ForeScout Technologies has raised $8 million from previous investors, Venture Beat reported. The firm makes a security platform combining clientless network access control and intrusion prevention, and saw 80 percent growth last year. The funding was provided by Accel Partners, Amadeus Capital Partners, Meritech Capital Partners and Pitango Ventures. Go [...]

If you asked me who my inspirations were when I started to blog, they would have been: Seth Godin - because his blog was my favorite read at the time (and still is in my top 10)Dave Winer - because Scripting News was the first blog I ever read (when [...]

Web, startups, VC Wade Roush wrote: If you're feeling like it's been a long time since the last Web Innovators Group gathering in Cambridge, you're right. The series has been on hiatus since the last meeting on April 2. The main reason: organizer David Beisel, a vice president at venture [...]

A friend of mine forwarded Lee Gomes's WSJ article questioning Chris Anderson's Long Tail theory, referencing a recent Harvard Business Review article by Anita Elberse.Setting aside Lee's original Long Tail skepticism, possibly because it suggested the blogosphere presented an opportunity to impact journalists at the head (e.g. WSJ columnists?); I [...]

Market makes for a healthy obsession. Marc Andreesen calls it "the most important factor in a startup's success or failure." And there are plenty of market intricacies to ponder but size is a big one (forgive the pun ). So I'm prone to comparing, and putting into context. Benchmarks are [...]

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The audio files of the Venture Capital in Emerging Markets Conference, which was held in 9-10 June 2008 in Istanbul, are now available. We had a lot of fun and learning during the conference.It was really interesting to see all the parties of the value chain interacting together; the LPs, [...]