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Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
DFJ Gotham 's co-founder and managing director Daniel Schultz crafted this deck to explain what venture capital is to his son's class. Maybe the follow up presentation will be about how the 5th grader founder gets replaced by a more experienced 8th grader when sales start to slip? (Zing!) Venture Capital For A 5th Grader → Join the conversation about this story » See Also: How To Survive...
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Financial Times (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
High-earning private investors are increasingly turning to venture capital trusts (VCTs) as an alternative source of retirement income, following Budget changes that limit the tax relief on pension contributions
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The Triangle Business Journal (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
David Blivin, whose Southeast Interactive Technologies became one of the most active and ambitious venture capital groups in the Triangle in the early 2000s – has launched his latest effort in northern New Mexico.
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The Business Insider (Free subscription) | yesterday
As we've noted frequently over the past couple of months, virtual goods sales in the US are finally starting to take off. This has been a big business in Asia for years, and we see no reason why it won't soon be an even bigger one here. It's also an extremely profitable business, with margins near 90% . And don't laugh at all the fools buying imaginary stuff until you understand why they're doing...
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Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check (Free subscription) | yesterday
Interesting times Analysts estimate that virtual goods could bring in a billion dollars in the United States and around $5 billion worldwide this year — all for things that, aside from perhaps a few hours of work by an artist and a programmer, cost nothing to produce. “It’s a fantastic business,” said Jeremy Liew of Lightspeed Venture Partners, a venture capital firm that has...
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BrandFaqs: The Brand Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
E-commerce giant eBay has settled its long-running legal feud with the founders of Skype, clearing the way for a $2-billion sale of the internet telephony pioneer, the company announced Friday. Under the terms of the settlement, Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis will get a 14 percent stake in the consortium buying Sykpe from eBay in return for an undisclosed cash investment and the withdrawal...
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Conservation Value Notes (Free subscription) | yesterday
Where does GE's venture capital arm see its best future in clean tech? The answer, says their Managing Director of Venture Capital , is in he production of optically concentrated solar power on commercial rooftops, and a small-scale wind turbine company. At the end of the age of oil, the clean tech economy is just beginning to awaken. These products are going to have to be manufactured, installed,...
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TechCrunch (Free subscription) | yesterday
textPlus , a text messaging app that's powered by GOGII , has just hit the App Store. textPlus lets any iPhone or iPod Touch send free text messages to any cell number by using in-app advertising to cover its costs. There is no limit on how many text messages you can send per month, it's just a matter of getting WiFi, 3G or an Edge connection. GOGII was one of the first companies that was funded by...
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The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Broadband communications chip maker MaxLinear has filed to go public in another indicator that the good times are back for tech stocks and exits. Carlsbad, Calif.-based MaxLinear makes analog or mixed-signal radio chips that can be manufactured in standard chip factories. The chips enable devices to display broadband video. The chips are sed in a wide array of electronic gear: cable and terrestrial...
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Kansas City Star (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Entrepreneurial growth companies that submit applications by Friday, Nov. 13th will have an advantage in the selection process ST. LOUIS, MO., NOV. 6, 2009– Entrepreneurial growth companies interested in presenting their business plans at the 2010 InvestMidwest Venture Capital Forum have just one week left to submit their applications by the early application deadline of Friday, Nov. 13....
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CloudAve (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Everyone needs someone to report to; even VCs. This may sound strange coming from a VC. Some entrepreneurs who choose to raise venture capital have great disdain for the necessary evil of reporting to their investors. That disdain is appropriate to the extent investors are asking for mundane information that creates a reporting burden and does not add information necessary for critical board decision-making....
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TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
More good news for Indian entrepreneurs! Infosys co-founder and chairman N. R. Narayana Murthy's new VC firm, now called Catamaran Venture Fund, just added a whole lot more money to its coffers. A few weeks ago, we reported that Murthy was turning to “the dark side” after selling a large amount of company shares in order to set up a venture capital firm. To set up the fund, Murthy reportedly...
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Infectious Greed (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Some books I’ve been reading during my travels this week and that others might like – an eclectic list. Scroogenomics . The name more or less says it, but why you shouldn’t buy people presents for the holidays. The Great Cities in History . A lovely series of essays and meditation on what made great cities great through history. Boulevard of Broken Dreams . Josh Lerner’s new...
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South East VC (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Over the last few weeks, I have been giving greater thought to how people perceive our firm after a first meeting. And this is happening because during that same timeframe, I've had two very different experiences with companies I have...
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VentureBeat (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
EBay has settled with the founders of Skype, clearing up some nasty lawsuits that now allows the Internet phone company to be sold to a consortium of investors that includes the Skype co-founders. Private equity firm Silver Lake Partners leads the investor group, and is joined by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. As part of the deal, Index Ventures,...
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investid | 24/09/2008
Green Investor Audio Series - Sectors like wind and solar have had a spectacular growth rate POINT ROBERTS, Wash., Delta B.C., September 24, 2008 - www.InvestorIdeas.com, one of the first online investor resources providing in-depth information on renewable energy, greentech and water, provides interested investors a recent audio interview with Venture capital expert, John Cavalier of Hudson Clean
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