While pop stars' fortunes these days are heavily dependent on building an online fan base, the reverse is even more true. Social media sites are tripping over themselves to score the one celebrity who will shower them with rabid fans. I'm surprised to see how often the words "The Jonas [...]

Yelp, a user-generated database of customer reviews of local businesses, first launched in October 2004. Users rate and leave reviews for local businesses, participate in forums, and can generally get social around local businesses. Yelp almost immediately caught on organically in San Francisco, but founders Jeremy Stoppelman and Russel Simmons [...]

Venture capital investors remain positive about US biotech in Q2 2008[...]

I am gleefully devouring Nathaniel Philbrick's "In the Heart of the Sea" and recommend it to anyone involved in private equity. The book provides a non-fiction account of the voyage of the whaler Essex, which as any English major can tell you, was the inspiration for Moby Dick. The economic [...]

Hot on the heels of news that not one single VC-backed company went public during the second-quarter comes a 451 Group report with dour data on technology M&A exits. Overall, tech deals[...]

Blaise Zerega says not so fast. I'm in agreement with Kevin Maney that all the pundits wringing their hands about a crisis for venture capitalists becaue of a weak IPO market are getting carried away. Yesterday, as PEHub reports, three VC-backed companies filed their S-1's. What a difference a day [...]