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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

Google announces VC Fund

Google announces VC FundExcellent Initiative by GoogleExcellent Initiative by Google. Congrats and great path ahead :-)Cheers,Kathiravan Manoharanhttp://kathyravan.blogspot.comhttp://paisamechanic.blogspot.comYeah, but I wouldn't trust them...Google might at one time been the company that you could trust with your online needs, and you might even have been able to trust them with your personal...

Tags: Venture capital, Investment, Google Inc., venture-capital fund

Discussion threads 2009-03-31

Accel Partners raises more than $1 billion for two VC funds

Accel Partners said Thursday that it has raised more than $1 billon for two new venture funds--Accel Growth Fund and Accel London III--recession be damned. Accel said in a statement Techmeme that the Growth Fund raised $480 million with London III bringing in $525 million. Accel also...

Tags: Venture-capital Fund, Equity, Accel Partner, Venture Capital, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Financing Startups, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-11

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

NASA launches venture fund for Mars technology

NASA has created a nonprofit venture capital firm to invest government money in promising but underfinanced companies, The Washington Post reports. Red Planet Capital is the government's first foray into VC world for civilian technology, although the CIA and Defense Dept. have run funds for military...

Tags: NASA

Blog posts 2006-10-31

A new VC fund to help develop the next-stage internet technologies

I'm not yet ready to announce this, I'm still waiting on a couple of call backs, but...I would love to launch the BBC venture capital fund--to focus on investments in startups developing telemetry solutions. I believe that these are the types of technologies that will be essential in this...

Tags: Venture capital, venture-capital fund, Internet

Blog posts 2006-01-24

$5.39 bln of venture capital funds raised in Q3 2005

Investments in US venture capital firms jumped 62% in Q1-Q3 2005 over Q1-Q3 2004. VCs raised some $17.3 bln, surpassing the total for all of 2004 in just three quarters. In Q3 2005 45 firms raised investment funds worth $5.39 bln, up 11.6% from the $4.83 bln that 54 firms...

Tags: venture capital, venture-capital fund

Blog posts 2005-10-18

$6.1 bln invested in venture funds in Q2 2005

VC firms in Q2 2005 raised a total of more than $6.1 bln vs. $2.3 bln in Q2 2004, a 165% jump, according to VentureOne. It was the most lucrative quarter for VC since the Q4 2001.

Tags: Q2 2005

Blog posts 2005-08-23

PayPal founders launch $50 million VC fund

PayPal founders launch $50 million VC fundInternetnamebank.comI own http://www.internetnamebank.com and am looking for VC partners to fund start up portals.This is great news as we are also looking for investors to fund start ups and hope the market heats up for entry level start up ventures.

Tags: Venture capital, Investment, venture-capital fund, PayPal

Discussion threads 2005-07-17

Additional Resources

Could Cloudera become the open source Asia?

Those of you old enough to remember the original Apple Macintosh may also remember the "super-group" known as Asia. The group became notorious for its ego battles, forming, breaking up, and reforming until it became something of a joke. (To the right is the present line-up for...

Tags: Apache Hadoop, Blog, Asia, Cloudera, Amr Awadallah, Hammerbacher, Blogging, Entrepreneurship, Open Source, Internet, Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-03-17

Linux Foundation ready to fight Microsoft if TomTom lawsuit involves Linux kernel

Linux Foundation ready to fight Microsoft if TomTom lawsuit involves Linux kernelA mixed barrel of fish.There are so many threads in this mess that one can look at almost anything. But some things come out loud and clear:1. We are in a post-Bilski situation......software patents (which seem to be at...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Linux kernel, Tom-Tom, TomTom, patent

Discussion threads 2009-02-27

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

Information Age versus Tactile Experience

Venture capitalist Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures, an early stage fund specializing in investing in IT enabled services 'that have the potential to change the structure of markets', blogged ideas yesterday about the internet's disruption of retail. This is epitomized by the sad state of...

Tags: Sears Roebuck & Co., Mail-order, Internet, Sales Strategy, Sales Channel, Sales Force Management, Sales, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-12-27

Make the US Small Business Administration Super Venture Capitalists!

We are heading into the eye of a financial storm that has been threatening for months, and inconceivably large amounts of bailout money is being bandied around by the powers that be in the USA, with similar actions taking place in other countries around the world....

Tags: U.S., Venture Capital, Administration, Small Business, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-12-18

Microsoft: The top 5 risks; Will it cut 2009 outlook as PC market stumbles?

Microsoft: The top 5 risks; Will it cut 2009 outlook as PC market stumbles?Hmmm... Agree in poart, not others.Over all sales are going to drop, no way the entire world can be in this situation without it hurting MS too. As far as online, I don;t think its...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Strategy, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, PC

Discussion threads 2008-12-11

Lijit secures $7.1 million series C round

Lijit Networks, which provides search and analytics engines that benefit both bloggers and their readers, announced today that it has closed a $7.1 million series C funding round. Foundry Group, which was a late investor after Lijit closed its $3.3 million series B round last year, led this round. Existing...

Tags: Network, Analytics, Blog, C, Lijit, Blogging, Internet, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-08-12

News to know: LinuxWorld; Cisco; Microsoft; Yahoo

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft sending mixed messages about Windows futures with 'Fiji'? Sam Diaz: LinuxWorld keynotes: Now is the time to invest. Larry Dignan: IBM, Ubuntu, Novell and Red Hat gang up on Vista A new data center?...

Tags: Apple iPhone, LinuxWorld, Larry Dignan, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Cloud Computing, Help Desk, Data Centers, Corporate Communications, It Operations, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Marketing

Blog posts 2008-08-06

News to know: iPhone Dev Camp; So long computer science; Intel

Notable headlines: Andrew Mager: Touring iPhone Dev Camp 2 Live: Day 2 from the iPhone Dev Camp 2 Hands full? Get the iPhone arm Video: Spectrum ZX game montage Dion Hinchliffe: Enterprise cloud computing gathers steam ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Comcast Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Computer Science, Broadband, Computer, Intel Corp., Robots, Corporate Governance, Digital Cameras, Federal Government, Monitors & Displays, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Emerging Technologies, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Government, Hardware, Components, Telecommunications, Networking, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-04

IT work is 'boring,' students

IT work is 'boring,' studentsThey're right. It can be boring.It's nothing like where I came from doing CAD drawings and design work.There's a [i]lot[/i] more boring paperwork in this position then I imagined.Why do you think I stop here from time to time?RE: IT work is 'boring,' studentsIts all in...

Tags: Strategy, information technology, IT Work, job

Discussion threads 2008-06-23