by Mark Suster
Posted on: May 23, 2012 by Mark Suster4 Comments »
peHUB gets a guest post from Mark Suster, who disagrees with the Kauffman Foundation’s conclusion–or, at least, how the industry got to the shape that it’s in.
by asormani
Posted on: May 9, 2012 by asormaniNo Comments »
Take a break before you start the morning and click through to the latest private equity highlights in First Read including Blackstone’s interest in London’s financial district, Chinese venture slumping to its lowest levels since 2006 and Kauffman Foundation pondering on what to do next after proclaiming the VC industry is broken.
Posted on: March 20, 2012 by Connie LoizosNo Comments »
According to new data from the Kauffman Foundation, the country is seeing “among the highest levels of entrepreneurship” in 16 years. But those “startups” are increasingly run by one person who may well have lost his or her job in the recession.
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
Author : mboslet
The surging popularity of bitcoin has some brand-name venture capitalists investing real money in the controversial virtual currency. Just since
Author : laragon
It’s that time of the year when every VC (or, well, most VCs) secretly pulls up Forbes’ Midas list and,
Author : mahendra
Aspen Aerogels, Inc. said it raised $22.5 million in a convertible note financing and has decided not to pursue an
Author : mboslet
Venture-backed IPO activity has been sluggish so far this year, but there are signs this could change. Two recent issues,
Author : mboslet
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