Tag Archives : Venture capital

Vodafone is the latest company to launch a start-up accelerator, opening its doors to 24 early-stage ventures in Silicon Valley. The new Vodafone Xone, based in Redwood City, will provide [...]

Ask yourself-How is the current product too complicated? What simple little thing could you do to just make it simpler. Ask again-why it doesn’t work better and how to resolve [...]

There are hundreds if not thousands of startups that are launched globally everyday. Some of them do not get to mainstream. They do all they can, but the market is [...]

Serial entrepreneur Andrew Birt’s AngelCube will begin to accept applications for Melbourne-based start-ups to become the first group of participants for his latest venture AngelCube from 29th July. AngelCube is [...]

Domo, a new SaaS company launched by Omniture co-founder and decade-long CEO Josh James, has announced it has secured $33 million from Benchmark Capital in a Series A round. This [...]

Evernote, the company that’s helping the world remember everything, has announced a new $50 million round of funding led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from Morgenthaler Ventures. The new funds [...]

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On how many boards do you sit? Do you really have enough time to impact the outcome of this investment through your involvement and engagement? Is there a culture of [...]

Do angel investors and venture capitalists prefer investing in LLCs or C-Corps? Why are there so many consumer focused startups compared to B2B startups if the majority of profits are [...]

i/o ventures has unveiled the second class of companies from its program. i/o ventures is an early stage startup program that focuses heavily on mentorship. They work closely with founders [...]

In Paul Graham’s words: “You need three things to create a successful startup: to start with good people, to make something customers actually want, and to spend as little money [...]

Foursquare just raised $50 Million at a post money valuation of $600 Million. Andreessen Horowitz led the round. The CEO Dennis Crowley in a blog post said “Today, we’re really [...]

Bill Schreiber is a partner in Fenwick & West’s corporate group. His emphasis is on  Start-up Counseling, Venture Capital Financing, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures. Fenwick incorporated Apple, when it was [...]

An angel investor or angel (also known as a business angel or informal investor) is an affluent individual who provides capital for a business start-up, usually in exchange for convertible [...]

Eileen Gittins is the founder and CEO at Blurb, the creative publishing and marketing platform that enables anyone to design, publish, market and sell professional-quality books. Be prepared for the [...]