Venture Capital

The Three Myths of Venture Capital

Diane Mulcahy | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Venture Capital, Venture Capital Investment, VC Funds, Investors, Venture Capitalists, Venture Capital Myths, Small Business News

VCs are good capitalists. They sell what their investors will buy, and they charge what their investors will pay. The real problem, it turns out, lies with the institutional investors -- the ones doing the buying and the paying.

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3 Ways to Save America's Black Boys, Pt. 2 of 3

Mike Green | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Black Innovation, America21, Mike Green, The America21 Project, Angel Investors, Economy, Saving America's Black Boys, Economic Competitiveness, Black Boys, Innovation Economy, Innovation, Venture Capital, STEM Education, Risk Capital, Bv-Life, Black Voices News

Waiting on government for a solution is like waiting on Superman; neither will rescue our Black boys. That's our job.

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Why Facebook Is Killing Silicon Valley

Steve Blank | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Startups, Venture Capital, Small Business America, Entrepreneurs Startups, Facebook Investment, Venture Capital Tech, Innovation VCs, Entrepreneurship Silicon Valley, Video, Small Business News

What's great for making tons of money may not be the same as what's great for innovation or for our country.

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Death Watch: Billion-Dollar Startups

The Huffington Post | Mark Gongloff | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Internet, Social Media, Small Business, Video, Social Networks, Technology Bubble, Pinterest, Startups, Tech Bubble Death Watch, Venture Capital, Technology, Tech Bubble, Business News

So, the Facebook IPO did not exactly take off like a rocket. That's a blow to those, like us, who see a tech bubble forming around every corner. B...

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Why Platform Apps like Pinterest, Socialcam and Viddy Will Help Facebook Grab More Ad Dollars

Rob Leathern | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Monetization, User Adoption, Advertising, Pinterest, Viddy, Pinning, Socialcam, Venture Capital, Facebook, Business News

This is fertile ground for Facebook advertisers, and should allow the creation of much more relevant and interesting ad campaigns -- and thus more ad dollars for Facebook, since there's currently no way for an app creator to generate revenue from the data they are contributing to the Open Graph.

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Crowdfunding Secrets: Five Ways to Build an Amazing Campaign

Scott Steinberg | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Startups, Investing, Venture Capital, Crowdfunding, Small Business Investing, Indiegogo, Kickstarter, Jobs Act, Rockethub, Small Business America, Small Business News

While no equity or ownership stake has previously changed hands in exchange for contributions, the recent passage of the JOBS Act may prove a game changer for entrepreneurs.

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How to Engage a Venture Capitalist: Lessons From Our Dealflow

Andrew Tweed | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Business Tips, Investing, Growing a Business, Investing Advice, Business Advice, Venture Capitalists, Venture Capital, Capitalism, Venture Capitalism Advice, Venture Capitalism, Business News

The ways in which an entrepreneur might best connect with venture capitalists has been covered by a number of other VCs across the web, but we thought it might be helpful for entrepreneurs to put this question into context by providing actual operating data regarding deal flow for our firm.

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Facebook's First Backers Feel The Love As IPO Approaches

Reuters | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Google, Small Business, Venture Capitalists, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Small Business News and Trends, Startups, Facebook Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Facebook Investors, Andreessen Horowitz, Silicon Valley, Amazon, Video, Small Business News

(By Sarah McBride - Reuters) - For the handful of venture capitalists who backed Facebook (FB.O) in its early days, a huge financial payoff is not the...

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Innovation in the Government Industry, Vol. 1: Seasteading

Michael B. Fishbein | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Peter Thiel, Government, Innovation, Patri Friedman, Seasteading Institute, Startups, Venture Capital, Capitalism, Entrepreneurship, Tedx, Small Business News

Innovation and progress requires experimentation -- trial and error. Unfortunately, for entrepreneurs with ideas for "startup countries," there's no way for them to experiment. It's not like the software industry where all you need is a laptop.

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Teenage Whiz-Kid Raises $7 Million For Startup Payments Company

Reuters | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Video, Small Business, Teenage Entrepreneurs, Startup, Small Business News and Trends, Startups, Venture Capital, Technology Startups, Technology, San Francisco, Entrepreneur, Small Business News

(By Sarah McBride - Reuters) - Gumroad, a start-up payments company run by 19-year-old entrepreneur Sahil Lavingia, has raised $7 million in a funding...

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'Impact Investing' And Social Enterprises: Knowing When To Scale

Thane Kreiner | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Vision, Impact Investing, Philanthropy, Poverty, Social Entrepreneurship, Water, Agriculture, Clean Energy, Venture Capital, Business Model, Impact News

At the Center for Science, Technology, and Society, we focus on helping social entrepreneurs build ventures that scale. My colleague and mentor Jim Ko...

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Can the Crowd Be More Patient

Fred Wilson | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Venture Capitalists, Tech Startups, Biotech, Venture Capital, Mobile, Crowdfunding Capital, Crowdfunding, Small Business News

I can feel the crowdfunding movement coming. And I think it will be impactful and helpful in many way. And I hope that its impact will be most felt in the sectors that have been starved for capital, not the sectors that are awash in capital.

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Venture Capital Firm Giving Half of Profits To Charity

Reuters | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Philanthropy, Hunger, Charity, Venture Capitalists, Environment, Small Business News and Trends, Donations, Venture Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Small Business News

(By Sarah McBride - Reuters) - In an effort to kickstart more charitable giving around Silicon Valley, the six general partners at venture firm Andree...

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Did A Startup Bubble Just Pop?

The Huffington Post | Nate C. Hindman | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Small Business, Video, Startup, Venture Capitalists, Small Business News and Trends, Startups, Startup Bubble, Bubble, Startup Investing, Venture Capital, Tech Bubble, Small Business News

Venture capital financing fell 21 percent in the first quarter of 2012 to its lowest level in nearly two years, according to a new report. That's ...

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Why We Chose Silicon Alley Over the Valley

Emmanuel Schalit | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Small Business, Dashlane, New York City, Password Manager, Venture Capital, Emmanuel Schalit, Shopping Assistant, New York Tech, Tech Startups, New-York-Tech-Start-Ups, Silicon Alley, Silicon Valley, Personal Data Assistant, Entrepreneurship, Form Filler, San Francisco, Technology News

When our start-up, Dashlane, started working on building our product in Paris, we knew that our success or failure would be decided in the United Stat...

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Private Equity Doing Just Fine, Thanks

HuffingtonPost.com | D.M. Levine | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Vc, Mergers and Acquisitions, Oak Tree Capital Group, Video, Ipo, Venture Capital, Private Equity, Brightsource Energy, Private Equity Exits, Business News

The boom times are back, sort of, for private equity, but don't break out the champagne just yet. More companies backed by private equity went publ...

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New Crowdfunding Law Helps Small Businesses Find Investors

AP | Joyce M. Rosenberg | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Video, Small Business, Startup, Crowdfunding, Kickstarter, Crowdfunding Law, Small Business News and Trends, Startups, Venture Capital, KickStarter.Com, Crowdfunding Bill, Jobs Act, Small Business News

(AP - Joyce M. Rosenberg) Finding investors is probably the biggest challenge that business startups and small companies face. But small businesses ar...

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Staying Independent

Fred Wilson | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Startups, Entrepreneurs, Ipos, Venture Capital, Angel Investors, Seed Investors, Small Business News

Possibly the most interesting running conversation I've been having with entrepreneurs lately is how they can keep their companies independent without having to go public and turn their cap table into a casino.

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In Instagram Buy, No 'Like' For Wall Street

HuffingtonPost.com | D.M. Levine | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Instagram, Wall Street, Dealmakers, Mark Zuckerberg, Venture Capital, Facebook, Deal Makers, Deals, Business News

In Facebook's billion-dollar buy of photo-sharing app Instagram, Wall Street is nowhere to be found. Lawyers involved in the deal told The Huffingt...

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Silicon Valley Now Has Its Own Airline

HuffingtonPost.com | Nate C. Hindman | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Small Business, Surf Air, Betterworks, Private Jets, Mark Zuckerberg, Small Business News and Trends, Startups, Venture Capital, Facebook, Airlines, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley Startups, Small Business News

When David Eyerly earned a partial scholarship to attend a California flight school, he asked his older brother Wade for some advice. Pilot jobs were ...

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After JOBS Act, Steve Case Turns To Immigration

Reuters | Sarah McBride | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Immigration Reform, Small Business, AOL Founder Steve Case, Aol, Jobs, Startups, Small Business News and Trends, Immigration, Venture Capital, Jobs Act, Investors, Steve Case, Small Business News

* Immigration key to creating U.S. jobs, Case believes * Action by Congress this year is possible -Case * Case rules out run for political offic...

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The Importance of JOBS

Jeff Jarvis | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, Investment, Barack Obama Jobs, Obama American Jobs Act, Jobs Act, Obama Jobs Plan, Business News

The JOBS act helps more people, entrepreneurs and investors, find more opportunity. That, more than bailouts, is the wise role for government to play in the shift from an industrial to a digital economy.

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Obama's New JOBS Act Friends Leave Longtime Democratic Ally Furious

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Vc, Congress, Economy, President Obama, Afl-Cio, Jobs, Obama, Venture Capital, Vcs, Bipartisan, Jobs Act, Labor Unions, Internet, Politics, Labor, Video, Tech, Unemployment, Cantor, Jobs Council, Obama Jobs Act, Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, Bipartisanship, Organized Labor, Unions, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama will sign the JOBS Act into law Thursday, clinching a rare and hard-fought bipartisan victory for his presidency....

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10 Rules to Buying -- and Growing -- Your Competition Now

Christopher Hytry Derrington | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Mergers and Acquisitions, Slidepollajax, Venture Capital, Small Business America, Small Business, Cuying Competitor Business, Business News

Have you been thinking about buying your competitor? Here are 10 rules I've learned during my career that can save you a lot of heartache -- and money.

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What Crisis? IPO Market Red Hot

The Huffington Post | Mark Gongloff | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Ipos, Small Business, Stocks, Stock Market, Tech IPOs, Venture Capital, IPO Market, Stock Offering, Business News

The U.S. IPO market is in such a state of horrifying crisis that it just had what's arguably its best quarter in years. The total number of U.S. in...

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