A leading venture capitalist offers a tough-love survival guide: How to keep your company afloat when the IPO market has dried up. Plus, six words you should never use when raising money.READ»
Four years ago, a massive stroke nearly killed Bob Lessin. Now he's left his job as vice chairman of Salomon Smith Barney, poured his own money into 50 Web startups, assumed the leadership of Wit Capital, and single-handedly tried to merge the old economyREAD»
Amazon's purchase of online shoe retailer Zappos was surprising and interesting news all by itself, but now comes a twist: reports that this marriage made in e-commerce heaven may have been a shotgun wedding forced by Zappos' ...READ»
(Crossposted to my Stealthmode Blog)I asked Bill Gurley whether a
new model for early stage funding would emerge now that the VC industry
is "slimming down" (perhaps shrinking by 50%) due to the rebalancing of
university ...READ»
Mark Cuban, occasional bad-boy owner of the Dallas Mavericks and dot-com billionaire, has been charged charges of insider trading by the SEC. Was losing money the reason behind the trade?READ»
When Mark Zuckerberg showed up in Palo Alto three years ago, he had no car, no house, and no job. Today, he's at the helm of a smokin'-hot social-networking site, Facebook, and turning down billion-dollar offers. Can this kid be for real?READ»
Google intends to raise more money from its much sought-after IPO. The search-engine giant increases the size of its IPO by $1.1 billion on Monday and says it aims at a price range of $108 to $135 per share for 24.64 million ...READ»
In the Internet casino, the name of the game is IPO, and the players are looking to improve their odds. Meet five high rollers who think that their systems will help them hit the jackpot.READ»
Your stock price is down 80%. All of a sudden, that ".com" at the end of your company's name feels like a four-letter word. Life in the Internet economy can't get much worse, can it? Be afraid. Be very afraid.READ»
Tesla Motors' well-publicized struggle with growing pains is something of a soap opera. There's divorce, bankruptcy, plane crashes, sports cars, and lots of uncertainty--and the longer we watch, the more complicated things seem to ...READ»
Heavy construction equipment maker, Sany Heavy Industry Co Ltd prepares for an initial public offering, IPO in Hong Kong after posting its 59.3% year-on-year growth net profit, 2009. The data was uncovered by United Equipment Sales, ...READ»
What's the difference between a star athlete and you? These days, less and less. Here's how to negotiate for the deal you deserve. (We'll take our 10%.)READ»
More than a year after Tesla shipped its first batch of Roadster sports cars, rumors are swirling that the electric vehicle company is planning to file for an IPO any day now. Tesla has officially denied the rumors, but it would ...READ»
Great companies have to make tough choices. Grand Junction Networks and PointCast Inc., two high-flying Silicon Valley startups, faced the question of a lifetime -- and arrived at opposite answers.READ»
Dan Case, the former CEO of Hambrecht and Quist, recently put his career on hold following surgery to remove a malignant brain tumor. Before he was diagnosed, Case talked with Fast Company. The story appeared in print before Case made his condition public.READ»
In the blog Venturpreneur, Gordon Smith takes Google to task for its IPO prospectus. His major criticism: Google doesn't tell a growth story.
With the acquisition of Blogger, the release of Orkut and Gmail, it seems that Google has ...READ»
Many of our most promising electric cars have parts--or entire assemblies--being built in China. But when it comes to the most important (and most expensive) component, EV companies may turn to American manufacturers. One such ...READ»
According to the Associated Press, eBay plans to jettison Skype from its corporate holdings by holding an initial public offering for the company in the first half of 2010. Ebay paid $2.6 billion for Skype in 2005, confusing analysts ...READ»
Last August, Seth Godin asked, "What Should Google Do?" Well, today, a better question might be, "What has Google gone and done?"
Google just filed to sell shares in an IPO. So far, response from commentators has been interesting. ...READ»
