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Viacom Discloses YouTube Investor Payouts
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![]() Sequoia Capital invested a total of $9 million over two funding rounds in 2005 and 2006, and ultimately received $516 million worth of Google stock. This is higher than prior reports of a $442 million payout. If Sequoia held onto its shares, they would now be worth an additional $68 million. Artis Capital, a hedge fund with ties to Sequoia, invested around $3 million in YouTube's Series B round and received $85 million in Google stock. It would be worth another $11 million or so on today's market. Read more »
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Skype, Dodgeball and Other Acquisition Disasters
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![]() That can take two major forms: The first is executives awarding themselves major bonuses for making deals go through. The second is manager demand for higher salaries that come with larger fiefdoms and more cubicle serfs. But there’s another school of thought blames executive hubris for synergy disappointments. The theory is that executives systematically over-estimate their ability to unlock the potential of corporate assets. They believe that they are superior managers than the schmoes running the acquisition target. Call it a crime of excessive self-esteem. Yet deals keep getting done. Read more »
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Google Takes Aim At Microsoft with DocVerse Acquisition
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| Posted on: March 5th, 2010 |
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Google to Topeka: Please Stop, This is Embarrassing
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| Posted on: March 2nd, 2010 |
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Google To Buy Social Search Co Aardvark
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| Posted on: February 11th, 2010 |
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Teens in Tech: They’re Here, They’re Young, Get Used To It
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| Posted on: February 10th, 2010 |
Charles River Ventures Google Nimbuzz Palaran Pana.ma True Ventures |
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Google Faces Federal Scrutiny On AdMob Acquisition
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| Posted on: December 23rd, 2009 |
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Whoever Buys Yelp Will Inherit The Lawsuits
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| Posted on: December 18th, 2009 |
Benchmark Capital Bessemer Venture Partners DAG Ventures Google Yelp |
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Google Buys VC-Backed Gizmo5
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| Posted on: November 16th, 2009 |
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Google Buying AdMob for $750 Million
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| Posted on: November 9th, 2009 |
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Jon Steinberg Leaves Google for Polaris
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| Posted on: October 27th, 2009 |
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Seed Investing A New Emphasis For CMEA
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| Posted on: September 29th, 2009 |
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Will Google Break Three-Year Dry Spell?
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| Posted on: September 23rd, 2009 |
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Silver Spring Networks Buys Greenbox Tech
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| Posted on: September 23rd, 2009 |
Google JVB Properties Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Foundation Capital Northgate Capital |
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Kai-Fu Lee Forms Chinese Business Incubator
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| Posted on: September 6th, 2009 |
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Head of Google China to Leave as Speculation Abounds About his Next Project
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| Posted on: September 4th, 2009 |
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And Here’s A Genomics Company That’s Not Getting Funding…
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| Posted on: August 24th, 2009 |
Google Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Mohr Davidow Sequoia Capital |
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