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After speaking with a number of fellow “hustlers” (fellow fundraising CEOs), I was able to amass an awesome list of classic messages people have received from investors after initial contact or initial pitch. As the title implies, below are 25 …
Guest Post Our company has pitched to VCs many times this past year to raise capital. After much fine-tuning, we put together a colorful investment infographic on a handout, which has helped in getting VCs' attention.
Car buyers are notoriously fond of focusing only on the purchase price of new vehicles, without much thinking about the total cost of ownership.
For electric cars that may cost twice or more what a similar-size gasoline vehicle does, that’s …
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Yesterday morning I read Peter Yared’s provocative article, ‘What’s next for mobile now that adaptive design has failed?’ which is based entirely on the misassumption that mobile users don’t scroll. If that were true, the reasoning might be valid, but …
Like nerve endings which translate senses into electrical impulses in your nervous system, sensors can translate the physical world into the digital. In the process, they can help humans become more aware of ourselves.
The “quantified self” is an increasingly …
Update 5/28: See below for another recent IPO that did even worse, although at a much smaller market cap.
Facebook’s first five days as a public company saw its value drop 13.1 percent, the worst first-week performance of any initial …
Similar to the way that hardcore PC enthusiasts overclock their CPUs to squeeze out extra performance, Ford is preparing a car with an “overclocked” turbocharger.
The 2013 Ford Focus ST will have a turbo that provides extra power for longer …
Every year, my family looks forward to Maker Faire, a family-friendly celebration of DIY mayhem, with eager anticipation. But when venture capitalists get involved in the maker movement, you know something new is afoot.
One such VC is Brad Feld, …
Updated 5/22/2012: This funding is not Vidyo’s fifth round, but rather an extension of its fourth round. A few details about the company’s technology have also been corrected in the story below.
Video conferencing and telepresence company Vidyo has raised …
Google chief executive Larry Page appears on PBS show “Charlie Rose” this evening at 11 p.m. local time.
In the show, Page addresses a wide range of topics, starting with today’s surprising news that Chrome is now the most popular …
Inventory management is a boring term for what is actually the central question of any small business: How much stuff do I have left to sell, and where the @$%& is it?
Stitch Labs, an inventory management tool for small …
Facebook began trading on the public markets for the first time today, and at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., excitement levels were high. Here's a look inside.
Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, one of Silicon Valley’s most storied venture capital firms, has closed its fifteenth investment fund.
The company announced today that it has raised $525 million for KPCB 15, which will invest in “early-stage digital consumer …
For a small Portland, Ore.-based startup, AppFog has managed to build a huge fan base.
AppFog offers a platform-as-a-service for developers building web applications. What that means in simple terms is that if you’ve got a program you want to …
People often say Silicon Valley is not like the rest of the world. We’re more tolerant of failure, embrace risk-taking more eagerly, get more enthusiastic about technical solutions, and have a huge, deep pool of engineering and marketing talent to …
Guest Post This is the first in a series of VentureBeat columns by award-winning author and serial entrepreneur Penelope Trunk. She's going to be our startup critic: She'll review new companies, point out what they're doing right, and give them advice (which she's never shy about anyway) for how they can improve. Her first company is Browsemob.
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The venture-backed financial services industry continues to evolve and grow at a rapid pace as investors continue to fuel industry change. There are several recent VC investment trends in financial services, including trying to capitalize on the social media phenomenon, …
It’s not a good week to be the head of a publicly-traded company — if you like playing fast and loose with the rules, that is.
The same weekend that Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson resigned after a false claim on …
Minted founder and chief executive Mariam Naficy knows how to fill a room.
Some of Silicon Valley’s most powerful executives showed up, together with supermodel Christy Turlington, for the launch of Minted‘s new art prints business, in Naficy’s San Francisco …
Mechanical Turk is Amazon’s army of pieceworkers, ready to help you blend computation with human tasks in web apps.
What I didn’t know is that MTurk is also a powerful tool for testing and refining ideas. I learned this while …
