How VCs can become better board members
Fred Wilson has a great post on how self-proclaimed “hands on” VCs can really add value to their portfolio companies and become better investor and board members. I guess Jordan…
IBD Network VC event highlights
Highlights from a recent IBD Network event on Venture Capital (held at Menlo Park, CA) featuring Ron Weissman, Apax Partners (as Moderator); Raj Atluru, Draper Fisher Jurvetson; Tim Chang, Gabriel…
SAIF closes Silicon Valley office
SiliconBeat reports that Softbank Asia Infrastructure Fund, whose LPs include Japan’s Softbank Corp. and Cisco Systems, has closed its office in Silicon Valley. The fund will focus on investments in…
The Tejas Networks Story
Tejas Networks’ $17 million third round funding led by Battery Ventures is getting the firm a lot of ink. Businessworld magazine recently published a three page profile of the telecom…
From contractors to designers
Whether Indian IT services companies make this shift and embrace innovation and R&D based excellence will determine whether India will “find its place in the sun in the years to…
Ray Lane interview in BusinessWeek
BusinessWeek has an interview with KPCB partner and former Oracle executive Ray Lane. I was always afraid I was entering into a new business, a new career — venture capital.…
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.…