Topic: Venture Capital

Ms. Fix-It

About twice a year, Donna Novitsky dons a new title, and moves into a new office. Her mission: to transform entrepreneurs' dreams into reality and to take good companies and make them great.READ»

The Entrepreneur Way Of Life

This is an exciting time to be an entrepreneur. Why? Because everyone across the board is in the same boat.READ»

Best Business Blogs: Venture Capital

An expanded list of our favorites.READ»

Cindy Padnos, founder of Illuminate Ventures

By the time Cindy Padnos founded venture-capital firm Illuminate Ventures in 2009, she'd pretty much done it all. She had worked the tech circuit in corporate America, provided management consulting for companies from Apple to Boeing, and even launched her own software as a service company, Vivant. She felt her foray into venture funding was the natural next step.READ»

Francisco Dao's Dynamite Posting

Francisco couldn't get this to re-post here, so gave me permission to do it.  For me, this is one of those "answers to a maiden's prayer" posts.  OK, so I haven't been a maiden for awhile.  Picky, picky!  :-)  ...READ»

Micro Venture Capitalists - Filling the Funding Gap

It used to be that venture capitalists either went big or went home. If the investment wasn’t $1.5 million or more, the deal just wasn’t interesting to them. Unfortunately, this often left early stage companies facing a funding ...READ»

Southeast Venture Conference - Northern Virginia and Washington DC IT Investors Event!

The upcoming 2010 Southeast Venture Conference will host some of the most dynamic high-growth companies in the Southeast US, Feb 24-25, 2010 at the Ritz Carlton in Tysons Corner, Northern Virginia.READ»

The King of Green Investing

Vinod Khosla is pouring his own millions into science experiments to counter global warming -- and to prove he's the smartest guy in the Valley. READ»

• Khosla's Green Ventures
• Silicon Valley's Green Angel Investors
• The Music Industry Goes Green

What Angels Are Looking For

If you are looking for an investor and decide to work with a group or an individual angel investor you need to know what they are likely to propose for a deal structure. If you are a working with an experienced angel investor it is ...READ»

Venturing Forth

Kathy Sherbrooke, cofounder of Circles, one of the few venture-backed companies on our list, on what she learned about going after venture capital.READ»

Offshoring Creativity

Never mind the call centers. Look at the high-tech firms and markets in China and India, and worry about the emigration of innovation.READ»

Venture Capital, " Rightsized"

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

Venture Capitalists Explain Foursquare's Juiciness, Join Sharing Revolution They've Funded

Foursquare has, as rumored, raised a chunk of venture cash that'll let it expand its business significantly, and fast too. But what exactly is so hot about this hot-topic location-based game tech? Unusually we have VC insight on the ...READ»

Redefining Capital Efficiency

Capital efficiency is a prudent way to build any company, but not in the way most VCs implement it. READ»

Venture Capital - Under Siege?

You may find this hard to believe, but there's some evidence that Venture Capital is facing the same kinds of threats that the big Music Labels found themselves struggling with just a few years ago. It seems that VC's, and the things ...READ»

Why VC Will Get Uglier

If you want to understand the future of the VC industry, says Ted Dintersmith, you first need to take a short tour of its past.READ»

Cleantech Open Alumni Rake in $65 Million in First Months of 2010

The Cleantech Open, the world's largest cleantech business competition, has helped launch successful startups like Cool Earth Solar, Adura Technologies, and BuildFast. Now Cleantech Open alums are getting more love than ever as the ...READ»

Startups: An "Alpha Male Pissing-Contest?"

Why aren't enough women seeking angel and VC money? And why aren't more women-led startups getting funded? Consider these little known facts:Women-run tech startups generate more revenue per invested capital and fail less then those ...READ»

What's Wrong With Risk-Averse Venture Capitalists?

Venture capital is undergoing a radical change. Forget home runs -- VCs just want to hit a few singles. We're seeing the emergence of risk-averse venture capitalists. Talk about an oxymoron!READ»

The Four Horsemen of the New Economy

Corporate venturing has its payoffs and pitfalls. But as conflict-ridden as venture investing can be, corporations ignore it at their peril.READ»

Share of the Profits

Socially-minded venture capitalists invest in low-income communities.READ»

What to Know Before You Go to the VCs

Entrepreneurs waste a lot of time soliciting professionally managed venture funds. Venture capitalists operate according to their own largely unwritten rules. In order to play the funding game, you must learn these rules. Below, I've ...READ»

Early-Stage Startups Alive and Kicking in Q3, Venture Funding Shows

In the middle of a venture capital funding slump, you might think that early stage investments would be the hardest hit--VC dollars would be siphoned away from early-stage deals and poured into existing portfolio companies ...READ»

Venture Capital: Don't Call It a Comeback

Venture funds may be having trouble raising new funding, but they are still investing what money they have. The third quarter of 2009 saw venture capital activity hit $6.1B, a healthy 14% increase in venture capital activity over Q2 ...READ»

• 2009 Q3 Venture Capital Activity Report

Venture Capital Slows to a Trickle

It's well know that VC funds take their economic hits with a delay because they work in liquid money, but it seems like their time of reckoning for the great bust of '08 has finally come. VentureBeat reports that new data from the ...READ»