Tech Investing

June 28, 2009

Brazil: Venture Capital's Next Hotbed?

Brazil is best known around the world for soccer, samba music, and supermodels. Now it's emerging as an attractive destination for investment capital. At a June 25 ...

June 22, 2009

Does Silicon Valley Still Matter?

It's a truism in tech that entrepreneurs who want to build the next Google must come to Silicon Valley. The area's importance as a tech hub was reinforced earlier this...

June 15, 2009

Micropayments: Where Charity and Social Networks Meet

Micropayments for microbloggers—it sounds like a no-brainer. In a community based on real-time content, social causes, and brand awareness, users will want to ...

June 14, 2009

Private Equity's Lessons from the Meltdown

The once-triumphant "masters of the universe"have been brought down several pegs by the global economic crisis, and a chastened David Rubenstein, general manager of ...

June 10, 2009

TeleSoft's Gupta: Venture Capital's Tough Times

When Arjun Gupta came to the U.S. in 1980 as an exchange student, he had big dreams and strong belief in his own potential. Now, as one of Silicon Valley's most ...

June 5, 2009

Twitter's Innovation Drought

I love Twitter. I'm in the minority of users who check it and comment at least a couple of times each day. I even have two accounts—one personal (@ericjackson), ...

June 3, 2009

Companies: Come Clean on Climate Change

This week's bankruptcy" filing by General Motors (GM) is a painful lesson for shareholders who failed to grasp the profound risks of the company's failed business ...

May 27, 2009

A Comeback in the IPO Market

Entrepreneurs and venture capitalists took notice just before the Memorial Day weekend when two technology companies had their initial public offerings in a matter of ...

May 27, 2009

How Facebook Will Upend Advertising

The guessing games over Facebook's worth are back on again. They were reignited by the news on May 26 that Facebook has accepted a $200 million investment that values ...

May 26, 2009

From Russia With Love: Facebook Lands $200 Million

Ending months of fevered speculation over whether it would raise more money, social network Facebook said on May 26 that it will take a $200 million investment from ...

May 20, 2009

VC Markets: No Easy Answers

The venture capital industry has been a slow-moving train wreck for much of the past decade. And one of the more radical steps aimed at avoiding disaster may only ...

May 20, 2009

SolarWinds' IPO Raises Hope

SolarWinds (SWI) sells neither solar nor wind technology, but it landed in the spotlight and caught a puff of air when it went public on the New York Stock Exchange on...

April 23, 2009

Need an Answer? Ask Aardvark

The last time you looked for something on the Web, chances are, you typed a request into a Google search bar to find it. If people like Max Ventilla have their way, ...

April 17, 2009

Icahn's Blockbuster Move: So Far, a Bust

You can only hope Carl Icahn loves a good slasher movie. He's starring in one of his very own, financially speaking, when it comes to his investment in Blockbuster ...

April 14, 2009

What Venture Capital Can Learn from Private Equity

Baseball and venture capital always seem to make an effective pairing for analogies. As in baseball, much of the cachet of venture capital is inspired by the romance ...

April 6, 2009

After IBM, What Now for Sun?

Now that merger talks between IBM (IBM) and Sun Microsystems (JAVA) have broken off, the future of Sun, long one of the tech industry's most innovative and dynamic ...

March 14, 2009

Lions Gate Gears Up for Icahn Tussle

Lions Gate Entertainment (LGF) is girding for battle. The Hollywood studio that made the film Crash and TV series Mad Men is squarely in the sights of shareholder ...

March 5, 2009

At DEMO, VCs Have Stern Advice for Startups

Venture capital investor Christine Herron has a bit of advice for technology startups: Start each board meeting by asking how much cash is on hand and how many weeks ...

March 5, 2009

The Coming Facebook-Twitter Collision

Every time monthly Web traffic numbers are released, you can expect at least a half-dozen blogs to run a graph showing Facebook gaining on MySpace in some made-up ...

March 1, 2009

Facebook's Thiel Explains Failed Twitter Takeover

Facebook remains on the lookout for acquisitions after its failed attempt to buy microblogging site Twitter, one of the company's directors and largest investors says....

March 1, 2009

DEMO 2009: A Smaller Showcase for Startups

Judging from the number of companies making their debut at this year's DEMO conference, all is not well in the state of techdom. About three dozen startups are taking ...

February 18, 2009

Silver Spring: A Growing Presence in Green Tech

California's ambitious green agenda is swiftly pushing startup Silver Spring Networks into the black. In July 2006, the Golden State leapfrogged to the forefront of ...

February 11, 2009

StockTwits May Change How You Trade

For a rookie, stock trading can be tough, especially in today's bear market. So when neophyte Carolyn Ferguson got started, she sought all the advice she could get. ...

December 12, 2008

Sirius XM's Dual Concerns: Debt, Delisting

Sirius XM (SIRI) is racing to get its financial house in order before a meeting with restive shareholders scheduled for Dec. 18. As chief executive officer of a ...

November 21, 2008

College Endowments Deserting Venture Capital

Entrepreneurs aren't the only ones in startup land feeling pressure from the economic slump. Venture capitalists themselves are feeling heat from some of their biggest...