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  • 2012 Venture Outlook: Some Bright Spots and Some Gloom


    Xconomy — Authority Authority: 639
    Bruce V. Bigelow It’s that outlook time of year, and Mark Heesen, president of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), was in San Diego earlier this week, talking about the 2012 outlook for venture capital. Today he’ll make a similar presentation to the New Jersey Technology Council. Next week,  John ...
    2 days ago

  • Why Biogen Idec Got Out of the Corporate VC Business


    Xconomy — Authority Authority: 639
    Luke Timmerman Steve Holtzman got his first taste of corporate venture capital back in 1987, when he raised money from SR One, back when it was part of an old company known as Smith, Kline & French. The concept was unorthodox 25 years ago, yet over time, most every Big Pharma company has become an active ...
    2 days ago

  • Theraclone, VLST Founders Form New Antibody Startup, V-Gene


    Xconomy — Authority Authority: 639
    Luke Timmerman Two of the scientific founders of a couple of Seattle’s best-funded biotech startups have come together in a new company that aims to create a valuable antibody drug candidates while burning through the least amount of venture capital possible. The new Seattle-based company, called V-Gene, is ...
    3 days ago

  • Companies that would do best without venture capital


    Blog of Intellectual Capital — Authority Authority: 106
    By Dan Shapiro . “I just got the following email. Subject: Small taxi company looking to expand Hello, I run a small taxi company outside of Boston Massachusetts. My community has been targeted for casino development and I am looking to expand my business. Could you possibly provide some advice on how to ...
    4 days ago

  • 10 Biggest VC Deals of 2011


    Forward Thinking — Authority Authority: 111
    Virginia-based Cvent is number 9 on the list closing on $136M in Q3. Qtr Company St Amount 3 Reata Pharmaceuticals, Inc. TX   $300,000,000 4 Dropbox, Inc. CA   $250,000,200 1 BrightSource Energy, Inc. CA ...
    6 days ago

  • Clarus Ventures Looks to Steer Ship Through Less Predictable Biotech Seas


    Xconomy — Authority Authority: 639
    Luke Timmerman It’s never been easy to make a buck in biotech venture capital, but there used to be more predictability and logic to it, according to Clarus Ventures’ Nick Galakatos . You’d invest a few million, or tens of millions, and push a new drug or device toward some scientific validation in a few ...
    1 week ago

  • Frazier Looks to Build Biotechs For Sale, Lay Groundwork for First Post-Crisis Fund


    Xconomy — Authority Authority: 639
    Luke Timmerman Alan Frazier has been on record for a long time saying that the traditional biotech venture model is broken , and in severe need of updating. He’s been working on a new strategy for the past seven years or so, but the approach is facing its biggest test ever as Frazier prepares to raise his first ...
    1 week ago

  • OpenView Labs Aims to Prime Portfolio Companies for Big Growth


    Xconomy — Authority Authority: 639
    Erin Kutz “Money is money, anyone can do that,” says Brian Zimmerman, managing director of Boston-based OpenView Venture Partners. Go on. “We have this idea of providing real value to our portfolio companies. If we’re going to call ourselves partners, we really need to be partners.” he says. Plenty of ...
    1 week ago

  • BetVictor – The new re-branded face of Victor Chandler


    Online Betting News — Authority Authority: 125
    Online bookmaker Victor Chandler have re-launched themselves with a new brand, called BetVictor. While the brand has changed, the great levels of service and sports betting promotions remains the same. Victor Chandler have re-branded to BetVictor so that they can further their expansion to international customers, ...
    1 week ago

  • Digital DoorStep Files Chapter 7 Bankruptcy – BREAKING NEWS


    Daily Deal Media - Number One Source for the Daily Deal Industry — Authority Authority: 570
    BREAKING NEWS: Digital DoorStep files Chapter 7 Bankruptcy, Sends Email Announcement Wednesday Morning Digital DoorStep filed Chapter 7 Bankruptcy this morning following public accusations of the company scamming customers announced by Daily Deal Media this weekend . Digital Doorstep emailed ...
    1 week ago

  • eCommerce in The Crosshairs of SOPA


    Daily Deal Media - Number One Source for the Daily Deal Industry — Authority Authority: 570
      E ditor’s note:   The following is a guest post by Michael Essany. If you aren’t yet familiar with SOPA, there’s an excellent possibility that you will be before the end of today. Fueled by the growing concern that online content piracy continues to negatively impact the American economy, the United ...
    1 week ago

  • Cadence Biomedical Snags First $1M to Help Disabled People Walk


    Xconomy — Authority Authority: 639
    Luke Timmerman One of the co-founders of HealthTech Capital , Don Ross, offered Brian Glaister a blunt assessment last summer when the young entrepreneur came pitching a new mechanical-assist device to help disabled people walk. Ross responded that his wife, Donna Jang, is a stroke survivor who struggles to walk ...
    1 week ago

  • A shift in my design work


    Slides that stick - PowerPoint presentation design — Authority Authority: 105
    A few years ago, the main purpose of my presentation design work was to arm people with a powerful set of slides for a live stand up presentation. Usually, the meeting would be set up after an initial telephone or in-person conversation, and the audience would see the slides for the first time. More and more, I see ...
    1 week ago

  • Ebay


    Smoat — Authority Authority: 144
    Gold Correction Is Over, But Professionalism Is Not – Safe Haven Only PayPal does. They pay us. Minus their fee. PayPal is a highly reputable company. Owned by Ebay. With about 160 million accounts worldwide. Written between 4am-7am. 5-6 issues per week. Emailed at aprox 8-9am daily. Wikipedia will shut down ...
    1 week ago

  • Symantec, PivotLink, Splunk: Bay Area BizTech by the Numbers


    Xconomy — Authority Authority: 639
    Wade Roush It’s time for our irregular, data-driven roundup of high-tech fundraising, M&A, and IPO news from around the San Francisco Bay Area. $100 billion —The potential valuation of Facebook in an IPO tentatively planned for late May, according to a story yesterday from Kara Swisher at AllThingsD. ...
    1 week ago

  • AMU VC Abdul Azis hands over the charge of AMU to Prof. S. Mehdi Abbas Rizvi


    NVO News — Authority Authority: 571
    ALIGARH: The Vice Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University, Prof. P. K. Abdul Azis handed over the charge in the afternoon of January 17, 2012 to Prof. S. Mehdi Abbas Rizvi, Dean, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, the senior most Dean amongst the members of the Executive Council under Statute 2(7) of the Statutes ...
    1 week ago

  • Joule Socks Away $70M For New Mexico Green Fuel Facility


    Xconomy — Authority Authority: 639
    Erin Kutz Joule Unlimited , a biofuels startup located in Bedford, MA, announced today that it has pocketed $70 million in financing to put toward a facility underway in Hobbs, NM, that will demonstrate Joule’s process for converting sunlight and carbon dioxide into fuels such as diesel and ethanol. The new ...
    1 week ago

  • Q4 2011 Venture Funding Report: A Mixed Bag


    TECH cocktail — Authority Authority: 122
    Good news for venture capital firms and those seeking venture funding – in Q4 2011.  According to Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association (NVTC), venture funds raised $5.6 billion last quarter.  That was up more than $3 billion from the prior quarter and nearly $2 billion fromQ4 2010. ...
    1 week ago

  • 1stdibs CEO Seeks Queries For VCs Wilson, Dagres at Xconomy Forum


    Xconomy — Authority Authority: 639
    Robert Buderi Day in and day out, venture capitalists ask questions of entrepreneurs—some might say grill them. But on February 1, at Xconomy’s New York Venture Emergence forum , former DoubleClick CEO David Rosenblatt, who’s now CEO of luxury online marketplace 1stdibs and chairman/co-founder of Group ...
    1 week ago

  • Predictions for the Daily Deal Industry


    Daily Deal Media - Number One Source for the Daily Deal Industry — Authority Authority: 570
    Editor’s note: The following is a guest post by Marc Horne.  Marc is a co-founder of DailyDealBuilder.com , provider of deal software solutions and training . A good indicator of future behavior can be found by viewing past history.  In the grand scheme of capitalism, the daily deal industry is in its ...
    1 week ago

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