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The Deal's tech coverage moves to Dealscape

The Deal's technology coverage is on the move this weekend. Come Monday, please join us at our recently relaunched Dealscape blog platform.Set your bookmarks to Technology: Deals and Dealmakers, the...


Q&A: "We have always been way too arrogant," says RRE's Jim Robinson on VCs

RRE Ventures LLC has raised more than $1 billion, invested in 115 companies and had 30 positive exits over the past 14 years. Yet you may not have heard of the...


Video Flashback 2008: Union Square's Fred Wilson on low burn rates

Low burn rates may make tech startups less vulnerable to today's economic downturn than they were to the last one. Internet companies cost less than one-tenth to operate than they did a decade ago, pointed...


Video: NY Tech Meetup organizer-elect Nate Westheimer and what he wants to do now

Fresh from his victory at the polls, NY Tech Meetup organizer-elect Nate Westheimer dropped by Tech Confidential to share his plans with us in a Behind the Money video interview.Westheimer, who is entrepreneur in residence at Rose Tech...


Nate Westheimer succeeds Scott Heiferman at NY Tech Meetup

It's official, the polls have closed and Nate Westheimer is the winner in the bid to succeed Meetup Inc. CEO Scott Heiferman as the organizer of NY Tech Meetup. Westheimer, who is entrepreneur in...


Video: Media Business gives online video award to Behind the Money

Media Business has named The Deal and Tech Confidential's Behind The Money online video show as the best regular small b-to-b online video program of 2008.Launched last September, Behind The...


Video: Unigo's Jordan Goldman on tapping students to critique colleges

When you think of college guidebooks, Jordan Goldman's name may not be the first that comes to mind, but the scrappy New York City native has been competing with well-known media properties, including U.S. News &...


Video: Boxee's Avner Ronen on raising VC, competition, new features

After raising $4 million from Union Square Ventures and Spark Capital earlier this month, media-center software developer Boxee is releasing new content and features on Thursday. The biggest change is that users can play, browse...


Union Square, Spark Capital back media center software maker Boxee

Frequent co-investors Union Square Ventures and Spark Capital are teaming up again to invest a reported $4 million in Boxee, a startup that makes the "Firefox of media center software," as Wilson describes it...


Kodiak Venture Partners backing new startups and supporting older ones

We have continued to report on a relatively steady stream of venture capital fundings over the last several weeks despite Wall Street's woes. But many of the fundings coming to light now...


Video: Path 101 founder Charlie O'Donnell on seeking $2M in tough times

In another time and another place, as the saying goes, Path 101 Inc. might have venture capitalists lining up to fund it.The New York-based online employment startup has an enthusiastic...


Video: AdaptiveBlue's Alex Iskold on new product, new investor

Semantic Web startup AdaptiveBlue on Tuesday is launching a new service, called Glue, that connects people around everyday things, including books, movies and music through a wide range of Web sites, including...


'Nothing to do with the economy," says Fred Wilson on role swap at Twitter

Evan Williams is the new CEO of microblogging service Twitter Inc., and Jack Dorsey is the new chairman, switching the roles they held just a few hours ago, a blog...


Betaworks entrepreneurs rub elbows with tech dealmakers at Betaday

Entrepreneurs backed by New York incubator Betaworks got an enviable opportunity Tuesday to pitch their startups to more than 50 of the best-known names in tech dealmaking from major media and advertising companies, established technology...


Video: Entrepreneurs can't ignore patents

Technology entrepreneurs wishing to protect their intellectual property should consider hiring a patent attorney, says Frank Bruno, an associate at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP, who offers advice for entrepreneurs in...


Should VCs be worried about LPs defaulting on capital calls?

Are venture capital firms worrying that limited partners will default on their capital calls? Not so much, respond several VCs. The credit crunch is certainly taking a toll on banks and insurance companies, which make...


At @vctips, VCs tweet it like it is

Attention entrepreneurs: Before you pitch the next venture capitalist on your list, read this blog post. Better yet, follow @vctips, a new Twitter account that anyone can follow but only...


Union Square's Albert Wenger offers crash course on cloud computing

The profile of so-called "cloud computing" has been rising rapidly over the last week or so. First, Oracle Corp. Larry Ellison mocked it as "gibberish," then Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman called it...


Fred Wilson, Jason Calacanis write prescriptions for 'startup depression'

"If you are working on a Web technology company, be happy that you aren't working for a bank, a brokerage firm, an automobile company, or in many other industries," urges...


Fred Wilson Video: Startups should expect raising VC to get harder, but good ideas will get funded

"People are going to be more conservative," says venture capitalist Fred Wilson in a video interview with Tech Confidential about the impact of the crisis in the capital markets on the...


Web 2.0 Expo reacts to Wall Street crisis

How is the technology industry reacting to the crisis on Wall Street? To find out we spoke with attendees at the Web 2.0 Expo in New York City, including Union...


Video: 10gen's Dwight Merriman brings 'cloud computing' down to earth

"Cloud computing will fundamentally transform how software and services on the Web are created," says Albert Wenger, a partner at Union Square Ventures, which this summer invested $1.5 million in...


Video: Gilt Groupe one of the fastest-growing Web firms, says Kevin Ryan

"Gilt Groupe is going to be one of the fastest-growing Internet companies that has ever happened," predicts Kevin Ryan, CEO of New York incubator AlleyCorp, which owns the e-commerce fashion...


Fred Wilson on the 'Now Web' and monetizing Twitter

Union Square Ventures co-founder Fred Wilson (pictured) spoke with us about the emerging "Now Web," sometimes called the real-time Web, its potential for venture capitalists and the commercial opportunities this...


Twitter's Biz Stone says startup is working to fix "horrible user experience"

Twitter Inc. plans to offer more tools for people developing programs that run on top of the microblogging service, as well as more options for people trying to use those...



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