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by Greg Cruey on February 15, 2010
It's never been, well, easy to get venture capital money to use as start-up funding. Over the past year or two, the venture capital industry has all but dried up as a source of start-up money. ...
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by Greg Cruey on January 11, 2010
TechCrucnch is reporting that the 4th quarter of 2009 saw a huge jump in venture capital funding.After a year when venture funding was in the doldrums, it roared back in the fourth quarter of 2009 ...
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by Greg Cruey on December 19, 2009
So, you think you've got the venture capital world figured out. You've got your own startup company and you're thinking of dipping your toes into the VC waters...
Well you might be i...
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by Greg Cruey on October 17, 2009
I wrote recently about how rosey the venture capital picture was for greentech firms. Several stories (Venture Beat here and here, TechCrunch) have stressed the continuing downturn in private equity a...
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by Greg Cruey on October 11, 2009
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Renewable Energy World is reporting that venture capital investment is on the upswing - at least in the green technology sector of the economy.
Third quarter numbers are out, a...
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by Greg Cruey on September 28, 2009
Vivek Wadhwa is ticked. He thinks the National Venture Capital Association's (NVCA) is taking too much credit for the success for American business, according to a guest column he did for TechCrun...
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by Greg Cruey on September 15, 2009
TechCrunch had a nice resource piece last week on the top venture capital blogs. Are you reading them? It's a great way to keep up with the trends and issues involved in the VC industry today.
Gu...
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by Greg Cruey on August 31, 2009
Bill Gurley has a long-but-interesting article online at the moment about what's really going on in the venture capital industry. And since I like people with the guts to stand up and say that the...
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by Greg Cruey on July 22, 2009
Earlier this month in his blog Brad Feld mention a neat site that aggregates Twitter posts from venture capitalists: Venture Maven.Greg Galant and several others put this together - it's a great a...
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by Greg Cruey on July 16, 2009
There are two basic numbers to look at when you consider how the venture capital industry is doing. How many individual funds were started in a particular quarter? How much money was raised for those ...
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by Greg Cruey on May 24, 2009
Around the beginning of May I saw two different pieces of news on the NVCA that have hung around in my mind as I've read through other piece of economic news. The first piece, at Red Herring, simp...
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by Greg Cruey on April 20, 2009
Scott Dig took a stab recently at explaining the plight of venture capital companies in terms of broad historic trends and I thought his take on the issue was interesting - especially when contrasted ...
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by Greg Cruey on April 13, 2009
Venture capital fund raising dropped in the first quarter of 2009 based on comparisons with the same period in 2008 by almost 40%. A number of sources (Red Herring, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, PE Hub) ha...
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by Greg Cruey on January 25, 2009
PE Hub published a interesting interview with Mark Heeson a few days ago. Heeson is the president of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA).
The interview examines a number of issues - rangi...
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by Greg Cruey on December 22, 2008
Nine out of ten venture capitalists expect a decrease in VC investment in 2009. That, according to a recent survey conducted by the National venture capital Association.
The survey, conducted in lat...
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by Greg Cruey on December 8, 2008
When terrorists attacked The Taj Mahal Palace and the Oberoi-Trident in Mumbai, they struck at the heart of venture capitalism in India. As Ken Schachter pointed out over at Red Herring late last mont...
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by Greg Cruey on November 25, 2008
One of the tidbits you can glean from Washington Mutual's recent bankruptcy filing is that the bank wants to divest itself of its stake in 10 venture funds.
According to PE Hub, WaMu has about $...
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by tj on July 9, 2008
Silicon Valley's mood has turned to blues The overall mood of the country has now befallen many start-ups and investors here as well. Good business for Sherwood Partners. The company helps to sh...
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by tj on May 1, 2008
So finally a Web 2.0 startup we really need! Bizak.com is providing a valuation tool for entrepreneurs and investors. Simply input your visitors per month and earnings/ costs and teh site compute a ...
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by tj on January 22, 2008
I just came back from two hectic weeks in Europe. A lot of good news - kinkaa relaunched its interface and raised it's first round of 600k EUR from HTGF. HTGF invested 500k+ in loans and equity ...
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by tj on January 22, 2008
I got to know Ragnar several years ago and like his unstoppable entrepreneurial spirit and enthusiasm from day one. In 2005 Ragnar and Petra decided to develop software for smart phones and use adve...
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by tj on January 3, 2008
Steve at Partnerup has done the effort to write down COMPLETE list of major M&A deals in the media, internet, tech and gaming industry.
Quite a feat - many interesting deals there I had not seen....
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by tj on December 21, 2007
Surprising move by the two largest travel meta-search engines - they become one! Ken Schachter at Redherring comments:
Travel search engine Kayak.com has pulled down $196 million in one of the large...
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by tj on December 3, 2007
sixapart cashes in on one of its assets:
The nearly three-year marriage is dissolving with Six Apart's sale of LiveJournal to Russia-based SUP a deal expected to be announced Monday. The financia...
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by tj on September 11, 2007
Michael Baum, CEO of Splunk takes the time to note down his impressions on Splunks impressive series C in his own blog:
A few months ago I started working on a next round of funding for our company...
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by tj on July 12, 2007
Cellity - the new startup of two of the investors (Sarik Weber, nils Weitemeyer) in Creative Weblogging and kinkaa have raised fresh funds on their own as Alarm::Clock Europe reports.
Mangrove Capi...
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by tj on July 12, 2007
Tonado Insider reports about a new bottom-up approach in music downloading - Jamendo - not too far away from last.fm:
Today, investment bank Bryan, Garnier & Co issued a press release announcin...
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by tj on July 11, 2007
I found this classic piece today at Cnet:
Shares of Healtheon soared more than 20 percent today as the company confirmed a long-anticipated merger with privately held WebMD and vowed to use an infusi...
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by tj on July 11, 2007
Not long ago I was stunned all the time seemingly ease that Amp'd raising round after round. Now it turns out even the gigantic cash infusions are already spent:
Los Angeles-based Amp'd, whic...
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by tj on July 6, 2007
was reaching my inbox lately - the latest deal data for July 20th 2007 (remember today is July 6th).
Certainly a typo was just the source of this but nevertheless there were a couple of very intere...
