tweetmeme_url = 'http://www.vccafe.com/2009/03/12/cotendo-secures-7-million-from-sequoia-and-benchmark/';tweetmeme_style = 'compact'; Two of the marquee names in the US venture capital industry decided that Israel’s Cotendo is investment worthy -   Sequoia Capital and  Benchmark Capital  j...

A lot of difficult conversations are in the works for startups in the portfolio of Redpoint Ventures, as the Silicon Valley venture capital firm gave its startups orders to trim 10% of their staff.  With few exit opportunities for venture capitalists, Redpoint is letting its companies know that...

Aster Data Systems, which stores data for social networking site MySpace (and others), has raised $12 million in a second round of venture funding. The Redwood City, Calif. startup offers “frontline data warehousing,” which basically means storage of all of a company’s data for bus...

I guess it is hard to avoid the usual end-of-year topics for any blogger and I don’t think I am any exception to the rule so I have decided to build my own collections of blog posts that I could easily remember myself as those that initiated the most animated discussions in the blogosphere. Af...

Sequoia Capital on startups and the economic downturn View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: depression recession) Uber VC firm Sequoia Capital held a “RIP Good Times” emergency meeting for the companies it’s backed. The message was clear. Get serious or get fucked...

"Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind." F. Scott Fitzgerald "Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech." Susan Sontag "The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference." Henry Miller Today's image: splash by nikond300 . Very cool. Thank you f...

When you walk do you walk with a jerky motion? My whole body jerks at times. When I wake up and I open my eyes I feel this jerkyness in my body. Now at times it is worse than other times......

PARADISE, Calif., July 12 -- Firefighters "turned the corner" Saturday on a wildfire that destroyed part of a town in the Sierra Nevada foothills, one of the hundreds of blazes that continue to char huge swaths of California....

Many entrepreneurs fear being a flash-in-the-pan success — achieving an exit once, but never again. (Some might call this being lucky rather than good.) But while the allure of success inspires us to do great things, achieving it can have an ugly aftereffect: complacency. Vigilance, my friends...

Det är märkligt hur man kan pÃ¥verkas av att besöka ett land och vad det i efterhand är som har gett störst intryck. VÃ¥ren/försommaren 2004 tillbringade jag en mÃ¥nad i USA. Tre delar av ett fascinerande land som ocksÃ¥ visade upp tre olika länder i landet. 9 dagar i New York. En stad som lÃ...