"We're looking certainly at financial rewards, but we believe very strongly that there are other rewards that come in investing, and those come in terms of progress made for people... Continue Reading.
Benchmark Capital and a handful of other venture capital firms enjoyed a rare exit Monday with CA Inc.'s [CA] announcement that it would acquire Orchestria Inc., a startup that provides... Continue Reading.
The National Venture Capital Association and Thomson Reuters rang in the new year Monday with a final tally of 2008 venture-backed exits, and, as one would expect, the numbers were... Continue Reading.
Technology predictions for 2009: Last year, when I wrote this same post for 2008, it was much easier to make predictions because everything was on the up and up, people took more chances. We no longer have that environment. When people are in survival.... [From Istanbul To Sand Hill Road]
RRE Ventures LLC has raised more than $1 billion, invested in 115 companies and had 30 positive exits over the past 14 years. Yet you may not have heard of the... Continue Reading.
Low burn rates may make tech startups less vulnerable to today's economic downturn than they were to the last one. Internet companies cost less than one-tenth to operate than they did a decade ago, pointed... Continue Reading.
"I try to scare people," Mahalo.com Inc. founder Jason Calacanis told The Deal back in March, when he described his controversial hiring and firing practices in our three-part video interview.And that was... Continue Reading.
"We may not invest in a hot social media deal that has no revenue model or path to profitability," says David Hirsch, a former sales executive at Google Inc.... Continue Reading.
Apparently, even Google is feeling the pain of the Great Recession and the pain is trickling down to their employees this holiday season. According to Gawker, the handsome cash bonuses... Continue Reading.
Let's say you wanted to acquire a public company. Would you announce to the world that you wanted to buy the company, most likely causing its shares to rise and... Continue Reading.
The following is from Ask The VC, where Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson of Foundry Group answer questions related to venture capital investment and startups:Q: I love your article in the Entrepreneur... Continue Reading.
Continuing the lifeline theme today (see the previous post about Palm), beleaguered chipmaker Qimonda AG has dodged a bullet with the announcement Sunday that the German state of Saxony, a... Continue Reading.
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