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Video: Allen Stern offers advice for entrepreneurs in NYC and beyond

"I'm a big public transportation buff so I'll use an analogy from the subway," says New Yorker Allen Stern, founder of the popular CenterNetworks tech blog, in The Deal's Behind the Money...


VC fundraising sank in fourth quarter

  Far from immune to Wall Street's woes, venture capital firms raised 71% less money in the fourth quarter of 2008 than they did in the same quarter of 2007,...


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 Flashback 2008: Jason Calacanis on hiring and firing

"I try to scare people," Mahalo.com Inc. founder Jason Calacanis told The Deal back in March, when he described his controversial hiring and firing practices in our three-part video interview.And that was...


Q&A: Allen Stern looks back at the year's mistakes and missed opportunities

Allen Stern pulls no punches. "Pownce is gone, and it's Kevin Rose's fault," wrote Stern (pictured) earlier this month in a blog post on CenterNetworks, a Web site he created...


"The VC community pullback will not impact us at all," says Intel Capital's Arvind Sodhani

Intel Capital is taking an opportunistic view of the pullback on the part of some venture capital firms, CEO Arvind Sodhani tells VentureBeat."In 2001, you had a technology bubble that...


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...


RRE Ventures reaches out to next generation of entrepreneurs

RRE Ventures may be the best-kept secret of the East Coast venture capital community. The prestigious New York VC firm, which was established nearly 15 years ago, is well known...


As Valleywag shrinks, a plea to Philip Kaplan: Bring back FC

As we try to figure out whether the latest layoffs in startup land are the begining of the end or merely a prudent pruning process, we can't help wishing Philip...


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 (Part 2): Alan Patricof compares NY and LA with Silicon Valley

"I would say there is an entrepreneurial energy boom in New York and Los Angeles, which is going to give a good race to Silicon Valley," says Alan Patricof (pictured)...


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...


Behind the layoffs: Mahalo chief Jason Calacanis shares the details

Serial entrepreneur Jason Calacanis provides a candid look into the thought process behind laying off 10% of Mahalo.com's workforce late Wednesday evening in an email sent to those who follow...


Services partnerships help Betaworks tweak incubator model

Incubators are known for getting economies of scale for basic services, such as accounting and payroll, but Betaworks seems to be taking the concept a step further. The New York...


Socialmedian founder Jason Goldberg keeps media startup 'small and scrappy'

As investors urge their portfolio companies to cinch their belts, it's a good time to look at how one entrepreneur with a little experience under his is doing more with...


'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...


Question for Tesla's Elon Musk: Don't ordinary times require focus too?

The silver lining in the gloomy economic forecast may be that entrepreneurs and investors will be forced to do what they should have done all along: focus on their companies.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...


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...



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Real estate sponsors that might wish to undertake an IPO will need to consider a wide variety of issues and begin to take action long before the first filing with the SEC.


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Loan-to-buy

Paulson's proposal to purchase an equity stake in Yellow Pages publisher Idearc is the second time in recent months an investor group has used its prepetition debt position to execute a bargain price 'exit LBO.'


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