venture capitalists

Here are the areas Amazon will make the most cash says venture capitalist. 6 Hours Ago. Matt McIlwain, Madrona Venture Group, discusses the state of venture capital and how Amazon has changed the start-up landscape. Watch CNBC Live TV ...

Arlan Hamilton isn't afraid to dismantle everything Silicon Valley stands for. As a black, queer woman who skipped college to pursue a career in the music industry, she looks nothing like the white, straight, Stanford-educated bros who dominate venture capital. And yet, having been homeless and broke just ...

Rashaun Williams is a recovering investment banker and current venture capitalist. He worked at Goldman Sachs and other firms for 13 years before moving to the West Coast to get into the tech world. He is a general partner at Manhattan Venture Partners' All-Star Fund, a late-stage tech company focused ...

According to Daniel Newman, who founded the event at USC last year after seeing its success at Queens College, the organization was created to empower students by giving undergraduates an opportunity to showcase their ideas on stage with venture capitalists. “What I realized is that a lot of people at ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Venture capitalists and entrepreneurs have been lobbying federal regulators to protect at least some virtual currencies from being categorized as securities, a designation that would carry significantly more oversight. The venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz helped assemble a ...

Mr. Pressman, a venture capitalist at Shasta Ventures, said he had been up much of the night before but still expected to raise a few glasses. “I'm running a little bit on adrenaline.” Mr. Pressman and many other Silicon Valley venture capitalists expect the windfalls to continue. Many of these investors, who ...

At the dinner, several prominent American venture capitalists introduced themselves to the delegation, telling them what they were looking for in determining which ventures to fund. Entrepreneur Raju Reddy, founder of Katikaya Sandbox, said he was looking at companies in India which could bring ...

Over the course of two days, approximately 50 IT, life science and cleantech companies make their pitch to an audience of venture capitalists and angel investors. Panels, speakers and networking round out the event. Invariably, an entrepreneur will immediately begin pitching the venture capitalist (VC) as ...

Venture capitalists spend their time finding, investing in and supporting high-growth and often high-risk companies. As the Harvard Business Review put it, "venture capitalists get paid well to lose money." But how does one become one of these powerful investors? According to a recent report from ...

... especially among funded founders — almost all said the problem was not the number of female entrepreneurs, but the number of venture capitalists willing to back them. Many of those founders went on to say that the lack of female representation in venture capital decreased their odds of getting funded.

High risk investing is the label that is often stuck on the front of a venture capital file and with good reason. The sum of the 10 worst flameouts run up a tab of $1.7 billion and with a combination of banks and venture capitalists backing names such as Jawbone and Yik Yak, throwing money at a startup won't ...

But my whole philosophy about venture capitalists is that I believe it's about building people up, not tearing them down. If you have a criticism, follow it with something constructive that can help them. And that's what we do with The Pitch. We're not like Shark Tank at all — we don't invest $20,000 for 80% of ...

The power of Facebook and Google needs to be examined by regulators, says Greycroft co-founder Alan Patricof. "Facebook is addictive today. Google is addictive. They're virtual monopolies," he says. Facebook and Google are facing allegations that their platforms are purposely designed to make users ...

YOUNGSTOWN — U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan of Howland, D-13th, and Dan Kildee of Michigan today announced the first new investments resulting from the “Comeback Cities Tour” and venture capital relationships. Ryan recently returned from leading a delegation of venture capitalists on a tour of heartland ...

Editor's note: The following is a guest viewpoint that comes from the Neal Reiter at IdentityMind Global. Part of the Palo Alto-based company's business is to help companies navigate the ICO and cryptocurrency markets. The five-year-old startup has raised $20.3 million in venture money to date, most ...

On the new podcast, Fonstad also talked about how her job as a venture capitalist is changing now that startups can potentially get money from so many more places, including initial coin offerings. The simple-but-true reality is that VC firms have to provide more than just cash. “We're not 'dumb money' ...

Yesterday, at Startup Grind, an event series that's aimed at new founders and people contemplating becoming entrepreneurs, we sat down with Joe Kraus, a partner for the last eight years with Google's early-stage investing arm, GV. Kraus, who'd earlier co-founded two companies — Excite and Jotspot ...

Entrepreneurs often seek external capital to accelerate their growth. This is especially true in hotly contested markets where fast growth can be the difference between success or failure. And yet this outside funding may come with strings attached, which can (and perhaps should) give entrepreneurs pause.

What to Do (and What to Avoid) When Negotiating With Venture Capitalists. Raising money? Avoid these big term-sheet mistakes. By Annalyn Kurtz. Annalyn Kurtz is a business journalist whose work has also appeared in Fortune, The New York Times, and CNNMoney. She holds an MBA from Columbia Business School ...

Unlike some jobs, there's no clear educational path to becoming a venture capitalist. Doctors have medical school. Lawyers have law school. Plumbers, electricians, welders, barbers, bartenders and plenty of other trades have schools of their own. Some VCs were educated in the “school of hard knocks” by ...

When venture capitalist and philanthropist Jillian Manus throws a party, the who's who of Silicon Valley shows up. That's because her parties are legendary. The budget? Exorbitant. The prolific hostess is known around the Bay for her over-the-top dinner parties and Valentine's Day galas, which have over ...