MBA in venture funds

After two years, Forbes has published a new list of top venture capitalists Midas 100. According to legend, no matter what the Greek King Midas touch - everything turned to gold. Parallel with the mythological character, in this case is not accidental: in contrast to other members of the finance profession, earning transactions ( investment bankers ) and the final ...
The purpose of the list - called the venture capitalists who helped to create the most valuable companies in the sectors of hi-tech and medical / biotechnology, and as a result have earned the highest profits for their investors. The basis of the analysis was based on the publicized list of M. Dow Jones VentureSource. ).
The rating was formed on the basis of a formula in which, with different specific gravity, included such factors as the volume of market capitalization, or value of the company at the time of an IPO or merger / acquisition, the degree of involvement of a venture capitalist in building the company, as well as changing the company's capitalization after IPO. There was also a factor taken into account stage of investment: transactions in the early rounds have greater weight, rewarding investors for their early ... Bólshee number of ... Geographically, the rating is limited to transactions that have taken place in the U.S., Europe and Israel.

Link to rating. List of Forbes Midal List 2011.

Some comments:.



• The principal innovation of the list in 2011 is the inclusion of transactions by private companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Groupon, Zynga, each of which has attracted new rounds of a $ 200 million. more. That's how the list came Yuri Milner (. Venture capitalists who invested in these four companies account for 32 % of the list.
• 86 % of the most successful venture capitalists Midas in 2011 specialized in technology companies, 14% - on the medical, pharmaceutical and biotech.
• Funds provided by three or more investors - they can be considered the most successful funds the past five years:.
Accel Partners 7.
Bessemer Venture Partners 5.
Sequoia Capital 4.
Kleiner Perkins Caufield.
Benchmark Capital 2.
Greylock Partners 3.
Venrock 3.
New Enterprise Associates 3.

• 62 % of the list of investors based in Silicon Valley and San Francisco that provides Bay Area region and the undoubted title of one of the world capital of innovation. 18% of investors came from Boston ( most of them are medicine and pharmacy ). Europe ( including Britain ) was represented by 4 investors, representing two American, French and Russian funds.

•. Mark Schuster. One of the most active venture capital investors - the bloggers, and perhaps the most ... media. ... Midas List in 2011 confirms his words. 68% of the top 100 investors have an MBA. At the same time 47% of all holders of the degree of them ( 28) received an MBA from the School of Business Stanford University. Graduates of Harvard Business School was filled with a list of 18% (30% ...

• In the only two women.

• An interesting observation: the most successful investors in a position at the top of the list - are more likely to microblog on Twitter. Typically, investors from the Valley and younger investors - more active, ...

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