft earnings preview: more layoffs?
• Japan clears bailout law
• AIG speeds up split
• Morgan Stanley's earnings miss weighs down stock
• Nielsen: Facebook use outstrips e-mail
• Chrysler lenders seek equity
• Petters' Polaroid Ponzi scheme
• Spansion plans to go it alone
• Filene's sold at basement price
• Apple earnings preview
• Conexant sells broadband unit to Ikanos
• Citi's new frugality
• Finance Layoffs: UBS, T. Rowe and Sovereign
• Amylin, Icahn continue to tangle
• Financial journalism and the conventional wisdom
• Geithner talks international trade
• Lions Gate neutral on Icahn's offer
• Diageo may be eying Moët Hennessy
• Broder exchange offer faces severe test
• Imagem bags Rodgers & Hammerstein
• Critics insist that bailout delays bank restructur
• Geithner defends TARP details
• Morgan Stanley's big earnings miss
• Wells Fargo reports $3B profit
• Fed's Hoenig says let those 'too big to fail' fall
• Why Laurel Touby really started mediabistro.com
• Roll Call: Ewww Bankers!
• Will Broadcom win Emulex?
• Yahoo! net income drops 78%; Bartz wants company t
• Morgan Stanley follows markets forward
• Pandit on the hot seat, FT says
• On reading, thinking and the e-book
• Oracle preps for another go before DOJ
• Wells Fargo earnings preview
• Wenda Harris Millard on move to Media Link
• White House dangles $5.5B for autos
• Watchdog warns of TARP abuse
• Hedge funds still can't stop the bleeding
• Regional bank earnings roundup
• M&A: Timing is everything
• Broadcom courts Emulex
• Martha Stewart back in the saddle solo
• New York Times carries loss, wins 5 Pulitzers
• Geithner opens TARP's books
• Varney confirmed by Senate
• A conversation with Julie Silcock
• KKR wins big in Sun buyout
• Cox Radio rescinds buy-in recommendation
• Morgan Stanley earnings preview
• Japan Airlines seeks government funding
• Perelman seeks Revlon facelift
• Finance Layoffs: HSBC, Downey Savings and more
• Roll Call: Bank Profits Appear Out of Thin Air
• Stanford swears there was no fraud
• Oracle preps for another go before DOJ
• UBS may shed hedge fund business
• Glaxo snares Stiefel Labs
• Yahoo! earnings preview
• Merger Monday is a down day
• New York Mets players take a sip of SoNu
• AIG outlines $29.8B aid pact
• Recessionwire: Pride Goeth After the Fall
• New York Times earnings preview
• PepsiCo makes $6B bid for bottlers
• August Capital: Big deals for big fund
• More deal scoops
• Ken Lewis' job saved by first-quarter results?
• Finance Layoffs: J.P. Morgan, MassMutual and more
• BofA, Citigroup wait and see on PPIP
• Stressed out over stress tests
• Oracle to buy Sun for $7.4B
• BofA shareholder Finger reacts to bank's earnings
• AIG, Fannie & Freddie biggest Fortune 500 losers
• Careful with that stick, D.C.
• Bank of America investors react to earnings
• Bloom, not Rattner, drives auto policies
• BofA's first quarter tops all of 2008
• BofA shareholder Finger on proxy fight: Part 2
• Two more banks fail, bringing total to 25
• Rancor intensifies in Philly newspaper case
• Morgan Stanley, Fidelity, Pershing stung by GGP
• Varney taps consumer advocate
• Roll Call: Stress Tests Results Leaked?
• Hiring: GMAC scoops up BofA employees
• Patriarch's Tilton talks Polaroid on CNBC
• Bankinter buys auto insurer
• Germany launches Hypo takeover
• Venture capital not recession-proof
• Deal weekend required reading
• Last call to see Big Three in NYC
• Bank of America earnings preview
• Google exec exits continue
• GM to issue update on revamp
• Stiglitz calls out Obama's Wall Street ties
• Asarco to receive more bids?
• BofA shareholder Jonathan Finger on his proxy figh
• Music services: They live, they die
• Twitterati Eric Schmidt, Ashton Kutcher, Oprah
• Tyco Electronics to sell wireless unit
• Finance Layoffs: UBS, Hypo and more
• Pelosi and the new Pecora hearings
• Schapiro brings change to SEC
• Intrawest weighs asset sale
• Citigroup reports first-quarter loss of $966M
• Failed refinancing dooms AbitibiBowater
• Pontiac, GMC may go
• NYSE: Bring on the IPOs
• Dom DeChiara on seller expectations
• Data points to a recovery?
• Feds to reveal bank stress numbers
• NEC considers Renesas merger
• Jonathan Finger on why BofA's Lewis must go
• Citigroup earnings preview
• General Growth bankruptcy can't stop rally
• Glaxo, Pfizer to combine HIV units
• Bankruptcy lawyer fees and Harvey Miller
• Facebook, Twitter would heat up the IPO market
• AIG close to selling car insurer
• Banks get their grades on May 4
• Finance Layoffs: Wells Fargo, Citi and more
• General Growth files for Ch. 11
• AIG sells auto insurance asset for $1.9B
• Goldman Sachs' perilous path
• J.P. Morgan takes a pass on PPIP
• Bank of America Merrill Lynch exodus
• Simon Property, Kimco also face mall troubles
• J.P. Morgan: revenue of $26.9B; plans to repay TAR
• Sam Zell's mea culpa
• Fannie opening chance for change
• AIG's flack contact probe
• Roll Call: TARP Goal Deceive Public
• Wissman, Pang join growing list of frauds
• Taleb calls PE a Ponzi scheme
• Macrovision buys Muze
• Financials awaken from slumber to power markets
• J.P. Morgan earnings preview
• The secret sauce in Goldman's earnings
• New York Times passed on Amazon, Google, Yahoo!
• Lehman can fuel weapons of mass destruction
• Finance Layoffs: UBS and MassMutual
• Will buyers come gunning for Skype?
• Are Fed autonomy and democracy compatible?
• Leibowitz rounds out FTC team
• Royal Bank closer to selling Asian assets
• POP QUIZ! Bank's stress test grades coming early?
• Fannie chief in line to run TARP
• Goldman's offering buyers take a $368M hit
• No Facebook widget makers for Spark's Sabet
• Bloggers: eBay never should have bought Skype
• Uncle Sam could be newest rating agency
• Dendreon roars back into play
• Roll Call: Why Wall Street is unnecessary
• UTS may get sweeter bid from Total
• Solera finds $7M
• Ellington Financial plans IPO
• Goldman's offering not sitting well with market
• Goldman prefers Buffett to government
• Skype deal seen unlikely
• Ballmer could save Bartz $1B a year
• T-bill auction show investors still running scared
• Fifth Third gets socked with fine
• Imbera raises $15M Series B
• Creditors put Madoff into liquidation
• Goldman to repay TARP funds
• ADIC hires Rothschild banker for M&A uptick
• Recessionwire: Hope Springs Eternal
• Morgan Stanley names Smith Barney JV heads
• Treasury could convert GM debt
• Swisher brings Flip cam & pie to Twitter HQ
• Goom Radio tunes in to $16M
• Finance Layoffs: UBS and J.P. Morgan
• SEC looking into BofA-Merrill merger too
• Lex tackles the question of prediction
• When Ahold challenged WebVan
• Magellan buy-in heats up
• Is Goldman's rush to repay TARP premature?
• What do Goldman's results mean for other banks?
• Express Scripts offers $4.7B for NextRx
• Bruno's seeks auction without a stalking horse
• Roll Call: New Goldman Secondary Fund Already Mark
• Tech Mahindra wins Satyam auction
• HSBC to sell office towers
• Fewer VC fundraisings in first quarter
• M&A surges as markets finished mixed
• Goldman raises largest secondary fund
• VC orders up $1.5M in cupcakes
• Maryland jockeys to make Pimlico bid
• AIG: Bonuses or ransom?
• Recession nearly over?
• Gore's Current Media IPO gets red light
• AB InBev may sell Rolling Rock
• Express Scripts to buy NextRx
• Bove to Goldman: Pay Buffett first
• John Bogle on a new fiduciary standard
• Finance Layoffs: UBS, HSBC and more
• Sean Marsh on Music Nation's new round
• Credit Suisse gets scary with Fear Barometer
• Two more banks fail, bringing total to 23
• Goldman *hearts* private equity
• Roll Call: $80,000 for a Year Off?
• Weld on private investment in public projects
• Yahoo!'s Bartz and Microsoft's Ballmer talking
• TheDeal.com redesign video preview
• Layoff and recession sarcasm: Best and worst
• BoE ponders Glass-Steagall merits
• Green day for Deal Stocks
• Here come the Sun lawsuits
• Ken Lewis has one foot out the door
• Banks' first-quarter results preview
• Hummer auction goes to the finish line
• Systemic risk? No, say VCs to Geithner on overhaul
• German regulator fines Microsoft Deutschland
• Finance Layoffs: AIG, Nat City and J.P. Morgan
• Google Ventures: Great time to put capital to work
• Lime Rock's Mullins on oil and gas M&A
• Roll Call: Roubini vs Cramer Smackdown
• Montreal Canadiens hit the block
• Can life insurers get TARP to revive economy?
• Centex rises on merger as markets eke out a gain
• Verizon Wireless touts suitors
• AIG to Fed: You pay us so we can pay you
• Some principles from the Black Swan
• Pulte Homes to buy Centex
• Mets, Madoff estate to sell tickets
• Business plan? Don't waste your time
• BofA's Lewis' time almost up?
• Pfizer to add top Wyeth execs
• Cox Radio investors want higher bid
• Does the concept of addressable market matter?
• Discovery Group urges SumTotal to sell
• Finance Layoffs: Citizens, J.P. Morgan and more
• At MBIA, it's like old times
• TPG-Axon vet starts hedge fund with own cash
• Filene's Basement bargains for time
• Pine Brook closes $1.4B maiden fund
• Atwood Oceanics denies takeover rumor
• Patriarch rules distressed deals
• Roll Call: FDIC and the magical accountant
• Aquila on dealmaking in a down economy
• Gazprom buys Eni stake
• RBS to cut jobs as U.K. lifts stake
• Tighter consumer credit flattens Deal Stocks
• Treasury continues image control
• TARP cop snoops into AIG's CDS sales
• First Niagara to buy PNC branches
• Headhunter Jon Holman on VC job market
• GM searches for more cost cuts
• Can the Web save the Star Tribune?
• Judge quashes WaMu lawsuit
• Court reopens Polaroid auction
• Corporate defaults soar in March
• Finance Layoffs: RBS, BofA and HSBC
• Test prep service Knewton gets $6M
• Canadian bond market thawing
• PUMA will save GM?
• AIG asset management sale heats up
• Spinning out a spinout
• Will heads roll after the stress test?
• Do VCs guess the exit at the beginning?
• Roll Call: Stanford sheds tears
• Court clears PCCW buyout
• Mayo spoils Deal Stocks
• Fuld lands new job
• Banks seen to block Chrysler-Fiat partnership
• The Times on the Times and The Boston Globe
• Sheehan helped polish Geithner
• IBM-Sun talks said to collapse
• Madoff haunts Merkin from jail
• Finance Layoffs: Law firm pink slips
• HSBC raises $17.7B
• AMCC sheds storage chip unit
• After the G-20: Populism and the technocrats
• Midway ruling sets stage for more litigation
• Geithner to show bankers the door
• Time Warner seeks to amend AOL debt
• Behind the curtain at Treasury, September 2008
• Varney team heavy on litigators
• Obama resemblance pays for ex-Morgan staffer
• In bankruptcy, a sale isn't an exit
• Wall Street bankers are still best paid
• Investors see dim outlook for Sun deal
• Doing the numbers on bank failures
• Uncertainty on Sun's horizon
• Hedge funds on the hunt
• Advice for GPs out fundraising
• Roll Call: Inside Ruth Madoff's private world
• Drug giants hear the unthinkable
• Sun shares set to sink
• German bank nationalization likely
• EdF-Centrica talks continue
• CEOs pay depends on bailout amount
• Colbert killed Google's Twitter deal?
• Job losses don't scare Deal Stocks
• Demi Moore's suicide save latest Twitter feat
• Bernanke on Fed balance sheet: Don't worry
• NRG again urges Exelon defeat
• Five banks repay TARP, others in line
• Forbes asks, 'What recession?' while swinging axe
• Bloomberg aide says NYC could face GM-scenario
• Asarco wins $6B in court
• Rupert Murdoch mulls e-book investment
• Tulane Talk: Lamb on Lyondell v. Ryan
• Twitter co-founder responds to Google rumor
• IBM-Sun deal: From close to imminent
• G-20 and mark-to-market: Two blog favorites
• FASB defends fair-value leeway
• Tulane Talk: Steele on corporate governance
• Woody Young latest BofA-Merrill departure
• Max Capital chief makes pitch to IPC
• Creditors attack sale of Midway Games
• G-20 pledges revamp
• Tulane Talk: Goldman's Ingrassia on Schering deal
• Finance Layoffs: RBS, Unitas Capital and more
• Which banks will fail next?
• Bitly's $2M validates Betaworks model
• Simmons strikes again
• Roll Call: G20 Big Winner= U.S. CDS
• Mitsubishi takes lead in Nikko Citigroup auction
• Canary Wharf owner seeks debt buyback
• Bank of China drops Cie. Rothschild chase
• Deal stocks go out of this world
• Morgan Stanley beefs up as losses loom
• Sun gets antitrust jitters
• Obama, the IMF and the G-20
• Tulane Talk: Goldman's Ingrassia on M&A, debt
• BofA's Lewis hypes himself on CNBC
• Dow Chemical sells Morton brand
• Online ad growth may spark media M&A
• G-20 agreements surprise some global leaders
• House tries again to curb bonuses
• Greenberg: It wasn't me
• A warning against Canadian bank expansion
• Heard on the Street defends pure capitalism
• TD stands by Commerce purchase
• Banks hold $200T in derivatives
• Tax havens, havens no longer
• Finance Layoffs: Swiss Re, BofA and more
• TubeMogul CEO on raising $3M Series A
• G-20 gift bags: Brits get creative
• Roll Call: The Regulatory Charade
• G-20: Green laws could balance trade?
• G-20: Showdown begins under gray London skies
• G-20 protests continue as leaders meet
• Cattles teeters on the brink
• Minmetals, Oz Minerals strike deal
• FTC's Wales to leave next month
• AAI's 'paradoxical' April Fools' award
• Metavante leads Deal Stocks in green market
• G-20 summit: Global financial coordination
• Fidelity National to buy Metavante
• Madoff accomplice: Fairfield Greenwich
• Impac's future could resemble Thornburg's fall
• Obama may push GM asset sales
• Martin Wolf lectures the G-20
• Hancock tower sells at deep discount
• Midway Games dispute heads to court
• AOL & Time Warner's marriage: Decade of The Deal
• Icahn group bids $200M for Tropicana
• Marketing, online sectors dominate media deals
• TARP cop starts cracking down
• G-20 protests as London awaits summit
• GTCR wins Entertainment Rights auction
• VCs react to Geithner's financial regs overhaul
• Obama's now a fascist?
• Borders could crumble like Tower Records
• Dreier phoenix to merge with Fox Rothschild

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