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Posted: Wednesday 30 June 2010
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Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Partner Joseph Lacob is reportedly involved with a group bidding to acquire the Golden State Warriors, a downtrodden franchise that nonetheless has some investment potential.
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Posted: Monday 28 June 2010
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Publicly held venture firm Harris & Harris Group said it plans to invest more in public companies in a bid to make faster returns.
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Posted: Wednesday 23 June 2010
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Rather than complain about every structural flaw in the IPO markets and push for a fix, fund managers stressed a different message: The IPO market will never return to its rip-roaring past, so deal with it already.
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Posted: Wednesday 23 June 2010
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Now that health-care reform legislation has been signed into existence in the U.S., venture investors say they are focused even more intently than before on companies with products that aim to lower the cost of health-care.
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Posted: Wednesday 16 June 2010
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The Enterprise 2.0 Conference shows that collaboration technology is going mainstream.
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Posted: Wednesday 16 June 2010
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Coremetrics decides that IBM is a better home than the public markets, making its investors smile after years of waiting. North Bridge Venture Partners, finding plenty of interest in its first seed capital contest, selects two winners. And iPhone 4 customers encounter order disorder.
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Posted: Tuesday 15 June 2010
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The joint conference committee on financial reform has met and the verdict appears to be in: Venture capital funds of all sizes will escape SEC registration.
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Posted: Tuesday 15 June 2010
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Venture-backed PlayPhone, whose revenue doubled to more than $100 million in 2009, occupies a catbird seat in the fast-growing mobile-content market.
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Posted: Tuesday 15 June 2010
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Venture-backed PlayPhone, whose revenue doubled to more than $100 million in 2009, occupies a catbird seat in the fast-growing mobile-content market.
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Posted: Monday 14 June 2010
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Genghis Lloyd-Harris, partner at health-care-focused venture-capital specialists Abingworth Management, remains optimistic about an IPO market comeback but, in the meantime, says biotech investors are more dependent than ever on trade sales.
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Posted: Monday 14 June 2010
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Investing venture capital in Africa may seem like a leap of faith to some. But for two former U.S. investment bankers who recently launched Golden Mean Capital, the continent is teeming with opportunities they hope to capture with their new ag-bio fund, which seeks to raise up to $50 million.
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Posted: Friday 11 June 2010
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Facebook is testing a new add-on to its social networking service: the ability to ask questions -- and get answers -- from other people in the online community.
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Posted: Thursday 10 June 2010
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At a energy conference, executives debated whether future vehicles will end up running on biofuels, natural gas or batteries.
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Posted: Wednesday 9 June 2010
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A start-up founder tells the story of meeting a venture capitalist whose unorthodox approach to learning about the company ultimately cemented a funding deal.
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Posted: Tuesday 8 June 2010
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The autoimmune disease lupus has bedeviled drugmakers for a half century, but some are now poised to break through.
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Posted: Monday 7 June 2010
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Most investors have a straightforward mission: to get rich. But a newly launched angel group called New Media Ventures has a different agenda.
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Posted: Friday 4 June 2010
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As part of our series examing venture-backed companies with more than $100 million in revenue, we take a look at Cortina Systems, which built its business on the back of a former Intel unit.
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Posted: Thursday 3 June 2010
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A newly funded start-up is betting consumers will pay up to a few thousand dollars to rid of their love handles with a non-surgical procedure.
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Posted: Wednesday 2 June 2010
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A new site by retail executive Cecilia Pagkalinawan curates emerging fashion and serves as a community for fashionistas.
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Posted: Wednesday 2 June 2010
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Tesla Motors is getting pretty good at responding to critical media reports, despite being in a pre-IPO quiet period.
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