You can take the name out of the acquirer but you can't take away its acquisitive instincts. Before it changed its name to JDSU, JDS Uniphase was one of...
John Doerr will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award in Entrepreneurship and Innovation tonight from the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation at the Haas School of Business at UC...
Talk about loyalty. Venrock and U.S. Venture Partners are still supporting Maxxan after six years has elapsed, $133 million has been invested and the company's product strategy and name...
Sequoia Capital has had quite a run. Some big IPOs (Isilon and Mellanox), some big trade sales (Topio and YouTube) and a redesigned web site has put the venture...
VSP Capital continues to steadily earn profitable exits despite internal turmoil that led to partner departures and lawsuits last year. Its latest exit came when chipmaker LSI Logic purchased...
After buying 22 startups in 12 months last fiscal year, Microsoft is adding to its shopping list in the current fiscal year with healthcare related startups. Today, the company...
DealBreaker is reporting that Viacom is in talks to purchase Last.fm for $450 million. I gave Last.fm an overall VC Rating of 8 back in May so I think...
Reactivity began life very differently from the way it ended this week when it agreed to be purchased by Cisco Systems for $130 million. Founded in 1998 with venture...
A post on Paul Scrivens' Wisdump blog today suggests that blog networks have failed. His idea is that most blogs -- let alone blog networks -- fail because they don't...
I interviewed Imperium Renewables chairman and CEO Martin Tobias last year for a story I wrote about ambitious startups trying to build billion dollar businesses. Tobias was the character...
The IPO hype machine received another boost today when Business 2.0's Michael Copeland wrote that the Tech IPO is back. I'm not so sure. If the Tech IPO was back,...
Google's $23 million purchase of Adscape earlier this month is the latest in-game advertising startup acquisition. Microsoft's deal for Massive last year was the biggest such purchase. But, the...
Visto is only the latest, and largest, target of an investment fund targeting an intellectual property opportunity. In that deal announced last week, Altitude Partners invested $35 million to...
Things get stranger and stranger over at Odeo. For a two-year old startup, it's sure had an interesting corporate life. First, the San Francisco podcasting search and technology company...
The venture capital beneficiary of Google's $23 million acquisition of in-game advertising startup Adscape Media last week isn't based in the normal locale. Usually, the money from a deal...
Visto surprised some with another round of financing this week. It's shouldn't have. The company has gone too far for its investors to give up on it now. Besides,...
Akamai's $171 million purchase of Netli earlier this month is the latest in an industry-wide buying spree of 11 network acceleration and optimization startups for a total of $1.4...
With all the complaints heard around Silicon Valley about the tough IPO market, you'd think that when venture capitalists are fortunate enough to have a portfolio company achieve an...
Internet companies are accounting for a growing share of the venture capital invested in Europe and Israel. After hitting a peak of 14% share in 2001, Internet deal share declined...
More than any other venture capital firm in Europe, Index Ventures is legitemizing the local industry. I wrote the same thing six years ago but it remains as true...
Bessemer Venture Partners recently brought about 25 of its portfolio company executives together to learn how best to utilize search engine optimization and marketing tools for their companies. It...
Venture capitalists seem to fall into two buckets when it comes to Web 2.0. They are either in love with consumer facing Internet startup using Web 2.0 technologies or...
Despite what Bill Gurley describes as revenue and a valuation "well north of what you might expect for a public company," LiveOps chose $28 million from an investment consortium...
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