Given Florida's roots in agriculture, PurFresh caught my attention recently. Their product, PurShade, is an SPF 45 spray to protect fruit from solar radiation -- yes, sunscreen for fruit. Evidently, the sun can destroy 20-40% of some crops. In the words of a Florida distributor:"Growers in South Florida can experience [...]
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August 5th, 2008 |
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--Intel will today announce details of a new line of super-fast microchips, dubbed Larrabee, designed first to make video game graphics better, but ultimately destined for your desktop. [NYT] -- The old-media fogies at Time Warner appear finally ready to break up AOL and lose the "mental drag" the one-time [...]
Venture Capital investing is a very tough game...and very lucrative if you are good at it. Part of my job at Microsoft is working with VCs, so I have learned a lot about the way they think...and why they say No to 99% of the deals they see...and still end [...]
"Technology bankers in Silicon Valley must be really bored these days. Not a single technology company went public in the second quarter of this year, according to the National Venture Capital Association. That is the first tech-free I.P.O. quarter since 1978.But the drop off in tech-related offerings may stem from [...]
BizJournals |
August 5th, 2008 |
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Jonathan Axelrad Title: Partner, Private Investment Funds, Goodwin Procter LLP[...]
VentureBeat |
August 5th, 2008 |
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Friendster, the formative social network of the modern web era that first became a verb for rollercoaster failure and has more recently taken over the Asian market, has some good news this evening. It has raised $20 million and plucked Richard Kimber, Google's regional managing director for South Asia, to [...]
Given the long gestation of seed deals, venture capital firms look for clean-technology projects with federal or academic support[...]
VC Circle |
August 5th, 2008 |
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Tata Capital has appointed Shailendra Bhandari, the former managing director and CEO of Centurion Bank of Punjab (CBoP), as the head of its private equity business, The Economic Times has reported, quoting unnamed sources. VC Circle has not independently verified this information. The report said that Bhandari will report to [...]
Investment Banking, deals, Financing Gregory T. Huang wrote: How do you run a national investment bank here in the Northwest, far away from the bustling financial centers of New York and San Francisco? I put the question to Michael Butler, chairman and CEO of Seattle-based Cascadia Capital, one of the [...]
VC Truism: Like poker, its not about the hands you dont play, its about the hands you do play. No-one went broke folding before the flop. I have been twittering over the last few months, and am enjoying just laying out VC truisms, aphorisms, or even stupid-isms. You can catch [...]
The compulsion to get GE execs on the record about NBC Universal's (NYSE: GE) futuremaybe we can make it a drinking game during the Olympicscontinues despite the recent reorganization keeping the media and entertainment company as a core division and repeated assertions that it will remain part of GE. Caveat: [...]
CBS' (NYSE: CBS) long-running magazine show Entertainment Tonight will be expanding its presence on Microsoft's (NSDQ: MSFT) MSN portal next month. While ET has been providing some content to the Microsoft property already, the new arrangement has the show providing articles, videos and photos across the entire site, including MSN [...]
Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) has expanded its earlier partnership with NCR, and will be deploying about 50 DVD rental kiosk machines in a pilot test...this expands on their earlier announced separate deal for download-only kiosks which are being tested in Dallas area. The DVD-rental only kiosks will start to appear in [...]
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August 5th, 2008 |
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I had lunch today with some veteran private equity litigators, and asked them to predict what theyll be spending lots of time on over the next few years. Their response was swift and certain: Increased SEC enforcement of insider trading-type activities at private equity firms. Government agencies already take a [...]
Ask The VC |
August 5th, 2008 |
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Fred Wilson has another post on Venture Fund Returns titled Gross and Net Returns. AsktheVC would like to formally thank Fred for doing our work for us, as we periodically get questions about how VC funds work and to this point have not written posts nearly as detailed as Fred's.[...]
associate with 2-4 yrs. corporate experience at a major firm, a demonstrated focus on venture capital and... focus on venture capital and M&A; CBCategory Legal... (From CareerBuilder)[...]
QA Load Test Engineer (Client) About Client and DeviceAnywhere: Client is a dynamic VC-funded startup in the mobile space. Client's products enable mobile companies to transform their [...]
Our client, a prestigious DC firm seek well-qualified associates with one to five years of transactional experience. Excellent opportunity to work in collegiate... (From lawjobs.com)[...]
Voobon Ventures, Inc Job Title: Associate Project... About the Company: Voobon Ventures, Inc. is a unique integrated Venture Capital management, Private Equity... (From sologig)[...]
