Showing posts with label venture capital. Show all posts
Showing posts with label venture capital. Show all posts

Friday, May 11, 2007

B and C List VCs Sucking Wind

nytimes grab.png The New York Times today provides more reportage on the woes of the venture capital sector. Unless you are a top 40 venture firm, you are in a world of hurt.

“It’s been almost a decade,” said Eric Doppstadt, director of private equity for the Ford Foundation, which invests in venture capital firms. “I find it shocking that an asset class that has provided so little payback continues to attract so much capital.”

Read - Some Unrest Is Bubbling Beneath the Top Tier (NY Times)

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Tuesday, May 08, 2007

Searching for the hottest Silicon Valley startups

LinkedIn founder and chairman Reid Hoffman is using his company's question and answer service to boost deal flow. The busy angel investor posted a question on LinkedIn's Answers service last week wondering "What are the three hottest companies in Silicon Valley currently?" Something must be in the air because Matt Marshall of VentureBeat asked his readers the same question a few days before.

The responses show that after Facebook, there really is no consensus answer. NetSuite, Linden Research, LinkedIn, AdMob, Digg, NanoSolar and Tesla received multiple nominations. Bebo, AdBrite and Aggregate Knowledge, companies I think are building fast growing, profitable businesses, each received a mention. One I didn't see in the response section yet that I think holds tremendous potential is TechMeme.

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