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Articles from the Venture Capital Category
Digital Health Funding Up 45% in 2012
Fierce Health IT | January 8, 2013
Category: Sector Specific, Venture Capital
Last year was a banner year for digital health, and in 2013, it can only get better as the trends in healthcare are increasingly digital-based. In 2012, tech companies poured $1.4 billion into digital health companies, a 45 percent increase …
VC in 2013: Robert More of Frazier Healthcare on Our ‘Broken System’
Wall Street Journal | December 31, 2012
Category: Healthcare, Venture Capital
As 2012 comes to a close, we asked several venture capital investors to reflect on the past year and give us their outlook for 2013. Continuing our series is Robert More, general partner at life sciences investment firm Frazier Healthcare.
How VCs Deploy Operating Talent to Build Better Startups
Forbes | December 26, 2012
Category: General, Venture Capital
Most venture-backed startups fail. Shikhar Ghosh, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, estimates that 30-40% of high-potential startups liquidate their assets and lose all their investors’ money. About three-quarters don’t recoup the invested capital. And roughly 95% never reach …
Straight from the VC’s Mouth: 5 things I look for in a CEO
Mitch Rosich | December 12, 2012
Category: General, Venture Capital
IT startups need a lot of positive ingredients to get off the ground, including a sustainable vision, focused and realistic goals and, perhaps most important, a deep management bench.
The Future of Venture Capital (Part 2)
September 22, 2012
Category: Venture Capital
My last post was about some recent trends in the venture capital industry and my predictions about how it will change. In this post I wanted to highlight three companies taking a new approach to starting and funding technology startups: …
VC Transparency Is The New Black
August 26, 2012
Category: Venture Capital
When Instagram was bought by Facebook earlier this spring for $1 billion, one question lingering on everyone’s minds was how much VC firm Andreessen Horowitz made on the deal. The firm had made an early investment in the photo sharing …
Lean VC: Why small is beautiful in venture capital
August 18, 2012
Category: Venture Capital
The Kaufmann Foundation recently noted in a controversial review in the Wall Street Journal that, of its past 20 years of investing in nearly 100 venture funds, “Only four of thirty venture capital funds with committed capital of more than …
It’s Morning in Venture Capital
May 23, 2012
Category: Venture Capital
Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. They are frustrated by the past decade of subpar returns for the sector. The most recent report to weigh in on the troubles of …
Venture capital’s new golden age
CNN | May 21, 2012
Category: Venture Capital
The venture capital model is dead, proclaimed the Kauffman Foundation recently. Too much available money for the VC model to succeed added Union Square’s Fred Wilson. Another details 25+ stories on why the VC model is broken.
How To Appeal To Investors: Top VCs Reveal The Anatomy Of A Successful Entrepreneur
TechCrunch | May 14, 2012
Category: Venture Capital
There’s a lot of money floating around Silicon Valley right now, and it’s becoming easier and easier for entrepreneurs to get access to the capital they need to get their companies off the ground.