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Apparently mobile content is hot -- $16 million hot -- and travel to and within Russia needs a $25 million dollar improvement ... all in March 27's funding daily.
Everyone wants to have a piece of the mobile pie, but which venture capitalists are actually succeeding?
Venture capitalists gave out over $20 million in funding last year, a ten percent increase over 2011, according to new data from Thompson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association.
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Is finding funding really all that different from finding love?
I recently had the opportunity to attend VC in the OC at the Hyatt Regency in Huntington Beach. This one-day event featured a mix of panels and keynote speakers, culminating …
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It’s safe to say that growing up I never thought I’d be a VC.
It’s not that there’s anything inherently wrong with venture capital. It’s just it’s not part of what I thought being a good geek was all about.…
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, …
Google is trying really hard to get people interested in Google+’s group video-chat feature, Hangouts. The company has brought on celebrities, political figures, and is now trying to attract its own Silicon Valley neighbors to participate on the social network …
Mobile photography application Instagram may be raising a $40 million round of funding, rocketing its valuation from $25 million to $500 million overnight.
The Wall Street Journal’s sources say that venture capitalists are definitely interested in the popular young company, …
Facebook’s IPO has raised hopes in Silicon Valley that the tech industry’s days of wine and roses will soon be back with hundreds of startups going public. Even President Obama seems excited. He recently proposed an “IPO on-ramp” to help …
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Editor’s note: Serial entrepreneur Steve Blank is the author of Four Steps to the Epiphany. This story originally appeared on his blog.
Venture capitalists who are serious about turning their firms into more than one-fund wonders may want …
Dan Scholnick is a general partner at Trinity Ventures. In this conversation with VentureBeat editor-in-chief and founder Matt Marshall, he discusses the future and potential of cloud technologies.
Scholnick will also be speaking at CloudBeat 2011, VentureBeat’s upcoming enterprise cloud …
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Adobe acquired Auditude, a platform for monetizing premium video content, on Tuesday.
Not many startups get to such a positive outcome, even after years of work. So how do you successfully navigate scaling up a company and interacting with potential …
In a shakeup for New York’s startup scene, Andy Weissman, co-founder of the NYC startup incubator Betaworks, is leaving to join VC firm Union Square Ventures.
Weissman’s move, first reported by Betabeat, is yet another interesting development for Union Square, …
Bill Maris, managing partner at Google Ventures, sat down with VentureBeat yesterday to discuss what Google looks for in investment opportunities.
Google Ventures is the search giant’s venture capital arm, investing in technology companies such as HomeAway, EchoEcho, RelayRides, HubSpot, …
“I don’t like being one of the venture capitalists … everything is a deal to them.”
That’s what storied investor Vinod Khosla said on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 on Tuesday. He is considered a venture capitalist by most as …
Mobile payments startup Square on Tuesday said it had added well-known venture capitalist Vinod Khosla to its board of directors.
Khosla runs Khosla Ventures, which invested in Square in the past and recently sought to raise an additional $1 billion …
The current credit crunch caused by the subprime loaning crisis may help venture capital returns, and therefore start-ups.
That’s the argument of venture capitalist Keith Benjamin, of San Francisco’s Levensohn Venture Partners, as posted on his blog a few days …
