Recent Posts Tagged With 'venture capital'

• Venture Capital 2010: Hot (and cold) sectors to watch

  Posted on Monday December 28th, 2009 at 08:00 in venture capital, financing, venturebeat, entrepreneur corner, 2010 lookahead

  (Editor’s note: Steve Fredrick and Don Rainey are general partners at Grotech Ventures. They submitted this story to VentureBeat.) As we mentioned in a recent column, 2009 wasn’t as bad as advertised for the venture capital industry. The firs...

• Why startup SimpleGeo abandoned game making to sell location tools instead

  Posted on Monday November 30th, 2009 at 16:01 in venture capital, venturebeat, business and technology, gamesbeat

  SimpleGeo is a Boulder-based startup now beta-testing its line of software development tools, cloud storage, and other must-haves for mobile application developers who want to easily build location-based services into their apps. The firm has gathere...

• After VC cash? Show ‘em what you’ve learned

  Posted on Tuesday November 17th, 2009 at 08:00 in venture capital, financing, lessons learned, co:cafepress, entrepreneur corner

  (Editor’s note: Serial entrepreneur Steve Blank is the author of Four Steps to the Epiphany. This column originally appeared on his blog.) I joined the board of Cafepress.com when it was a startup. It was amazing to see the two founders, Fred Dur...

• Founder Collective fund rounds up Flickr, LiveOps co-founders and $40 million

  Posted on Monday November 9th, 2009 at 11:29 in venture capital, financing, venturebeat, entrepreneur corner, digitalbeat, deals & more, founder collective

  It’s become a cliche: Internet start-ups are inexpensive to launch, and you don’t need multi-million dollars from venture capitalists to back you anymore. As a result, more successful startup founders are adding a new hat, and becoming in...

• 4 ways to get automatically rejected by an angel investor

  Posted on Wednesday November 4th, 2009 at 08:00 in venture capital, financing, angel investors, venturebeat, entrepreneur corner

  I’ve started three companies, and now I’m an angel investor. So I’ve been on both sides of the table. There are lots of good articles out there about pitching, and surely everyone who pitches me has read some of them. Still though, ...