Articles about Venture capital – Page 66 of 70

Should startup scribe Michael Arrington invest in startups?

Michael Arrington, the flame-throwing founder and co-editor of TechCrunch, is starting his own venture capital fund. The $20 million CrunchFund… Read More

Ex-Microsoft exec kickstarts new social network for college kids

Creating a social network for college kids might seem like a foolhardy pursuit given Facebook’s historic roots in that market.… Read More

Box.net: A case study in why Seattle needs to hold onto young tech talent

Call it the one that got away. That’s how I felt after reading a detailed profile of Box.net today, the fast-growing… Read More

Zynga co-founder Andrew Trader joins Maveron, looks to bankroll ‘rock star entrepreneurs’

Ten months after joining Maveron as an entrepreneur-in-residence, Zynga co-founder Andrew Trader has strengthened his role with the Seattle venture… Read More

The nitty-gritty details of how SEOMoz’s $24 million venture capital deal blew up

How do venture capital deals fall apart? Those who want the inside scoop should look no further than Rand Fishkin’s… Read More

Q&A: Ignition’s Frank Artale is one very busy VC

Frank Artale is new to the venture capital business, so maybe he didn’t get the memo. After all, most VCs… Read More

Morning Radar: TouchPad is a best seller; Online video rankings; and more

How do you drive interest in your consumer electronics gadget? Well, you discontinue it, of course. Engadget notes that HP’s… Read More

IPOs roared to life in first half of 2011, but worries arise that the good times may be gone

IPO windows tend to come and go. For the past eight months, that window has been wide open, allowing companies… Read More

Point Inside pinpoints new cash, helps shoppers navigate malls and grocery stores

Point Inside, which has developed mobile technologies that help people find their way through supermarkets, shopping malls, airports and theme… Read More

SEOMoz considers $20M to $30M VC round, but Rand Fishkin says no ‘done deal’ yet

SEOMoz CEO Rand Fishkin may raise a massive venture capital round in the range of $20 million to $30 million.… Read More

Venture capital is hot again as ‘up rounds’ surge

Need more evidence that there’s a bubble forming in the tech industry. Look no further than a new report by… Read More

Despite bubble talk, VCs lost money over the past decade

We’ve been talking a lot lately about the wild valuations being attached to fast-growing Internet companies, something that would make… Read More

Startup Labs to bankroll best and brightest from Startup Weekend

It can be downright inspiring watching ideas percolate at Startup Weekend — the 54-hour coding marathon where developers, artists, attorneys,… Read More

Daily deal site Zulily raises $43 million at huge valuation of more than $700 million

Plopped in the middle of Zulily’s Seattle office is a colorful cardboard rocket ship marking the entrance to the company’s… Read More

Portland’s Cedexis scores cash from Madrona and ATV, looks to help Web sites boost performance

In the late 1990s, Len Jordan was working on content distribution networking technologies at RealNetworks when some of the folks… Read More

Ignition continues blistering pace, leads $14 million round for Couchbase

Another day, another investment by Ignition Partners. The Bellevue venture capital firm today announced that it has led a $14… Read More

Lighter Capital’s Andy Sack has $500,000 burning a hole in his pocket

Ready, set, invest. By August 31, Lighter Capital will pump $500,000 into a new business no matter how awful the… Read More

Why startups fail: Lack of focus

At the Lean Startup Seattle meetup last week, Madrona Venture Group’s Greg Gottesman explained the importance of entrepreneurial focus. After… Read More

Looking to remove the pain of venture investing, Microsoft BizSpark allies with CapLinked

Raising venture capital has pretty much worked the same way for years. Entrepreneurs hop on a plane or in a… Read More

Ignition leads $10 million round in New York’s Apprenda

We’ve been writing a lot lately about how Ignition Partners is transforming itself into a national firm, doing deals wherever… Read More

Ex-Avanade boss Mitch Hill jumps back into the startup world, joins Opscode as CEO

As the founding CEO of Avanade, Mitch Hill once oversaw close to 9,000 employees. In his latest gig, there won’t… Read More

Zipline names ex-Microsoft gaming vet Shane Kim to board, raises $400,000

Shane Kim has helped put some of the most recognizable gaming titles on the map, including Halo and Gears of… Read More

Why Zillow insiders want to keep the stock above $25 per share

Shares of Zillow tumbled a bit this week — falling below $30 for the first time since its red-hot initial… Read More

Lockerz taps DAG Ventures, Live Nation as backers, targets $45M

Lockerz intense hunger for fresh capital continues. The fast-growing social networking company today announced that it has raised $36 million… Read More

Airbiquity lands $4M as company sees growth in ‘connected car’ services

Another Seattle area company that’s building some of the underlying technologies for the “connected car” has scored a new round… Read More

Liberty Dialysis to sell for $1.7B

Liberty Dialysis Holdings, a Mercer Island company that operates 260 dialysis clinics across the country, has entered into an agreement… Read More

With ex-Yahoo execs at the helm, ChoozOn raises $3.2 million to help sort through daily deal clutter

ChoozOn, the Bellevue company that helps consumers sort through the clutter of daily deals, has raised a $3.2 million first… Read More

Twitter confirms ‘significant’ funding round, now claims more than 200 million Tweets per day

After weeks of speculation, Twitter confirmed today in a blog post that it has closed a “significant round of funding”… Read More

Simply Measured rings up $750,000 to help brands monitor social media chatter

When Damon Cortesi and Aviel Ginzburg started their company in early 2010, they weren’t sure what direction it would take.… Read More

Super angel Ron Conway’s advice to entrepreneurs and why this isn’t a bubble

Ron Conway is one of the best known angel investors on the planet. So, when the early backer of Facebook,… Read More