Posted on: June 15, 2009 by Connie Loizos18 Comments »
When I was first introduced to San Francisco-based social networking startup Tagged.com, it was 2005 and the nascent company was limiting its service to pre-teen and teenage users. The implicit message was that Tagged would protect its young base from the sexual predators trolling around MySpace (which, at the time was generating a slew of negative [...]
Yahoo’s $1.1 billion planned purchase of blogging site Tumblr is the largest exit of a pre-public venture-backed New York-based company
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The surging popularity of bitcoin has some brand-name venture capitalists investing real money in the controversial virtual currency. Just since
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It’s that time of the year when every VC (or, well, most VCs) secretly pulls up Forbes’ Midas list and,
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Venture-backed IPO activity has been sluggish so far this year, but there are signs this could change. Two recent issues,
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The Michigan Venture Capital Association said 29 venture capital firms now do business in the state and contributed to the
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