Why organizational stability is important for VC firms
Going by what a former LP investor says (as part of his comments on Paul Kedrosky’s posting), VC firms who face significant churn will find it difficult to raise their…
What wannabe VCs need to raise their first fund
Paul Kedrosky has some advise for wannabe VCs on how to raise their first fund: (Have) some combination of the following: 1. Proprietary deal flow 2. A (good) investment track…
How the “overhang” affects the VC business
Jim Breyer, Partner at Accel Partners, spells it out nicely as part of a Churchill Club roundtable featured in the AlwaysOn Network. We still are in a business which is…
OATSystems in trouble?
Jeff Nolan of SAP Ventures has “heard” that Prasad Putta and Sridhar Ramachandran co-founded OATSystems, a Watertown, MA based provider of radio frequency identification (RFID) software, is up for sale.…
And the biggest acquirer of IT companies is..
Via Brad Feld: No major surprises. Nevertheless, nice to see it represented visually. Arun Natarajan is the Editor of TSJ Media, which tracks venture capital activity in India and Indian-founded…
Vinod Khosla beyond KPCB
Business Week’s Deal Flow Blog has an article on what Vinod Khosla has been up to post his decision not to participate as a General Partner in KPCB’s (Kleiner Perkins…
What Microsoft looks for in an potential acquiree
Will Price reports from Microsoft’s VC Summit in Mountain View on what MSFT – according to its CEO Steve Ballmer – looks for when it considers acquiring a company: *…
Meetings without cell phones and Blackberrys
Will Price reports from Microsoft’s VC Summit in Mountain View on how MSFT CEO Steve Ballmer does not carry a Blackberry or a cell phone during the work day. He…
How to join the VC/PE industry
Seth Levine of Mobius VC has a few tips for MBAs and wannabee MBAs keen to join the Venture Capital/Private Equity industry: Understand the math. The partners are quite literally…
Can HR services firms do justice when it comes to hiring VCs?
Recently, we have tracked several appointments and movements in the Indian VC/PE industry in our Venture Intelligence India newsletters. There has been a lot of churn at India-based firms as…