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Signs of Life in Venture Capital

December 11, 2008

Reports from the AlwaysOn Venture Summit held at the Ritz Carlton hotel in Half Moon Bay in Silicon Valley this past week revealed a few reasons for optimism amid the overwhelmingly gloomy economic picture. True, most start-ups are hunkering down, conserving capital and trying to innovate their way out of this crisis. Experts at the […]

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Experienced CEOs Moving into Venture Capital Jobs

November 26, 2008

Downward pressure on CEO compensation packages is starting to have an effect on where these top executives want to work, reports biotech website TMCNet.com The article quotes Gabrielle Lajoie, a managing director with the executive search firm Russell Reynolds Associates, as saying that experienced CEOs from biotech firms may be considering a move into venture […]

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Why The Venture Capital Model Is Broken

November 17, 2008

There’s a buzz in the blogsphere about Adeo Ressi’s recent treatise on why the venture capital model is finally broken. Ressi is founder of The Funded, a website that lets people rate venture capitalists. His musings about the current state of the VC model have hit a number of blogs and online publications, including The […]

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Venture Capital Guru Says It’s a Good Time for Start-Ups and Jobs

November 13, 2008

When you’re being chased by a bear, you don’t have to outrun the bear. You just have to outrun your friends. So quipped Gilman Louie, a well-known video game geek and veteran venture capitalist, at a recent Bay Area Capital Connections conference covered by Venturebeat. Today Louie is a partner at the Alsop Louie venture […]

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No Dotcom Crash for Venture Capital

November 3, 2008

The economic downturn may actually be good for technology ventures, and there are reasons we won’t see a repeat of the crash of 2001, according to the industry website techradar.com. The situation today is very different from the tech bubble, when investors threw money at anything with .com without a sensible business model to back […]

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Shanghai Considers Tax Breaks to Lure Private Equity

October 30, 2008

A senior government official announced Friday that Shanghai is looking at scrapping its 20 percent capital gains tax on hedge funds and using other incentives to lure more venture capital and private equity to the city. Fang Xinghai, director-general of the Shanghai Municipal Government’s Financial Services Office, said it would be “wrong” to slow the […]

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The Right Background for Venture Capital Jobs?

October 27, 2008

Guy Kawaski is one of the best-known authorities on entrepreneurship and technology start-ups. The former chief evangelist for Apple is the author of seven books, founding partner of Garage Technology Ventures and other web start-ups, and a popular speaker. New York Times blogger Marci Alboher recently interviewed Kawasaki for her blog, Shifting Careers. She asked […]

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Venture Capitalists Tell Startups to Conserve Capital

October 21, 2008

Venture capitalists have started warning their portfolio companies to watch every dollar since additional capital will be much harder to come by, according to an article in the Boston Business Journal. In addition, VCs are advising startups to trim overhead and even “mothball” their operations – reducing a company to its core management team and […]

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What the Future Holds for Venture Capital Jobs

October 14, 2008

Over a 10-year time horizon, venture capital firms returned an average of nearly 33%, compared to a paltry 3.5% for the S&P 500 index. But those returns include 1999 and 2000, the last few really good years for venture capital, according to an article in Business Week. Moving forward, the 1-, 3- and 5-year returns […]

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