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What's next for Venture Capital?

Since things have been rather slow on the VC front, IPO market, a lot of theories are going around about what is the next thing for VCs? What are they looking for and where are they willing to put their more...
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RIP: VC Keith Benjamin

Silicon Valley has lost a valuable friend and mentor in the form of VC Keith Benjamin. Still in the prime of his life, Keith suffered from subdural heamatoma, a form of brain injury from which he did more...
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Why Silicon Valley Should Worry

Om Malik expounds forth about the short term memory problem of Silicon Valley (an old problem no doubt, remember?). He says that the signs are very foreboding and sombre. Things are not at all looking more...
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Glum VCs mull over the startup horizon

The startup crisis (hey, didn't you know there was one?) is growing larger. On the heels of the recent spate of news that exits are going south and there was not a single IPO in the last quarter, VCs more...
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A VC muses: The Death of Stealth Mode

Josh Kopelman writes about the recent spate of blog posts and news items about lawyers and the current fashion of bashing them and wonders if there is a clear death of the stealth mode among startups thanks more...
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Changing Startup Culture: Ning, Twitter Viral VC Ventures

Donna Bogatin writes that of the Ning assumption that visions of fast-growing, highly scalable, multi-billion dollar viral (not so serendipitous) hits must be highly financed if the end-game of a lucrative more...
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VCs slowing down?

Inspite of a one-day sunshine and smiles in Wall Street that the economic woes are over, it appears that the VCs are heading for the cellars and things do not look good for the startup community. This more...
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VCs: Like Your Mother Without the Hugs

Stacey Higginbotham is going into some interesting details shared anonymously by a NVCA member about the results of research conducted by Research Data Technology on VCs and how they are perceived by entreprene more...
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A Start-Up Says It Can Answer - Deal or No Deal for Startups

Stirring up a lot of scepticism and past history of failed attempts by others, Kirill Makharinsky, 21, and Bob Goodson, 27, call their software a “start-up predictor,” and they say their company, YouNoodle. more...
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VC firms invest US $540 Million in Indian startups

Venture capitalists invested $543 million in 98 Indian deals during 2007, according to Venture Intelligence, an Indian-based VC and private equity tracking firm, found that the 2007 investment total was more...
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