Tagged: venture capital

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

December 20, 2012 @ 5:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Series A crunch boils down to this: Too many seed fundings, too few follow-on A financings. In other words, excessive supply and limited demand. So if you want to get your arms around the expected funding shortfall, do the math. That’s what CB Insights… Read More

December 20, 2012 @ 6:37 am By JD Alois  |  

There was an article published on Business Insider recently by James Pethokoukis from the American Enterprise Group talking about how public policy is stifling entrepreneurs in the United States.  He had some pretty interesting information to back up this statement. First lets look at some… Read More

December 20, 2012 @ 2:05 am By Washington Business Journal  |  

Startups today are whining about the lack of funding available after raising a family-and-friends or angel seed round. They’re calling it the “Series A Crunch.” Angel investors made approximately 60,000 seed stage investments in 2011. In the same year, Venture capitalists made just under 2,000… Read More

December 18, 2012 @ 10:44 am By Zach Noorani  |  

A new wave of angel investors is about to descend on startup land.  These New Angels are you and I.  AngelList will connect us to the market.  Equity crowdfunding platforms will broker our deals.  And the JOBS Act will make it all legal. While a… Read More

November 2, 2012 @ 11:28 am By Tanya Prive, Forbes  |  

As a co-founder of RockThePost, the leading crowdfunding platform for entrepreneurs, I naturally advocate for startups to get funding via crowdfunding, as it provides several additional benefits that can prove very useful early on. On the flip side, other options to obtain funding include personally funding your venture, reaching… Read More

October 31, 2012 @ 1:30 pm By Sherwood Niess and Jason Best, Crowdfund Capital Advisors  |  

Here’s a Halloween tale sure to leave you awake at night. It’s the tale of Zombie Capital… the scourge of the American economy, sucking the very life out of the public equity markets. (Okay, we all know zombies normally eat brains, but for the sake… Read More

October 23, 2012 @ 8:55 am By JD Alois  |  

As venture capital funding dropped 12 percent in the last quarter, it’s not easy for new venture capital firms to raise capital, Quartz reports. Investment usually goes into more established firms, like First Round Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, according to the article. First Round Capital… Read More

October 22, 2012 @ 2:16 pm By JD Alois  |  

Stephen Hawking once said: “I don’t think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.” Bold statement. But as I’ve been working on organizing the upcoming Next Generation and Global CrowdFunding Forum which is set to be on November 16th here… Read More