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- DailyBooth Raises $1 Million For Photo Social Network
- DailyBooth, a nine-month-old social network that lets users share photos in real-time, has raised $1 million in a round of funding from a group of big name investors and VC firms, according to the WSJ. Investors include VC firm Sequoia Capital, tech investor and incubator Betaworks, Digg co-founder Kevin...
- External links 2009-10-19
- Complex Venture Capital Deals Require More Than A Little Knowledge
- When it comes to structuring a venture capital deal, "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing." This article emphasizes upon raising venture capital, selecting a venture capital firm and then structuring a deal. The terms of a venture capital deal are more complex than the terms for most other forms...
- White papers 2001-03-01
- Added Value - What Do Start-Ups Really Want From Their VCs Today?
- In the years since the bubble burst, the venture capital landscape has changed dramatically. According to this report, the portfolio companies are demanding much broader skill sets and service offerings from venture capital firms and capital is no longer enough. Leading venture capital firms now avoid the practice of transaction...
- White papers 2004-08-26
- Organizing Venture Capital: The Rise and Demise of American Research & Development Corporation, 1946-1973
- This paper analyzes the evolution of the early and influential VC firm, American Research & Development Corporation ARD, in the period that it was independent from 1946-1973. The paper places the creation and subsequent evolution of ARD within its historical context and shows how it was an innovation by Boston-area...
- White papers 2004-12-01
- A New Empirical Study of Grandstanding in the Venture Capital Industry
- Grandstanding is the act by a venture capitalist of taking a firm public prematurely in order to obtain a reputation. This paper examines the grandstanding hypothesis with data from a more current period, 1992-2001, and for another industry, the communications industry. The firm age at the time of its IPO...
- White papers 2003-01-30
- Human Capital and the Internationalization of Venture Capital Firms
- This paper examines the neglected area of internationalisation by VCs venture capital. Using a representative sample of 195 VCs, one shows that the decision of a European VC firm to invest internationally is driven by its human resources. Having more VC executives in general and more VC executives with previous...
- White papers 2006-01-01
- Selection in Corporate Venturing
- This paper argues that the ability to select more profitable ventures while at the same time avoid selecting away promising ventures is dependent on not only the choice of selection strategies but increasingly on the corporate venture firms' selection capacity. This capacity is largely a function of the committed participation...
- White papers 2005-05-04
- How To Open A Business Using Venture Capital Funds
- There are a lot of companies who have smaller divisions underneath its umbrella. Sometimes, the only way for a company to expand is with the help of an entrepreneur. As a result, the investor becomes a capital venture firm who will be doing this not only to jumpstart something new...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Oops. Kleiner Perkins Accidentially Publishes iFund Submissions Online
- If you or your company submitted your information to Kleiner Perkins to be considered for an investment from the VC firm's $100 million iFund, you might want to see if your information has been leaked. Names, phone numbers, email addresses, business plans and bios from 588 applicants were accidentally...
- External links 2008-12-03
- Rustic Canyon Sells Part of Its Portfolio To Give Liquidity To Chandler Family, Its LP
- A crazy but true story, along with a strange co-incidence: Rustic Canyon RC, one of the largest VC firms in Southern California and invested in a bunch of digital media companies, has sold off a part of its portfolio to Saints Capital, a San Francisco-based VC firm which specializes...
- External links 2008-12-09
- IBM to push for innovation in Vietnam
- IBM is targeting Vietnam as a key market for investments and partnerships with venture capital firms. The IT giant plans to open an innovation centre in Ho Chi Minh City, which will focus on development and marketing of new technologies across the banking, telecoms, energy and...
- Articles 2009-05-21
- LoveFilm considers takeover offers
- LoveFilm, the online DVD rental firm that is part-owned by Amazon, is reportedly considering takeover offers from a number of private equity firms including KKR and Silver Lake Partners. The company is reportedly being valued at GBP200m (USD325m) and is considering options that include selling a majority share of...
- Articles 2009-06-14
- VC Industry In Trouble But PIPEs May Save the Day --- For Some
- Battered by the slump in global markets, venture-capital firms and their private-equity counterparts are turning to investments in public companies, usually as PIPE -- private investments in public equity -- investors. It may be the only bright part for VCs these days, as the global recession has slowed new financings...
- Blog posts 2009-04-16
- What Happens When Venture Funds Dry Up?
- The recent announcement by cloud software vendor Workday that it has raised $74 million in venture capital notwithstanding, venture funding has slowed considerably over recent months and from the looks of things, VCs may be more likely to close up shop than fund new companies. While that means tech ventures...
- Blog posts 2009-05-04
- Angels Go Where VCs Fear To Tread
- Paul Kedrosky got a lot of attention yesterday for a paper he wrote showing that venture funds are not providing investors with enough returns and suggesting that the venture capital industry should essentially right-size itself by half. The sector must shrink its way back to health if venture capital...
- Blog posts 2009-06-11
- Hobbled by Recession, Cleantech Still Takes the Investment Crown
- Venture investors love cleantech, to the point of investing more there than they do any other industry, including biotech and the internet. That's the latest word from the Cleantech Group and Deloitte, which track investments in the sector on a quarterly basis. Granted, the word "cleantech" has...
- Blog posts 2009-09-30
- What Do VC Firms Have in Common With High School Cliques?
- New research from the Kellogg School of Management finds that in the world of VC firms, there are established cliques (the cool kids, if you will) and new kids, or new firms, trying to find their way into the cliques. by Stacy Blackman
- Blog posts 2009-11-20
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- RepeatSeat Strengthens Management Team With Addition of New Vice President Finance and Chief Financial Officer.
- CALGARY, ALBERTA, Sep 10, 2007 CCNMatthews via COMTEX -- RepeatSeat Ltd. ("RepeatSeat") (TSX VENTURE:RPS), a North American leader in providing entertainment solutions is pleased to announce that Dan Gerritsen has joined the company in the role of Vice President Finance and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Gerristen...
- Research articles 2007-09-10
- DONGFENG PEUGEOT CITROEN AUTO FINANCE FIRM TO OPEN IN JULY
- AsiaInfo Services 06-06-2006 Dongfeng Peugeot Citroen Auto Finance Firm to Open in July WUHAN, Jun 06, 2006 SinoCast via COMTEX -- The automobile finance joint venture of Dongfeng Peugeot Citroen Automobile Co., Ltd., PSA Peugeot Citroen, and the Bank of China...
- Research articles 2006-06-06
- BIRLA TO INJECT US$10 MLN INTO INDIAN HOME FINANCE JV.
- NEW DELHI, Sept 3 Asia Pulse - The German housing company BHW Holdings and K K Birla group will inject Rs 500 million (US$10.3 million) equity into their 50:50 joint venture Birla Home Finance and plan to raise funds from multi-lateral agencies like the Asian Development Bank ADB and International...
- Research articles 2002-09-03
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