John Doerr On The Business Of Venture Capital
Silicon Valley’s best-known VC talks about the service-oriented approach he says distinguishes Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers from its rivals.
Health Tech Startups are the new buzz?
Entrepreneur Online goes inside Blueprint Health, a health-tech accelerator in New York City, to meet some of the entrepreneurs working to give health care a digital upgrade. Venture-capital dollars have been flowing into the sector in recent years.
Wendy Nguyen is the co-founder of HealthyOut, an app that helps people make healthy dining choices. Tim Soo, who co-founded Meddik, uses the collective wisdom of crowds to provide a new way to search for health-care information on the web. They also meet Seth Freedman, co-founder of intelligentM, which aims to cut down on hospital-caught infections through smart tags.
This venture capital fund ‘not interested in the exit’
John Ruffolo, CEO of OMERS Ventures, admits that the VC landscape in Canada is flawed, but is showing signs of improvement in this episode of Talking to Entrepreneurs.
What investment style is right for your startup?
Many people waste time sending business plans to Venture Capitalists, begging bank managers for loans, creating CrowdFunding videos, or pitching their ideas to any angel investor that they can find. If you are scattered in your finance raising strategy, you will experience a lot of rejection, frustration and more importantly,.waste a lot of your valuable time.
There are two models discussed in this presentation -
1. Before CrowdFunding (BC)
2 - After Debt Crisis (AD)
Quickly see when you should use the triple F round, bank lending, angel investors, venture capital, private equity, equity capital markets, debt capital markets, CrowdFunding, CrowdLending or CrowdInvesting.
Chinese Venture Capital Seeks Investment Opportunities in Chicago
Chicago entrepreneurs presented startup pitches to visiting China investors at a media kickoff at Chase Tower. The event marked the rebranding of a Chinese American business magazine from Nihao to Mandarin Quarterly.
The publication invited foreign investors from China to meet local entrepreneurs. In tandem with an expanding market, Asian investors are looking abroad for innovative companies in which to invest.
Tony Blair Is Going Green. Not Just Dollar Green, But Green Green
The former British prime minister teams up with venture capitalist Vinod Khosla on a carbon capture project in California. The new project is reportedly cool, funky and fashionable. Every self-respecting ex-politician is throwing his or her hat into the ring to seriously involved in saving the planet. Even former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has been part of this eco-political movement. And that says a lot about the great cause.
Targeting Latin American Consumers
The expansion of Latin America’s middle class is driving a wide range of investment opportunities for private equity and venture capital firms. Over the last five years, there has been a steady increase in the number of deals in education, healthcare, consumer finance, household goods, retail, and companies offering other consumer products and services. Leading fund managers share insights on opportunities and challenges facing PE/VC investors targeting Latin American middle class consumption.
What does the fiscal cliff mean for the VC industry?
What is the impact of the fiscal cliff on the access to capital in private markets? Much speculation has presented a more gloomier outlook to what may happen in public markets come January. However, Bo Peabody of Greycroft Ventures says that there is still much liquidity in the private markets for high growth companies. Trends to look out for in 2013 include video, mobile and enterprise capture.
A venture capitalist’s view of stewardship development
Roland Van Der Meer, Chairman of Bio-Logical Capital, explains why investment in development that has respect and sensitivity to resources will not only produce good current yields and long term capital appreciation but also environmental returns. Bio-Logical Capital is the leader of stewardship development, and Van Der Meer brings financial accumen and a passion for environmental issues to his role as Chairman.
Van Der Meer is the author of www.Sustainable-Path.com blog, where he shares insights, ideas and thought leadership about creating impact at scale, using his 25 year successful career as a Silicon Valley venture capitalist to guide the future of sustainable ventures.
Baseball Analogy Catches Differences in Private Equity and Venture Capital Investment Theories
Scott Joachim, chair of the Fenwick & West Private Equity Group, discusses the different vehicles through which limited partnerships (LPs) diversify their investments across venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) funds. Baseball comes into play as an outlet for describing the investment theories and differences in approach between VC and PE funds.
