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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
Alfresco takes Matt's advice: It should be no surprise that Alfresco has taken our own Matt Asay's advice and put money in the bank when it was offered. They're his day job after all. He claims in today's post to be unhappy over the dilution, but devotes most of...; Tags: SAP AG, Alfresco, Social Networking, Venture Capital, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Finance, Financing Startups, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-01-22
US venture investments up 10.8% in 2007: US venture capitalists invested a total of $29.4 bln in 2007, up 10.8% from 2006. The number of deals reached 3,813 in 2007, a modest rise of 5% over 2006, PriceWaterhouseCoopers reports. by AM; Tags: PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Venture Investment, Venture Capital, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups, AM; Blog posts 2008-01-20
Another Microsoft manager jumps from the Live Search ship: In 2007, there was rampant turnover in the Microsoft Live Search unit. It looks like 2008 is off to a similar start. Mike Nichols, Group Program Manager for Live Search, has resigned and is moving to work for Yusuf Mehdi, Senior Vice President of Strategic Partnerships....; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Mike Nichols, Microsoft Windows, Team Management, Venture Capital, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Finance, Financing Startups, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-01-17
$34.7 bln raised by VCs in 2007: Venture capitalists raised $34.7 bln in funds in 2007, an increase of 9.4% and the most the industry has raised since 2001, when it raised $38.8 bln, Thomson Financial and the NVCA (National Venture Capital Association) reported. by AM; Tags: National Venture Capital Association, Venture Capital, Investment, Strategy, Finance, Financing Startups, Management, AM; Blog posts 2008-01-16
Facebook and the CIA: In a piece of carefully researched critique, Guardian Unlimited writer Tim Hodgkinson does a masterful job unpacking the politics of Facebook, implying that the company's backer's real agenda is the realization of the original American dream: Here at last is the Enlightenment state longed for since the Puritans of...; Tags: Facebook, Nature, CIA, Tim Hodgkinson, Corporate Governance, Blogging, Venture Capital, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Internet, Finance, Financing Startups, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-01-14
Facebook's neocon links: Writing in today's edition of The Guardian newspaper, Tom Hodgkinson does a complex hit job on Facebook, or more precisely, Facebook's founding investor Peter Thiel. Hodgkindson begins by accusing the "social utility" of being anti-social ("since instead of doing something enjoyable such as talking and eating and...; Tags: Facebook, PayPal, Hodgkindson, Thiel, Bloomberg Markets, Venture Capital, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups, Steve O\'Hear; Blog posts 2008-01-14
Scrapblog gets venture capital from Disney's Steamboat Ventures: Great news today as Scrapblog raised a round of funding from Steamboat Ventures, the venture firm that's closely tied to the Walt Disney company. Mashable has the scoop and a quote from David Min who will be joining the Scrapblog board as a Steamboat representative: "[Scrapblog] has strong appeal to...; Tags: Disney Corp., Scrapblog, Venture Capital, Corporate Governance, Business Structures, Asset Management, Finance, Financing Startups, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Operational Planning, Ryan Stewart; Blog posts 2007-12-10
Russian Innovators Don't Trust Russian VCs: I met with a Russian delegation to Silicon Valley recently, which was seeking to copy some of our best practices. [Please see: Turning Oil Into Innovation: Russian Delegation Seeks Silicon Valley's Lessons An interesting issue emerged during our conversation. The Russian government is helping to establish several...; Tags: Venture-capital Fund, Idea, Government, Venture Capital, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups, Tom Foremski; Blog posts 2007-11-24
Go west young engineer Silicon Valley needs you!: There is an emerging crisis in Silicon Valley - there aren't enough engineers. Companies such as VMware, and the many thousands of Silicon Valley startups, are competing with the well established giants such as Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Oracle, Symantec, and many others, for engineering talent. I wrote...; Tags: Silicon Valley, VMware Inc., Outsourcing, Venture Capital, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Finance, Financing Startups, Human Resources, Tom Foremski; Blog posts 2007-11-14
Device market finds value in privacy: Medical devices are complex. Their regulatory environment is complex. You want to explain that complexity to mom-and-pop investors? Unless your goal in life is to schmooze Maria Bartiromo or Neal Cavuto, the answer is probably no. Fortunately there's an alternative. Venture capitalists are now...; Tags: Hedge Fund, Medical Device, Privacy, VentureOne, Venture Capital, Investment, Healthcare, Finance, Financing Startups, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2007-10-25