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Google is working on plans to start a venture-capital arm, according to several people briefed on the discussions.
The group will be lead by David Drummond, Google's senior vice president of corporate development and chief legal officer, according to two of these people. Google has hired William Maris, a 33-year-old former entrepreneur who has worked as an investor, to help set up the venture. How the group will be structured and what sort of investments it is likely to target remain unclear.
The move would make Google the latest...
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I wanted to try something new.
I am making available a few pages of advice I put together from leading venture capitalists and angel investors on how entrepreneurs should prepare for an investment pitch. In the spirit of Seth Godin, I am calling this PitchMonster. Hopefully I'll create some additional e-bookish resources also under the PitchMonster name when I have time.
Download Pitch Monster Here (http://tinyurl.com/652b8o)
These are notes that combine my own personal thoughts and experiences, along with those of the best minds in...
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The yet-to-be-announced Brickhouse is designed to help the Internet giant keep up with cutting-edge startups and archrival Google.
Yahoo is trying to get back in touch with its “inner start-up,” BusinessWeek says, by targeting business development from within. The name for this effort is Brickhouse, a new unit within Yahoo that is scheduled to be officially unveiled in March and is intended to serve as a kind of in-house VC firm/incubator. Brickhouse is being led by Caterina Fake, who co-founded Flickr, which Yahoo acquired in March,...
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The New York Times writes about companies running on angel investors, loans, or even credit cards.
When Seth J. Sternberg and two colleagues started Meebo, a Web-based instant-messaging service, they didn’t go looking for venture capitalists. Using their credit cards, they financed the company themselves to the tune of $2,000 apiece. It was enough to cover their biggest expense — leasing a few computer servers at $120 a month each.
Within a month of its introduction in September 2005, Meebo was getting as many as 50,000 log-ins a...
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In the first three quarters of 2006, $455 million was raised for Web 2.0 companies—more than twice the amount that had been raised in the first three quarters of 2005, according to Dow Jones VentureOne and Ernst & Young, which released the figures Tuesday.
Some of the hottest consumer internet sectors are, not surprisingly, video sharing and social networking. Internet gaming and entertainment are also on the rise, according to notes for a Dow Jones Consumer Technology Ventures conference held this week at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose.
"The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups," documents the mistakes that startups make that doom them from the time of entering the corporate world. As usual, I like Paul Graham's startup advice, mainly because he takes pretty obvious things and puts them right in your face.
1. Single Founder
2. Bad Location
3. Marginal Niche
4. Derivative Idea
5. Obstinacy
6. Hiring Bad Programmers
7. Choosing the Wrong Platform
8. Slowness in Launching
9. Launching Too Early
10. Having No Specific User in Mind
11. Raising Too Little Money
12. Spending...
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Venture investors normally cite the strength of a company's management team as a key reason for investing in new technologies and ideas. But two new venture investments in widely read Web logs, or blogs, have taken this concept to a new level: investing directly in people for the content they produce.
Earlier this month, Softbank Capital of New York led a $5 million first round of funding for political group blog Huffington Post, the site operated by columnist and one-time California gubernatorial candidate Arianna Huffington.
A few...
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