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Arcstone opens New York City office
Arcstone's momentum continues to build. With offices in Denver, Colo. and San Francisco, Calif., Arcstone has established a Manhattan office in Times Square to better serve clients coast-to-coast....
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Brustkern cited in New York Times coverage of Felix Investments
The New York Times quoted Arcstone's Bo Brustkern in its June 17, 2011 article "Crashing the Party in Silicon Valley" “They have no venture chops, they are brokers with a good sales team. They were able to get money, but they cannot compete with the Institutional Venture Partners of the...
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Lisa R. Thompson quoted in the NYT re Web Startup "Magic"
The New York Times quoted Arcstone's Lisa R. Thompson in the June 17, 2011 article "Abracadabra! Magic Trumps Math at Web Start-Ups" “These hot private companies are revealing their numbers, and I for one am surprised how they’re not making money. Everything in my space I’ve looked at doesn’t make...
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Brustkern cited in New York Times coverage of Pandora IPO
The New York Times quoted Arcstone's Bo Brustkern in the June 14, 2011 article "Pandora Prices Its I.P.O. at $16 a Share" “Silicon Valley is just vibrating with excitement right now. It is reminiscent of 1999, but somewhat different. Valuation bubbles are constrained to just a few segments so far.”...
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Lisa R. Thompson quoted in the FT re Yandex $1.3 Bn IPO
Telis Demos et al. of The Financial Times quoted Arcstone Senior Equity Analyst Lisa R. Thompson in the May 24, 2011 article "Yandex draws in investors with $1.3bn listing" “They may be able to dominate the Russian market but what do you do for an encore? How do you get...
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Arcstone Equity Research credited with "opening doors" by the Financial Times
David Gelles of The Financial Times quoted Arcstone founder and Managing Director Bo Brustkern in the December 29 article "Opening doors on private companies" “There is a disconnect between what is going on in the secondary market and what’s going on with the company,” said Bo Brustkern, partner at Arcstone...
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Brustkern cited in Knowledge@Wharton
Arcstone Founder and Managing Director, Bo Brustkern, was cited as a private capital markets expert in Knowledge@Wharton. In the article "VC 'Super Angels': Filling a Funding Gap", Brustkern noted the tenuous position that traditional angel investors have when their portfolio companies raise successive rounds of venture capital. Currently, traditional venture...
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Arcstone Equity Research cited in The Financial Times
David Gelles of The Financial Times quoted Arcstone founder and Managing Director Bo Brustkern in the August 24 article "Hot demand for private internet companies’ stock" Some analysts caution that these investments are being made without sound financial discipline. Bo Brustkern of Arcstone Equity Research, which analyses private companies, says...
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Arcstone comments on the the secondary direct marketplace in BVWire
Bo Brustkern, founder and managing director of Arcstone Partners, was cited in the BVWire yesterday stating, "We foresee a tsunami of secondary transactions on the horizon." Brustkern listed five reasons why secondary direct transaction volume will continue to build in the near future, including the emergence of private equity research,...
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Arcstone cited in Knowledge@Wharton
Bo Brustkern, Founder and Managing Director of Arcstone Partners, was cited as an authority on the venture capital market in Knowledge@Wharton, a leading publication out of the University of Pennsylvania. "the dead wood is working itself out of the industry finally," Brustkern suggests. "You have all these [VC] firms that...
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Arcstone cited in PEHub
Bo Brustkern, Founder and Managing Director of Arcstone Partners, spoke to PEHub reporter Connie Loizos on Tuesday, July 20. The subject of their conversation was whether, or if, the name of the VC firm backing a start up had any role in the ultimate value placed on the start up...
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Arcstone Equity Research publishes paper on secondary markets and 409A
Arcstone Equity Research, the first company to author actionable private equity research for secondary market investors based on actual company data, released a short paper discussing the impact of secondary market transactions on 409A valuations. Get the PDF here. See also coverage from PEHub....
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Brustkern moderates Fair Value Summit Panel
Bo Brustkern, founder and managing director at boutique valuation firm Arcstone Partners, recently moderated a panel featuring Tony Aaron of Ernst & Young, and PJ Patel of Valuation Research Corp at BVR's 3rd Annual Summit on Fair Value for Financial Reporting in New York. The gist of their discussion was...
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Brustkern to speak at Fair Value Summit
Arcstone founder and Managing Director, Bo Brustkern, will be a panelist at the upcoming BVR Fair Value Summit in NYC. Joining Anthony Aaron of Ernst & Young, Brustkern will be addressing: Advanced Topics in Purchase Price Allocation/FAS 141R. He will also be joining several other distinguished practitioners - notably Neil...
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Brustkern to Keynote FEI Event
On Thursday, January 15, Arcstone Managing Director, Bo Brustkern will present the keynote address at the January meeting of FEI. Mr. Brustkern will be speaking on a subject near and dear to his heart as co-founder of Arcstone - a Colorado-based valuation shop: The Fourth Service Provider. The meeting commences...
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Brustkern to speak at Kauffman's Global Entrepreneuship event
Arcstone co-Founder and Managing Director, Bo Brustkern, will participate in a panel discussion on entrepreneuship. The event, part of the Kauffman Foundation's Global Entrepreneurship Week, will take place at the University of Denver on Monday, November 17. More information can be found at Unleashing Ideas, and the Daniels College of...
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Reed and Brustkern to speak at Thunderbird
Chuck Reed and Bo Brustkern will participate in two interactive classroom discussions at the Thunderbird School of Global Management tackling the two-part issue of modeling and valuing volatile enterprises in uncertain conditions. The discussions will take place Friday, September 5th in the classroom of Dr. John Mathis; and Saturday, September...
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