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The new challenge of mobile investing

by John Shinal, September 19, 2008 | Comments

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Scott Raney says he's looking to help app developers scale their business models

A year ago, Redpoint Ventures partner Scott Raney was one of the first people I heard from who was only looking at mobile startups whose business models didn't depend on making nice with the big wireless carriers.He was looking for mobile software companies that distributed their apps directly to consumers over the Web, a trend which started in Europe, and ...

How to repopulate the M&A buyer base

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, August 11, 2008 | Comments

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And, why the VC industry is partially to blame for lack of exits

Back in 1999, I witnessed about 250 Internet companies go public. Thankfully, we’ll never see those halcyon days in the near future. But eight years later, we’re not seeing enough companies go public, according to Paul Denninger, Vice Chairman of Jefferies & Co, a boutique investment banking company. This drought is taking away opportunities for investors, and creating an imbalance ...

Mobile video business model is "upside down"

by John Shinal, August 8, 2008 | Comments

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Scale Venture Partners' Wienbar recaps Digital Hollywood discussion

If wireless carriers want to make a profit on the expected explosion in mobile video, something will have to change about the economics of how they deliver it.That was the conclusion of a panel of mobile and video content executives at this week's Digital Hollywood event in San Jose. With wireless carriers paying as much as 30 cents per megabyte ...

Montgomery & Co. on M&A environment

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, August 6, 2008 | Comments (1)

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Banker for $125 mln DailyCandy deal talks about the selling landscape

Jamie Montgomery is the founder and CEO of Montgomery & Co., which recently led the bidding process for DailyCandy, the newsletter company that sold for $125 million. The LA-based investment bank is also noted for being the bankers on the $700 million Club Penguin sale to Disney. I caught up with Jamie at the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit this month to ...

How to get funding from Founders Fund

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, July 29, 2008 | Comments

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VC Brian Singerman talks about what he looks for and what he avoids

Most recently, Founders Fund, had a nice liquidity event for one of its portfolio companies - Powerset, which sold for $100 million to Microsoft. And, it looks like Founders Fund, started by former PayPal executives, will have a pretty good track record for exits when it comes to its current portfolio, which includes Slide, Facebook, Zivity, Quantcast, and now Clickable ...

How to get Norwest's Tim Chang to listen to your idea

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, July 6, 2008 | Comments (7)

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“Advertising is the lazy entrepreneur’s answer to a poorly, thought-out business plan,” said Tim Chang, Principal at Norwest Venture Partners, in a recent interview with me. Gulp. If you’re an entrepreneur with an ad-supported model, and no traffic, and you’re thinking of getting Tim to be your champion, or much of Silicon Valley for that matter, think again. Advertising-based businesses require significant traffic, as Don Dodge, director of business development at Microsoft, made clear in his recent piece, “Does Web ...

VC industry facing host of challenges

by John Shinal, July 3, 2008 | Comments

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When Adeo Ressi opened up membership in TheFunded.com after an invite-only trial period, 1,000 entrepreneurs signed up to the venture capital rating Web site on the first day. The chance to spout off about venture capital firms and their partners proved irresistible to startup executives who routinely have to parade from one firm to the other, hat in hand, asking for capital. As personal experiences poured in about broken promises, canceled meetings or ones that venture partners spent checking BlackBerry ...

Carlyle's Sturiale on the investing climate

by John Shinal, July 2, 2008 | Comments

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Nick Sturiale, a managing director with the Carlyle Group's venture and growth equity unit, tells Vator.tv's John Shinal that entrepreneurs should be "very concerned" right now about having enough money to fund their business until it can get to cash-flow positive status.Recent figures from the National Venture Capital Association showed that no venture-backed startups had IPOs in the second quarter. Fred Wilson's post from yesterday talked about the debate that's touched off about the future of the VC industry.Given the ...

Carlyle's Sturiale: cloud computing and startups

by John Shinal, June 24, 2008 | Comments

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Nick Sturiale was a partner with the venture capital firm Sevin Rosen Funds for eight years, until the high-profile split between that firm's two offices in Dallas and Palo Alto in January.More on Sturiale's transition in our next post from this interview. Sturiale landed on his feet, and to the west a few miles. He's now "learning a new business" at the Carlyle Group, where he is part of a team based in Menlo Park and San Francisco evaluating growth company ...

Hollywood agencies may fund your next video idea

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, June 19, 2008 | Comments (1)

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When a technology conference full of investors attracts hip hop artists, Chamillionaire, and producers Chaka Zulu and Quincy Jones III, it's clear the walls are breaking down between the artist and audience. It's no wonder Hollywood talent agencies are quickly moving away from their old business model and embracing the ways of Silicon Valley. The agencies, such as United Talent Agency and William Morris, are becoming more like venture capitalists as they move toward an ownership model and further away ...

CBS Interactive's Marquez explains the CNet deal

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, June 11, 2008 | Comments (1)

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Mike Marquez, CBS Interactive's chief deal maker, gives us the rationale behind his company's $1.8 billion acquisition of CNet. "There wasn't a lot of overlap, and where there was... it was complementary," says Marquez, who told us in an earlier interview what type of properties he's still looking for, and gave his advice to entrepreneurs. The tech news pioneer also has some "great URLs," like news.com, that will be easy to promote on CBS TV and radio properties because their names ...

Stewart Alsop on turning down an acquisition

by John Shinal, June 11, 2008 | Comments

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Stewart Alsop, of Alsop Louie Partners, explains why he had to "convince" a CEO at one one of his portfolio companies to turn down an acquisition offer even though it would have produced a 3x or 4x return in about a year."That's not what we're here for. We want to invest in major enterprises that create real value," which he defines as a valuation starting between $250 million and $750 million, depending on whether his company owns 30% or 10% ...

Tim Chang, Norwest Venture Partners on basic VC math

by John Shinal, June 5, 2008 | Comments

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Anyone wanting to get a primer on the venture capital business model should listen to this brief explanation by Tim Chang of Norwest Venture Partners.Chang gave the quick hit to audience members of the San Fran Music Tech Summit last month, a gathering of musicians, technologists and other fans of the digital music business.The bottom line for VCs, as Chang explains, is that every deal they invest in needs to hold the potential to grow in value until it equals ...

Video - the next acquisition for CBS Interactive?

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, May 28, 2008 | Comments (3)

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CBS, which just recently swallowed up CNet for a cool $1.8 billion, is still on the prowl. That’s according to Mike Marquez, the head of mergers and acquisitions and business development for CBS Interactive. “We still are very active on the acquisition front,” said Mike, who stopped by the Vator studio in San Francisco for this interview, and to be our guest host in our upcoming Vator Box show. He and Quincy Smith, the President of the online division for ...

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