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Startup Weekend Cairo Wrap-Up
Hello all my fellow reader! I'm sorry for not being able to write for soooooo long…its juts that I did TOO much in the past few days. The American University in Cairo hosted the first ever Startup Weekend Cairo, which kicked off this last Thursday, meticulously organized by... Vancouver fund proving that doing good is good business
This week, Vancouver's Renewal2, a fund focused on financing ventures with a social mission announced that they have raised their first $16 million. In 2009 that is a monumental task and is testament to the... NowPublic: 10th biggest VC financing in Canada this Quarter
"Brent Holliday, a partner with Greenstone Venture Partners, pointed out that ...The CVCA said two B.C. companies were among the top-10 disclosed deals for the quarter, with Strangeloop Networks getting $11.5... The "Get Rich Slow" VC Business
"Jeff Bussgang puts a fine point on something that goes largely unsaid at most venture firms: Many current partners have never received a carry check. (Carry is the proportion of a VC firm's investing profits that...Some patient VCs still waiting for Visto to pay off
Silicon Valley is filled with start-ups launched on shoestring budgets that go on to sell for millions of dollars, seemingly overnight. Then there's Visto, a Redwood City company that has plowed through $267 million over the past 10 years -- including a $51 million round this...Peer-to-peer gets personal
"Companies such as AllPeers, Pando, and Zapr aren't waving the pirate flag - but they're using Napster-like technology to help you send photos to Grandma.Business 2.0 MagazineBy Erick Schonfeld, Business 2.0 Magazine editor-at-largeNovember 1 2006: 10:39 AM EST(Business 2.0...Technorati belongs to the VCs now. Who is your daddy?
"Technorati took $7.6 million in Series C funding, according to PE Week Wire. Let's see what that means. The money came from the same venture capital firms that gave Technorati $6.5 million at a valuation of $12 million in 2004. So back then, Technorati sold a third of the...Matt Asay advises tragically hip VCs to give it up, I say do it right
"Matt Asay advises tragically hip VCs to give it up, I say do it right Novell exec Matt Asay has some advice for venture capitalists desperately searching for the next great deal by doing just about anything to build relationships with the 20-something engineering set...How Venture Capital is Trying to Get Down with Young CEOs
"Money Man David Cowan, 40, Courts Hot Web Startups At a Networking Kegger By REBECCA BUCKMAN July 8, 2006; Page A1 SAN FRANCISCO -- Venture capitalist David Cowan is a professed chess-playing nerd who studied...
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Horrors of war haunt the nights
More than 30 years later, Vietnam Veterans experience recurrent nightmares. PTSD does exist. These men are not draft-dodgers.The Vietnam War and PTSD
The Vietnam War produced tens of thousands of PTSD victims. More than anyone else, Vietnam Veteran's wives have seen the effects of PTSD.Valleywag: Blind item: Big-time VC head accused of wife-beating
A high profile silicon alley VC was recently cuffed and stuffed for smacking his wife around. This is indeed horrific and it must be sending chill up the spines of his portfolio company CEO's.SiliconBeat: Money, money everywhere -- but no place to park it
Do West Coast VCs just "get it" when it comes to the so-called Web 2.0 or are there too many valley funds with too much cash?NowPublic on Facebook
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