| Date | Title | Description |
| 17.01.2023 | WestView Capital Raises $1 Billion for Fifth Growth Equity Fund | Boston, MA |
| 20.06.2015 | 5 tips to prepare you for selling your company | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
It’s a heady time for M&A professionals. Deal... |
| 20.06.2015 | 5 tips to prepare you for selling your company | It’s a heady time for M&A professionals. Deal volume is skyrocketing, and cash and equity are flowing. We are bouncing from one deal to the next and loving it. For a founder or CEO, there may be little you can do to prepare yourself for... |
| 02.06.2015 | Board relations 101: Advice to entrepreneurs on navigating board dynamics | After 18 years of attending board meetings, you get a good sense of why some meetings work well and others don’t (even monkeys can recognize patterns!). Here are some observations and pieces of advice for entrepreneurs who may have just rai... |
| 02.06.2015 | Board relations 101: Advice to entrepreneurs on navigating board dynamics | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
After 18 years of attending board meetings, you g... |
| 16.11.2014 | 5 founder-friendly financing terms that give power to entrepreneurs | In the first half of this year, the level of venture-capital investment hit its highest quarterly mark since Q2 2001. Big M&A deals like WhatsApp, Oculus and Zillow have become prolific. And more and more companies are getting financing... |
| 16.11.2014 | 5 founder-friendly financing terms that give power to entrepreneurs | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
In the first half of this year, the level of vent... |
| 16.10.2014 | In A First, Commerce Department Fines Intel Subsidiary For Exporting Encryption | For those who lived through the late 90’s cryptowars, it’s beginning to feel like history is repeating itself. We’ve seen the series of recent stories about the US government’s misguided, FUD-based freakout over some recent moves to enhance... |
| 13.10.2014 | Patent Trolling Has Been Crazy Profitable, But Thanks To Supreme Court, New Lawsuits Are Declining | There’s some new data out about patent lawsuits that paint an interesting picture. First, the law firm Goodwin Procter put out a new manual for fighting patent trolls (found via GigaOm), showing that patent trolling has been immensely profi... |
| 25.07.2014 | Tapulous Founder Bart Decrem Has Raised About $1M For His New ‘Hobby’ | It looks like Tapulous founder Bart Decrem is ready for his next act, as the gaming exec appears to have raised some money for a new venture called “Hobby.”
In the mobile gaming world, you can’t do much better than Decrem. He was the founde... |
| 24.09.2013 | Prosecutors Gone Wild In Case of Fmr BP Engineer Kurt Mix | On May 2, 2012, Kurt Mix was indicted on charges of obstructing justice by deleting text message strings from his cell phone while employed as a drilling engineer tasked with capping the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. The spill was a ... |
| 04.06.2013 | 6 things entrepreneurs should do before selling their company | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Caine Moss and Alon Rotem work for international ... |
| 04.06.2013 | 6 things entrepreneurs should do before selling their company | Caine Moss and Alon Rotem work for international law firm Goodwin Procter.
Congratulations! A big-name serial acquirer is preparing a term sheet to purchase your company. While your attention may naturally focus on negotiating the purchase ... |
| 26.03.2013 | 8 Reasons Why Every Health Tech Startup Should Use Crowdfunding | Why not explore what’s to gain from crowdfunding when there’s nothing to lose? MedStartr’s co-founder and CEO Alex Fair explains.
Alex Fair, Co-Founder & CEO of MedStartr
Thinking about joining the crowd? We know, your mother probably t... |
| 30.09.2012 | Need to cash out a bit pre-IPO? Consider a private liquidity program | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
This post is written by Jamie Hutchinson and Brec... |
| 28.10.2011 | The basics of founder liquidity in venture financings | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
In today’s funding environment, hot companies are... |
| 28.10.2011 | The basics of founder liquidity in venture financings | In today’s funding environment, hot companies are gaining the upper hand in negotiating deal terms that would have been unheard of a few years ago. One such term we’ve seen recently in venture deals is partial liquidity to founders.
Many in... |
| 29.12.2010 | SEC takes aim at venture capital rules in 2011 | New rules from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and a revised reading on which private fund managers must register as investment advisers will have a “profound” effect on traditional venture capital funds in 2011, a lawyer who sp... |
| 22.11.2010 | What you need to know - Monday 8/26/10 | Facebook shares trade at $71;Smartdate raised $5M; Novell bought for $2.2B
Attachmate Corporation is buying Novell for $2.2 billion, or $6.10 a share. Attachmate is owned by a group of investors which include Francisco Partners, Golden Gate... |
| 29.07.2010 | Fallout From Financial Reform Bill May Hamper Angel Investing | Throughout the spring, we covered the financial reform legislation as it wound its way through committee and Congress. The final version – Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act – was signed into effect by President Obama... |
| 23.04.2010 | And Groupon makes three. What’s Russian firm DST’s secret sauce? | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Moscow-based Digital Sky Technologies has come ou... |
| 23.04.2010 | And Groupon makes three. What’s Russian firm DST’s secret sauce? | Moscow-based Digital Sky Technologies has come out of nowhere to become the investment firm du jour, beating out other investors to win the hands of Facebook, Zynga and Groupon in the past year.
The firm bought $200 million in Facebook pref... |
| 30.07.2009 | Smart startups should dive into Washington | AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford panel offers advice to companies interacting with the federal government
In reply to the question, “Why go to D.C.,” DBL Investors Managing Partner Nancy Pfund retorted, “Why not?"
Such was the consensus tod... |
| 15.04.2009 | From Ultracapacitors to Soybeans to Sludge: University Teams Pitch Local VCs | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Three local venture firms put on what amounted to a university startup fair at the Charles Hotel in Harvard Square yesterday. I went hoping for a peek at a few of the companie... |
