All Entries Tagged With: "Venture Capital"
Alliott Cole of Octopus Ventures: Winning Competitive Deals
It’s no secret that investors fight head over heels for sizzling deals and promising entrepreneurs to increase odds of success and potential returns. But when demand for quality deals exceeds supply, you better come up with exclusive, creative, or effective ways to lure the Steve Jobses of tomorrow. How to compete for hot deals? Are [...]
Founder Collective: Chris Dixon’s Seed Investment Firm
Although the adventures of Chris Dixon in the world of venture capitalism might make an interesting read by themselves, the newest feather in Dixon’s cap is what caught my attention. Dixon has founded 2 successful Internet companies in New York over the last 4 years. Dissatisfied with the venture capital market, however, he has now [...]
Investors of Tomorrow: What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?
Are you smarter than a 5th grader? While this phrase has become a wildly popular game and game show, it is also an interesting segue into a recent post in The Business Insider. Daniel Schultz, DFJ Gotham’s co-founder and managing director, set out to try and explain venture capital to his son’s 5th grade class. [...]
Mind the (Angel VC) Gap
In the area of angel investing, there can be a fine line between the amount of money an angel is willing to invest and the amount of money that generally enters into VC territory. It is quite understandable that an enthusiastic entrepreneur in front of an angel with an open check book would push for [...]
Investing in the Sun and Wind
You don’t have to look far to find what’s powering the hottest trend in angel investing. All you have to do is step outside. With help from angel investors, “green-tech” companies are finding new ways to harness the power of the sun and wind. The race to develop alternative energy sources is driven by two [...]
Intel Doubles Budget for Shopping in China
What is the buzz word in China these days? It is technology. China has made a momentous transition to a more “connected” society and is an exploding market for digital media, wireless broadband and telecommunications technologies. These arenas are offering unprecedented opportunities for small and big entrepreneurs alike. I mean, look at the statistics… they’re [...]
Xiaonei Rakes in More than Facebook
Facebook’s popularity has grown… and how! Millions of people the world over have uploaded their photographs and albums on this free-access website and exchange messages on this platform every day. But the Chinese want things done their way! So, China decided to have its own “Facebook” to share precious moments and memories. A little over [...]
Macau Hosts G2E Asia
Macau is the world’s new gaming haven. So, it is but obvious that this former Portuguese colony was the one to recently host the Global Gaming Expo Asia (G2E Asia). The event got together hundreds of manufacturers, suppliers, industry experts and investors at Macau’s Cotai Strip Convention and Exhibition Centre earlier this month. G2E Asia [...]
China in the Race for Top Spot in Technology
Although USA maintains its lead as the world’s technology innovation hub, American tech startups have had to compete fiercely with Chinese firms for venture capital funding over the past year. The 2008 Global Venture Capital Survey, conducted in March, showed that Asian countries were making their presence felt as innovators in the IT (information technology) [...]
Clean Technology: A Growing Opportunity
The Chinese economy has been growing in leaps and bounds for more than 5 years. One of the byproducts of such swift economic growth has commonly been surging pollution levels. And so it has been with the world’s largest developing country. China had already overtaken the US as the world’s largest emitter of carbon way [...]
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