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- Visionary 2009: Kay Koplovitz - more women entrepreneurs
- Kay Koplovitz calls for more women entrepreneurs during her acceptance speech at the SDForum visionary awards. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGRyvhsP7Uk Her Bio: Kay Koplovitz is currently a principal of...
- Tags: Women, Board, Gender And Diversity, Venture Capital, Corporate Governance, Investment, Entrepreneurship, Human Resources, Finance, Financing Startups, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-06-30
- Smart People: Paul Holland, General Partner, Foundation Capital
- What will smart homes look like in the future? Venture capitalist Paul Holland and his wife Linda Yates are in the throes of construction on the greenest home in the United States. They're using environmentally regenerative materials such as FSC certified woods and recycled steel for the structure. And the...
- Tags: Home, Venture Capital, Telecom & Utilities, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-06-18
- Hara offers environmental monitoring application in online format
- Can't find the money to invest in an on-premise enterprise application for managing your company's carbon portfolio? Hara, a start-up funded by veneral venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, has introduced its first product, Hara Environmental and Energy Management. The application is focused on the...
- Tags: Monitoring, Venture Capital, Enterprise Software, Finance, Financing Startups, Software, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-06-03
- Tomorrow's smart grid [video]
- At the Churchill Club's 11th Annual Top Ten Tech Trends, venture capitalists discuss whether the smart grid and smart meter trends will continue to produce innovation and what the motivating factors will be. [video=306687] by Larry Dignan
- Tags: Video, Grid, Venture Capital, Finance, Financing Startups, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-06-02
- Tomorrow's smart grid
- At the Churchill Club's 11th Annual Top Ten Tech Trends, venture capitalists discuss whether the smart grid and smart meter trends will continue to produce innovation and what the motivating factors will be.
- Tags: Grid, Venture Capital, Finance, Financing Startups, Churchill Club, 11th Annual Top Ten Tech Trends, Smart Grid, Ann Winblad, Steve Jurvetson, Joe Schoendorf, Ram Shriram, Jason Pontin
- Videos 2009-05-29
- The future of clean-tech investing [video]
- At the Greentech Media and Groom Energy, Enterprise Carbon Accounting Summit in Burlingame, Calif., venture capitalists discuss the outlook of investing in smart grids, carbon management, and energy-monitoring tools. At debate is how to invest capital in an efficient way. by Larry Dignan
- Tags: Video, Clean Technology, Venture Capital, Corporate Communications, Productivity, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-19
- The future of clean-tech investing
- At the Greentech Media and Groom Energy, Enterprise Carbon Accounting Summit in Burlingame, Calif., venture capitalists discuss the outlook of investing in smart grids, carbon management, and energy-monitoring tools. At debate is how to invest capital in an efficient way.
- Tags: Clean Technology, Venture Capital, Productivity, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups, Enterprise Carbon Accounting Symposium, mart grids, carbon management, energy-monitoring tools
- Videos 2009-05-15
- IT Sustainability Insights and Imperatives
- Going green is golden. From emerging government mandates and regulation to increased consumer and press attention, the environmental movement is upon people. Terms like carbon footprint, sustainability, environmentally friendly, and renewables are becoming common vernacular. And it's not just hype. Investors are putting their money where their mouth is, ponying...
- Tags: Information Technology, Rackable Systems, Government, Venture Capital, Finance, Financing Startups
- White papers 2009-05-01
- US venture investments down 61% in Q1 2009
- US venture capital investments sank 61% in Q1 2009, dropping to the lowest level in 12 years. VC investments totaled $3 bln in Q1 2009, according to PriceWaterhouseCoopers, the National Venture Capital Association and Thomson Reuters. In Q1 2008, investments totaled $7.74 bln. This is the lowest quarterly level of...
- Tags: Venture Investment, Venture Capital, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups, AM
- Blog posts 2009-04-20
- Help with Raising Capital
- Great starter deck from major VC firm I've pitched for venture capital before and I appreciated a sample pitch deck a colleague sent me ahead of time. I've since helped others prep for their pitch sessions and most of the time, it helps. ...
- Tags: Slide, Venture Capital, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Site Development, Web Services, Investment, Middleware, Finance, Financing Startups, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-04-13
- Survey: Venture capitalist spirits perk up
- Venture capitalists are becoming slightly more upbeat about the economy and market, according to the latest read from the Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Confidence Index. The ongoing survey of VCs in the Bay Area found that venture capitalist confidence registered a 3.03 on a 5 point scale...
- Tags: Survey, Venture Capital, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-08
- Fusion-io lands more funding; Names CEO
- Enterprise storage company Fusion-io said Tuesday that it has raised $47.5 million in venture capital and named David Bradford, a former Novell executive, as CEO. Fusion-io's Series B funding was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with New Enterprise Associates, Dell Ventures and Sumitomo...
- Tags: Novell Inc., CEO, Fusion-io, Storage, Data Centers, Business Structures, Venture Capital, Investment, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Finance, Financing Startups, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-07
- Google wants to help you be the "next big thing"
- Google today announced Google Ventures, a division inside Google that seeks great companies to invest in. It's clear that if you are entrepeneurial, and are able to start a company that could make lots of money, Google may be the right venture capitalist for you. Google...
- Tags: Google Inc., Venture Capital, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance, Financing Startups, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2009-03-31
- Google's VC fund: Would you rather have a dividend?
- Google has a bevy of side projects and now there's another one: A reported $100 million venture capital fund. Google announced its venture fund on its blog post and like all things the search giant does it has garnered a lot of attention Techmeme. Google says: ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Venture-capital Fund, Dividend, Intel Corp., VC, Intel Capital, Venture Capital, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-31
- Google announces VC Fund
- Google said today that it is launching its own venture capital fund, called Google Ventures, and says it's "focusing on early stage investments across a diverse range of industries, including consumer Internet, software, clean-tech, bio-tech, health care and, no doubt, other areas we haven't thought of yet." ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Venture-capital Fund, Blog, Venture Capital, Blogging, Biotechnology, Internet, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-03-31
- Denmark first, then the world
- Danish online accounting vendor e-conomic posted 60 percent growth last year with revenues of $5.6 million, making it one of Europe's fast-growing band of indigenous SaaS stars. by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: Revenue, Software-as-a-service, Europe, Denmark, E-conomic, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Venture Capital, Internet, Operational Accounting, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Financing Startups, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2009-03-17
- Google CEO Schmidt: China 'obvious prize,' Twitter 'poor man's e-mail system'
- Google CEO Eric Schmidt just finished up his Q&A at the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference with some choice words. First, about overseas opportunity: "The obvious prize would be China, because of the simple volume there." Second, about everyone's favorite microblogging service Twitter: "Speaking as...
- Tags: Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Twitter, E-mail, Venture Capital, Online Communications, Finance, Financing Startups, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-03-03
- Andreessen's Charlie Rose interview (video)
- As you may have seen over the weekend and late last week, Marc Andreessen is starting a venture fund with longtime partner Ben Horowitz. The fund will be focused on angel investing and really formalizes what Horowitz and Andreessen were doing with their money anyway. Andreessen also...
- Tags: Marc Andreessen, Charlie Rose, Video, Andreessen, Corporate Communications, Financing Startups, Venture Capital, Investment, Marketing, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-02-23
- Will cheap oil affect green innovation? [video]
- Will cheap oil affect green innovation? [video]Bill Joy: Fascist?Bill Joy is asking for the government to require the use of products of venture capital funded companies. The purpose of a venture capital company is to make money lots of it.This is worse than socialism. In socialism, at...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Investment, venture capital, Bill Joy, government, video
- Discussion threads 2009-02-17
- Microsoft in talks to acquire Israeli VR startup
- Microsoft is reportedly negotiating to acquire Israeli startup 3DV Systems for about $35 million, according to Haaretz, Israel's oldest daily newspaper. 3DV Systems is known for developing "virtual reality" imaging technology for digital cameras that it sells, called ZCams (formerly called Z-Sense), and...
- Tags: Imaging, Microsoft Corp., 3DV Systems, ZCam, Games, Document Management, Venture Capital, Personal Technology, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Financing Startups, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-02-17

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