broadstuff (Free subscription) | yesterday
From the NYT : Venture capitalists’ confidence has sunk to a new low, according to a report released Wednesday by Mark V. Cannice, founder and director of the University of San Francisco Entrepreneurship Program, who surveys Silicon Valley venture capitalists every quarter. “Venture funds are frozen with uncertainty,” Dag Syrrist of Vision Capital told Mr. Cannice. Another investor, Joe Mandato of...
DealBook (Free subscription) | 14/10/2008
From Claire Cain Miller at Bits: In a sign of difficult times to come for the venture capital industry, institutions that invest in venture funds put less money into fewer funds in the third quarter, according to data released Monday by Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association. Fifty-five venture capital funds raised $8.1 billion, down [...]
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 14/10/2008
TechOperators led by partners Thomas E. Noonan, David Gould, Said Mohammadioun, and Glenn McGonnigle ATLANTA, Oct. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- TechOperators, an early growth stage venture capital firm focused on innovative solutions in software, Internet services, cloud computing, security, infrastructure, and mobile computing, announces the launch of its first venture fund, Technology Operators Fund I,...
Achieve IT! (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
The blog I Will Teach You To Be Rich found a fascinating, if not scary, slideshow presentation from venture capital firm Sequoia. You owe it to yourself to take a look at it. The long and short of it is market cycles are long. With the US debt load as high as it is and the average savings account adding up to a Starbucks' Mocha Latte, there are will be some serious challenges ahead. If you read my...
Wangjianshuo's blog (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Winter is coming. It is not the winter in the weather and seaonal sense. It is for startups. With the financial crisis gets worse in US, which is no longer news, the recent reaction in Venture Capital market in Silicon Valley is huge. Signaled a bunch of emails and meetings by top VC firms and others, everyone just realized what the slight change in temperature means: it means the arrival of winter....
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Pitch Camp is coming together nicely with 25 confirmed attendees and 13 tentative attendees. The event will begin at 10AM featuring presentations from: Dan Owen - How to Pitch to VCs. Dan is managing general partner of HO2 Partners, a Dallas-based technology venture capital firm, and is an active private investor and company adviser. Dan began [...]
VC Ratings (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Breaking news: Confidence in Silicon Valley's venture capital community is rapidly eroding. A study released Wednesday by the University of San Francisco finds that VC confidence in the third...
Mashable (Free subscription) | yesterday
Facebook has announced the 25 winning applications for fbFund, each of which will receive $25,000 they can use toward developing their idea. Additionally, these 25 apps will compete for five $225,000 prizes that will be awarded in December. In all, Facebook – along with venture capital firms Accel Partners and Founder Fund - will distribute up to $10 million to developers. As opposed to traditional...
Market Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
SANTA CLARA, CA (MARKET WIRE) Sonoa Systems, Inc., an innovative provider of secure cloud gateways, today announced the closing of a $10 million Series C round of funding. This round is led by Third Point Ventures, the venture capital arm of Third Point LLC; and joins current investors Norwest Venture Partners, Bay Partners and SAP Ventures, a division of SAP AG. Sonoa will use the financing to expand...
Valleywag (Free subscription) | yesterday
Rest assured that if there's beer, it's here on the calendar. As long as the venture-capital-funded spigots are open, that is. Tonight Yoono and Hubpages are doing their part to keep your bar tab... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Digital Media Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
Woodland Hills, Calif. - FatTail, a provider of online advertising optimization software, announced on Wednesday that it has raised $3 million in its first round of venture capital, led by Velocity Interactive Group. read more
Tech Confidential Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
What venture capital drought? Chipmaker Achronix Semiconductor Corp. has just raised $52 million in a Series B funding round, one of the largest chip sector fundraisings of the year....
A VC (Free subscription) | yesterday
Our portfolio company TargetSpot, which is the leader in streaming audio monetization, has acquired Ronning Lipset Radio, the largest internet radio ad sales organization. This is a great marriage, technology plus sales, and makes TargetSpot the largest online radio ad...
PharmaGossip (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sequoia Venture Capital Warning to CEOs - Get more Business Plans
The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | yesterday
Venture capital portfolio firms typically take years to progress from seed or 1st round funding to a potential liquidity event, such as an M&A or IPO. This long time horizon allows for counter cyclical thinking about venture investments. So why worry about current financial market fluctuations when the exit strategy for most portfolio firms may be years away? While this is a reasonable conclusion...
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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
