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Technology
by tj on August 26, 2005
Auren looks back into the early days of his exceptional career in starting and selling technology businesses in Northern California:
"Ten years ago this month, Scott bonds and I started Kyber Sy...
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Entrepreneurship
by tj on August 26, 2005
You might have seen it already - Venture Voice providing recorded interviews with VCs and Entrepreneurs. News seem to travel slow to me lately.
Nice site - 10 podcasts so far - lets hope for more.
T...
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Venture Capital
by tj on August 26, 2005
Vonage - the sugar daddy of VOIP start ups apparently plans an IPO to raise $600 million (!):
"Vonage, which provides residential phone services over the internet, is planning an initial public ...
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Entrepreneurship
by tj on August 23, 2005
Knowledge@Wharton has a special report about India developing as R&D hub. One of the contributions has been an interview with Vivek Paul - ex-CEO of Wipro. He has some good insights into what work...
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Venture Capital
by tj on August 22, 2005
Jim Cook analyzes the recent fund raising data from VC Valley - some great insights:
"The VC market is getting healthy
again. VentureWire reported today that $6 Billion of new funds
were raised ...
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Entrepreneurship
by tj on August 18, 2005
Bernard Moon is thinking about recruiting in general while facing the task for GoingOn in particular:
"Find out what motivates people. What drives your prospective partners? If the sole factors ...
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Technology
by tj on August 18, 2005
Jigsaw has launched a new 'collaborative knowledge' wisdom tool:
"The idea is that if multiple members voted on a selection of figures when submitting or reviewing contacts for people at...
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Venture Capital
by tj on August 12, 2005
Valuecklick consolidates the market:
"ValueClick, an online advertising agency, said yesterday that it had agreed to buy Fastclick for $214 million in stock to create the largest online advertis...
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Venture Capital
by tj on August 11, 2005
Always well informed Mark Brooks leads me to this story about eharmony's latest round:
'WHEN Neil Clark Warren and Greg Forgatch, the founders of eHarmony, a popular online dating site, were ...
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Venture Capital
by tj on August 11, 2005
Tornado Insider reports that Venture Funding in Europe drops 36%:
"The surge in venture capital earlier in the year stagnated in the second quarter of 2005. In this week's press release on...
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Venture Capital
by tj on August 11, 2005
Podshow has gotten funding from Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins according to Private Equity News:
"There is little that gets Valley girls and boys as hot and bothered as when an Internet company get...
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Entrepreneurship
by tj on August 11, 2005
Jeff Bussgang about the different dimensions of time:
"When you're an entrepreneur, time is your enemy. You need to solve the problem of "simultaneity" -- hire the team, build the ...
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Venture Capital
by tj on August 11, 2005
Yahoo has confirmed the rumors we had mentioned here as well:
"Everyone's talking but no one's listening. Yahoo's 1 billion dollar 40 percent stake in Alibaba, China's largest e-...
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Venture Capital
by tj on August 9, 2005
indeed.com joins the ranks of VC-backed kayak.com and mobissimo.com with an investment from New York Times, Union Square Ventures and Allen & Co.
All these sites deliver a wonderful addition for ...
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Venture Capital
by tj on August 9, 2005
Forbes has rumors about a possible investment from Yahoo into alibaba.com:
"SHANGHAI - Web media company Yahoo! is in advanced talks to purchase an approximately 35% stake in China's biggest...
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Venture Capital
by tj on August 8, 2005
Scout Media Inc. has been acquired by Fox Interactive Media. No details about a purchase price have been released (or guesstimated so far).
"Fox Interactive Media today announced that it had sig...
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Venture Capital
by tj on August 8, 2005
The hype is back with Chinese search portal baidu.com. James has another great analysis on the IPO and insights about Google's attempt to increase the stake Pre-IPO.
"Insiders have revealed ...
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Venture Capital
by tj on August 8, 2005
James at ChinaVentureNews reviews "Investing in China: The Emerging Venture Capital Industry" by Jonsson Yinya Li and has some Concrete ploicy recommendations for fostering Venture Capital ...
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Technology
by tj on August 8, 2005
Steve dissects the new Newsgator Platform:
'I've always thought of NewsGator as just another newsreader host. Some big players in the newsreader space are Bloglines (which I use for personal...
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Venture Capital
by tj on August 7, 2005
Webex has announced to acquire intranets.com:
"San Mateo-based WebEx, which has historically focused on helping big business customers conduct meetings online, said the acquisition of Intranets.c...
