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Venture Capitalists

Unhappy With Your Bank? Blame Silicon Valley

Patrice Peyret | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Mastercard, Credit Cards, Financial Services, Visa, Debit Cards, Venture Capitalists, Venture Capital, Business News
Patrice Peyret

Given the misdeeds of the banking industry, the financial services sector could make huge improvements simply by focusing on serving the ill-served with better, faster and cheaper products.

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A Second(ary) Chance for Venture Capital

Auren Hoffman | Posted 09.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Venture Capitalists, Venture Capitalism, Business News
Auren Hoffman

Troubled venture capitalists need to rethink how long they invest in startups; many should fund early and then sell to a secondary firm after a few years.

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Forget Ponzi Schemes: Try Venture Capital!

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 08.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, Technology, Marin County, Bubbles, Venture Capitalists, Start-Ups, Business News
<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

I asked an investment banking friend of mine how many VC deals he knew of in the tech sector over the last ten years. A thousand, he said. And how many are still around? I inquired. Three.

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SBA's Stimulus Lending is Tainted by Political Meddling

Jerry Chautin | Posted 08.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Cash Flow, Wachovia-Bank, Small Business Owners, Small Business, Borrowing Money, Venture Capitalists, Sba, Tweets, Credit Unions, Business News
Jerry Chautin

The credit markets are improving and the banks can sell the guaranteed portion of their SBA loans at premiums closer to what they got before the financial meltdown.

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Venture Capital: Innovation, or Big Business in Disguise?

Tim Berry | Posted 07.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Venture Capital, Sbir, Investment, American Small Business, Venture Capitalists, Business News
Tim Berry

Is venture capital new, innovative small business, or just big business disguised?

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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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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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26 Not-So-Bad Things About The Bad Economy

Pamela Redmond Satran | Posted 01.09.2009 | Style

Read More: Public Schools, Hedge Fund Managers, Venture Capitalists, Bad Economy, Banks, Brazilian Waxes, Fake Fur, Baby Name Trends, Green Living, Upper Class, Republican Party, Rich People Economic Crisis, Cash, Bottled Water, Style News
Pamela Redmond Satran

No need to hunt down the most distinctive artisanal cheese: Your new gastronomic thrill will be finding pork at 49 cents a pound. Agonizing over whether to get divorced? Don't bother, you can't afford it.

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Venture Capitalists Invest in Green

New York Times Magazine | Jon Gertner | Posted 11.06.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Al Gore, Sun Microsystems, I.P.O., Start-Ups, Capitalism, Ausra, Sunpower, Segway, Amyris, Think, Venture Capitalists, Environment, First Solar, Bloom Energy, Green Technology, Government Regulation, Silicon Valley, Green News

One afternoon last May in Menlo Park, Calif., a venture capitalist named Ray Lane led me from his office to the parking lot, where an automobile had b...

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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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Betting Big On Clean Energy

Wall Street Journal | Rebecca Buckman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Clean Energy, Biodiesel Fuel, Clean-Energy Investments, Eco-Friendly Drywall, Venture Capitalists, Venture Capitalism, Solar Panels, Business News

Venture capitalists have been pouring billions of dollars into "clean-energy" start-ups -- producers of solar panels, biodiesel fuel and even eco-frie...

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Start-Up Blows Through $300 Million In VC Cash

Los Angeles Times | Joseph Menn | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Hedge Funds, Ron Burkle, Venture Capitalists, Pay by Touch, Business News

The start-up Pay by Touch seemed close to a sure thing, with its futuristic approach to speeding shoppers through checkout lines while protecting thei...

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Report: Boston Is The New Silicon Valley

CNNMoney | Paul R. La Monica | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Dot-Com Startups, Venture Capitalists, Silicon Valley, Boston, Business News

Silicon Valley venture capitalists are looking far beyond their backyards for hot new dot-com startups according to figures from data provider Dow Jon...

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