TEACHING & LEARNING
A Meeting Across the Pond

Blossoming Relationship

OUTREACH
Profiting from Pregnancy

Brand Equity for Private Equity

Faces of Wharton Entrepreneurship

PLUS:PE Trivia Quiz

RESEARCH
Drinking in Knowledge

Does Sun, Burned by Competition, Need a New Business Model?

Outreach
Hardly Trivial

Rubenstein started his talk by quizzing his audience on private-equity and venture-capital trivia. Among the highlights:

QUESTIONS

1. What was the most successful venture-capital investment in U.S. history?
   
   
2. The worst?
   
   
3. How much money was raised by venture capitalists in 1990?
   
   
4. And what was the world's first venture-capital investment?
   

> See the answers

ANSWERS

1. eBay, which yielded 600 times the initial equity invested.
   
   
2. WebVan, which swallowed $393 million in venture capital and went bankrupt.
   
   
3. $3 billion. In 2000, $107 billion. In 2002, $9 billion.
   
   
4. Christopher Columbus' first-voyage to America, which was launched with $10,000 from Queen Isabella. "There was no distribution from that first investment, but Columbus still got a second chance," Rubenstein quipped.

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