After being written off by some, Accel Partners returned in 2006 with a vengeance. It had a top-five exit in each of the first three quarters of the year...
Only three weeks after setting a Make Me Move price on Zillow, I received my first bite. The online real estate web site Zillow released a new feature ealier...
Another good exit was recently turned in by low-profile investors. Seagate's $185 million purchase of online backup startup eVault last week benefits four firms I'd never heard of before....
On the one hand, Sevin Rosen's decision to cease raising its tenth fund was honorable. The venture capital firm effectively admitted that it didn't like the state of the...
Buoyed by HP's $4.5 billion purchase of Mercury Interactive, Israeli high-tech companies were sold for a total of $10.5 billion in 2006, the highest figure in six years. 45...
This time last year, it looked as if Frank Quattrone would have to spend 18 months in prison. His conviction was a victory for investors comforted by the prospect...
It was inevitable. The press attention Second Life has received in the past few weeks had to result in a backlash. The newly serious Valleywag is among the first...
Like the preceding entry, this one is obvious What's suprising is that there actually were a few angels and venture capital firms in the picture prior to Sequoia Capital's...
I'll begin with the obvious. As the only billion-dollar venture capital exit of 2006, YouTube's $1.65 billion sale to Google makes the three founders and two primary institutional investors...
Isilon's impressive debut on the Nasdaq market this week is good news for patient venture backers. Despite not earning a profit, the company's shares were up 78% affording it...
A blog post in response to last week's newspaper reports that MetaCafe, the online video sharing web site, was about to be purchased for more than $200 million, made...
It's never a good sign when a company doesn't disclose its investors. There may be a perfectly good reason why they don't want to say who invested... Actually, wait...
I'm not quite sure I understand what this gossip tidbit means, but then again, I'm not sure anyone does. So, here goes: It seems that Lindsay Lohan is feeling...
After months of protestations, online real estate startup is starting to show its hand. The company unveiled a new feature on its web site that allows real estate brokers...
Israeli newspapers YNet and Globes are reporting that MetaCafe, the online video sharing web site, is about to be sold for more than $200 million. Nothing is confirmed yet,...
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