December 2007

Imperium installs renewable CEO [Posted on December 26, 2007 - 2:05 PM]

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Former Imperium Renewables Inc. chairman and CEO (and prolific blogger) Martin Tobias has been Web-silent since announcing early Friday afternoon that he was hawking some NBA Seattle Supersonics tickets... Continue Reading

Travel 2.0 leaders merge, Moritz headed for another billion dollar exit [Posted on December 21, 2007 - 2:21 AM]

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There was a time when only privately held companies in trouble would merge (think HomeGrocer-WebVan). It was a last ditch effort to live to fight another day. The new IPO... Continue Reading

KP's Miasolé downsizing three months after $50 million round [Posted on December 20, 2007 - 2:24 PM]

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Just as two of its rivals are gaining momentum, Miasole is losing some. The Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers-backed startup is reportedly laying off 40 employees only three months after... Continue Reading

Intel Capital: European venture funding is plunging [Posted on December 20, 2007 - 1:25 PM]

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While grousing to ZDNet that venture investment is slowing in Europe, Intel Capital's U.K. managing director Ashish Patel also was upfront in identifying five principal areas the venture arm of... Continue Reading

IBM VC honcho sees continued opportunity in Web 2.0 investments [Posted on December 20, 2007 - 12:57 PM]

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Whether or not you believe that too many consumer Internet companies have received funding in recent years, it's hard to dispute that the collaborative technologies binding these companies together are... Continue Reading

Avvo lawsuit thrown out, company rates its lawyers positively [Posted on December 19, 2007 - 8:56 PM]

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As I predicted six months ago, a class action lawsuit filed against lawyer review web site Avvo has been tossed out. The plaintiffs tried to get Avvo's web site shut... Continue Reading

Foundry Group prefers thematic investing to sector investing [Posted on December 19, 2007 - 1:25 PM]

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The newest member of the Tech Confidential Network, The Creative Connnector, has a good interview with Jason Mendelson, a managing director at a newly launch venture capital firm in Boulder... Continue Reading

Zillow in trouble? Maybe, but not based on unreliable Quantcast data [Posted on December 19, 2007 - 6:01 AM]

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Pointing to a web traffic report and drawing conclusions is a dangerous game. Paul Kedrosky includes a Quantcast traffic chart showing a decline in the number of visitors to the... Continue Reading

Searching for the best business web app startups [Posted on December 18, 2007 - 11:19 PM]

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I'm serving as a member of the selection committee at an upcoming Under the Radar conference focused on startups developing web applications for businesses. Organized by Dealmaker Media and taking... Continue Reading

Founder-centric fund raises first professional money [Posted on December 18, 2007 - 5:31 PM]

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Far and away the most common mistake venture capitalists cop to is keeping a portfolio company founder in the CEO slot too long. For people who don't like to... Continue Reading

Miller and Levinsohn disappoint with ComVentures merger [Posted on December 18, 2007 - 11:02 AM]

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I should spend more time traveling between San Francisco and New York. Last year, I obtained one of my biggest scoops when I overheard some Google executives brainstorming ideas for... Continue Reading

Good Energies hires former J.P. Morgan director [Posted on December 17, 2007 - 5:16 PM]

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Already busy doing its share to boost cleantech investment to record levels this year, Good Energies is adding an additional managing director to source energy and environmental technology deals. The... Continue Reading

Writers' strike could spark new Web startups [Posted on December 17, 2007 - 2:48 PM]

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A number of Hollywood writers are talking to venture capitalists about founding startups that would provide professional online content, according to a report in Monday's LA Times. It's been a... Continue Reading

Post-bubble strategy pays off for Zeugma [Posted on December 13, 2007 - 5:15 PM]

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As part of a "stealth" strategy charade that venture-backed companies occasionally employ to generate maximal publicity when their products launch commercially, Zeugma Systems Inc. is being cagey about the precise... Continue Reading

VC sheds pounds, seeks moolah with weight loss tunes [Posted on December 12, 2007 - 3:37 PM]

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Mobius Venture Capital general partner Heidi Roizen wants to help people lose weight, launching a musical compilation called "SkinnySongs" to motivate them to get fit. Roizen said she normally... Continue Reading

Online ad model draws investors to TV sector [Posted on December 11, 2007 - 5:41 PM]

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Online advertising 1.0 was judged a failure in the late 1990s when marketers discovered that few consumers were moved to immediately purchase goods when the means to do so was... Continue Reading

Disney invests in three digital media startups [Posted on December 11, 2007 - 12:55 PM]

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Steamboat Ventures, the investment arm of the Walt Disney Co., is sinking more money in Internet startups. The Los Angeles venture unit on Monday was the sole investor in a... Continue Reading

Arch closes seventh fund with $400M [Posted on December 10, 2007 - 5:29 PM]

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Arch Venture Partners put the finishing touches on its seventh fund, a $400 million vehicle that gives the seed and early-stage investment firm about $1.5 billion under management. ARCH... Continue Reading

Nanostellar strikes gold with industry association backing [Posted on December 10, 2007 - 3:42 PM]

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As if global political instability and volatile capital markets are not doing enough to drive up the price of gold, the World Gold Council has now made the first venture... Continue Reading

Delays in energy bill help VC-backed energy startups [Posted on December 7, 2007 - 3:46 PM]

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Passage of the energy bill by the U.S. House of Representatives Thursday is good news for venture investors in alternative fuels because it demonstrates widespread support for advancing new technologies.... Continue Reading

AlwaysOn Venture Summit: Plenty of Fish, Fark and Vampires founders ask, 'Who needs VCs?' [Posted on December 7, 2007 - 2:40 PM]

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Markus Frind started building online dating site Plenty of Fish four years ago as a project to help him get his programming chops up to speed so he could get... Continue Reading

AlwaysOn Venture Summit: Too old for an avatar? [Posted on December 6, 2007 - 5:08 PM]

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It's one of the most gaping generation gaps on the Internet: Those who "get" virtual worlds like "Second Life," where users interact in a make-believe, yet highly detailed, online environment,... Continue Reading

Borrowing from Apple playbook, medical device makers focus on design, consumer appeal [Posted on December 6, 2007 - 4:39 PM]

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The medical device sector is a curious blend of high-level science, elegant design and consumer appeal, as Thursday's $69 million funding of Pelikan Technologies Inc. demonstrates. The deal for the... Continue Reading

AlwaysOn Venture Summit: With online ads, eyeballs no guarantee of dollars [Posted on December 6, 2007 - 4:36 PM]

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The boom in online advertising obscures one uncomfortable fact -- making money from the practice is harder than it looks. That was the consensus of participants in a panel Thursday... Continue Reading

Emerging tech, overseas startups drive VC investment to highest level since 2000 [Posted on December 6, 2007 - 3:44 PM]

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Worldwide venture capital investment is expected this year to top $40 billion, the highest level since the technology bubble during the 1990s, according to Dow Jones VentureOne and Ernst &... Continue Reading

VCs and PE pros: We need raises, or new jobs [Posted on December 6, 2007 - 2:50 PM]

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Back in the old Internet bubble days, it was common for venture capitalists, investment bankers, consultants and securities lawyers to look wistfully at the paper fortunes of their young... Continue Reading

Bubble survivors still receiving funding [Posted on December 5, 2007 - 4:11 PM]

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Here's some good news for the limited partners of all those 1999-2000 vintage funds from the tech bubble: The survivors of the shakeout are not doing as bad as one... Continue Reading

Trinity's Gus Tai: 2008 looks promising for tech IPOs [Posted on December 5, 2007 - 2:12 PM]

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Trinity Ventures' Gus Tai thinks 2008 could be a good year for technology IPOs. One driver: Next year will mark the graduation of the class of well-run startups... Continue Reading

Intel gets on the Baidu wagon with partner AdsIt [Posted on December 4, 2007 - 4:53 PM]

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Chinese search engine leader Baidu has reportedly made a $4 million to $6 million venture investment in key online partner AdsIt, alongside U.S. venture investors Intel Capital and hedge... Continue Reading

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