Tagged: venture capital

April 26, 2013 @ 7:28 am By ThinkProgress  |  

After the success of Rob Thomas’ efforts to crowdfund a Veronica Mars movie through Kickstarter, it was inevitable that some other auteur with a significant fanbase would follow his lead. That person is now Zach Braff, who as of this writing has raised about $954,000… Read More

April 24, 2013 @ 5:30 pm By CFO.com  |  

The one-year anniversary of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act just passed, but the Securities and Exchange Commission has yet to write rules governing equity-based crowdfunding. In the meantime, some venture capital (VC) firms worry that crowdfunding, a means of collective financing by selling equity in a company,… Read More

April 23, 2013 @ 7:30 am By RealBusiness  |  

In turbulent times for business finance, the words “risk” and “funding” are inevitably connected. David Hing looks at what to watch out for in each SME funding option. Funding and investment can be the lifeblood of a start up, or indeed any business that is… Read More

April 20, 2013 @ 9:20 am By Wired  |  

… Let’s start with Kickstarter as the obvious crowdfunding example. The company was founded by three guys with no previous finance experience. The target return for investors who back development of new products — from objects to movies — on Kickstarter is … nothing. Backers are instead… Read More

April 15, 2013 @ 7:26 am By Wall Street Journal  |  

Sites that enable technology startups to “crowdfund”–tap dozens of small-scale investors for needed capital–could help venture and seed investors raise their own funds online, VentureWire reports today (subscription required). At least one well-known seed-stage fund, Mountain View, Calif.-based 500 Startups, has tried a form of crowdfunding in… Read More

March 5, 2013 @ 11:09 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

ReadWriteWeb recently teamed with TriNet to publish this white paper that examines the current startup climate. Six venture capitalists offered their takes on where things were headed. Crowdfunding received “honorable mention.” From the paper… Conditions are starting to change in ways that promise a major… Read More

March 5, 2013 @ 2:58 am By VentureBeat  |  

The Launch festival is a three-ring circus. Fifty startups are here presenting on the main stage, 250 startups are in the demo pit, and it’s got panel discussions with influencers from the tech community, not to mention nearly 6,000 registered attendees. To help sort through the… Read More

February 26, 2013 @ 8:33 am By JD Alois  |  

Coming from the consulting group Deloitte Touche are their Tcchnology Media and Telecommunications (TMT) predictions for 2013. Crowdfunding and the revolutionary potential of this new industry is a focus of part of Deloitte’s prognostications. There was a previously released version of this report earlier this… Read More

February 26, 2013 @ 2:27 am By Steven Overly  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission has yet to introduce regulatory guidelines for equity-based crowdfunding, but that hasn’t stopped some of the region’s venture capitalists from contemplating how it might impact their business. Crowdfunding allows entrepreneurs to collect small sums of money via the Internet from everyday… Read More

February 21, 2013 @ 7:51 pm By John Koetsier  |  

VANCOUVER — According to Paul Singh, a partner at accelerator 500 Startups, this is the decade of the angels. He’s speaking tonight at GrowLabs’ demo day in Vancouver, and the message is not too much different from 500 Startups founder Dave McClure’s. “If you can… Read More

February 12, 2013 @ 6:14 am By Mashable  |  

Ram Malasani, CEO and founder of the 22-person company Securifi, isn’t the typical newbie entrepreneur you’d expect to find on Kickstarter, a wildly popular website where people can pitch projects and receive small pledges of financial support from anyone. But with weeks still left to go… Read More

February 4, 2013 @ 5:14 pm By BusinessWeek  |  

Nearly two years ago, I championed the idea of making it legal for entrepreneurs to raise money by selling equity stakes in their companies online. This kind of crowdfunding came much closer to becoming a reality when President Obama signed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act into law… Read More

February 2, 2013 @ 10:48 am By WSJ.com  |  

The common wisdom says that the American heartland is finished after a disastrous series of economic decisions outsourcing the manufacture of America’s physical goods. The pundits say the American dream is dead and this next decade will see the further decline. It may be that… Read More

January 31, 2013 @ 11:57 pm By WallStreetDaily  |  

A $1-trillion wealth transfer is about to hit Wall Street. Private venture capital (VC), the go-to funding source for decades’ worth of technology-based startups – including Google (GOOG), Medtronic (MDT), Intel (INTC) and even Apple (AAPL) – is about to be supplanted by public venture capital. What does that mean for everyday investors… Read More

January 23, 2013 @ 2:49 am By Forbes  |  

A lot has been written in recent weeks about the Series A crunch in venture capital. For the uninitiated, the Series A crunch is the widening gap between the number of angel/seed financings (growing) and the number of Series A financings, the second round of… Read More

January 19, 2013 @ 4:08 am By WSJ.com  |  

After rising in 2011, U.S. venture capital investment fell 15% last year as firms put less money into consumer Internet, renewable energy and health-care companies. Software saw an upswing. Overall, investors deployed $29.7 billion into 3,363 financings for U.S.-based venture-backed companies, according to Dow Jones… Read More

January 15, 2013 @ 7:54 pm By WSJ.com  |  

One of the very first hurdles that a new entrepreneur faces is how to find the initial capital necessary to fund the process of building a company. Most entrepreneurs begin using their own money for the initial costs. Eventually, however, the time comes that it no longer… Read More

January 6, 2013 @ 2:40 am By The Economist  |  

A SUCCESSFUL internet entrepreneur sets up his own incubator, offering convertible debt to a handful of aspiring imitators. So far, the script resembles many that play out in Silicon Valley and the like. But at $37, the funds dished out by Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud are not quite… Read More

December 29, 2012 @ 4:02 am By WSJ.com  |  

As 2012 comes to a close, we asked several venture capital investors to reflect on the past year and give us their outlook for 2013. Continuing our series is Whitney Johnson, angel investor and co-founder of Boston-based Rose Park Advisors. Johnson speaks about the opportunities in seed-stage… Read More

December 28, 2012 @ 8:03 am By Zawya  |  

Equity crowdfunding and venture capital can be similar in that both provide money to help a business get off the ground and investors earn equity in return. However, one of the differences is that while crowdfunding accepts small sums from many individuals, venture capital (VC)… Read More