<div><h1> IS SILICON VALLEY LOSING ITS MAGIC? </h1><p>Transmeta Corp. once embodied the Silicon Valley dream. Starting in 1995, the company raised more than $300 million in a nervy bid to reinvent the market for chips powering portable computers. Yet Transmeta struggled in ...
<div><p> In early October, Sequoia Capital summoned executives at its portfolio companies for an urgent meeting to discuss survival in the economic downturn. The presentation at the meeting, titled "R.I.P: Good Times," quickly made its way onto the Internet, adding to fear ...
Document service aims to make early fundraising rounds less expensive for entrepreneurs Raising money shouldn't cost startups so much money. At least that's the theory underlying the latest idea backed by former entrepreneurs-turned-venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. They worked with ...
<div><p> In 1984 a young British journalist named Michael Moritz wrote a short piece in Time magazine about the legendary venture capitalist Arthur Rock with the title "The Best Long-Ball Hitter Around."" Today, the 54-year-old Moritz is the guy who swats investing ...
<div id="subtitle">Survey: Venture capitalists clamping down on their wallets as they brace for painful 2009</div><div><p>Venture capitalists are bracing for their toughest year since the dot-com bust as they try to survive the bursting of an even bigger investment bubble.</p><p>The ...
<div><p>The coming year threatens to challenge the survival skills of startups and venture capital firms alike, but superstars may rise in 2010 from the world's scorched economic landscape.</p><p>Such was the sentiment reflected on Wednesday in the results of an annual "predictions survey" ...
<div><h1> SILICON VALLEY: UH-OH FOR WEB 2.0 </h1><p>A year ago there were reports that Digg had hired investment bank Allen & Co. to put the popular news aggregation Web site on the block with an asking price of $300 million. Bloggers predicted ...
<div><p>The US financial sector meltdown is a mixed blessing for technology startups, making them seem solid bets in a shaky market but threatening long waits for investors accustomed to quick returns.</p><p>Coffers of venture capitalists are brimming with cash but those managing investments ...
<div><p>A company like YouTube is “almost impossible for a responsible investor to invest in in the first few months of life,” said Owen Davis, the managing director of NYC Seed and veteran Internet entrepreneur. He was speaking on Oct. 2 at the ...
<div id="subtitle">`Get real or go home': Squeezed by financial crisis, venture capitalists curtailing investment</div><div><p>As it becomes increasingly difficult to cash out of their previous investments, venture capitalists are gradually closing their financial spigots in what could be the start of a long, ...
