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Marc Andreessen, co-founder of browser company Netscape, has raised $300m for a new venture capital fund in the midst of one of the leanest periods ever for the start-up financing business. The strong backing for one of Silicon Valley’s best-known ...
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CNET NewsAndreessen making leap from entrepreneur to VCThe Associated PressSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Having built and sold two technology startups for a combined $11.7 billion, Marc Andreessen is ready to take a stab at, well, ...Andreessen launches high-profile venture capital firmSan Jose Mercury NewsA Father of Netscape Begins a Silicon Valley Venture FirmNew York TimesMarc Andreessen Forms Boutique Venture Capital FirmWired NewsTMCnet...
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- Venture Capitalists Have Their Worst Quarter Since 1999 (feedburner.com)
- Buying Local May Not Be So Good for US VC Firms (researchrecap.com)
Former Sina (Nasdaq:SINA) chief technology officer (CTO) Li Songbo has joined venture capital company Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) as a partner, reports zero2ipo.com.cn referencing DFJ's website. Li joined Sina in 1998.
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- DFJ And Cisco Gives 4 Singapore Startups Chance At USD 0.25M And Mentorship (sgentrepreneurs.com)
- The Daily Start-Up: The Revolving VC Door (search.live.com)
Two years ago Yael Hochberg, Alexander Ljungqvist and Yang Lu wrote a paper called “Whom you know matters: Venture Capital Networks and Investment Performance.“ This may seem obvious, but their research is very interesting. Erick Schonfeld’s piece today titled, “The Top 100 Networked Venture Capitalist” explores the paper’s findings. He notes the top ten VCs [...]
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And His Unusual Way Of Turning Them Into Businesses Y Combinator a revolutionary venture firm that speciializes in funding early stage startups. 40 or so young entrepreneurs spend months together boot camp style developing their ideas into businesses. In addition...
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- hypebot: The Kind Of Music Startups One Venture Capitalist Would ... (blogsearch.google.com)
LogMeIn, which offers on demand remote access software, goes public today at $16 a share and is getting a nice round of applause from the folks following the venture capital world. After all, LogMeIn raised $107.2 million or so in a stock market that stinks.
The Wall Street Journal says hats off to Integral Capital Partners, [...]
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A new report from the Kauffman Foundation says venture capitalists need to stop whining and take a long look in the mirror when analyzing their financial problems.The report says VCs are spreading themselves thin, pumping too much cash into too many companies. The VCs have been blaming failing IT startups, ...(122 words)
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As another VC funded company - Jaxtr - goes down the toilet:
Hotmail Founder Sabeer Bathia has bought Jaxtr a VoIP startup for an undisclosed amount. Sources said Bhatia paid “just peanuts.”
Jaxtr was a bad business idea from the beginning. It entered a crowded market with low margins. However, venture capitalists such as Mayfield Fund, August [...]
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The fact that microblogging service Twitter has yet to make any money has not deterred a slew of entrepreneurs launching startups based around it. Neither, it seems, has it deterred venture capitalists from investing in said companies; an impressive US$23 million so far been pumped into eleven new Twitter-based companies by VCs and angel investors, [...]
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Venture capitalists that invest in health care are increasingly moving into growth-equity investing, sinking large sums into companies to help them supercharge sales or buy competitors. While traditional health care VCs bet on drugs or medical ...
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