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Best of VatorTV 2007: Investor interviews -- Ross Levinsohn, Jeremy Liew and Tony Conrad

by John Shinal, December 26, 2007 | Comments (1)

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Welcome to the second installment of our Vator.tv Best of 2007 interview series. Today we'll point you to the investors whose interviews were the most-watched in our newsroom during the past year. The investor interview that received the most page views was our sit-down with Ross Levinsohn, the former Fox Interactive president who was at the helm when News Corp. bought MySpace for $580 million. That acquisition looks like a steal now that MySpace and Facebook are both valued well north ...

Ron Conway says don't panic about a recession

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, December 20, 2007 | Comments

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For most people in Silicon Valley, the first high-profile angel investor who comes to mind is Ron Conway. Ron has invested in 40 startups this year, about 140 in the last two years and more than 500 in the last 15. (Watch a separate "lessons and advice" video on his Vator profile). His notable investments include Google (worth $215 bln), Ask Jeeves (now Ask and acquired by IAC for nearly $2 bln), PayPal (sold to eBay for $1.5 bln), Good ...

Southern California angel investors proclaim: "content is no longer king"

by John Shinal, December 14, 2007 | Comments (1)

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When NBC said in late August it would pull its TV shows off of Apple's iTunes site over a pricing dispute, it brought the war between the tech industry and the entertainment industry back into the spotlight. The war between producers of content and the owners of online distribution channels had first flared up when Viacom sued Google for $1 billion over the posting of its video clips to YouTube. The argument over who will have the upper hand in ...

Keiretsu Forum's Randy Williams is expanding the market for angel investing

by John Shinal, December 7, 2007 | Comments (3)

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Randy Williams, CEO of Keiretsu Forum, is blunt when telling why he started the network of angel investors. It was his own "lack of discipline and expertise as a private equity investor," says Williams, who retired as the CEO of a bank in the mid-1990s and decided to diversify his savings through investments in the tech sector. At the turn of the century, as the tech bubble popped and Williams was working with investment bankers who were "turning small liquidity ...

Mohr Davidow partner Jim Smith says MDV likes entrepreneurs who obsess about their business

by John Shinal, November 14, 2007 | Comments

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For the latest in our series on what venture capitalists look for when evaluating deals, we traveled down to the heart of the West Coast VC industry -- Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park -- to sit down with Jim Smith and Bryan Stolle of MDV. The firm, formerly known as Mohr Davidow Ventures, specializes in early-stage investments and is one of the oldest and most successful VC firms in Silicon Valley. MDV, which manages $1.4 billion, has backed a ...

ThinkEquity Partners CEO Michael Moe on the hot tech investing trends

by John Shinal, November 6, 2007 | Comments

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During the late 1990s, San Francisco's Financial District was the center of tech investment banking, with boutique investment banks based in the city executing IPOs for many technology companies that later became household names. But at the end of the decade, storied firms like Robertson Stephens, Hambrecht & Quist and Montgomery Securities were acquired by big New York firms. Sensing an opportunity, Michael Moe, former head of research at Montgomery and later at Merrill Lynch, founded ThinkEquity Partners in 2001. Launching ...

Former Fox executive Ross Levinsohn on Web trends, Velocity Investment Group

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, September 11, 2007 | Comments (1)

Two big Web luminaries - Ross Levinsohn, who was Fox Interactive Media President at the time News Corp bought MySpace, and Jonathan Miller, who was AOL CEO when the Internet company bought Advertising.com -- have finally revealed their new venture - Velocity Investmet Group. As Ross tells me in this interview, he and John knew each other for the last 15 years. They realized that they "agree on most things" about the Internet and, in fact, competed for acquisitions while ...

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