Venture Capital
The Next Generation of Venture Capital: Hot Ideas from Sand Hill Road
Twitter It!Great video from the Milken Institute Global Conference 2009
Speakers:
Alec Ellison, Co-Head of Investment Banking; Chairman, Technology, Media and Telecom Group, Jefferies & Company Inc.
Steve Jurvetson, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Eric McAfee, Chairman, McAfee Capital
Ford Tamer, Operating Partner, Khosla Ventures
Moderator:
Kara Swisher, Co-Executive Editor, All Things [...]
Investors Invest in Management
Twitter It!Column by Michael Lechter Inc.com
Investors Invest in Management
The team you have in place will figure prominently in an investor’s decision to fund your business.
One factor that almost always figures into a savvy potential investor’s evaluation of your company is your “team” — key management and advisers. This is particularly true for a young company [...]
Venture capital challenges
Twitter It!India and China aren’t just attracting entrepreneurs who are returning from overseas, but also venture capitalists. At a recent Quality of Management panel discussion at INSEAD’s Asia campus in Singapore, Chan Tze Hoe, investment manager with CAP Vista in Singapore, said that as markets grow in both countries, people who were born there but [...]
VC Confidence Improving
Twitter It!I read this post in Sophisticated Finance by Bob Hacker, great signal that the economy is improving.
Venture capitalist confidence in the economy may be improving for the first time since 1st quarter 2007. As reported by Mark Cannice at the University of San Francisco:
“The quarterly Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Confidence Index™ (Bloomberg ticker symbol:
USFSVVCI) [...]
Why cleantech investor Vinod Khosla spreads his wealth all over the table
Twitter It!Khosla makes $500 million bet on cleantech
San Francisco Business Times – by Lindsay Riddell
Vinod Khosla is a betting man.
Khosla Ventures, the Menlo Park-based venture firm he formed in 2004, has invested more than $500 million of his own money, mostly in clean technology companies that fight climate change and oil dependence.
If it sounds daunting, [...]