Tonight’s Venture Shift NY, hosted by Vator and Bullpen Capital, kicked off with its first panel: How Angels and Read More
Will 2012 be the year of angel fatigue?
Index Ventures—famed investor in such big-name companies as Lovefilm, Etsy, Dropbox, and Skype—announced Wednesday that it has closed Read More
Did somebody say “cash crunch”? If the well is drying up, you wouldn’t know it from the looks Read More
There’s a new personal finance service in town, but it’s not like the other sites you’re used to. Read More
Pitches at the ready. There’s a new fund in town: Freestyle Capital, a new VC firm that will Read More
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Funding roundup – week ending 09/02/11
Early-stage Social marketing company Closely has raised $3.6 million in equity, according to an SEC form filed earlier Read More
Everything is going social, we already know that. But every once in awhile, a new company takes social Read More
Here’s the video of Peter Thiel, founder of Clarium Capital and Founders Fund. Thiel, well known as the Read More
Union Square Ventures is banking on personal loans and peer-to-peer investing as it leads a $25 million into Read More
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What you need to know – 08/03/11
Amazon’s Myhabit.com launched its new home décor section, where shoppers will find new flash sales each day starting Read More
I have a fairly obnoxious habit of setting lofty goals for myself, patting myself on the back for Read More
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VC flow levels out: $8 billion in 776 deals in Q2
After a serious drop in deals and dollars invested in 2009, venture investment flow more or less rebounded Read More
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Peter Thiel: Don’t think of companies as statistics
Peter Thiel, founder of Clarium Capital and Founders Fund, and famed early Facebook investor, just took the stage Read More
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The $10 million photo and other VC stories
While on vacation I had a phone interview with Kevin Ohannessian of Fast Company who wanted a few “funding stories.” Read More
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Funding roundup – week ending 07/08/11
Seed-stage Mobile advertising company Kickanotch Mobile raised a $500K seed round led by six angel investors. Nestio, trying Read More