Founders: Bid for pitch slots with Tim Draper, Kleiner Perkins, Khosla Ventures, and more VCs

How much would you donate to charity to have a private pitch meeting with your favorite venture capitalist?

Old World startups peddle their products to New World investors

Mind the Bridge held its first ever demo day where six European startups brought their ideas and products to Silicon Valley.

Venture capitalist Tim Draper: ‘We are not the home of the free, land of the brave anymore’

Legendary venture capitalist Tim Draper is worried about America running out of heroes. And he's not talking about Superman or the Hulk.

BoostFunder reveals first featured list of companies

Adam Draper, carrying on his family’s multi-generation venture capital legacy, recently launched BoostFunder, an online marketplace where startups and investors can meet to facilitate the investment process. Now that the company is off and running, it has divulged its first …

China’s online encyclopedia Hudong.com raising $50M round

Referred to as China’s Wikipedia, Hudong.com is a Chinese-language online encyclopedia. The company is reportedly raising a $50 million third round of funding, sources told Fortune.

Created in 2005, Hudong.com calls itself the world’s largest Chinese-language wiki with 6.4 million …

Group-gifting tool Giftiki lets Facebook friends chip in for a present

For many people, a simple “Happy Birthday” on a friend’s Facebook wall is enough. But a startup called Giftiki is launching a new group gift-giving tool Monday to make a birthdays a bigger deal using Facebook.

The idea behind the …

Reader poll: Which pundit best summed up the stock market slide?

The pundits were out in force today as they described the big drop in the stock market. Which quote was your favorite?

“Markets will rise and fall, but this is the United States of America,” Barack Obama said. “No matter …

Silicon Valley VC Tim Draper: “U.S. just dropped a notch”

The biggest question on every mind in Silicon Valley relates to our collective worst nightmare: Could a macroeconomic collapse trigger another dotcom-esque bust?

For at least one VC, Draper Fisher Jurvetson partner Tim Draper, the market for U.S. startups just …

Instagram gets new competition from photo sharing app Streamzoo

Fuzzy, retro-filtered photo sharing is starting to look like a real business. Now Streamzoo is going after the virally popular Instagram with an updated, multi-platform version of its photo-sharing app, released today.

The Streamzoo team stopped by VentureBeat last week …