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10 Oct 08
Sequoia Capital’s 56 Slide Presentation Of Doom
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an email that angel investor Ron Conway sent to his 130 active portfolio companies.
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Benchmark Capital jumped on the band wagon today with their own email to portfolio companies. The messages are all similar - companies need to stay ahead of the curve as much as possible. Cut costs now, and raise capital if you can. If there’s someone out there willing to buy you, do it. Etc.
The Votes Are In: 100 VCs & Angel Investors Have Chosen the Top 50 Emerging Companies
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iCopyright (www.iCopyright.com) solves a problem that is common for online publishers: Allowing users to copy or share articles quickly and easily while protecting and tracking the publisher's content on the World Wide Web. iCopyright is used by Advanstar, Associated Press, Boston Globe, Cygnus Business Media, Globe & Mail, Investors Business Daily, Penton Media, Reuters, SourceMedia and many other publishers.
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LeadGenesys (www.leadgenesys.com) offers a software as a service (SAAS) Marketing Automation Platform that helps B2B marketing and sales teams identify and systematically nurture their "anonymous" website visitors. Customizable alerts are set to deliver "sales-ready" leads and truly accountable revenue growth. The Web-based solution complements SFA/CRM systems for large and small B2B companies with a tight integration with Salesforce.com.
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02 Aug 08
Google Climbs Onto Corporate VC Funding Bandwagon
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'We're not doing this anymore.' You're at the whim of any changes in the front office."
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In a traditional venture firm, general partners -- the investors who manage the fund -- are compensated in two ways: management fees and carry fees.
04 May 08
Segway ups third funding to $35M — have you bought yours yet? » VentureBeat
hype and stupid decisions are always around VC
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t seems at least a little silly that the Segway got as much hype as it did back in late 2001 and 2002, to the point of top Kleiner Perkins VC John Doerr saying that Segway would be the fastest outfit in history to reach $1 billion in sales. Yet the firm has also survived thus far, and appears to be expanding the $10 million third round of funding we reported in January, according to a filing dug up by VentureWire.
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What’s interesting about the reported funding is that one of the new investors is the Masdar Clean Tech Fund, an arm of Abu Dhabi’s Masdar Initiative.
19 Mar 08
Is venture capital's love affair with Web 2.0 over? | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone
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Venture capitalists put $1.34 billion into 178 deals in 2007, an 88 percent jump over 2006. But once you strip out the $300 million that Facebook raised from Microsoft and others, the numbers don't look as bullish.
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"Web 2.0 deals in the Bay Area actually dropped from 74 deals in 2006 to 69 last year and investments were down 3 percent from the $431 million invested in 2006. It's clear that the real growth in the Web 2.0 sector is happening outside of the Bay Area," Jessica Canning, director of global research at Dow Jones VentureSource, said in a statement.

Breakdown of VC deals in Web 2.0 in 2007 and 2006
(Credit: Dow Jones VentureSource)
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