Topic: Venture Capital Firms

What are the New SuperAngels Looking For?

We all know the venture capital industry has been disrupted, but from the outside it is difficult to see how this will effect startups. Here's a real panel of experts talking about how that disruption works for both the entrepreneur ...READ MORE›

Top 5 Venture Capital Firms: Funding Social Missions

In recent years, a new breed of venture capital firms has emerged to make an impact beyond just profitability. Social venture capital funds are adding a new mission in combination with positive financial returns: social and environmental impact. Highlighting social venture funds across the world, this week’s top five will focus on VC portfolios that range from organic beverages to water purification systems in Rajasthan to fiber optic enterprises making energy companies more efficient.READ MORE›

True Finance

The education of an Internet entrepreneur.READ MORE›

William M. Keever to speak at Venture Capital Workshop

Castle Venture Group, a venture capital firm located in Nashville, TN, will host a workshop for angel and venture firm investors.  The speaker will be William M. Keever, Castle's President and Founder, as well as a number of other ...READ MORE›

VC Funding and Innovation

It seems that even in innovation, there is some wisdom to be gained from the tortoise and the hare. READ MORE›

Why Designers and Venture Capitalists Should Start Working Together Now

I just returned from the Israel Conference in L.A., a gathering of venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and business people closely tied to the Israel-California innovation connection. The elegant event attracted over 500 ...READ MORE›

• Gadi Amit's blog: The New Deal

Built to Flip - Where Do You Come Down?

Has Built to Flip overthrown Built to Last? Should it? Fast Company asked five commentators to tell us where they come down on those questions -- and to offer strong opinions that will spark debate.READ MORE›

All the Right Connections

The partners at Arts Alliance Ltd., a venture-capital firm, believe that success is about making connections -- between companies and their customers, and between portfolio companies.READ MORE›

Paul McNamara

General Manager, Enterprise Market Segment at Red Hat Inc., Durham, North CarolinaREAD MORE›

Rising Trend of Social Venture Capital

As venture capital continues to support cause-driven companies, entrepreneurs have an opportunity to be profitable and create long-term sustainability. Where at one time cause-driven businesses found it challenging to find investment, if the trend continues, social entrepreneurship will take center-stage and potentially be the gold standard of the investing world.READ MORE›

Venture Capital, " Rightsized"

The old guard of venture capital is changing. The reason? Older partners downshifting as new money starts to flow in.READ MORE›

How Accel Partners Turns Pitches Into Hits

Meeting I Never MissREAD MORE›

He Knows How to Be Diligent About Due Diligence

Whether you're sizing up an investment or a new hire, it's not enough to study the financials and the references. As due-diligence expert Barry Rhein will tell you, you've got to read between the lines.READ MORE›

How Dropping Your Ego and Picking Good Mentors Can Earn You $750 Mil

I was living in San Francisco last year when I attended a small and informal talk that a young entrepreneur gave at an alumni event. At the time he started up AdMob, a seller of mobile advertising, he was with a new wife and child ...READ MORE›

(No) Exit Ahead?

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 MORE›

Kleiner Perkins & Green Packaging Inc. Leading GreenStream

While there were flickers of the green movement in the 1960s only recently have we seen an explosion in the green sector. Much like plastics in the early 1970s, starry-eyed investors are lining up at the door to invest in...READ MORE›

Mar Hershenson - Fast 50 2002

27. Chip Away at ObstaclesREAD MORE›

Built to Last

Fast Company issues this call to action and invites you to read it, sign it, and join the movement to realize the promise of the new economy.READ MORE›

The Right Way to Lay People Off

"I'm tryin' to right my wrongs, But it's funny them same wrongs helped me write this song" --Kanye West Shortly after we sold Opsware to Hewlett-Packard, I had a conversation with the legendary venture capitalist Doug Leone of ...READ MORE›

America's Looming Tech Crunch: Blame Venture Capital, Immigration Law

The U.S. likes to think of itself as a cradle for the world's newest and cleverest tech. But Intel's CEO Paul Otellini is now foretelling a looming high-tech crunch, and the nation's venture capital association is equally worried.READ MORE›

Launch: Silicon Valley 2009

Starting a tech business in good times takes guts--more than 60% of new ones fail in four recession-free years. These days, you need courage, chutzpah, and an extra measure of je ne sais quoi. A chance to woo investors helps; ...READ MORE›

Wall Street and the New Startup Economy

Why venture-backed tech hopefuls may be a haven amid the financial storm.READ MORE›

• 10 Web 2.0 Failures
• What the Wall Street Crisis Means for Big Tech
• How Wall Street's Meltdown Will Affect Your Career

BROKERS & DEALERS

            A broker is defined as anyone who makes securities transactions for others. (The exception to this is a bank.) A dealer is defined as someone who buys and ...READ MORE›

... According to New Southerners

Entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, business leaders, educators, and government officials define the New South on the brink of the 21st century.READ MORE›

Honesty Is the Best Policy - Trust Us

These Silicon Valley leaders are taking the ethical high road -- and betting that it's the road to success.READ MORE›