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The Motley Fool
May 4, 2010
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Behind the Scenes at Google Ventures: The Full Q&A With Bill Maris In-depth coverage of Google's new venture capital arm: Google Ventures. Their goal is to invest at least $100 million a year into startups and new ventures.   |
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
November 3, 2010
Brad Stone |
The New New Andreessen With Andreessen Horowitz, visionary entrepreneur Marc Andreessen is trying to reinvent himself as a top-tier venture capitalist and world-class power broker. |
BusinessWeek
July 2, 2009
Spencer E. Ante |
Andreessen Readies a New Venture Capital Firm The Silicon Valley star's company has attracted lots of interest, and $300 million. Can he deliver with his innovative approach? |
InternetNews
March 31, 2009
David Needle |
Google Launches $100M Venture Fund In an economy that has seen IPOs disappear, Google starts a venture fund. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
August 4, 2008
Tim Beyers |
How to Get Google's Billions Is the Big G becoming a VC? |
BusinessWeek
July 19, 2004
Justin Hibbard |
Fresh Seed In The Valley After a long drought, small VC firms are popping up to fund startups |
Inc.
December 2004
Michelle Leder |
Main Street VCs Most venture capitalists prefer to be within an hour's drive of their investments, but that's beginning to change. Is a new breed of venture capital, coming soon to a town near you? |
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? |
Entrepreneur
July 2004 |
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. |
Fast Company
January 2003
Katharine Mieszkowski |
Back to the Garage Silicon Valley optimists say that now is a great time to start a new business. Everything's cheap, there's surplus talent, and as the veterans will tell you, "The tourists have all gone home." |
Fast Company
Pavithra Mohan |
Google Wanted To Invest In Uber So Badly, It Gave CEO Travis Kalanick A Blank Term Sheet Bill Maris, the president of Google Ventures, says he started trying to invest in Uber as early as 2011. |
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? |
InternetNews
October 21, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Joe Kraus, CEO, JotSpot Excite co-founder Joe Kraus is addicted to startups. His latest aims to make application development easy enough for everyone. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
April 21, 2011
Douglas MacMillan |
Educational Tech Gets a Second Look Venture funds are spending big on educational tech startups as broadband networks and digital devices reach more students. |
Inc.
September 1, 2000
D. M. Osborne |
A Network of Her Own Women who are entrepreneurs have always found it tougher to raise money than their male counterparts have. New kinds of support and a new breed of investor are starting to even the score... |
Inc.
September 2007
Max Chafkin |
Who's Behind TheFunded.com? A new website lets entrepreneurs talk trash about their VCs. |
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. |
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. |
HBS Working Knowledge
May 2, 2005
Roberts & Barley |
Four VCs on Evaluating Opportunities What makes for the ideal entrepreneurial opportunity? Four venture capitalists explain how they evaluate potential investments. |
Entrepreneur
July 2010
Gwen Moran |
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. |
CIO
September 15, 2011
Tom Kaneshige |
Mobile Startups: Tip of the Iceberg, Say Venture Capitalists At this week's DEMO Fall 2011, mobile startups trying to bridge the physical and digital worlds often didn't aim high enough and received mixed reviews from venture capitalists and former entrepreneurs. |
Entrepreneur
May 2005
John F. Ince |
Back in Black The Venture Capital industry is fattening up again -- but what does this mean for the entrepreneur? For the short term anyway, an increase in the supply of available capital. |
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? |
CIO
March 15, 2003
Christopher Lindquist |
Betting on the Smart Money Venture capital still flows for good ideas. |
Entrepreneur
July 2006 |
Doing the Numbers VC funding had another fruitful year, nurturing young and established companies alike. |
Entrepreneur
February 2009
Carol Tice |
European VC Firms Investing in U.S. The VC community overseas is smaller than the U.S., but it is looking for U.S.-based companies. |
InternetNews
October 5, 2007
Larry Barrett |
Data Management, Virtualization Top VC Wish List Innovation within the software industry combined with the astounding success of VMware's IPO has venture capitalists looking high and low for the next great software company. |
HBS Working Knowledge
January 26, 2004
Stark & Lagace |
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital What is it like today for women entrepreneurs in their quest for venture capital funding? In an interview, Harvard professor Myra M. Hart shares her latest research and ideas. |
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. |
CFO
November 1, 2002
Alix Nyberg |
Acquiring for Cash With IPOs out of the question, some venture capital-backed companies buy entities for their liquid assets. |
BusinessWeek
October 13, 2003
Steve Hamm |
Silicon Valley's Blurry Ethical Vision Even after a purge of tech-bubble excesses, the incestuous business culture where CEOs and VCs mingle too closely persists. |
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. |
Entrepreneur
June 2004
Amanda C. Kooser |
How Tech Got Its Groove Back After the dotcom bust, the tech industry is picking itself up and dusting itself off for another dance--with the help of some innovative entrepreneurs. |
Entrepreneur
February 2007
Crystal Detamore-Rodman |
VCs Want in on Your Hot New Company The latest VC trend: Early stage investing is on the rise. |
Entrepreneur
May 2004
C.J. Prince |
Ready, Set, Flow Optimistic entrepreneurs are testing the VC waters now that the market's future looks brighter. |
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? |
Entrepreneur
December 2009
Jennifer Wang |
Dearly Beloved, Please Send Cash A Palo Alto company found a new way to raise venture capital: Get married. |
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. |
Fast Company
February 2015
Butler & Tischler |
The Startup Revolution Is About To Surge Again What would it look like if big companies opened up their assets -- their brands, relationships, and distribution channels -- and partnered with founders to monetize them in new ways? |
BusinessWeek
July 4, 2005
Justin Hibbard |
Why All That VC Cash Is Causing Jitters A surfeit of money could drive up the costs of startups, and depress returns. |
Registered Rep.
March 20, 2013
Kador & Cohen |
The Devilish Details of Angel Investing Angel investing can be fraught with peril -- for both the investor and the entrepreneur. But the devil's in the details. Here's a guide for mixing business with family and friends. |
Fast Company
March 2005
Jena McGregor |
Best Business Blogs: Venture Capital An expanded list favorite blogs many VCs enjoy. |
HBS Working Knowledge
February 2, 2009
Sarah Jane Gilbert |
The Success of Persistent Entrepreneurs When it comes to entrepreneurship, nothing says success like a track record of previous wins. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Venture Capitalists: More Caution, More Due Diligence, More Diversity Venture money is out there, but it will be staying more and more with entrepreneurs who have better grounding, better products and at least a modicum of a track record... |
Entrepreneur
October 2009
Brad Feld |
Lines of Communication Should you let your employees talk directly to your VCs? |
CIO
June 15, 2005
Christopher Lindquist |
Speed Dating for Startup Dollars The software industry group's annual Investment Conference for Private Companies focuses on small software companies eager for funding from an attentive audience of venture capitalists. For IT people, it offers a quick look at technologies that could prove valuable to their companies. |
The Motley Fool
June 21, 2010
Thong Le |
SF and Silicon Valley: Drop the Incrementalism and Invest in True Innovation For venture capitalists, this means backing ideas that may be more long-term (sometimes beyond the typical 3-5 year time horizon) and risky, supporting business models that may (at first) be unclear. |
