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...

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...

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...

@codinghorror Philip Greenspun, another unhappy venture capital customer: http://tr.im/14gz

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.

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...

Silicon Valley Bank report - 'Venture Capital in Uncertain Times' 'When the markets stabilize and after the econo http://tinyurl.com/6gc3ht

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...

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...

Retweeting @1timstreet: OK these venture capital guys are still optimistic about online video. Glad I stayed. #ntvlive08

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...