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Vc Investment
Signal vs. Noise:
CHICAGO—September 24, 2009—37signals is now a $100 billion dollar company, according to a group of investors who have agreed to purchase 0.000000001% of the company in exchange for $1. Founder Jason Fried informed his employe (Read More)
Submitted by magitam
from Google Reader:
Benchmark Capital’s Bill Gurley yesterday wrote on his blog that the VC industry is going to shrink substantially over the next several years. Specifically, he argues that large institutional investors will decrease their all (Read More)
Submitted by magitam
from Google Reader:
I like the thinking behind Yael Hochberg, Alexander Ljungqvist, and Yang Lu’s research on predicting venture investment return. Their study, “Whom You Know Matters: Venture Capital Networks and Investment Performance” shows (Read More)
CenterNetworks:
At the turn of the twentieth century, Pittsburgh really was held in the same regard that Silicon Valley is today. Entrepreneurs like Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Mellon, George Westinghouse, and John Baptiste Ford & John Pitcairn, (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Amid the 12,000-plus attendees at the Black Hat and Defcon security conferences in Las Vegas last week, it almost seemed like we were in the midst of a boom in demand for security technology. But venture capitalists who atten (Read More)
TODAY ON FOUND3R - Venture Capital STORIES:
Maybe it's just VCs getting deals done before they leave for vacation but after a stronger than expected Q2 – July VC investment activity is pretty much off the charts in both number of deals and total invested. With 49 July (Read More)
News Networks:
Venture Capital,
Entrepreneur
Topic:
Vc
paidContent.org:
Still hot here in Pasadena, at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference this morning. Tim Armstrong, the CEO of AOL (NYSE: TWX) is on now, and is covering most of the points he did in interviews earlier this week. I am live tw (Read More)
First Round Capital:
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Venture capital investing increased in the second-quarter of 2009, even though investment activity was still much lower than in Q2 2008. Oh yeah, we wrote about it over the weekend (an (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
According to Chubby Brain, a New York based research company dedicated to democratizing startup and investor information, VCs invested a total $5.329 billion in Q2 2009. This represents a nearly 61% increase over the $3.314 b (Read More)
TODAY ON FOUND3R - Venture Capital STORIES:
Now that EMC Corp. has won the bidding war over NetApp Inc. for storage-device maker Data Domain Inc., settling on $2.2 billion in cash, it’s worth noting just how well at least one venture capital will make out in the deal. (Read More)
News Networks:
Venture Capital,
Entrepreneur
Topics:
Venture Capital,
Vc
Delicious/sondernagle:
Lack of confidence in your self, your product, and your company is a surefire recipe for disaster. At the other extreme, too much confidence or arrogance can kill you just as fast. It’s always painful when a startup fails, bu (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Among companies developing solely for the iPhone, social network startups have drawn more VC investment money than games, according to startup investment tracker Chubby Brain’s latest set of charts. Listing 22 rounds of fundi (Read More)
TODAY ON FOUND3R - Venture Capital STORIES:
I continue to be concerned about the inordinate amount of attention that Washington is giving to venture capital. There seems to be an assumption that VC investment is a White Knight that will help spur entrepreneurship in A (Read More)
News Networks:
Venture Capital,
Entrepreneur
Topics:
Venture Capital,
Vc
Vatornews.tv:
The free online assessment gives business owners a glimpse into their future. The venture capital industry is shrinking, and, if this morning's report by the Kauffman Foundation is accurate, total VC investment will need to (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Do you remember the headlines about VC investment "falling off cliff" after some data was reported by NVCA in early April? We took a contrarian view, saying the trend was down, but challenging the doom and gloom that was jump (Read More)
A VC:
Claire Cain Miller wrote a story in Friday's New York Times about the "Money Tree Report" that is published every quarter by the National Venture Capital Association and Pricewaterhouse Coopers. The picture in the first quart (Read More)
News Networks:
Tech News,
Venture Capital
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