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Boom Time For British Tech?
Blog The BBC is running an interesting story from a venture capitalist who claims that the UK has a really healthy environment when it comes to investing in technology. Anne Glover, who the Beeb describes as a "leading venture capitalist" claims that...
[September 5, 2007, 16:57]
Venture Capitalists Pour Money Into Nanotech
News At least one venture capitalist believes that nanotechnology could become the most influential force to take hold of the technology industry since the rise of the Internet -- and he's willing to put his money where his mouth is.
[March 10, 2004, 8:30]
Ethernet Inventor Welcomed Into Hall Of Fame
News In 2001, he left the world of media and became a venture capitalist at the Boston firm Polaris Ventures, where he currently works today. The engineer-turned-entrepreneur-turned-columnist/publisher-turned-venture capitalist insists his greatest...
[May 8, 2007, 17:54]
Tech VCs Toughen Up On Funding Terms
News Some executives have gone so far as to agree to "automatic conversion," which guarantees the venture capitalist a high return on the investment after an IPO -- regardless of how the stock fares on the open market.
[March 18, 2002, 13:01]
Napster To Name New Chief
News Barry joined Napster as "interim" head of the company 13 months ago, when venture capitalist firm Hummer Winblad invested $15m (about £10m) in the burgeoning file-swapping firm. As a venture capitalist looking to create a profitable company, Barry...
[July 24, 2001, 9:07]
Linux: Following The Money
News A panel on the topic featured successful Linux companies such as Linuxcare and Sendmail and a member of the venture capitalist (VC) community. John Partridge, a venture capitalist with Accel Partners, said open-source companies can be appealing to...
[August 24, 1999, 9:16]
CIOs Urged To Spur Enterprise Growth
News Aron added there are opportunities for chief information officers to take a greater part in enterprise top-line growth and they must focus on "exploiting these opportunities just as a venture capitalist makes investments" — by applying scarce IT...
[July 18, 2007, 8:01]
Red Herring: Park The New Venture Market In Garage.com
News And most of the equity it places is from wealthy individuals, rather than venture capitalist firms. Yet largely due to the fact that most venture capitalist firms are headquartered in Silicon Valley, 40 percent of all their investments made in the...
[February 16, 2000, 13:37]
Will Silicon Valley Ever Get Its Mojo Back?
News The relationship between venture capitalist and entrepreneur has shifted from being a team to being adversarial. Later in the discussion, panel moderator Michael Malone, an ABC News.com author and columnist, put the panel's lone venture capitalist...
[January 20, 2003, 8:10]
Venture Capitalists To Tech Bigwigs: Mea Culpa
News Some people in the venture capitalist community say it would be misleading, if not totally inaccurate, to dump all the responsibility for the torrent of bad news at their feet. The clubby world of venture capitalists is all about making money, not...
[October 13, 2000, 9:36]
Venture Capital Slowly Flowing Back To IT
News That marked the first sequential increase since 2000 and mirrored results released on Monday by a competing venture capitalist VentureOne. Three out of six tech sectors posted a sequential increase in second-quarter venture investments, according...
[July 30, 2003, 9:25]
Venture Capitalists Turn Off The Tap On Funding
News One venture capitalist said companies in their second- and third-round of financing are perhaps more at risk in 2001 than new companies. It's no secret that the stock market downturn has forced venture capitalists to look sceptically on wild-eyed...
[February 19, 2001, 14:18]
Silicon Valley's Green Guru
News The venture capitalist, who helped to co-found Sun and who also became a partner at investment heavyweight Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, went out on his own in 2004 with Khosla Ventures. Khosla spoke to ZDNet UK's sister site, CNET News.com...
[October 2, 2006, 12:05]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog I see that a top venture capitalist consultant in the States is auctioning breakfasts with himself on eBay. Monday 24/5/1999 Tee hee! The last one went for $4,400, from some desperate entrepreneur willing to part with the dough just for an hour of...
[May 28, 1999, 18:18]
Bush Snubs Tech VC For Commerce Post
News President-elect George W Bush on Wednesday will choose longtime Texas friend Donald Evans as his secretary of commerce, passing over Silicon Valley venture capitalist Floyd Kvamme, according to transition sources.
[December 20, 2000, 15:44]
An Eco-designer Eyes Clean Tech
News Q: How do you incorporate your ideas (on ecologically intelligent design) into your role as a venture capitalist? Now, McDonough has also become a venture capitalist, one of a growing cadre of investors and entrepreneurs developing so-called clean...
[December 19, 2005, 16:15]
Google's Fight For The 'Gmail' Name
News Across western Europe, a quiet battle rages on between Google and Daniel Giersch, a German-born venture capitalist who insists he'll never relinquish his six-year-old trademark registration of "G-mail.und die Post geht richtig ab" (translation: G...
[September 15, 2006, 13:50]
Marconi Provides Cubecom With Neighbourly Solution
White Papers Cubecom, funded by an important Italian venture capitalist, is an emerging service provider with an impressive growth rate. But Cubecom could not have succeeded alone. They needed a rock-solid backbone technology.
[April 18, 2005, 0:00]
US President Taps Insider For Tech Post
News US President Bush tapped venture capitalist Floyd Kvamme on Wednesday as the liaison between the high-tech community and the Bush administration. Kvamme, a partner at Kleiner Perkins, will be co-chairman of the newly created Council of Advisors on...
[March 29, 2001, 9:51]
European Companies 'afraid Of New Tech'
News European companies are 'gun-shy' when it comes to implementing new technology, making the region a lot harder to sell into than the US or Asia, according to a leading venture capitalist. Speaking at the UK Technology Partnering and Investment Forum...
[March 2, 2004, 16:00]
