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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. |
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Springing Back It's not a mirage. The end to the long VC investment dry spell is within your reach... |
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Investment Without Injury VC investors should know when to limit their involvement - and entrepreneurs should stand firm on where to draw the line. |
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Think Like a VC, Act Like An Entrepreneur Getting employees to adopt both an entrepreneur's bias for action and a venture capitalist's talent for hard-nosed analysis is a challenge. But no one said excellence was easy. |
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CEOs Are From Mars, VCs Are From Venus It's official: CEOs ans VCs see everything differently. |
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Seeing Green Signaling the end of the VC drought, several industries have become fertile ground for investors. So what's the best way to find the right investor--even if you're not in one of those superstar sectors? Start with our 4th Annual VC 100. |
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Ready, Set, Flow Optimistic entrepreneurs are testing the VC waters now that the market's future looks brighter. |
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Introducing VC 2.0 Even as many venture capitalists shy away from start-ups, a handful of dissidents from bigger investment houses have started new funds to fill the capital gap - and to pursue the home-run returns that made VCs famous in the first place. Here are two of the upstarts. |
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In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together A recent study finds that venture capitalists have a strong tendency to team up with other VCs whose ethnic and educational backgrounds are similar to their own. |
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Where the Money Is Recent years have left venture capitalists awash in cash. Are start-ups getting more of it? |
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The Voices of Venture Capital 4 leading venture capitalists offer their takes on the ups and downs of VC investment, what captures their attention and the best ways to seek out VC money. |
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Focused Fundraising Not getting much attention from VC firms? Be choosy about who you're trying to attract. |
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Is Your VC Into You? Know how to discern whether your VC gets it or if its time to look for financing elsewhere. |
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Angel in Waiting Professional VCs and individual angel investors appear to have a growing preference for later-stage growth investments over seed stage opportunities. |
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Small Towns, Big Money Looking for capital? a new study shows that small towns might just be a VC paradise. |
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The Man Behind the VC Slagfest at TheFunded.com Reveals Himself to Wired This community site allows startups to anonymously review and rank venture capital firms. The founder of the site discusses the process and purpose behind it's creation. |
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Facing the Capital Gap There's plenty of capital out there. So why are so many companies struggling to raise money? |
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Something Ventured, Something Gained CIOs and venture capitalists are back together. VCs are eager for CIOs' insights on startups. CIOs get access to and influence over the latest technology. |
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Why Investors Are Suddenly So Secretive Why venture capitalists are increasingly choosing to keep their latest deals under wraps. |
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Know When to Walk Away Don't ask venture capitalists for referrals if they say they're not interested. |
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Google's Creative Destruction Venture-capital firms have been the engine of the United States' innovation economy. At Google Ventures, the search giant's investing arm, Google thinks it can build a better one. |
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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. |
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Money Blogs If you're looking for funding, try browsing the blogosphere. A small but growing number of VC managers have blogs, which can help entrepreneurs easily research and connect with funders. |
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VCs Fill IBM's R&D Pipeline Big Blue is increasingly using VCs to help identify hot markets, bolster industry-specific offerings and fill gaps in its R&D efforts. |
