Capital Chaos

Coming on the heels of a recent report we did on how more investments outside of the Valley, Dow Jones VentureSource released a report about how Web 2.0 startups may have hit their peak - primarily in the Valley. 
While the number of investments in these types of ventures increased 25% in 2007 - up from […]

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We recently came across a very unique means of pitching your company called FundingUniverse. The clever speed pitching event is designed to let select pre-qualified companies have 7 minutes to sell their business idea one-on-one to a pre-qualified angel investor. After 7 minutes is up, you are on to the next angel investor. All in […]

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So the National Venture Capital Association released a report which looked at the fastest growing regions for venture capital outside of Silicon Valley and the results were interesting to say the least.
While the Valley and New England remain the country’s leading regions for investments, they are not the fastest growing according to the report which […]

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There was a very interesting Op-ed piece in VentureBeat written by Sumant Mandal who is managing director at Clearstone Venture Partners in Santa Monica, Calif.  Clearstone is a firm whose recent transactions we have covered (ThisNext, Rubicon Project and SoonR to name a few).
There’s no doubt that California is regarded as the “mecca” of venture […]

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