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| Oct 13, 2020 | Landscape site launches with the aim of becoming the ‘Glassdoor for VC’ | You’ve probably heard of Glassdoor, which exists to allow employees to rate companies anonymously. Now a U.K. entrepreneur has decided to address the thorny issue of rating venture capitalists.
Landscape, a new review platform for tech star... |
| Oct 13, 2020 | Landscape, a new ‘Glassdoor for VCs’, launches with 700 reviews from European founders | Landscape, a tech ecosystem review platform dubbing itself the ‘Glassdoor for VCs’, is launching from its home base in the UK today. The goal is to provide more transparency to founders as they seek funding, and create more accountability (... |
| Sep 28, 2020 | Building Your Own AngelList: 4 Expert Tips on How to Network to Find Investors for Your New Business | September 28, 2020 8 min read
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Having a brilliant product, team, and business model are important starting points in your entrepreneurial journey; but at some point, you’ll need ... |
| Mar 23, 2020 | Tech.eu Podcast #161: How European VCs are reacting to crisis; prospects of e-scooter operators | Tech.eu Podcast hosted by Andrii Degeler is a show in which we discuss some of the most interesting stories from the European technology scene and interview leading entrepreneurs and investors from across the region.
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| Jan 7, 2020 | How to evaluate potential investors to find the right fit | When thinking about approaching an investor, you need to consider the merits of your business
So, you need an investor but don’t know where to start. Finding an investor is one of the hardest things you will ever do in setting up or maintai... |
| Sep 27, 2017 | How and where to get Venture Capitalists to fund your Business. | Share
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Venture capitalists usually fund emerging businesses and high end startups with high growth potential and experienced management. They will never fund your business unless you demonstrate that it will grow fast... |
| Oct 20, 2016 | Online VC FundersClub launches Network Search to better connect its 18,000 members | Network effects in venture capital are no joke. Sure, people want to close rounds with brand name funds like Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz because they validate startups. But perhaps more importantly, companies become more likely to succe... |
| Jun 26, 2015 | Joe Scarboro: Four Weeks at Tech City UK | This article was originally posted on the Tech City UK website.
It’s the end of my fourth week at Tech City UK and it’s been a hectic start! I’ve done a lot of research on where we can be adding more value and I’ve been to a lot of events ... |
| Dec 4, 2014 | 7 Venture Capital Firms Investing In Barcelona Start-ups! | Before we present the venture capitalists and angel investors that are looking to invest in Barcelona start-ups, let’s give you a few tips for you to choose the right investor.
Did I just say that YOU can choose? Yes, I know we are in tryi... |
| May 15, 2014 | One of venture capital's harshest critics — Adeo Ressi — is launching a VC firm | Adeo Ressi launched his reputation in Silicon Valley in 2007 with TheFunded, a website that was (and is) harshly critical of venture capitalists, with specific — and often damning — reviews of firms and their partners.
Now, six-and-a-half y... |
| Mar 6, 2014 | Clueless Questions Investors Ask | The young woman leaned into the microphone: “I’m the CEO of an edtech startup company and am talking with investors about funding. But what should I say when they ask me if I’m going to get pregnant or go on maternity leave?”
It was a momen... |
| Apr 7, 2013 | Real Estate Crowdfunding Platform Realty Mogul Is Gaining Steam, As It Wins Another Pitch Competition | Last week, a young startup called Realty Mogul took home top honors at “Founder Showcase,” a Silicon Valley pitch competition and networking event hosted by TheFunded.com, in which eight early-stage startups showed off their wares in front ... |
| Mar 30, 2013 | Strategies For VCs To Increase Startup Success Odds | Editor’s note: David Teten is a partner with ff Venture Capital and founder and chairman of Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater New York. Follow him on his blog or on Twitter @dteten.
Lots of venture capitalists claim to add va... |
| Mar 12, 2013 | Why your email pitch did not even make the VC’s ‘maybe pile’ | Here’s the thing: if you do a cold-call pitch to a Venture Capital (VC) investor using email, your proposal is already at the bottom of the pile before anyone has even read the subject line. The reason: VCs mostly rely on warm referrals fro... |
| Mar 12, 2013 | Why your email pitch did not even make the VC’s ‘maybe pile’ | Here’s the thing: if you do a cold-call pitch to a Venture Capital (VC) investor using email, your proposal is already at the bottom of the pile before anyone has even read the subject line. The reason: VCs mostly rely on warm referrals fro... |
| Aug 31, 2012 | Convertible Equity, A Better Alternative To Convertible Debt? | There has been no shortage of controversy and criticism around the convertible note, a popular investing vehicle that’s used by seed stage and angel investors. As a refresher, a convertible note is a loan that automatically converts into eq... |
| Aug 31, 2012 | ‘Convertible equity’: a plan to keep early-stage startups out of debt | 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!
As we enter into a quarter in which we’re likely ... |
| Aug 26, 2012 | VC Transparency Is The New Black | When Instagram was bought by Facebook earlier this spring for $1 billion, one question lingering on everyone’s minds was how much VC firm Andreessen Horowitz made on the deal. The firm had made an early investment in the photo sharing start... |
| Apr 11, 2012 | Instagram Aftermath: It’s Time For Entrepreneurs To Go All-In | Editor’s note: Adeo Ressi is founding member at TheFunded and The Founder Institute. Follow him on Twitter @adeoressi.
Q: What does the Instagram acquisition mean for startups?
A: A LOT.
At the close of 2011, there was a lot of uncertainty ... |
| Jan 25, 2012 | TheFunded Calls Ben Horowitz The Most Disruptive VC | TheFunded, the site where entrepreneurs can anonymously review venture capitalists, sometimes a reputation for being anti-VC (especially in its early days), but it’s not above showing investors a little love. Today it’s the announcing the w... |
| Jan 17, 2012 | StartupPlays Offers An Affordable (Virtual) Alternative To Startup Accelerators | Founders and entrepreneurs are likely familiar with some of the more well-established startup incubators and accelerators out there, like Y Combinator, TechStars, 500 Startups, Founder Institute, DreamIt — to name a few — all of which provi... |
| Dec 21, 2011 | Come to the 9th Founder Showcase, with TheFunded.com’s Investor Awards | 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 sponsored by TheFunded.com.
The Foun... |
| Nov 4, 2011 | Don’t Launch A Company, Launch A Fund (Or The Series A Will Die) | Editor’s note: This guest post is authored by Adeo Ressi, who is the founder of The Founder Institute and TheFunded.com. You can follow him on Twitter here.
Every investor and entrepreneur knows there is something scary about the current st... |
| Sep 22, 2011 | Free Startup Docs: How Much Equity Should Advisors Get? | It’s an age-old scenario: You’re building a company, you have a product idea, and you’ve got the framework laid out in your head, but you want some expert advice and guidance on how to take the next steps. So, you go out to find a veteran e... |
| Aug 26, 2011 | They’re in! Meet the DEMO Fall 2011 Speakers | The fall DEMO conference is only weeks away, on September 12-14th in Santa Clara, Calif. and we’re excited to reveal our lineup. Aside from the 60-plus companies launching products, we’ve got some amazing speakers and “sages,” who will be p... |
| Jun 9, 2011 | “I Want to Meet a Partner!" | This guest post is written by David Cowan, who joined Bessemer Venture Partners in 1992. He has since made 45 early-stage investments for Bessemer, including 19 that have gone public, and 18 that have been acquired by public companies.
Over... |
| May 28, 2011 | Is There A Peak Age for Entrepreneurship? | Editor’s note: Adeo Ressi, is the founder of The Founder Institute and TheFunded.com In this guest post he argues against ageism when it comes to to entrepreneurs. Ressi is 39.
The recent articles proclaiming that 25 is the peak age for ent... |
| Sep 14, 2010 | How Udemy raised $1,000,000 | Lessons learned about pitching investors from a first-time entrepreneur
Udemy recently closed a $1 million financing from a syndicate of angel investors. I couldn’t be prouder of the Udemy team. We’re thrilled to have the support of angels ... |
| Sep 3, 2010 | The Funded's Adeo Ressi Arrested After Virgin America Flight Incident | The Funded founder Adeo Ressi was arrested and briefly detained earlier this evening over an altercation with a flight attendant. The airline? Virgin America, which I’ve been holding up as virtually the only airline that doesn’t suck (See V... |
| Sep 2, 2010 | Never Mind the Valley: Here’s Paris | If you’re capable of seeing past the old stones of Paris and the picturesque rural villages, you’ll realize that France is every bit as technologically advanced as any other Western country – more so in some areas. Not only does the country... |
| Aug 29, 2010 | Founder Institute: How To Launch In 10 Steps With Less Than $2,000 | For any entrepreneur, the challenge of taking an idea to launch can be a daunting and expensive journey. Fortunately, Adeo Ressi, founder of TheFunded and startup accelerator, Founder Institute, has a ten step plan.
While there is no foolpr... |
| Aug 10, 2010 | 10 Lessons From Finland’s Summer of Startups | I’m currently coaching a program called Summer of Startups. It’s an ambitious project started by student-run organizations in Helsinki to encourage students to create a startup during the summer rather than taking a summer job. The governme... |
| Aug 4, 2010 | Elon Musk, Jason Calacanis Speak at Founder Showcase Pitch Event | Last night the Founder Showcase held its quarterly event in Mountain View, featuring pitches by ten seed-stage startups, as well as talks by Maholo CEO Jason Calacanis and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. The Founder Showcase is an open star... |
| Aug 2, 2010 | Profitably raises funding to cull data for small businesses | New York startup Profitably recently closed a $300,000 round of funding with a group of New York investors. The company offers an online software application that analyzes data from Quickbooks, a small business accounting package sold by In... |
| May 28, 2010 | Video: Evernote CEO Phil Libin Shares Revenue Stats (And How To Make Freemium Work) | Last week at the Founder Showcase, a quarterly event put on by Adeo Ressi’s TheFunded, Evernote CEO Phil Libin gave a presentation discussing some of the startup’s key revenue numbers and strategy. During his talk, Libin outlined some of th... |
| May 20, 2010 | Meeting Space Booking Site eVenues Wins The Funded's Founder Showcase | eVenues, a service to book meeting rooms online, has won the top spot at won the Founder Showcase, which is a quarterly open start-up pitch competition and networking event held by TheFunded.
eVenues aggregates, searches, and rents meeting ... |
| May 15, 2010 | ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 15 May 2010 | The upcoming week is full of thought-provoking social-media, startup and tech-related events. One that caught our eye was the SF MusicTech Summit, which looks at the intersection of music, business and technology. Speakers include Ben Folds... |
| May 8, 2010 | ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 8 May 2010 | A few weeks ago was the Events Guide’s one-year birthday – and while we don’t know how many thousands of conferences, unconferences, seminars, summits and meetings we wrote about over the last year, we can say this: It was a heck of a lot. ... |
| May 1, 2010 | ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 1 May 2010 | We’ve been plugging it for months, and now it’s finally here: the ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit 2010. It’s not too late to sign up. We’d love to have you join us. It’s going to be the premier place to explore the latest mobile development tren... |
| Apr 29, 2010 | Angel Investing: "A Fly On The Elephant's Ass" (Video) | Now that our US Senators are ready to roll-up their sleeves and mud wrestle their way to financial reform (debate has now commenced), now is a good time to pause and take stock of what the ultimate bill could mean for investment and technol... |
| Apr 24, 2010 | ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 24 April 2010 | Time is running out to register for the ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit 2010! It’s going to be the premier place to explore the latest mobile development trends – both the technology and the emerging business applications. And since it’s an unco... |
| Apr 17, 2010 | ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 17 April 2010 | Here’s a little taste of the events coming up in the next few weeks here at the ReadWriteWeb events guide: Seven on Seven, eCommAmerica, DrupalCon, The Real Time Web: Imperative or Insanity?, Big Data Workshop, Future of Money and Technolog... |
| Apr 10, 2010 | ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 10 April 2010 | There are seven new events on the calendar this week: Head over to Stanford University to learn whether the real-time Web is an imperative or insanity. Check out the Net Prophet conference in Cape Town, South Africa. There’s also the Digita... |
| Mar 30, 2010 | Unvarnished: your reputation is up for debate | Controversial site lets professionals review each other... and there is no delete button.
Privacy is dead. Most of the millennial generation knows that everything you type, every picture of you, and every digital interaction may well be mad... |
| Mar 6, 2010 | Tech Tour: Cambridge Innovation Center | Located at the MIT-owned One Broadway Street building in Kendall Square, Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC) houses more than 175 companies in over 100,000 square feet of office space and prices everything per person, so smaller companies can... |
| Feb 2, 2010 | TheFunded Ranks The Most Loved VCs Of 2009 | Some VCs are getting an early Valentine’s Day gift fromTheFunded, the site where CEOs rate venture capitalists and their firms. Below you will find the top-ranked individual VCs, as determined by their ratings in 2009. What makes this ranki... |
| Jan 24, 2010 | How To Find a Great Startup Mentor | If you’re an early-stage entrepreneur and this is your first startup company, you are not alone. Thousands are toiling over code in the hopes that their product will gain users and revenue. The problem with being someone who can build a gre... |
| Jan 20, 2010 | The Founder Institute goes global | The Founder Institute, the entrepreneur training program that grew out from venture capitalist review site TheFunded, is taking its first steps outside the United States with the launch of four new locations.
The institute started in Silico... |
| Jan 15, 2010 | MightyMeeting Lets You Conduct PowerPoint Presentations From Your Smartphone | Last night, 200 entrepeneurs and investors from around Silicon Valley convened for the Founder Showcase, a quarterly startup event for seed stage companies that’s put together by Adeo Ressi’s TheFunded. The winner of the event, as voted on ... |
| Dec 23, 2009 | 2009 CEO interview highlights | CEOs of LinkedIn, DemandMedia, Zynga, Pandora, Smule, Mint, etc.
VatorNews conducted more than 200 interviews in 2009, from some of the leading movers and shakers in the startup world. Here's a sample of the interviews we conducted. They we... |
| Dec 18, 2009 | Future of Funding: An event about the brave new VC world (tickets here) | The venture capital industry we’ve known for the past decade is fading away, and a bunch of question marks hover over its future.
I’m pleased to announce that VentureBeat is partnering with the Founder Institute to kick off an event called ... |
| Dec 18, 2009 | Future of Funding: An event about the brave new VC world (tickets here) | 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!
The venture capital industry we’ve known for the ... |
| Nov 25, 2009 | Founder Institute: Seattle has the most promising entrepreneurs | As The Founder Institute (the entrepreneur training program developed by TheFunded‘s Adeo Ressi) expands to cities around the country, it’s gathering some provocative data about how aspiring startup founders stack up in different regions. S... |
| Oct 27, 2009 | For Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, failure is an option | Silicon Valley is known the world over for its acceptance of failure as a rite of passage. Technology legends from Netscape founder Marc Andreessen to Apple founder Steve Jobs have all experience failure, revived their careers, and then gon... |
| Oct 12, 2009 | The Founder Institute’s Adeo Ressi on his plans to leave no entrepreneur behind | Adeo Ressi is best known as the founding member of TheFunded, the site where entrepreneurs can rate venture capitalists. Earlier this year, he got into the startup training business, with the launch of the Founder Institute. It’s not just a... |
| Oct 12, 2009 | The Founder Institute’s Adeo Ressi on his plans to leave no entrepreneur behind | 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!
Adeo Ressi is best known as the founding member o... |
| Oct 7, 2009 | Aaron Patzer lays bare Mint's numbers | At Juice Pitcher, Mint CEO gives behind-the-scenes look at Mint's internal growth strategy
Last night before a crowd of some couple hundred budding entrepreneurs, investors, and professionals in the entrepreneur community, Mint CEO Aaron Pa... |
| Oct 7, 2009 | What's the secret success of Mint? | The real numbers behind Aaron Patzer's growth strategy Aaron Patzer, CEO of MINT.com, dropped by The Funded and Vator.tv's Juice Pitcher tonight to share some secrets of the company's success. (Just in case you don't plug the TechCrunch fee... |
| Oct 7, 2009 | Can Thumbtack evolve service listings? | Winning the people's choice at the Juice Pitcher, Thumbtack got treated to its own live Vator Box
Last night, 10 seed and early stage founders met in the heart of Silicon Valley for Juice Pitcher, an event hosted by The Funded and Vator.tv ... |
| Oct 7, 2009 | Everything You Wanted To Know About Startup Building But Were Afraid To Ask | Let’s say you have an idea for a startup. How do you begin the process of finding cofounders and employees, creating a corporation, handing investors, growing the company, etc.? There are lots of details about building a startyp that are us... |
| Oct 7, 2009 | Mint CEO unveils global expansion plan | Aaron Patzer tapped to run Intuit's entire personal finance division, targets foreign markets.
In this segment, Aaron Patzer, CEO of Mint.com, shares the inside story of his company's acquisition and his plans for the next three years at th... |
| Oct 6, 2009 | Juice Pitcher finalists - 2nd half presenters | RentCycle, Thumbtack launch at event, QLess, HearPlanet, Spreezio, Cloudmach are second to present
Straight from the Juice Pitcher event in San Francisco, Ca., hosted by Vator.tv and The Funded, here's the list of the next five winning pres... |
| Oct 6, 2009 | Juice Pitcher finalists - 1st half presenters | TribeVibe, RelayRides, IDNITIT, and Viralogy are first to present at Juice Pitcher
Straight from the Juice Pitcher event in San Francisco, Ca., hosted by Vator.tv and The Funded, here's the list of the first five winning presenters.
These c... |
| Oct 6, 2009 | Streaming live from Juice Pitcher | Vator.tv and The Funded present you Juice Pitcher event live via Ustream
Live TV : Ustream
Vator.tv and The Funded have partnered to host "Juice Pitcher," a unique event to find and present the most promising early-stage startups.... |
| Oct 3, 2009 | ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 3 October 2009 | Here is this week’s edition of the ReadWriteWeb events guide. You can download the event calendar in iCal format or import it into your Google Calendar. You can also import individual events using the link beside each entry. This events gui... |
| Sep 26, 2009 | ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 26 September 2009 | Just a reminder: ReadWriteWeb’s own Real-Time Web Summit is only a few weeks away, and some excellent participants are now signed up. You can download the event calendar below in iCal format or import it into your Google Calendar. You can a... |
| Sep 26, 2009 | Juice Pitcher leaderboard | What am I Missy Episode 35 - Juice Pitcher, Microsoft poaching Apple employees, and Smule
This episode is brought to you by our sponsor Smule. For those of you who have the Ocarina app on your iPhone or iPod touch, Smule has just released a... |
| Sep 25, 2009 | (Cornell Study) What Entrepreneurs Want From VCs: Independence And Faster Feedback | What do entrepreneurs want from venture capitalists? A new Cornell study by Ola Bengtsson (now an assistant professor of finance at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) and Frederick Wang looked at the stated preferences of entrepreneur... |
| Sep 3, 2009 | Point of order: Standardised termsheets are not the answer for startups | This is a guest post on TechCrunch Europe by Barry Vitou and Danvers Baillieu, lawyers at London firm Winston & Strawn. Vitou and Baillieu run Bootlaw (@bootlaw), a free monthly meet-up for start ups covering the legal issues they face.... |
| Sep 2, 2009 | 25 social media sites for entrepreneurs | If you’re an entrepreneur who has been seduced by social media tools such as Twitter, LinkedIn or Facebook, you may realize the benefits of using these basic tools to finding and staying in touch with business partners, employers and custom... |
| Aug 24, 2009 | TheFunded publishes a plain vanilla term sheet for VCs | 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!
TheFunded, a site that gives entrepreneurs a way ... |
| Aug 24, 2009 | TheFunded publishes a plain vanilla term sheet for VCs | TheFunded, a site that gives entrepreneurs a way to rate venture capitalists, continues to roll out services to help entrepreneurs in other ways. Today, TheFunded’s Founder Institute published a template document for entrepreneurs to use wh... |
| Aug 24, 2009 | The Ideal First Round Term Sheet (continued) | So Adeo Ressi of The Funded has posted his version of the idea first round term sheet. TechCrunch blogged about it here.
I have not had a chance to go through the term sheet line by line and evaluate it against other versions I've seen. I d... |
| Aug 23, 2009 | The Funded Publishes Ideal First Round Term Sheet | Adeo Ressi, founder of The Funded, a site where people rate venture capitalists and the Founder Institute, an incubator of sorts, has long ranted about what he calls “the atrocities of investors.”
Now, a lot of people, including prominent a... |
| Jul 21, 2009 | Change is in the air for venture capitalists | 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!
A lot of changes are in-store for venture capital... |
| Jul 21, 2009 | Change is in the air for venture capitalists | A lot of changes are in-store for venture capitalists in the second half of 2009, and recent data published by the National Venture Capital Association shows concerning trends. Venture capital firms raised a meager $1.7 billion in the secon... |
| Jun 30, 2009 | Grow VC Launches as Company / VC Matchmaker | Don’t you hate it when your friends set you up and all they can say about your blind date is that he’s / she’s “nice”. Your mind races. Is he / she a total sea donkey? A buffoon? Should you bring the pepper spray?
Imagine what venture capit... |
| Jun 18, 2009 | How Not to Get Screwed by VCs | This is one post/chapter in a serialized book called Startup 101. For the introduction and table of contents, please click here.
Fear of VCs is a common problem for first time entrepreneurs. It is a natural fear. You are going to be negotia... |
| Jun 2, 2009 | TheFunded Founder Institute tries to tempt investors with a new financing model | Everyone knows it’s a tough time for startups raising money — for one thing, the first three months of the year saw the lowest number of venture investment since the late 90s. In response, Adeo Ressi, founding member of the controversial VC... |
| May 27, 2009 | Georges van Hoegaerden: Harsh Critic of VCs (RWS Interview) | We have heard the VC’s side of the story in many interviews. In this interview, we get the perspective of an experienced entrepreneur who is highly critical of the current crop of top-tier VCs. He says the emperor is not wearing clothes.
On... |
| Apr 24, 2009 | Q1 venture investing numbers not as dire as they look | [Editor’s Note: Adeo Ressi published a version of this story earlier on TheFunded.com.]
The National Venture Capital Association released abysmal venture investing numbers for Q1 2009 on Friday and Saturday evening, after most media outlets... |
| Apr 23, 2009 | Welcome to the “Class F” stock, to protect you against greedy VCs | TheFunded.com, a site that lets entrepreneurs rate venture capitalists, has released documentation for a new class of common stock called “Class F,” which it says entrepreneurs can use to give them more control versus the venture capitalist... |
| Apr 22, 2009 | Recent venture capital report not all bad — MedCity morning read, April 22 | Venture capital firms are still plowing money into early stage companies. That means investors aren’t just making bets on companies that already have products on the market.
Investments in some regional hubs didn’t fall as hard as those i... |
| Apr 20, 2009 | Q1 venture investing numbers not as dire as they look | [Editor’s Note: Adeo Ressi published a version of this story earlier on TheFunded.com.]
The National Venture Capital Association released abysmal venture investing numbers for Q1 2009 on Friday and Saturday evening, after most media outlets... |
| Mar 30, 2009 | TheFunded Not Shutting Down | We’re always happy to give a wide berth to people pulling April Fools pranks, but even so it’s pushing it to do it on March 27. If you go that early, you need to be side-splittingly funny or earn our disdain until we’ve forgotten all about ... |
| Mar 30, 2009 | April Fools flood begins: TheFunded’s shutdown the first prank of many? | There was some head-scratching over the weekend about rumors that TheFunded, the controversial site where entrepreneurs can rate and review venture capitalists, had been shut down due to threats of a lawsuit. But it was all just a prank by ... |
| Mar 27, 2009 | Lawsuit Forces TheFunded To Shutter Service (or early April Fools joke) | TheFunded, a website that rates venture funds based on first hand experiences from readers, is shutting down on April 2, according to a notice posted on the site today.
This very well may be an April Fools joke, although founder Adeo Ressi ... |
| Mar 19, 2009 | TheFunded reveals blacklisted VCs | TheFunded, the site that allows entrepreneurs to anonymously review and rate venture capitalists, has released a list of venture firms that are banned from the site’s leaderboards.
What did these firms do to get on TheFunded’s blacklist? Fo... |
| Mar 16, 2009 | Make decisions with TheFunded’s new Topicki tool | TheFunded, the sometimes controversial site where entrepreneurs can rate and share information about venture capitalists, is beta testing a new tool. It’s called Topicki, and it’s a site for simple decision-making and management.
There are,... |
| Mar 3, 2009 | TheFunded Founder Creates A Startup Camp For Young CEOs | What this economy needs to get out of its rut is more startups. Adeo Ressi, the founder of VC-rating site TheFunded, wants to do his part to help jump start the economy with fresh ideas and leaders. He is planning to roll out a start-up inc... |
| Feb 11, 2009 | VC Firms, Led By Advanced Technology Ventures, Aim To Polish Image with Entrepreneurs | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
This we’ve known: The venture capital business model relies on having talented entrepreneurs to run their portfolio companies. Yet many entrepreneurs love to hate VCs, and new... |
| Dec 6, 2008 | The End Of Venture Capital As We Know It? | Last week, something turned. We found out that not only are we in a recession, but it started a year ago. Tech layoffs went into overdrive (12,000 at AT&T, 600 at Adobe, 130 at Real Networks), bringing the total unemployed tech workforc... |
| Nov 13, 2008 | A Slightly Different Perspective | I’ve been reading a bunch of posts recently suggesting that the VC model is broken. But guess what? It’s always been broken. As Jeff Nolan points out in a short and sweet post:
there is a permanent structural imbalance in VC that simply doe... |
| Nov 12, 2008 | The VC model is broken | These days, the more you talk to folks about Silicon Valley’s venture capital industry, the more negative the message is becoming.
And for good reason. There’s no more patience. Last time, circa 2001, the entire VC industry got a “get-out-j... |
| Nov 12, 2008 | A Scary Line Has Been Crossed For VCs | At a recent presentation at Harvard Business School, Adeo Ressi argued that the VC model is broken. That is nothing new for Ressi, who is the founder of the VC-rating site theFunded. He is kind of like the Nick Denton of the VC world, alway... |
| Sep 21, 2008 | Reforming venture capitalism | Predatory practices exposed
With Wall Street melting, public offering disappearing, over-regulation such as Sarbanes Oxley strangling, and bootstrapping igniting, venture capitalism is morphing.
Reminiscent of marketers losing control to co... |
| Sep 3, 2008 | A VC sneaks into TheFunded, but the world doesn’t end | Someone claiming to be a venture capitalist managed to snag a membership with TheFunded, the site where entrepreneurs rate venture firms and gossip about fundraising, and posted an open letter to entrepreneurs. (TheFunded has a business rel... |
| Aug 28, 2008 | Through the startup hothouse – and out the other side | Ahead of Seedcamp and TechCrunch 50, Alan Patrick from Broadsight / Broadstuff gives an insight into one of the other UK funding programs in this guest post.
The startup milk round is nearly upon us, what with Seedcamp and the TechCrunch 50... |
| Aug 25, 2008 | TheFunded delivers subpoenaed documents | TheFunded, the VC-review site that was recently subponaed by EDF Ventures, says it has handed over the requested documents — and, amusingly, site owner Adeo Ressi decided to videotape himself as he delivered the documents to the Oakland off... |