By now you know venture investors turned more active in the second quarter, with a substantial uptick in dollars flowing from their checkbooks to startups. What you may not know is that New York was one of the cheapest places to do a deal in this ebullient period. And that New England didn’t waste time [...]

The common wisdom is that capital is scarce in the Midwest venture scene, but not in the view of Daniel Fleming. Fleming, managing director of River Cities Capital Funds, thinks there may be too much. In any event, money seems plentiful, he says, at least from the venture capitalist perspective of capital efficiency. If the [...]

New financings have picked up this year, but that doesn’t mean entrepreneurs are seeing better deal terms, especially in the Midwest. In fact, competition for deals is down, and entrepreneurs are paying the price, says attorney David Millard (pictured), chairman of the business department at Barnes & Thornburg LLP, a law firm with 11 offices, [...]