During the third quarter of 2009, a total of 35 energy and environmental companies received $421 million in new venture capital financing, representing an 8% decrease in the number of companies being funded and an 8% decrease in the total amount funded to the four sectors of Alternative Energy, Clean Tech, Energy and Environmental.
Alternative Energy [...]
The New York Times reports that Venture Capitalist invest in 922 deals in the first quarter of 2008, compared to 861 in the same period last year. The total amount invested was down 5% causing the times to lead with the headline Venture Capitalists Invest Less In First Quarter – New York Times.
“We do not [...]
No, it’s Conviction and Discipline according to Fred Wilson, “Conviction and discipline are two sides of the same coin.” I like the view. Similar to a great strategy with weak execution, conviction without discipline will often lead you into the ditch and will never get you to the mountaintop.
Chris Anderson’s at Wired discusses where, why and how free products make sense today and will make make even more sense (and cents) in the future. Starting with the story of Gillette and bringing us to the plummeting cost of computing and networking, Anderson argues that the traditional cross-subsidy model is not required when incremental [...]
Speaking of the TXU purchase, Mr. Bonderman said the company was adept at running a profitable company and equally bad at politics from price increases to ecology to labor relations. These shortcomings lead tothe opportunity which focused on addressing these public concerns.Opportunities for private equity include exploiting public investorsfocus on short term focus, their dislike [...]
If your in the mood for a smile (and if not, perhaps you need to check this out even more) then head over to VC Wear to see the t-shirts these guys have cooked up.
Even though the most likely outcome for a successful technology company is via an acquisition, I have never liked the idea of planning for it. Plans and actions then often go away from what will help our customers and help us succeed in the market to what would ABC Inc. like to see in an [...]
Buzzmeister’s beware! The Valleywag buzzmeter shows Web 2.0 hits saturation. That’s so 2006. How should a capital hungry business owner create excitement among the technology captains of capital?
Tom Evslin’s post Web 2.0 – Greater Initial Investments Required suggests that early Web 2.0 companies seized the advantage of low cost technical infrastructure and low cost marketing to gain cost advantages. These companies were able to get big cheaper and faster than the first generation internet companies. While he agrees with Fred Willson that [...]
In Web start-ups snub the big money, the International Herald Tribune suggests this is a trend that should be expected to continue for a few if not spread to many companies in the space.“By then, Meebo was being courted by venture capitalists, but it decided to take a modest $100,000 from three angel investors, people [...]
In Web start-ups snub the big money, the International Herald Tribune suggests web start-ups will continue to use less capital. This is a trend that should be expected to continue for a few if not spread to many companies in the space.”By then, Meebo was being courted by venture capitalists, but it decided to [...]
The National Venture Capital Association has prepared this set of model legal documents:
Term Sheet
Stock Purchase Agreement
Certificate of Incorporation
Investor Rights Agreement
Voting Agreement
Right of First Refusal and Co-Sale Agreement
Management Rights Letter
Model Opinion Letter
Model Indemnification Agreement
According to the site, “the model documents aim to:
reflect industry norms
be fair, biased toward neither the VC nor the entrepreneur, consistent with industry [...]
Offshoring – Relocating the back office
Dec 11th 2003 From The Economist print edition
The Organizational Implications of Offshore Outsourcing
24 October 2003
Diane Morello
Acrobat Version
Offshoring: Is it a Win-Win Game?
McKinsey Global Institute
August, 2003
The Irony of Outsourcing
By Kevin Laws on November 18, 2003 09:03 PM supports the argument that economic activity flowing to the most efficient provider creates [...]
Bill Gurley outlines the future trends in VC investing via the ever present 2 x 2 matrix (Accurate vs. Inaccurate x Conventional vs. Non-conventional). Of course, we can all agree that inaccurate predictions are worthless. Gurley suggests the Conventional/Accurate predictions are also worth very little. The market prices the high expectations into [...]
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