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- The future of tech IPOs
- At the AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford University, Frank Quattrone, co-founder of Qatalyst, talks about the dismal condition of the current IPO market, why venture capitalist backed companies are not going public right now, and what the future holds.
- Tags: IPO, Financial Planning, Investment, Venture Capital, Financial Services, Finance, Financing Startups, Tech IPOs
- Videos 2008-07-25
- Joichi Ito - from venture capitalist to venture communist?
- I've become a big fan of Joichi Ito CEO Creative Commons, Chairman of Six Apart after seeing him speak on a panel at the recent Fortune Brainstorm conference. In a room full of many smart people, Mr Ito is one of the smartest. Here is a clip...
- Tags: Mr., Venture Capital, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- AOL's ousted CEO being considered for Yahoo seat
- Can Jonathan Miller do for Yahoo what he tried to do for AOL? Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Investor Carl Icahn, who reached a compromise with Yahoo this morning to avoid a nasty proxy battle for seats on the company's board of directors,...
- Tags: America Online Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Miller, Corporate Governance, Venture Capital, Team Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Financing Startups, Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- $7.4 bln of venture capital invested into US startups in Q2 2008
- The pace of US venture capital investments remained steady at $7.4 bln during Q2 2008 despite a wobbly stock market that has made it increasingly difficult for the financiers of new ideas to cash out of startups. The amount of money spread across 990 deals in Q2 2008 was unchanged...
- Tags: Venture Capital, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups, AM
- Blog posts 2008-07-19
- DaaS solves schools' Internet parity problem with help from IBM and Desktone
- The broad affection for the term "cloud computing" and all that sticks to that nowadays will mean broad affection too for desktop as a service. Desktone has its sights set on helping service providers ramp up DaaS offerings, but enterprises will be in this one too. Citrix, VMware and Microsoft...
- Tags: Classroom, Computer, IBM Corp., DaaS, Desktone, Productivity, Internet, Desktops, Venture Capital, Hardware, Finance, Financing Startups, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-07-17
- VCs a glum bunch over economy, lack of exits
- Venture capitalists are having a confidence crisis as dwindling exit opportunities and a weak economy conspire to put the kibosh on returns. According to the Silicon Valley Venture Capital Confidence Index the second quarter registered a reading of 3.07 on a 5 point scale, down from the...
- Tags: Entrepreneurial, Confidence, VC, Mark Cannice, Venture Capital, IPO, Entrepreneurship, Investment, Financial Planning, Finance, Financing Startups, Financial Services, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- If Twitter buys Summize now... are its priorities in order?
- If this deal goes down, Twitter would be smart to state that the timing goes hand-in-hand with its in-progress back-end reconstruction, rather than merely claiming Summize as a new feature. User loyalty may depend on it. by Jennifer Leggio
- Tags: Twitter, Venture Capital, Search, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Does True Knowledge see value in distance from the bubble?
- The flurry of attention around yesterday's Microsoft/ Powerset news set me thinking once more about UK-based True Knowledge, which has been compared with Microsoft's latest acquisition. TechCrunch UK's Mike Butcher reported last month that nameless venture capital firms were valuing True Knowledge at about £20million ($40million), and...
- Tags: Valuation, Knowledge, U.K., Microsoft Corp., TechCrunch UK, Venture Capital, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- LinkedIn raises $53 million
- LinkedIn has raised another $53 million in venture capital to give the company a rough valuation of $1 billion. The social networking company said in a post that its latest round was led by Bain Capital Ventures, which joins...
- Tags: LinkedIn, Social Networking, Venture Capital, Investment, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Finance, Financing Startups, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- Dan Geer leaves Verdasys for In-Q-Tel
- Dan Geer, a risk-management pioneer who is often described as "the dean of the security deep-thinkers' set," has left Verdasys to join In-Q-Tel as chief information security officer. Geer left will remain on the masthead at Verdasys as Chief Scientist Emeritus. At In-Q-Tel, he will report directly...
- Tags: Information Security, Verdasys Inc., In-Q-Tel, Kerberos, Venture Capital, Security, Finance, Financing Startups, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- Images: Riding the kiteboarding wave
- The relatively new sport of kiteboarding is taking the venture capital world by storm. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Venture Capital, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups, CNET News.com, Kite
- Image galleries 2008-05-07
- Where's the next new thing in Silicon Valley?
- Excellent article by Jeff Nolan, an ex-VC, writing in SandHill.com on venture capital investments and locating the next big thing. Incrementalism and "The New New Thing" - With all the venture capital moving around in the Silicon Valley, where is the real innovation? He makes many good points...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Innovation, Web, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, Leadership, Investment, Strategy, Finance, Financing Startups, Internet, Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- Google (o)ogles solar
- Courtesy: esolar From the Internet to solar energy is not a usual expansion of corporate ownership. But Google is now playing with the Big Boys, like General Electric that builds wind turbines, nuclear plant parts and owns numerous content websites. Through their investment...
- Tags: Google Inc., Idealab, Esolar, Venture Capital, Telecom & Utilities, Internet, Web Site Development, Finance, Financing Startups, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- Photos: Green buildings for the rest of us
- To an architect or venture capitalist, "green buildings" means construction of fancy, new homes or office buildings. What about everybody who already lives somewhere? by CNET News.com
- Tags: Photograph, Venture Capital, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-04-21
- Do drug companies need government subsidies?
- It's the kind of story you see every day. (Picture from the Mises Institute.) A local industry points to all the jobs it generates and a politician urges public-private partnerships for growth. But does America's drug industry really need the help? Biomed is now...
- Tags: Industry, Biomed, Government, Strategy, Venture Capital, Management, Finance, Financing Startups, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- Will Acquia ruin Drupal?
- Drupal is one of the most successful community-run projects out there. Will having a corporate sponsor ruin it? Dries Buytaert hopes not. He developed Drupal, and upon completing his doctoral thesis recently he's launched Acquia, a commercial version with all the bells and whistles,...
- Tags: Drupal, Venture Capital, Content Management, Business Structures, Investment, Enterprise Software, Finance, Financing Startups, Software, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-05
- $928 mln of VC money invested in India in 2007
- Venture capitalists invested $928 mln in Indian companies in 2007, a significant 166% jump compared to 2006 level, VentureBeat reports. by AM
- Tags: Indian Company, Venture Capital, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups, AM
- Blog posts 2008-02-21
- VC funding in Chinese IT companies falls
- Venture capital funding in Chinese information technology companies was $992 million in 2007, down 9 percent from 2006, according to data from Dow Jones VentureSource. The slowdown in venture funding for technology companies is striking given that funding in China hit its highest level in six years...
- Tags: Technology Company, Dow Jones & Company Inc., Information Technology, Information Technology Company, Internet, Strategy, Venture Capital, Management, Finance, Financing Startups, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- The art of making science at the High Risk Plaque Initiative
- Science long ago stopped being an individual endeavor and became a team sport. But to do big science, you need more than a team. You need an alliance, with all the political and social implications of that term. A good example of this new...
- Tags: Science, Team Management, IPO, Venture Capital, Business Structures, Investment, Strategy, Management, Financial Services, Finance, Financing Startups, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-01-30
- Falling dollar creates problems for European startups
- Index Ventures, the leading European venture capital firm, today announced a new fund of more than $575m (400m euros) to invest in late stage European startups. The goal is to invest between $30m and $60m in mostly European startups that would be at a stage where...
- Tags: Start-up, Goal, Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Finance, Financing Startups, Investment, Business Operations, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-01-22
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