I woke up this morning to a few VC bloggers buzzing about the acquisition of GroupMe by Skype. AllThingsD is reporting that the price was around $85m which is a healthy number for a year old company. After scanning through the VC blogs and seeing a handful of the early investors writing about their experience […]
Question: How hard is for USA VCs fund an abroad startup? e.g. Brazil. There are not so many VCs here, so I would like apply for investors in the USA. Have you seen that before? US-based VCs tend to fall into two categories – those who don’t do any deals outside the US (other than […]
VCs can be real dolts (I know – I’m a VC – and I’m periodically a total knuckhead). Scott Kirsner of the Boston Globe has an outstanding article up on Boston.com titled Entrepreneurs talk back: Straight-up feedback and advice for VCs and angels. In it, he has some choice feedback from entrepreneurs to VCs and […]
The blog posts today were boring (c’mon VCs – just because it’s August doesn’t mean that you can’t write exciting blog posts) so we’re giving you a song today. The song is Takin’ VC Money and it’s from Smixx. Takin’ VC Money (Money Cash IPO’s) by Smixx
Don’t compete with Fred Wilson (USV) on Mondays for the best VC Post of the Week. He wins again with Financing Options: Bridge Loans as part of his MBA Mondays series. Ok – I know it’s not Monday anymore. So you get the best post of Tuesday also, which is from Nic Brisbourne (DFJ Esprit) titled Software patents […]
Mark Suster (GRP) has today’s VC post of the day titled What Startups Can Learn About PR and Crisis Management. As with many of Mark’s posts, it’s an excellent piece of long form writing that thoroughly dissects the issue of crisis management and makes a number of very significant recommendations which are summarized below. If […]
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