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Posted: Friday 26 February 2010
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Polaris Venture Partners is lowering its carried interest rate, highlighting how even veteran venture firms are facing difficulties raising money.
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Posted: Tuesday 23 February 2010
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Undeterred by the frosty fund-raising outlook, four investors with ties to Austin Ventures have launched LiveOak Venture Partners.
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Posted: Friday 19 February 2010
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For your Friday reading enjoyment, we compare the results of two quarterly surveys from law firms that analyze venture financing deal terms in the fourth quarter.
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Posted: Friday 19 February 2010
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Some corporate venture investors have a bone to pick with those who perceive them as managers of "dumb money" who simply provide late-stage funding.
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Posted: Thursday 18 February 2010
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A larger-than-normal backlog of start-ups need financing this year, but investors say a fair share may be in for a rude awakening, especially those seeking Series B rounds.
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Posted: Wednesday 17 February 2010
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Former Carlyle Group managing director Robert Grady, who joined Cheyenne Capital Fund as managing director in 2009, has made his first investment for his new firm, in online English-language education company Eleutian Technology LLC.
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Posted: Wednesday 17 February 2010
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Growth-equity investors at a Harvard conference are upbeat about 2010.
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Posted: Wednesday 17 February 2010
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Growth-equity investors at a Harvard conference are upbeat about 2010.
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Posted: Tuesday 16 February 2010
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Merlin Nexus hopes its track record of seeking timely returns through investments in late-stage private companies and public ones will enable it to raise $75 million for its fourth crossover fund.
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Posted: Monday 15 February 2010
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The outlook for the venture industry at a Harvard conference is uncertain with some signs of hope.
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Posted: Friday 12 February 2010
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Ten years ago, Israel was one place many investors thought would blossom into a VC "promised land." But the industry there has never quite lived up to expectations.
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Posted: Thursday 11 February 2010
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While business is booming at Zynga and other social-game developers, not everyone is excited about growing virtual crops or running a fictional organized crime business.
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Posted: Thursday 11 February 2010
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With investor capital scarce, general partners have been willing to give ground on fund terms and conditions, but their investors are wondering how long that will last.
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Posted: Wednesday 10 February 2010
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We continue our series on venture-backed companies with at least $100 million in revenue by profiling ExactTarget, an email marketing company that withdrew its IPO filing last year but has risen rapidly since then.
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Posted: Tuesday 9 February 2010
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China Mobile has begun pushing a new 4G wireless network, but many Chinese venture investors are skeptical of its prospects.
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Posted: Tuesday 9 February 2010
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We continue our series on venture-backed companies with at least $100 million in revenue by profiling ServiceSource, which is shooting for $500 million in revenue in three or four years.
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Posted: Monday 8 February 2010
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Fisker Automotive may be a few weeks away from driving off with the $529 million loan it needs from the Department of Energy to develop its line of electric cars.
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Posted: Monday 8 February 2010
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We sat down with Philip Eliot, a principal at Paladin Capital Group, a multi-stage private equity fund with a focus on national security, to talk about why cyber threats are proliferating and how the opportunities are changing for entrepreneurs and investors in the space.
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Posted: Friday 5 February 2010
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We continue our series on venture-backed companies with at least $100 million in revenue by profiling Bravo Health, which actually has brought in more than $1 billion.
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Posted: Thursday 4 February 2010
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While online advertising spending declined in 2009 for the first time in years, not all start-ups dependent on advertising shed tears on their financial statements.
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