Communicating Value and Increasing Transparency: Internet / New Media
There is no question that our lives today revolve around the Internet. Our daily interactions with the web and related new media are growing rapidly.…
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Safeguard Scientifics Fourth Quarter and Year-End Financial Results Recap, Highlighting Aggregate Partner Company Revenue Growth, Acquisitions and IPOs
This morning, we announced our fourth quarter and year-end 2010 financial results. In 2010, our aggregate partner company revenue was $403 million, up 54 percent…
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Reminder: Safeguard Scientifics Fourth Quarter and Year-End Financial Results Call Tomorrow Morning
REMINDER: Our fourth quarter and year-end 2010 financial results will be issued tomorrow morning at 6am EST. Our webcast and conference call will be held…
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Teaching Entrepreneurship: Turning “Street Smarts” Into “Business Smarts”
Almost half of the students who enter a Philadelphia public high school don’t graduate. That’s a devastating and sad statistic. It condemns these students to…
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Social Media IPOs—A Trend to Alter VC Investment?
I was reading an article by the San Jose Mercury News’ Patrick May recently, titled “IPOs by LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and others could alter venture…
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The Internet of Things Making Headlines
Last week, we announced that we provided $5 million in a Series B financing for ThingWorx, a disruptive technology that revolutionizes how people, systems and…
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Safeguard Scientifics Aggregate Partner Company Revenue Exceeds $400 Million in 2010
Safeguard Scientifics’ value creation strategy is to deploy capital and build value in our partner companies. One of the best ways to evaluate our progress is…
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Bubble Bubble, Toil and Trouble – or Not?
In the wake of bursting housing and financial bubbles, it is little wonder why there is widespread speculation throughout the venture capital and private equity…
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Taming Regulatory Reform
Many a CFO has lost more than a night’s sleep contemplating both the intended and unintended consequences of new healthcare regulations. Because of the uncertainty…
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