Management fees keep VCs rolling in it -- for now [Jackpot] (2)
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Total compensation for venture capitalists and other private-equity managers was up 32.3 percent in 2007 over 2006, a new study reports. How can this be? Private equity is just as bogged down as the public markets by the credit crunch. For the Sand Hill Road contingent, there wasn't a single tech IPO in the second quarter. Acquisitions were down too. If VCs don't unload their companies on someone — public investors, or larger companies — ...
Globalive Pledges to Launch Canadian Cellular Service in Mid-2009 (2)
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The CBC ran a headline that's sure to please many Canadians - "New cellphone carrier launching in 2nd half of 2009". That new carrier is Globalive, who bought $442 millon of the Canadian wireless spectrum in the recent auction, covering every province except Québec. They aim to start next year in five cities: Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, and Ottawa. Of course, building out a national cellular network requires lots of money and IT World Canada ...
Art Of Raising Venture Capital (1)
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Guy Kawasaki, the guy behind Art of the Start, has some video clips with tips on raising venture capital for early stage startups. He takes 15 minutes to deliver his "top 5" tips: Make sure VC is right for you. Most deals are suitable for VC for reasons that have to do with VC and not the company. Capture attention in 15 seconds. There's a long story about Hot-or-Not to deliver this point. Offer a ...
DreamIT Funding Day Final Recap (1)
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Yesterday I traveled to Philadelphia to attend the DreamIT Ventures Funding Day. Eleven startups presented their ideas and pitched their concepts for funding. Several hundred people attended the event and the event went off without a hitch. Most of the presentations were very good and I was actually quite impressed with many of the company ideas. Here is a list of the companies who presented plus a link to our coverage: Vuzit (our coverage) DropCard ...
Mobile marketer Vibes Media nabs $15 million in funding, hunts for acquisitions (2)
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In another sign that interest in mobile advertising is perking up, Chicago-based mobile marketing company Vibes Media announced $15 million in a first round of funding today. Never mind that it’s still hard to point to a single company that has been able to go public based on mobile advertising. That’s coming, supposedly. The privately held decade-old company plans to use the funding to acquire smaller fish in the market, as well as to scale ...
Web2People - the Russian YCombinator (1)
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I talked a while back to Gleb Kaplun, a Russian investor from St. Petersburg, about their company Web2People. We followed up on that and I got really excited with the possibilities it creates. Web2People is a venture company established to help young innovators start their business with the very basic resources and fundamentals. The focus on the innovation is on Internet services and web applications. Web2People offers companies the physical office space and resources to ...
The Art of Raising Venture Capital (36)
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These videos are my recent attempt to explain the art of raising venture capital. They are part of the Montgomery & Hansen online learning site and conference. For example, to learn about financing agreements and the term-sheet process, click here. Click on these links for up-to-date information about venture capital, startups, and pitching.
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Rick Umali said:
Amazingly, this is the first time I've ever heard Guy speak. Not sure why I haven't before. This is just a splendid set of videos. He's inspiring and great!
Open Systems, Open Data, Transparency (14)
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Hank Williams points out that the front page of the Angelsoft website is really great. For those that don't know Angelsoft is a free web service that many angel investors use to manage their deal flow. We've looked into using it to manage our deal flow and I wish we could use it, but we don't currently. Hank and his commenters mostly focus on the twittervision style map on the front page that shows the ...
Calling Bay Area Investors: Seattle Entrepreneurs Want To See More of You, and Help Build Your Brand (1)
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Venture Capital, deals, innovation Gregory T. Huang wrote: Lately I’ve been hearing from the tech-startup community about the need to get venture capitalists from the San Francisco Bay Area to spend more time in Seattle—and with the companies they invest in here. The topic first came up during a coffee chat with Kevin Merritt, founder and CEO of the social-database site Blist. (Back in February, his company raised a $6.5 million Series A round from ...
Promising Angel Funding Service (2)
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Angelsoft has released a new service which allows entrepreneurs to seek funding from their network of angel investors. Angelsoft is used by almost 400 angel investor groups to manage deals from the pitch through funding and until exit. Now they have a new service that allows entrepreneurs to "insert" their deal into the pipeline. The service sounds promising.
Is Y Combinator the University of Internet Startups? (23)
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There was interesting talk about venture capitalists and their role in Internet startups last week. It started with a post by John Casasanta of Taptaptap simply entitled “Fuck the VCs.” Responses from Hacker News and John Furrier, among others, led to a lot of heated debate over the role and significance of venture capital. Although I clearly cannot provide justice to the topic of venture capital in one or even a thousand articles, I did ...
Angelsoft Launches Version 3.0 With Access to Over 400 Angel Investment Groups (2)
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Editor's note: This news was embargoed for 9am but the news hit the wire at 7am so we will post now. NY-based Angelsoft is announcing the launch of version 3.0 of their angel funding platform. The new version connects entrepreneurs to over 400 angel funding groups across the world. Angelsoft offers entrepreneurs a common submission form for funding and the software determines which angels to send the application to. There's an interesting Google Maps mashup ...
AngelSoft: Aggregates 400 Angel Investors : SOMEWHAT FRANK (3)
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If you are an entrepreneur looking for a little funding to get your startup going there are a number of incubator programs that I have covered previously like Y Combinator, TechStars and LaunchBox Digital that could help get you started. But if you have already participated in an incubator or you are looking for a little more than what an incubator can offer you might want to look for an angel investor. If you do ...
The dynamics of innovation (2)
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A lot has been written over the past few days about Judy Estrin's concern about declining innovation in the USA and Silicon Valley. While I agree with some of the quoted issues underlying the declined such as the quality of our education system and how the Federal research budget is administered, I (like others it seems) believe that innovation is alive and thriving in the US. But as the NY Times article quoted Vint Cerf ...
¿Que hacer después de vender su empresa? (1)
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Charlando con varios amigos colegas emprendedores que hicieron su “cash out” al vender la compañía que habían fundado, hice un pequeño research para averiguar “que es lo que están haciendo o que harían despues de vender su empresa”. Bueno, llegué a la conclusión que existen 6 perfiles (que a su vez pueden ser híbridos y optar por la combinación de varios caminos): 1. El Retirado Es el caso de el que se cansó de trabajar, ...
SpeedDate takes $6M to get geeks laid [Geek Love] (3)
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For its work in turning millions of singles into camgirls and camboys for the sake of a hookup, dating site SpeedDate took in a $6M series B funding round from Menlo Ventures today. You remember, the folks who got poor Eric Eldon from VentureBeat three minutes in video heaven with deathcaster Sarah Austin? With SpeedDate claiming to setup 100,000 dates per day, you're less likely to run into the blogger early adopters lured in to ...
SpeedDate takes $6M to get geeks laid [Geek Love] (1)
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For its work in turning millions of singles into camgirls and camboys for the sake of a hookup, dating site SpeedDate took in a $6M series B funding round from Menlo Ventures today. You remember, the folks who got poor Eric Eldon from VentureBeat three minutes in video heaven with deathcaster Sarah Austin? With SpeedDate claiming to setup 100,000 dates per day, you're less likely to run into the blogger early adopters lured in to ...
Venture Capital and the Modern Startup - Building a Company is a Team Sport (4)
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A post today called Fuck the VCs caught my attention. I’ve been a full time entrepreneurs for over 10 years now and have tons of experience with VCs. Heck alot of my friends are VCs - “not that there is anything wrong wit that”. The fact is that VCs have lost their abiity to do early stage deals at scale. My good friend Scott Rafer makes a great point - their behavior is more around ...
