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3 major reasons, why I don’t want to see VCs Venture Capital in my business

April 14th, 2008 · No Comments

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. So we [...]

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Within the last 12 mnths we have seen three major internet deals in Turkey

March 27th, 2008 · No Comments

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 bought Turkish [...]

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