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March 2007
Amy Feldman |
Putting Founders First How one VC Firm coddles its CEOs.   |
InternetNews
January 18, 2008 |
Facebook Apps Vendor Slide Gets $50M in Funding Social network software maker Slide Inc, creator of several of the most popular software programs running on Facebook and MySpace, has closed a $50 million institutional financing round. |
BusinessWeek
February 3, 2011
Romesh Ratnesar |
Peter Thiel: 21st Century Free Radical Never mind enormous yachts: Peter Thiel, the iconoclastic, libertarian 43-year-old venture capitalist and macro-hedge-fund investor. is spending his billions on space travel, life extension, artificial intelligence, and paying top students not to go to college. |
Wired
April 2004
Gary Rivlin |
The Roots of Bust 2.0 Suddenly, venture capital is growing on trees. But the cash glut could crash the Valley again. |
BusinessWeek
September 16, 2010
Ari Levy |
Quid Takes the Lid Off Silicon Valley What are private tech startups doing? Quid software can help to pinpoint where innovation is happening, emerging trends, and who is funding them |
Investment Advisor
February 1, 2011
Jeff Joseph |
A Great (and Surprising) Venture Investment Source Many financial advisors are beginning to venture into venture. |
Inc.
February 2006
Darren Dahl |
Facing the Capital Gap There's plenty of capital out there. So why are so many companies struggling to raise money? |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 21, 2012
Garry Emmons |
How to Sink a Startup Noam Wasserman, author of the recently released book "The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup," discusses ill-advised entrepreneurial behavior. |
Fast Company
Alice Truong |
Move Over, Air Jordan: Celebrity-Branded Weed Is Here Come this time next year, dispensary shelves will have to make way for a new line of celebrity-branded marijuana strains. |
The Motley Fool
August 25, 2005 |
Venture Capitalists They're not in the news as much, but they're still around -- and important. |
Investment Advisor
July 2010
Jeff Joseph |
Venture Populist: Founder's Skin-in-the-Game Remember Jobs and Wozniak? Gates and Allen? Don't assume a founder's lack of committed capital to be a stumbling block to a venture's success. |
Fast Company
February 2011
Farhad Manjoo |
How "Super Angel" Investors Are Reinventing the Startup Economy By being smaller, faster, and less demanding of entrepreneurs than VCs, super angels are getting first dibs on the best new ideas. |
Entrepreneur
December 2002
C.J. Prince |
No Mercy Are VCs sucking the life out of your business? Maybe you're better off without them. |
Inc.
September 2007
Max Chafkin |
Who's Behind TheFunded.com? A new website lets entrepreneurs talk trash about their VCs. |
InternetNews
September 17, 2004
Colin C. Haley |
VC Resurgence Breathes More Life into IT Venture capitalists are raising and investing money again. What are they looking for and where? |
The Motley Fool
May 26, 2011
Tim Beyers |
Walk of Shame: Peter Thiel A plan to fund dropouts has serious drawbacks. Peter Thiel, Facebook's first outside investor, is using a portion of his estimated $1.5 billion fortune to fund young entrepreneurs who drop out to start a business. |
Fast Company
Vivian Giang |
Why The Few Women Venture Capitalists Often Give Up Only 2.7% of all venture-backed companies have a woman CEO. That's 183 out of 6,517 companies or $1.5 billion out of the $50.8 billion invested between 2011 and 2013. |
Inc.
November 2006
Max Chafkin |
Why Investors Are Suddenly So Secretive Why venture capitalists are increasingly choosing to keep their latest deals under wraps. |
Inc.
September 1, 2000
Thea Singer |
Where the Money Is Recent years have left venture capitalists awash in cash. Are start-ups getting more of it? |
BusinessWeek
May 9, 2005
Justin Hibbard |
Startup Millionaires Even Before the IPO These days private equity firms are buying entrepreneurs' stock before their companies reach Wall Street. And Internet ad companies are leading the trend. But not all VCs are thrilled about what's happening. |
Bio-IT World
April 2006
Michael A. Greeley |
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly VCs will not support a sector where consistent compelling exits are not evident. Unfortunately, the bio-IT field still suffers from this. |
BusinessWeek
August 16, 2004
Robert D. Hof |
"Please God, Just One More Bubble" Too many tech investors, from Wall Street to Sand Hill Road, seem to be ignoring why they crashed after the 1990s hit a dead end. Venture capitalists are pouring money into look-alike startups in nascent sectors and dot-com stocks look pricey. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2005
Stuck & Weingarten |
How Venture Capital Thwarts Innovation The tech bubble saw an explosion of VC-funded start-ups, but has more funding brought more innovation or less? You may be shocked, as they were, by what these researchers found. |
Entrepreneur
May 2003
C.J. Prince |
Ray of Hope? VCs are optimistic about the coming year but are still holding on to their purse strings. |
Fast Company
May 2005
Alison Overholt |
Venturing Forth Kathy Sherbrooke, co-founder of Circles, one of the few venture-backed companies on our list, on what she learned about going after venture capital. |
CIO
September 15, 2002
Gary Beach |
A New Pitch Startup tech CEOs may know technology, but they are clueless about marketing. |
BusinessWeek
December 5, 2005
Farzad & Elgin |
Googling For Gold With a market cap in orbit and more cash than a small nation, Google's heft is altering the tech industry's behavior. But when does its long-awaited shopping spree begin? |
Fast Company
Alice Truong |
Payments Startup Stripe Now Lets Users Get Paid In Any Currency Three weeks after closing an $80 million series C round to finance its international expansion, payments startup Stripe announced Tuesday it will support 130 additional currencies, on top of its existing four. |
HBS Working Knowledge
April 4, 2012 |
When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors In his new book, The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup, HBS Associate Professor Noam Wasserman tells readers how to anticipate, avoid, and, if necessary, recover from the landmines that can destroy a nascent company before it has the chance to thrive. |
Entrepreneur
September 2007
Chris Penttila |
I Spy a Secret Got a skeleton in your closet? Bring it out before seeking VC. Be forewarned, before VCs invest in you, they'll probably investigate you. But hey, you can investigate them right back. |
HBS Working Knowledge
February 20, 2006
Sarah Jane Gilbert |
Are Company Founders Underpaid? No one says the life of the entrepreneur is glamorous, at least in the start-up phase. But new research from Harvard Business School professor Noam Wasserman suggests below-market pay for company founders. |
CRM
July 2015
Marshall Lager |
Growing a New Market Business development for a different kind of cloud that includes marijuana. |
The Motley Fool
September 29, 2010
Anders Bylund |
Business Lessons of "The Social Network" A trip to the movies could teach you how (not) to start a tech titan. |
Bio-IT World
June 2005
Michael A. Greeley |
Who Wants to Be a VC? The objective is to stay relevant to a venture firm while the industry contracts. Develop the case that you can help create great companies (and great returns) because you have built a Rolodex and an ability to identify patterns of success. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
Meadow Launches A Cloud Platform For Marijuana Dispensaries A Y Combinator-backed startup is now offering a cloud-based SaaS (software as a service) management platform for California marijuana dispensaries. |
