Folks in the VC industry are often asked about or end up talking about the current state of the IPO market and the prospects for recovery in the near to longer term.  At the NVCA's annual meeting last wk, they presented a plan  to try to address...
Topics: VC startup IPOs "IPO candidates"

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Google is now highlighting peoples' Google Profiles in search results when users search for a person's name. There's  speculation  that this change may impact services like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and others whose own profile pages...
Topics: "google profiles" facebook linkedin yelp

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The folks over at Spark Capital announced a new seed investing program earlier today called Start@Spark .  Members of the Spark team and various others  have already started talking about the program, which will make seed investments of up to $250K in..
Topics: "Spark Capital" boston seed investing

{"title":"Start@Spark - seed investing in Boston\/NYC","post_url":"http:\/\/www.leehower.com\/2009\/03\/startspark-seed-investing-in-bostonnyc.html","feed_url":"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/leehower","author":"leehower","date":"2009-03-25 15:04:00","summary":"The folks over at Spark Capital announced a new seed investing program earlier today called Start@Spark . \u00a0Members of the Spark team and various others \u00a0have already started talking about the program, which will make seed investments of up to $250K in.."}

Y Combinator recently announced that they were taking $2M in investment from Sequoia Capital and several prominant angel investors in order to expand the scale of their pre-seed investment program.  Time will tell how well this relationship works for...
Topics: internet incubator "incubator 2.0" idealab

{"title":"Thinking about Incubator 2.0...","post_url":"http:\/\/www.leehower.com\/2009\/03\/thinking-about-incubator-20.html","feed_url":"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/leehower","author":"leehower","date":"2009-03-20 07:15:00","summary":"Y Combinator recently announced that they were taking $2M in investment from Sequoia Capital and several prominant angel investors in order to expand the scale of their pre-seed investment program. \u00a0Time will tell how well this relationship works for..."}

For those who haven't seen it, Reid Hoffman wrote a very thoughtful piece which appeared in the Washington Post today .  The thrust of the column was that entrepreneurs, through the creation of new ventures not simply researching new technologies,...
Topics: goverment sponsored venture capital "Reid Hoffman"

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