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Ediggs
Ediggs posted a blog entry
Boxee Raised $4M today
A week ago VC Cafe covered the alpha release of Israel and San Francisco based boxee. Today Boxee has announced a $4 million A...
 
Xconomy
Xconomy posted a blog entry
Accelerator Accepts $4.5M, EMC Merges Mozy and Pi, EnerG2 Tells All, & More Seattle-Area Deals News
It was another slow week in the Northwest for deals. Still, there was a trickle of activity in energy, biotech, and...
 
Stetoscope
Stetoscope posted a blog entry
And the champion is…
Do you wonder who is the best VC of this year?Thanks to my friend and associate Julien, a ranking called after his...
3 hours ago Stetoscope | Topics: 1, finance, VC, Venture...
 
Sampad Swain
Sampad Swain shared an item
The Purpose Driven Web
Al Gore - Oscar-winning movie director, venture capitalist, money manager, book author, cable television mogul and Nobel laureate has a thing or two to share in his recent Web 2.0 summit in San Fransisco. He mentioned about Web 2.0 and more importantly...
 
Sociable B
Sociable B posted a blog entry
VibeAgent - Hotel Search Engine, Raises $3 Million
VibeAgent, the hotel search engine, has raised $3 million in Series A investment capital to support its goal of becoming the...
 
Sociable B
Sociable B posted a blog entry
VibeAgent - Hotel Search Engine, Raises $3 Million
VibeAgent, the hotel search engine, has raised $3 million in Series A investment capital to support its goal of becoming the...
 
Andy
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The Other Reasons To Raise Money From VCs
This following column was provided by Mark Davis. Mark is the author of Get Venture, a column designed to help entrepreneurs raise venture capital. He currently works at DFJ Gotham Ventures, a leading early-stage IT venture capital fund based in...
 
Gil R
Gil R posted a blog entry
EyeView gets money from LGILab and Gigi Levi (from 888)
EyeView, who's into making videos to improve conversions in sites, just raised money from LGILab and Gigi Levi (from...
11 hours ago StartupIsrael | Topics: Angels, Fund raising, Venture...
 
diabloernest
diabloernest posted a blog entry
Something is broken!
A slide deck from Adeo Ressi, the founder of TheFunded has been doing the rounds on internet. The presentation was put forwards...
 
Xconomy
Xconomy posted a blog entry
EnerG2, Backed by OVP and Firelake, Wants to Own Energy Storage in the Electricity Economy
Two weeks ago, Xconomy broke the news of the Seattle startup EnerG2’s $8.5 million first-round venture deal with...
 
Ediggs
Ediggs posted a blog entry
An Industry on “Life Support”: Notes from the BVCA Tech Spin Out 2008 in London
This morning I was invited to stop by Tech Spin Out 2008, a conference organized by the British Venture Capital Association...
19 hours ago Venture Capital Cafe | Topics: BVCA, VC, VC Cafe, Angel...
 
Test
Test posted a blog entry
The Other Reasons To Raise Money From VCs
This following column was provided by Mark Davis. Mark is the author of Get Venture, a column designed to help entrepreneurs...
 
Jammycut
Jammycut posted a blog entry
Venture Capital and Its Characteristics
More businessmen are getting into venture capital. Whether as entrepreneurs or capitalists themselves, more people are getting...
1 day ago The Investing World | Topics: Venture...
 
Test
Test posted a blog entry
Plista Receives Funding From Draper
Update: I spoke with founder and CEO Dominik Matyka who couldn't share the amount of the new investment but did say that...
 
Eben T
Eben T posted a blog entry
Zafgen Raises $14 Million in Series B
ZafGen, a Cambridge-based developer of an obesity therapy based on the vascular targeting of adipose tissue, has raised $14...
 
Eben T
Eben T posted a blog entry
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Raises $85 Million in Series A
Pacira Pharmaceuticals, a San Diego based maker of controlled-release injectable products, has expanded its Series A round to...
 
Prad
Prad posted a blog entry
VC Model Broken?
Adeo Ressi of TheFunded arguing that the VC Industry is broken.TheFunded - CanarieView SlideShare presentation or Upload your...
1 day ago Let's Change the World | Topics: venture...
 
<em>pyramidlearningsystems</em>
pyramidlearningsystems posted a blog entry
How does Web Advertising Work ? what are the ways web advertising takes place ?
ou have probably noticed that across the Web, two different things are happening right now:1. More and more sites are asking...
 
compassion in politics
compassion in politics posted a blog entry
What makes a great startup business?
Creating Great and Successful Business Plan for ( Disruptive Technology) Startup Company:Greg McAdoo, Partner at Seqouia...
 
Tom
Tom posted a blog entry
Web 2.No More? From Web 2.0 to Web 3.0
The recent market fiasco has everyone wondering whether Web 2.0 is alive or dead? The technology is indeed still alive (and...
 
programlayan
programlayan posted a blog entry
What You Need to Apply for a Venture Capital
Many of us know that we need money to invest in a business. Most of us also know that we have the option to seek for outside...
2 days ago 5dom Info Source | Topics: venture...
 
gigaom61
gigaom61 posted a blog entry
4 Steps to Making Strategic Decisions in Today’s Market
Anticipating that a financial crisis like the one we're currently experiencing wasn't far away, I’ve run my company,...
2 days ago GigaOM | Topics: FoundRead, Startups, richrelevance, risk...
 
Jean-Baptiste Perrin
Jean-Baptiste Perrin shared an item
Don't Lose Your Emotional Connections
Early customers often have strong emotional connections to start ups.  After all, they bought the unproven software from a tiny company with shaky finances, sometimes putting their own careers on the line to convince senior executives that already...
 
Nathan Bowers
Nathan Bowers posted a tweet
@codinghorror Philip Greenspun, another unhappy venture capital customer: http://tr.im/14gz
 
VC Guy
VC Guy posted a blog entry
Venture Capital Investments Decline
According to a PWC quarterly research report focusing on the third quarter of 2008, $7.1 billion were invested into 907 deals...
 
Mike Fruchter
Mike Fruchter shared an item
Keeping It All in the Google Family
Many former Google employees, now entrepreneurs, have tapped into a network of affluent and technically skilled investors — their former co-workers.
 
Jammycut
Jammycut posted a blog entry
Venture Capital Knowing Your Funding Options
Entrepreneurs and business experts have defined venture capital as a financing style between a capitalist and entrepreneur with...
4 days ago The Investing World | Topics: Venture...
 
Spreadneck
Spreadneck shared an item
A Slightly Different Perspective
I've been reading a bunch of posts recently suggesting that the VC model is broken. But guess what? It's always been broken. As Jeff Nolan points out in a short and sweet post:there is a permanent structural imbalance in VC that simply doesn’tchange...
 
MattM
MattM posted a blog entry
Citrix buys venture-backed Vapps for $26.6 million
Citrix said today it bought audio-conferencing services firm Vapps for $26.6 million in cash. If Vapps continues to perform...
 
Dan Kaplan
Dan Kaplan posted a blog entry
Citrix buys venture-backed Vapps for $26.6 million
Citrix said today it bought audio-conferencing services firm Vapps for $26.6 million in cash. If Vapps continues to perform...
 
Ads Network & SEO
Ads Network & SEO posted a blog entry
Google Shared Pages for Free SEO
Google provides pages with your profile, links you choose, posts, items, notes and more. Learn how to use them to get free...
 
Brij Singh
Brij Singh posted a tweet
Silicon Valley Bank report - 'Venture Capital in Uncertain Times' 'When the markets stabilize and after the econo http://tinyurl.com/6gc3ht
 
e-strategyblog.com
e-strategyblog.com bookmarked a link
Minnov8 Gang Podcast - Episode 10 [MP3]
In our continuing quest to bring you Minnesota thought leaders on ‘net and web innovation, we invited none other than Pete Birkeland, CFO & Investment Manager with the angel network RAIN Source Capital, to be on this show to talk about funding and...
 
gigaom61
gigaom61 posted a blog entry
Is the VC Model Broken? Far From it
Update: Adeo Ressi, the serial entrepreneur behind the venture-capital rating site TheFunded, has been getting a lot of...
4 days ago GigaOM | Topics: Picks, Startups, VC, venture...
 
greenskeptic
greenskeptic posted a blog entry
The Founder Factory: Where Phillypreneurs Came Together
I attended a very cool event today called Founder Factory at the World Cafe Live in Philadelphia.Hosted by Philly Startup...
 
rizzn
rizzn shared an item
A Slightly Different Perspective
I've been reading a bunch of posts recently suggesting that the VC model is broken. But guess what? It's always been broken. As Jeff Nolan points out in a short and sweet post:there is a permanent structural imbalance in VC that simply...
 
Marc Hustvedt
Marc Hustvedt posted a tweet
Retweeting @1timstreet: OK these venture capital guys are still optimistic about online video. Glad I stayed. #ntvlive08
 
Sekou Koe
Sekou Koe posted a blog entry
Half Empty with Nothing But Air
This is an article in Venture Beat.  It discusses Adeo Ressi’s views on the current venture capital industry and that...
 
Jon_G
Jon_G posted a blog entry
Raising Capital - Writing the Business Plan that Succeeds
You have a great idea or maybe have started a company and need some capital to support your revenue growth. You think that the...
 
Bryan W
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Cash panic sweeping VC industry - The capital calls problem - NYTimes.com
Reports are growing that the financial crisis is hurting large investors that have traditionally sustained the venture capital industry. Increasingly, some of these institutions are having trouble meeting their commitments to VC firms. VC firms typically...
 
David Cohen
David Cohen posted a blog entry
And it holds for angel investing too
Fred Wilson’s post amplifying Jeff Nolan’s post about the “broken” VC model says about venture capital...
5 days ago ColoradoStartups.com | Topics: Blog, Venture...
 
aaron cohen
aaron cohen posted a blog entry
Is Venture Capital Broken?
Adeo Ressi, founder of the very interesting TheFunded.com has posted slides from a talk he delivered at HBS on the venture...
 
Xconomy
Xconomy posted a blog entry
Sapphire Energy, Backed by Bill Gates, Tries to Tone Down the Hype as it Makes Gasoline From Algae
Sapphire Energy has not provided many details about its technology since CEO Jason Pyle stepped into the limelight six months...
 
Ernst-Jan Pfauth
Ernst-Jan Pfauth posted a blog entry
Need money? Contact Tom Batten at DN Capital!
I just received an email from Tom Batten (at London and Palo Alto based) DN Capital with some good news!“DN Capital...
5 days ago The Next Web | Topics: News, dncapital, Europe, investment
 
Fred Wilson
Fred Wilson posted a blog entry
A Slightly Different Perspective
I've been reading a bunch of posts recently suggesting that the VC model is broken. But guess what? It's always been broken....
 
Ediggs
Ediggs posted a blog entry
Crying Wolf: Or what Broke the VC Investment Model?
Doom and gloom reports return to all the major tech blogs - this time the crisis hits the Venture Capital Industry - starting...
 
Ediggs
Ediggs posted a blog entry
Crying Wolf: Or what Broke the VC Investment Model?
Doom and gloom reports return to all the major tech blogs - this time the crisis hits the Venture Capital Industry - starting...
 
TRENDBIRD
TRENDBIRD posted a blog entry
The VC model is broken (PPT)
TheFunded - Canarie View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: investing vc) These days, the more you talk to...
6 days ago TRENDBIRD | Topics: Investing, business..., funding, IPO