people, Internet, Entrepreneurship Robert Buderi wrote: For entrepreneurs and investors alike, it was a sad day back in January, when Y Combinator founder Paul Graham announced he would stay in Silicon Valley year round and give up splitting his startup incubation activities between Mountain View an...

IAB’s Interactive Advertising Outlook for 2009 paints an optimistic picture: more money flowing into online ads as a result of increased reach, mobile penetration and more people online.  DocJax is a new search engine for documents, I loved playing with it. More effective than advanced Search...

Fenwick and West analyzed 128 venture financings completed in q4 2008 for companies headquartered in the bay area and found that there has been a significant increase in the proportion of down rounds, with this trend accelerating: “During the fourth quarter, up rounds exceeded down rounds 54% ...

Imagine an iTunes library that was totally free and available online at no cost. Sounds pretty good, right? Well that is Spotify, a startup Morten Lund tipped me off to a couple of years ago. I tried it out and liked it, but forgot all about its downloadable client when I had to format my hard-drive...

Internet, startups, conferences Neil Roseman wrote: Late last fall, after discussion with some board members, I decided to apply to show some new features from Evri at DEMO 09, which we were about to start active development on. We got accepted, so now we really did have to get the stuff ready to sh...

Whether you are a Sangalese warlord, the head of Hydra or a Bond villain, the base of your operation is your henchmen, the nameless legion who are willing to die in order to execute your bold plans for a new world order, global destruction or real ultimate power. Despite being integral as an aggrega...

innovation, IT, Massachusetts Robert Buderi wrote: Unless you’ve been on an innovation vacation in recent months, it’s been hard to miss all the talk here in Massachusetts about finding a new “brand” for the state’s IT community—you know, as a way to compete with ...

Hard hit by Wall Street’s collapse, devauled public companies are proving too irresistible for VCs to ignore. “We’ve seen a dramatic uptick in interest by venture capitalists in small cap issuers,� says Steve Fletcher, a managing director at GCA Savvian in San Francisco, who says his investm...

VC, Entrepreneurship, people Gregory T. Huang wrote: It’s always good to hear an outside perspective. Last night, Boulder, CO-based entrepreneur and investor Brad Feld, the co-founder of Foundry Group, Mobius Venture Capital, and TechStars, gave a talk at the Palace Ballroom in Seattle. The ev...

There is no magic formula to secure funding from any VC, let alone one that is not in your home country. It’s almost like finding a relationship - if you’re lucky, you will find the partner of your dreams, but there’s going to be a lot of due diligence before you commit to anything...