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Facebook Stock Buyback: Company Purchasing Employee Stock For $10 Per Share

VentureBeat | Matt Marshal | Posted 06.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Facebook IPO, Facebook $150 Million Stock, Facebook Stock, Facebook, Matt Marshall, Venture Capital, Facebook Stock Buyback, Venturebeat, Facebook $10 a Share, Business News

Facebook has almost finished raising $150 million in capital, in an extraordinary move by the company to buy out shares of hundreds of regular employe...

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How Social Media Today and its Online Communities Reinforce Blogging

Ari Herzog | Posted 05.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Energy, Robin Carey, Jerry Bowles, Sales, Social Media Today, Bloggers, Venture Capital, Social Media Marketing, Online Community, Social Media, Enterprise, Governing, Marketing, Sustainability, Pr, Blogging, Business News
Ari Herzog

Disclosure: In late February, I was recruited by Robin Carey and Jerry Bowles, co-founders of Social Media Today and joined their team as a community ...

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Innovation Fund Will Not Promote Innovation

Tom Vander Ark | Posted 05.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Economic Stimulus Package, Arne Duncan, Venture Capital, Public Education, Politics News
Tom Vander Ark

The $650 million portion of the US Education Department's stimulus bill supposedly devoted to innovation was written with three fatal flaws.

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Is Learning from Failure a Myth?

Bob Giloth | Posted 04.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Success, Failure, Mistakes, Social Entrepreneurship, Non-Profit, New York Times, Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, Business, Bob Giloth, Business News
Bob Giloth

Is learning from failure a myth? Gompers and company argue from a study of several thousand venture-back companies that this myth may be due to "attribution bias."

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All that Economic Jazz

C. L. Max Nikias | Posted 04.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Jazz, College, Venture Capitalists, Research University, Inventions, Venture Capital, Housing Bubble, Universities, Business News
C. L. Max Nikias

The pieces are in place for a renaissance of America's inventive spirit. Wall Street is no longer the envy of the world, but our top 50 research universities most certainly are.

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Obama Tax Plan: Hedge Funders Could Pay $24 Billion More

Bloomberg | Jason Kelly and Katherine Burton | Posted 03.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Taxes, Barack Obama Taxes, Buyout-Firms, Venture Capital, Private Equity, Hedge Funds, Hedge Fund Taxes, Hedge Fund Managers, Business News

Feb. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Executives at buyout, venture-capital and hedge-fund firms will pay an estimated $24 billion more in taxes over nine years if P...

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It's Time for a Federal Fund of VC Funds

Kay Koplovitz | Posted 03.27.2009 | Business

Read More: Thomas Friedman, Recovery, Obamas-Plan-for-the-Economy, Government Bailout, Economic Stimulus Package, Bailout, Stimulus Package, Alan Patricof, VC Funds, Venture Capital, Business News
Kay Koplovitz

A smaller, more prudent capital access program is required for these smaller venture capital funds to continue to source and identify companies at the early stage.

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Alternative Energy's Great 2008 Also Revealed Its Weakness

AP | SANDY SHORE | Posted 03.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Wind Power, Economic Stimulus Package, Finance, Economy, Financial Crisis, Venture Capital, Green Stimulus, Green Energy, Green Technology, Solar Power, Green News

DENVER — As the United States became the world leader in wind power, venture capitalists poured money into alternative energy projects until the...

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Tesla's San Jose Plant Nixed In Huge Setback

NBC Bay Area | Posted 03.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Tesla Motors, Finance, Cars, Venture Capital, Green Economy, Green Cars, Green Technology, California, Green News

The San Jose Business Times reported Thursday afternoon that the car company could not get the $100 million in venture capital it needed to build the ...

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Why Venture Capital is Key to Our Economic Recovery

Eric Hippeau | Posted 02.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Job Market, Venture Capital, VC Investment, Recession, Economy, Venture Capitalists, Business News
Eric Hippeau

The only source of new jobs in this economy will come from start-ups and existing small businesses. We need a lot of new businesses to pick up the slack. We need more venture capital.

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Too Big to Succeed

John Standerfer | Posted 02.23.2009 | Business

Read More: The Internet, The Great Depression, Fdic, Bankruptcy, Money, Economy, Bank of America, Websites, Venture Capital, Capitalism, Facebook, Taxpayers, Dotcom Crash, Superbowl Ads, Dot-Com Bust, Super Bowl Ads, Taxpayer Money, Youtube, Banks, Dotcom Boom, Dot-Com, Technology, Silicon Valley, Great Depression, Business News
John Standerfer

What we don't appear to understand yet is that no amount of money, time or regulation can possibly resolve this problem while a few banks continue to hold the entire nation hostage.

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Pelosi-Backed Loophole For Venture Capitalists Will Damage Middle Class Economy

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 02.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Fraud, Fortune 500, Small Business, Abuse, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Economy, Middle Class, Lloyd Chapman, Venture Capital, Loopholes, Karen Mills, President-Elect, Business News
Lloyd Chapman

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D - CA) is leading congressional support for a new loophole in federal contracting law that will allow some of the wealthi...

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ASBL's Lloyd Chapman Questions Whether Obama Stimulus Plan Will Favor Venture Capitalists

Chris Gunn | Posted 02.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Fraud, Bush Administration, Small Business, Lloyd Chapman, Exception Magazine, Abuse, Chris Gunn, Sba, Economic Stimulus, Venture Capital, American Small Business League, Loopholes, Barack Obama, US Chamber of Commerce, Business News
Chris Gunn

In a guest commentary published on The Exception Magazine's website, www.exceptionmag.com; the President and Founder of the American Small Business Le...

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Customer Disservice Spotlight On: Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers

Aaron Greenspan | Posted 01.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Computer Security, Michael Arrington, Venture Capital, Technology, Economy, Techcrunch, Business News
Aaron Greenspan

I am truly upset about this latest breach to take place involving my confidential information. It is shocking that a firm as wealthy and prominent as KPCB would have outsourced their information systems.

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Obama Appoints Venture Capital Executive to Head Small Business Administration

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 01.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Small Business Administration, Sba, Asbl, Nvca, MAPLight.Org, Venture Capital, National Venture Capital Association, Karen Mills, Barack Obama, Business News
Lloyd Chapman

President-elect Barack Obama has nominated Karen Gordon Mills as Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). Mills is president of...

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Alternative Energy Faces New Challenges

Green Inc. | Clifford Krauss | Posted 11.21.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Renewable Energy, Investment, Energy Politics, Financial Crisis, Government Policy, Venture Capital, Energy, Energy Business, Energy Economics, Alternative Energy, Green News

For all the support that the presidential candidates are expressing for renewable energy, alternative energies like wind and solar are facing big new ...

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"R.I.P. Good Times" -- Crisis Hits Startups

Silicon Alley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 11.09.2008 | Business

Read More: Tech Startups, Angel Investors, Finance, Economy, Startups, Venture Capital, Silicon Valley, Business News

Even the most blissed-out startup entrepreneur has got to have a sense of what's happened to the economy in the past few days -- and what that's going...

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Venture Capitalists Try to Buy Into Small Business Contracting Programs with Millions in Campaign Contributions

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 10.11.2008 | Business

Read More: Fortune 1000, Small Business, Small Business Administration, Economy, Fortune 500, Middle Class, Venture Capital, Venture Capital Industry, American Small Business League, National Venture Capital Assication, Business News
Lloyd Chapman

A new bill set to be voted on by the full Senate could be the beginning of the end for millions of small businesses nationwide. The bill, S. 3362, pas...

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Venture Capitalist Con Man Steals $20M, Convicted Of 22 Felony Counts

Bits | Claire Cain Miller | Posted 10.04.2008 | Business

Read More: Con Man, Con Job, Felony Theft, Moses Joseph, Venture Capital, Vc, Felony Fraud, Business News

The venture capital business is based on trust. Investors hand over money to a venture capitalist and trust that person to invest it wisely on their b...

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Google Goes Big for Geothermal

Josie Garthwaite | Posted 09.21.2008 | Green

Read More: Google, Energy, Alternative Energy, Microsoft, Green, Clean Technology, Geothermal Energy, Venture Capital, Silicon Valley, Green News
Josie Garthwaite

Google, Inc. announced plansto invest $10 million in an energy technology known as enhanced geothermal systems, or EGS.

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Senate Committee Votes to Give Government Small Business Contracts to Billionaire Venture Capitalists

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 08.08.2008 | Business

Read More: Fortune 500, Small Business, Economy, Middle Class, Asbl, Sbir, Venture Capital, Contracting, American Small Business League, Business News
Lloyd Chapman

Petaluma, Calif. - Yesterday, the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship passed S. 3362, the SBIR/STTR Reauthorization Act of 2008. T...

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Google Developing Venture Capital Arm, Maybe, Again: Report

CNET, Wall Street Journal | Posted 08.08.2008 | Business

Read More: Venture Capital, David Drummond, Google VC Arm, Google VC, Google, Business News

Google is revisiting efforts to create a venture capital arm, according to a report on The Wall Street Journal's Web site Wednesday night. Google sen...

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Where's China? Tech Gurus Can't Find it on the Map

Rebecca Fannin | Posted 08.05.2008 | Business

Read More: Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, Technology, China, Silicon Valley, China Silicon Valley, Silicon Dragon, Innovation, China Tech, Business News
Rebecca Fannin

China was missing from talk at two major conferences in the Bay Area. The Valley doesn't want to admit its tech dominance is being challenged by a country that just a few years was a manufacturer, not an inventor.

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Instant VC Money, Instant Blogging, Instant Interruption

Tim Berry | Posted 07.18.2008 | Business

Read More: Microblogging, Venture Capital, Twitter, Blogging, Posterous, Technology, Business News
Tim Berry

Posterous lets you automatically post pictures into an instantly obvious and usable blog-like interface. and it has the quickest and easiest setup I've ever seen, and, amazingly, it works.

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Dark Days For Venture Capitalists

The New York Times | Matt Richtel | Posted 07.09.2008 | Business

Read More: Venture Capital Decline, 2008 Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Venture Capitalists, Business News

As I reported Saturday, venture capitalists experienced a very poor second quarter. The industry's trade association said Tuesday that for the first t...

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