Venture Capital

How Venture Capital Lost Its Way

Business Week (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago

National Venture Capital Association: More Than 24,000 Jobs Filled at Venture-Backed Start-Ups This Year; Employees Creatively Explain Draw to Emerging Companies

Market Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday

ARLINGTON, VA (MARKET WIRE) The efficiency of the venture-backed company job market was highlighted today as The National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) and the online job board StartUpHire revealed that 24,344 jobs listed on the site have been filled since January 2009. Combining the 11,000 jobs currently listed with those that have been filled, start-up companies have created more than 35,000...

Norwest Venture Partners Raises $1.2 Billion

Pulse2 (Free subscription) | yesterday

Norwest Venture Partners is a technology venture capital firm that is based in Silicon Valley, California. Norwest has invested early in many technology companies such as Kayak, Arbortext, Rackspace, MyYearbook, Playdom, Sulekha.com, Ngmoco, and Yatra.com. The company raised a new round of funding at $1.2 billion. This is the eleventh fund raised [...]

The Secret To Finding Venture Capital

Business Opportunities Weblog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

As any entrepreneur who’s spent some time trying to understand the venture capital universe will tell you, VCs typically invest locally, reports Fast Company. The logic goes like this: Having startups to invest in nearby makes it easier for both parties to interact, get guidance, brainstorm, etc. So if an entrepreneur believes that getting venture capital is [...]

San Antonio venture capital fund gains $750,000 investment

The San Antonio Business Journal (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

The Texas Research and Technology Foundation (TRTF) invested an additional $750,000 in the locally based venture capital fund Targeted Technology Fund I.

Entrepreneur Corner Roundup: The state of the VC world and tech’s human problem

The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

Here’s the latest from VentureBeat’s Entrepreneur Corner: 5 ways VC firms can stop shooting themselves in the foot – Venture Capital firms drill the need to create basic credibility into the companies they invest in – but often fail to take their own advice. Laura Grimmer, CEO of Articulate Communications (which works with VC firms), lists five things they could do to build...

• Entrepreneur Corner Roundup: The state of the VC world and tech’s human problem - VentureBeat

Bob Shallit: Sacramento won't have a New Year's Eve ball-dropping this year

Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago

It's official. There will be no Times Square-style New Year's Eve ball drop in downtown Sacramento this year. The reason: not enough city or private money to pay for the security, port-a-potties and entertainment for an event that drew a surprising 20,000 people to 10th and K last year. "We're sort of a victim of our own success," says restaurateur Randy Paragary, an organizer of last year's...

Investor Interest Depends on Startup Stage

Startup Professionals Musings (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago

If you are looking for an outside investor, you need to know how they see you. Different types of investors look for startups at different levels of maturity. If your startup is at the wrong stage for the investor you are approaching, the courting is a waste of time for both of you. For instance, if your company is only a few weeks old and you have zero customers and your product offering is still...

HVCA honors local entrepreneurs

The Pacific Business News (Free subscription) | yesterday

The Hawaii Venture Capital Association honored local entrepreneurs at its second annual Technology Entrepreneur of the Year awards this week.

GreenBeat: Big thank you and media roundup

The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | yesterday

Thanks to everyone who made it out to GreenBeat 2009 yesterday and Wednesday! We were thrilled with the turnout, and couldn’t be more grateful for all the support we received from attendees, speakers, sponsors and the press. It’s clear that the Smart Grid has gained the momentum it needs for serious work to be done, and we are excited to play a big role in this conversation going forward....

• GreenBeat: Big thank you and media roundup - VentureBeat

Reuters Reports Tesla Preparing an IPO; Electric-Car Maker Declines to Comment

Green Car Advisor (Free subscription) | yesterday

Electric-sports car maker Tesla Motors plans to go public soon, Reuters reported today, citing two sources familiar with the matter said. An IPO filing from the six-year-old start-up, best known for its $109,000 all-electric, zero-emissions Roadster, is expected any day, the news agency quoted one of the sources as saying. The person did not give a specific time frame, although IPOs typically take...

Start-Up Employees Tell All…in 140 or Fewer Characters

Voices (Free subscription) | yesterday

Working for a start-up is hard enough. Trying to wittily describe "the unique entrepreneurial culture that sets their company apart and inspires them to go to work each day"--in 140 characters or less--is equally challenging. That was the task set by the National Venture Capital Association and job board StartUpHire, which asked for Twitter-esque submissions from start-up employees in celebration...

Weekend reading

Nivi (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

Some weekend reading culled from our most popular tweets this week. Steve Blank and I have a good discussion about his and Eric Ries’ new customer development overlay. Regarding the Atlas Developer Beta, John Gruber says that “Access to the beta program is $20″ — this is the new way and I like [...]

ExactTarget Adds Technology Crossover Ventures to Board of Directors

Business Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday

INDIANAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ExactTarget, a global provider of on-demand email marketing and one-to-one marketing solutions, announced today that David Yuan of Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV) has joined its board of directors following an investment in the company by the Silicon Valley-based venture fund. TCV is one of the nation’s largest technology-focused venture capital firms with a...

The ignorant VC

Nivi (Free subscription) | yesterday

Thanks to Atlas Venture for supporting Venture Hacks this month. This post is an interview of Fred Destin — one of Atlas’ general partners — by David Woodward, a journalist and blogger. If you like it, check out Fred’s blog and tweets @fdestin. And if you want an intro to Atlas, send me an [...]

Venture Capital Expert, John Cavalier of Hudson Clean Energy Partners, Offers His Take on Trends in Green Technology

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