People from the Le Web 2009 in France was making such a fuss for Stribe. Stribe is a company puts a social network bar in your website. Basically, people who are signed in to the Stribe network will be able to have social network experience … Read More →
Tag Archives: Readings
Book Review: Vault Career Guide to Venture Capital, 3rd Edition
This is a very interesting and basic book about Venture Capital industry. It does inform you some tips about what kind of skills and career path that you should take before joining in. Also, it provides and introductory level of terms and vocabulary for you … Read More →
More Resources to People Who Want to Start Business
MaRS Entrepreneurship 101 Stanford University Entrepreneurship Corner Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students (BASES) Stanford Technology Ventures Program Carnegie Mellon University Entrepreneurship and Business Planning MaRS Entrepreneurship 101 Stanford University Entrepreneurship Corner Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students (BASES) Stanford Technology Ventures Program Carnegie Mellon … Read More →
Resources to support Entrepreneurs
MIT Open Course Ware Managing Innovation and Entrepreneurship Managing Innovation and Entrepreneurship Managing Innovation: Emerging Trends Early Stage Capital Designing and Leading the Entrepreneurial Organization Law for the Entrepreneur and Manager Entrepreneurial Marketing Entrepreneurial Finance Listening to the Customer Pricing The Nuts and Bolts of … Read More →
Venture Capital Highlights – 2009 – Week 42
Compared to others Compared to others The Elevator Pitch Contest – MIT 100K Venture Investment Increases for Some Start-Ups
Book Review: Careers in Venture Capital, 2005 Edition – WetFeet Insider Guide
Incredibly enough, this is a very similar book to Vault Career in Venture Capital book. They talk about the same introductory ideas for those who wants to pursue a career in the Venture Capital industry. It does provide a short story of the industry. Some … Read More →
Book Review: The Back of the Napkin
The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures I read this book and it is really great to show a new way of structure problem solving framework. It provides a a good introduction about the benefits of the visual thinking. Then, … Read More →
Smartphone: the next PC industry
There is a news from the CNET that tells that Smartphones and low-cost handsets will keep dominating the wireless market. The post tells that despite the fact of economic downturn, demand for smartphone remained high and this category grew 27% compared to the same quarter … Read More →
Flashback: My technology news for Folha de S. Paulo
It is nostalgic to see some of my texts written for Folha de Sao Paulo in 2003, a prestigious newspaper in Brazil. I worked for a couple of time and I wrote technology news, such as new wireless and mobile services, reviews about new notebooks, … Read More →
Twitter’s founder: Evan Williams
I became aware of Evan Williams from Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days. He had a great and very interesting story about how he founded Blogger and all the hardship he had with it. I think one of the most interesting point is … Read More →
New Funds Target Early Stage Startups
Summary: The number of new funds focused on bankrolling early-stage startups appears to be growing. Data from The Deal and other sources that focus on venture capital concluded that in the last six weeks that about $1.2 billion has been raised by firms for dedicated … Read More →
Kauffman Foundation says “U.S. Venture Capital Industry Must Shrink”
A new study by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Right-Sizing the U.S. Venture Capital Industry, states that venture capital industry’s return is under performing because of the current size of the industry. It says that by reducing the it, this industry may increase its return. … Read More →
New Valuation for Facebook
Wow, this is increadible. Facebook is receiving $ 200 million for 1.96%! To calculate the post valuation, we just need to do this: X = post-valuation X = 200 million / 0.0196 = 10 204 million = $ 10 billion roughly. Amazing how this company … Read More →
Article: Do Web Entrepreneurs Still Need Venture Capitalists?
There is a very interesting article about this question: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/do-web-entrepreneurs-still-need-venture-capitalists/ It basically says that given the lower cost to create web companies, the current venture capital model may not be attractive enough for those web entrepreneurs. It gives some examples such as the iPhone Apps developers … Read More →
New York Times interviewed Steven Ballmer about Leadership
Many of you may not like Microsoft, but most people are sure that Microsoft’s CEO, Steven Ballmer, has a strong leadership presence in the company and in the market. There is an interesting short interview from New York Time with Steven. He talks about leadership, … Read More →
Stages in Venture Capital Funding
Venture Capital Investment Stages (Click the image to see the big version) This is a rough view of the venture capital investment stages. These stages are for guidance only. In the real world, there is no standard in the classification of the investment stage. Sometimes, … Read More →
Shrinking Venture Capital Market in Canada
The Canada’s Venture Capital & Private Equity Association released a report yesterday (May 12th) that the venture capital market continues to fall in the first quarter of 2009, continuing the shrinking trend from 2008. In the Canadian landscape, only $ 275 million … Read More →
A Presentation About Venture Capital from MIT OpenCourse
This is a very good and concise presentation about venture capital, the three phrases of venture capital investing, SBICSs and SSBICs (types of small business programs), state government initiatives, key challenges and best practices. Download the presentation here: http://ocw.mit.edu/NR/rdonlyres/E8256F94-7B44-4E02-8511-7366DE6B20CA/0/class16_vc.pdf
Venture Capital Looks for Another Exit
Today, I just read an interesting article about a possible new exit event that venture capitalists, startups employees and other investors could do. SecondMarket is a marketplace where people can sell and buy “illiquid assets”. Illiquid assets are anything that people cannot … Read More →
Link: ResultsON – Brazil Startup Magazine
This is a free online and offline magazine about Brazilian startups. Portuguese only! http://www.resultson.com.br/
Canada Game Industry Tops British’s
In the Economist.com’s article “Play up, play up“, it shows the hardship the British game industry is suffering with lack of business and political support, meanwhile, it shows the growing strength of this industry in countries like Canada. In Canada, this industry receives foreign developers enjoy … Read More →
Money Tree Full Report Q4 – 2008
Check out the complete report about VC industry in the US here: https://www.pwcmoneytree.com/MTPublic/ns/moneytree/filesource/exhibits/National_MoneyTree_full_year_Q4_2008_Final.pdf
Chart showing how bear market ends
Some key points: The 10 bear markets since 1950 have bottomed down 20% to 57% (current) off the peak. The current bear is by far the worst since the Great Crash, which bottomed down 89%. The bear phases of these markets lasted from 3 – 30 … Read More →
Interesting article about investment timming in the VC industry
Venture capital funds raised $4.3 billion in the first quarter of 2009, says Thomson Reuters. That was spread among 40 funds, which is one the smallest amounts raised since Q3 2003. Another couple of quarters of lousy returns, and VC fundraising should drop to zero … Read More →
Free: A Guide to Venture Capital
I found a very interesting book about venture capital. It was written by the Irish Venture Capital Association (http://www.ivca.ie) and it’s completely free. It is a quick reading ( I read in less than 4 hours) and it explains what venture capital is … Read More →
Shouldn’t Startups Cut Costs From Start?
In this time of crisis, it is always easy to promote cost-cutting measures as a way to save the company or bring the company back to profitability. Even though, this is a great way to make to companies leaner and more efficient, cutting the … Read More →
Venture Capitalists Continue to Take It Slow
Despite new signs of life in Silicon Valley, venture investing slowed in the first quarter. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/16/venture-capitalists-continue-to-take-it-slow/