Tag Archives : Venture capital

The Top 30 with links to their Twitter Accounts Brad Feld Foundry Group James D. Robinson III RRE Ventures Peter Sinclair Leapfrog Ventures Mark Suster GRP Partners Howard Morgan First [...]

What is your competitive advantage? What is your unfair advantage; the advantage no one else has or will have? What was or will be your most important, early milestone? How [...]

GrowLab is a joint venture between entrepreneurs and angel investors in Vancouver, British Columbia, as well as in Silicon Valley — that has signed up some high-profile financial backers including [...]

Young entrepreneurs seek advice in many forms from mentors, other startup founders, investors, business advisors etc.Good concise reading can be very influential for an early stage startup founder. These articles [...]

Greenstart is a startup accelerator for cleantech. We help the most promising cleantech startups achieve greater success, faster. The companies we select receive seed funding, three months of mentoring, valuable [...]

Rent the Runway, an online destination for dress, accessory and bridesmaid dress rentals, has raised $15 million in venture capital from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB). At only eighteen [...]

Hire the absolute best people you possibly can Find a couple trusted, experienced advisors/mentors. Start simply, prioritize, and maintain focus When fundraising, ask people for advice, not money Create several [...]

Venture Capital firms screen through hundreds–if not thousands–of investment “opportunities” each month. To differentiate yourself from your competitors, it’s important to avoid mistakes and and make the best presentation of [...]

9flats.com, the European leader in peer to peer apartment rentals, has announced today that it has completed a major investment round led by Silicon Valley venture capital firm Redpoint Ventures. [...]

Martin Zwilling is a veteran startup mentor, executive, blogger, author, tech professional, and angel investor. In these tough economic times, more and more people are turning to entrepreneurship as an [...]

We underestimated the difficulty of managing a team and undervalued the skills of general management, process, and strategy. Siqi Chen We used our limited resources as a startup to attack [...]

Scott Dunlap is an Entrepreneur, currently obsessing on next gen location-based mobile apps. Early exec at E.piphany (9th highest IPO in 1999), Loudcloud/Opsware (IPO 2001, sold to HP in 2007), [...]

Early in my investment career, I had lunch with a Sequoia partner who explained to me some of the fundamentals of their investment strategy. One of them is that “good [...]

PapayaMobile, a social gaming network on Android, has secured $18 million in a round of Series B funding. The round was led by Keytone Ventures, a leading venture capital firm [...]

I have signed up for a copy of the 7 Steps to Successful Startup by Naeem Zafar, a member of the faculty of Haas Business School at the University of [...]