Portfolio |
August 19th, 2008 |
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Blaise Zerega is stunned. Who knew these ad networks were so valuable? Wow. There were 160 venture capital investments in ad companies from Q1 2007 to Q2 2008, worth more than $2.1 billion. And in same period, there were 100 acquisitions worth about $20 billion, according to a new report [...]
SF Chronicle |
August 19th, 2008 |
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The Modesto Bee is offering buyouts to all its full-time employees, the newspaper's second round of buyout offers this year. Bee publisher Margaret Randazzo said the offer was extended Monday to about 200 full-time employees. Randazzo said changes in the news[...]
BizJournals |
August 19th, 2008 |
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Stematix Inc., a regenerative medicine technology firm, is negotiating financing with a Greek venture capital fund, GloCal Investment Ventures Enterprise, funded in part by a Greek government-backed fund of funds managed by GloCal Systems Management.[...]
BizJournals |
August 19th, 2008 |
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In its fourth round of venture funding, medical imaging company BioImagene Inc. raised $26 million.[...]
PE HUB |
August 19th, 2008 |
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VentureBeat yesterday reported on the new social network of John Doerr’s daughter Mary. Another Kleiner Perkins’ offspring has even bigger ambitions. Frank Caufield Jr., son of KPCB cofounder Frank Caufield Sr., is raising $100 million for the second venture capital fund-of-funds of his six-year-old firm, Darwin Ventures. The San Francisco-based [...]
John Cook |
August 19th, 2008 |
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WidgetBucks, the online advertising network that scored $10 million in venture funding in June, has named Kirby Winfield to the new position of chief revenue officer.[...]
We're going to resist using a cute Olympic analogy, but the latest results on China venture investment from Dow Jones VentureSource are pretty impressive. Total second-quarter venture investment in China totaled[...]
BizJournals |
August 19th, 2008 |
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Medical device company Covidien Ltd. has created a venture capital arm. (COV)[...]
Sramana Mitra |
August 19th, 2008 |
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SM: Let’s discuss your strategy for growing beyond the UK. RT: We went out to raise financing, targeted US venture capitalists, and made a deal with Benchmark. We raised $10 million. I used that to relocate to the US to start operations here. The focus was to pinpoint specific targets [...]
Portfolio |
August 18th, 2008 |
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Sam Gustin asks: Is internet radio doomed?Pandora, the wildly popular internet radio service, is sounding the alarm of its impending demise. In an interview with the Washington Post, founder Tim Westergren said his company is "approaching a pull-the-plug kind of decision."Last year, the Copyright Review Board more than doubled the [...]
Intellectual property management startup Innography Ltd. emerged from stealth mode Monday with the announcement of a $6.5 million Series A round. Austin Ventures led the round with Hunt Ventures. The[...]
The following is from Ask The VC, where Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson (and, in this case, Chris Wand) of Foundry Group answer questions related to venture capital investment and startups: Q: [...]
China's world champion runner Liu Xiang stumbles off the track before his first round heat. Despite China's soaring count in Olympic gold medals, track and field remains a weak point for its Olympic team. Video courtesy of Reuters. (Aug. 18)[...]
Portfolio |
August 18th, 2008 |
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Aline van Duyn tells an increasingly familiar story today: that while corporations have a very clear hierarchy of debt payments, with preferred stock, mezzanine debt, senior debt, senior secured debt, and all that, individuals do not -- and they don't always act according to expectations. She quotes TowerGroup's Dennis Moroney [...]
Baird Venture Partners is expected to announce the formal close of its $170 million third fund, although the firm has already made a pair of investments from the new vehicle.[...]
Two-year old TechCrunch challenges 17-year-old Demo as venue where technology companies show their new products to venture capitalists and the media.[...]
BizJournals |
August 18th, 2008 |
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As we described in our last column, venture capital firms typically focus on evaluating three things when deciding whether to invest in a new deal: the team, the business model and the technology. All three are important, and each is examined in different ways during the various stages of the [...]
Business Week |
August 16th, 2008 |
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An entrepreneur explains how his company grew from two to over 50 employees from its inception 15 years ago and doubled revenues every year for the past four—without venture capital[...]
Seeking Alpha |
August 15th, 2008 |
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It’s a “very interesting time” for private equity these days, says RBC analyst Nick Morton. And that makes shares of Onex Corp. (ONEXF.PK) [TSE:OCX], with its own private investment team, a good long-term pick.In a research note, Mr. Morton says that there has been no improvement in the credit markets. [...]
