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Raman Khanna doesn't believe in firewalls

by John Shinal, May 22, 2008 | Comments

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Onset Ventures partner Raman Khanna believes in open IT systems.When he was the CTO for Stanford University, he never installed a firewall to protect its systems."I don't believe in this idea that all the good guys are on the inside and all the bad guys are on the outside," he says. While the enterprise software market is mature, it's still worth $500 billion annually, so Khanna hasn't given up on looking for investments there.He thinks that as younger workers who embrace ...

What Scott Banister looks for as an angel

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, May 13, 2008 | Comments

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If you're an angel investor, I bet you'd love to have Scott Banister's line-up of angel deals. Scott is an investor in Facebook, Powerset, Hi-5, Zappos and Zivity - a company he co-founded with his wife Cyan and helped raise $7 million for. Zivity recently announced that it hired Jordan Ritter as is CTO. Ritter co-founded music-sharing site Napster. (Also watch my interview with Cyan and story about Zivity, titled: You know it when you see it.) Scott is also ...

Onset Ventures Raman Khanna on online ad market

by John Shinal, May 2, 2008 | Comments

	In the second part of our interview with Onset Ventures' Raman Khanna, he talks about targeting ads to airline passengers, user engagement and how MixerCast, one of the companies he's invested in, gets some people so jazzed about their service that they spend hours mashing up online ads with other content.In the first part of the interview, Khanna talked about early-stage valuations.
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Onset's Terry Opdendyk on ad acquisitions

by John Shinal, April 29, 2008 | Comments (2)

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The acquistion of Adify by the cable provider Cox Communications for $300 million is a reminder of the value of online ad networks to traditional media companies. The deal comes after a series of buys that's seen Blue Lithium, Tacoda and DoubleClick get snapped up online giants Yahoo, AOL and Google and aQuantive taken out by Microsoft. The emergence of Cox as a buyer suggests that some of the remaining independent ad networks could see higher takeover valuations with another bidder at the table. ...

Conde Nast snags Jaunted, HotelChatter

by John Shinal, April 28, 2008 | Comments

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Conde Nast's online unit, CondeNet, just added to its stable of sites targeted at upscale travelers by acquiring SFO Media, which runs the fast-growing travel blog sites HotelChatter and Jaunted.To get a little detail on the deal, I paid a visit to Kourosh Karimkhany, Conde Nast's VP of corporate development, who works out of the company's Wired.com offices in San Francisco. The media giant went after SFO Media because its visitor traffic is surging and the sites are focused on ...

Onset Ventures Khanna on early-stage valuations

by John Shinal, April 25, 2008 | Comments

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Last October, Raman Khanna and David Lane of DiamondHead Ventures merged their firm with Onset Ventures, one of the oldest VC firms that specialize in the seed and Series A round of a company. In mid-April, I went down to the VC capital of Menlo Park for a wide-ranging conversation with Khanna about the move, as well as trends in venture capital and different markets. He says that despite some of the huge valuations now being bestowed on late-stage private companies like Facebook, Ning and Bebo, early-stage ...

Velocity's Levinsohn: 'Exits' will be tough

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, April 24, 2008 | Comments

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I just came back from Santa Monica where I caught up with one of our (Vator) investors, Richard Rosenblatt of Demand Media. While I was there, I saw Ross Levinsohn, one of the founding partners of venture capital firm Velocity Interactive Group. According to Ross (who is wearing the sunglasses in this video), Velocity has already done some 15 investments. I'll post that interview, as well as the latest one with Richard next week. In this interview, Ross shares his ...

Citigroup's Mark Mahaney says Microsoft-Yahoo could confuse ad customers, hurt startups

by John Shinal, February 28, 2008 | Comments

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Citigroup Internet analyst Mark Mahaney, who predicted in an interview with Vator.tv last week that Microsoft ultimately would succeed in acquiring Yahoo, tells us in this segment that the deal is likely to sow confusion among those two companies' ad customers.Many of their advertisers will be wondering "who's my sales rep?" Mahaney says, because Microsoft is going to need to cut a lot of jobs to achieve the $1 billion in cost savings they've promised Wall Street from the deal.That's ...

Citigroup's Mark Mahaney says Microsoft likely to win Yahoo, but at higher price

by John Shinal, February 21, 2008 | Comments

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Citigroup stock analyst Mark Mahaney tells Vator.tv managing editor John Shinal in this interview that Microsoft's hostile $44 billion bid for Yahoo will likely succeed, despite the hurdles it faces. "If you were a betting person you'd have to bet that this deal goes through," although probably at a higher price than the $31 a share Microsoft offered, Mahaney says. He pegs the likelihood of a deal at around 55% - 60%. The two parties held takeover talks last year that never ...

Drew Lipsher of Greycroft Partners says ad dollars will find an audience online

by John Shinal, February 14, 2008 | Comments

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Andrew (Drew) Lipsher, a veteran media-industry executive and now a venture investor with Greycroft Partners, says ad money will follow online shows that can build an audience.When we caught up with him at the OnMedia conference in NYC, he had just raised some eyebrows by stating something during a panel session that was not obvious to everyone in the audience at the Mandarin Oriental conference room:The perceived economic value of online video and music content among a younger generation of ...

Mohr Davidow's Bryan Stolle on how to recognize an Enterprise 2.0 bubble

by John Shinal, February 7, 2008 | Comments

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Finding ways to take the friction out of the enterprise sales model is something that an increasing number of entrepreneurs and investors are looking to do.We first told you about it back in September.More recently, we heard about the state of the "Enterprise 2.0" investing from Bryan Stolle, a partner with the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Mohr Davidow Ventures.When he first started looking at the market for in early 2006, Stolle says there would be maybe five VCs trolling ...

Tim Draper talks about a new VC model for new media investing

by John Shinal, January 29, 2008 | Comments (1)

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Tim Draper, founding partner with the venture firm Draper, Fisher, Jurvetson, told an audience at the OnMedia conference in New York this week that the emergence of new media is "a typhoon" that will tear apart the revenue model of the traditional media industry and force companies to re-think their industry. At the same time, the trend presents a huge opportunity for entrepreneurs and investors in online media. During a presentation and a panel discussion, Draper, who previously backed fast-growing ...

Robert Simon's Ariva Ventures is a cross between venture and angel investing

by John Shinal, January 20, 2008 | Comments

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Robert Simon's Ariva Ventures is looking to make early-stage investments in startups that are attacking one of the following five markets: networking, semiconductors, mobile applications, medical devices and enterprise software and services.The firm's structure is a bit unusual because it has only two general partners, instead of the usual five or six, and another five professionals that Simon calls industry partners, each of whom have expertise in Ariva's areas of investment focus. In a typical venture firm, according to Simon, ...

"Pick up the phone" for a liquidity event: M&A still outpacing IPO as exit strategy

by John Shinal, January 4, 2008 | Comments

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The year-end numbers on initial public offerings and acquisitions confirm what investors have known for several years now: while the number of IPOs is rising steadily, M&A continues to be the main exit route for an overwhelming percentage of venture-backed startups.More than 87% of the total dollar amount of startup liquidity events came in the form of mergers or acquisitions, according to the latest figures from Dow Jones VentureSource. Although the number of M&A deals fells slightly to 398 from ...

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