Network with 350 Venture Capitalists in NYC For FREE
I ran into this posting on Craigslist and figured it might be an opportunity New York based entrepreneurs or students might want to take advantage of: YoungStartup Ventures will be hosting the 2008 Life Sciences & Healthcare Venture Summit on Thursday, October 30th in Downtown NYC. This is an exclusive full-day program with over 350 […]
New Amex Commercial Spoofs on Venture Capital
“I need to get on the flight to San Francisco…[I’ve got} a big venture capital pitch for my business” -From a new American Express Open commercial. View the video below [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN7FucPlQ90[/youtube]
Are Hedge Funds Stealing Talent From Venture Capital?
The Wall Street Journal has an article today claiming that venture firms are concerned about retaining and fostering the next generation of talent. The first part of the article makes the case that hiring a new generation of young vc’s to augment older partners is vital to firms’ continued successes. From the article: Venture capital […]
Do Angels Avoid B2B Investments?
It sounds funny but there are many circumstances where angel investors aren’t interested in investing in startups with clearly defined monetization models. Here’s why… Following the Money: To understand this strange phenomenon we must hark back to dotcom-era-vernacular when companies were always defined as either B2B (selling business to business) or B2C (business to consumer). […]
What’s Up with all the False Advertising?
Update 1: I was contacted by the CEO of WrapMail who gave me a demo of his product. WrapMail’s choice of wording may be poor but it is not false advertising. I offered to write a post summarizing the service and will link to it once it’s ready to ship. I ran into two falsely […]