If the U.S. economy were a company, the VC industry would be the R&D department. The financing for the VC industry comes from so-called LPs (Limited Partners) – mostly university endowments, pension ...

(Editor’s note: Don Rainey is a general partner at Grotech Ventures and author of the “VC in DC” blog. He submitted this column to VentureBeat.) Throughout the financial crisis of 2008-09, most ...

Canaan Partners — a multibillion-dollar VC firm with offices in Silicon Valley, Israel and India — has opened a new office in New York. “We’ve been investing in New York City since 1997 when we first ...

Last week, venture capitalist Fred Wilson wrote a post pointing out that the VC industry is split in two: software-based businesses and everything else (specifically, “cleantech, biotech and other ...

Greg Doyle and his cohorts at InLab Ventures dropped another bomb on the already struggling venture capital sector with the public launch of a radical new model for VC that gores a host of Sand Hill's ...

Kiva is p2p-lending site that facilitates loans between lenders in wealthy countries and entrepreneurs in developing countries. Now a new startup aims to bring a similar model to startups in the ...

AVC regular Charlie Crystle asked me this question yesterday in the comments: Fred, it might be helpful to some of your readers to explain when a startup should seek angel vs seed/early stage VC. If I ...

He who loses less, wins? Venture capital in the 2000s was much akin to the joke about the two campers who cross paths with a bear. As the angry bear begins charging out of the woods towards the ...

Starting a company is hard enough as it is but one the biggest areas of confusion of entrepreneurs revolves around funding and venture capital. I hope to help calm some of your fears and anwser your ...

Predictions about how industries will progress are two a penny, but when they come from Venture Capitalists rather than analysts, and concern the multi-billion dollar cell phone industry, they tend to ...

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