Published: 2/27/2012 9:14:42 AM, comments: 0

Great post on VentureBeat ofa startup story about a potential acquirer backing away after they saw the "special sauce":
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I guess one moral of the story is to "know your buyer".
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Published: 2/24/2012 9:23:38 AM, comments: 0

Venture capital pioneer Dick Kramlich said in a recent interview at the annual
Harvard Venture Capital and Private Equity Conference that although the venture capital industry is changing, it is "alive and well."
Kramlich co-founded top-tier venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates in 1978.
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Published: 2/15/2012 10:15:37 AM, comments: 0

NextView Ventures cofounder David Beisel has a fun and informative post up on the different types of Angel investors that he comes across:
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A particular value of the post is that he goes into some detail on the pros and cons of each type of Angel investor.
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Published: 2/9/2012 9:01:13 AM, comments: 0

Rob Go is an experienced venture capitalist and has a great post on various issues surrounding the Series B round:
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In a nutshell, the series B round is sort of like the adolescent stage for a startup technology company - it still has many issues to solve before it grows up...
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