His cautious take aside, big money is back in venture capital--and so's the swagger.
The senator has experience in venture capital and was an early investor in Nextel.
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Bronfein recruited a handful of old NeighborCare hands and raised a few million dollars in venture capital.
Grousbeck got rich in venture capital with Highland Capital Partners, investing in consumer, healthcare, Internet and technology companies.
The real horror story in venture capital are the people in the middle.
Particularly sharp increases were seen in venture capital funding, which rose 10% in 2005 and then jumped 72% last year.
One committee member, Tom Perkins, who is 78 years old, has experience working in venture capital in the tech sector.
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In venture capital, the larger funds of the 1990s tended to perform better than their smaller counterparts in the 1980s.
His other business investments are in venture capital in companies that range from telecommunications to construction materials, beer and energy technology.
Although energy researchers are spending tens of millions of dollars in venture capital, McCormick believes that "just making more" is not enough.
In venture capital circles, Swildens is known as something of a pawnbroker.
He has built a portfolio with stakes in venture capital funds, real-estate partnerships, emerging market stocks and scores of small, specialized investment outfits.
Before Zynga, Wharton grad Pincus did the requisite stint on Wall Street and worked in venture capital before earning an MBA from Harvard.
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If a private-equity firm's first fund performs well, its second and third will probably do likewise even more so in venture capital than in buy-outs.
In fact, before coming to Washington, President Medvedev visited California and Silicon Valley to explore new partnerships in science and technology and in venture capital.
He hired Bhusri in 1992, when Bhusri was in venture capital, and took him under his wing, propelling him to jobs in product strategy, marketing and business development.
The great promise of the technology, which has attracted billions of dollars in venture capital investment, is that it will be able to undercut the cost of standard solar panels.
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Josh Lerner, an investment banking professor at Harvard Business School, says that the liquidity crisis in venture capital has made venture firms eager to draw In-Q-Tel in as a partner.
That suit, still ongoing, was the talk of the startup and venture capital community, raising questions about the relative lack of women in venture capital and in technology more generally.
Before the split some dealmakers drew up a proposal to take a cut of the profits on their deals (a "carried-interest split"), the sort of payoff now routine in venture capital.
The online business of serving up daily deals has attracted millions of dollars in venture capital and seen the rise of leaders Groupon and LivingSocial, as well as countless clones.
The American boom in venture capital that began in the 1980s has both incubated and accelerated the commercial development of countless quantum industries: personal computers, Web software and social networks, to name three.
In conclusion, pensions that invest in venture capital funds should begin asking the same difficult questions of these funds that they would ask of a public company or registered investment adviser with which they invest.
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For the third year in a row, TrueBridge Capital has partnered with Forbes to cultivate the most exciting billing in venture capital, The 2013 Midas List, which rumor has it will be published shortly.
"Unlike entrepreneurs in the United States who fail, in Europe, people worry about finding another job, " says Thomas Hellmann, professor at the University of British Columbia's business school in Vancouver and expert in venture capital practices in Europe.
Today, when you read about trends in venture capital investment, it would seem that you should have a funeral dirge playing in the background: investments are down 21% in software, 32% in biotech and 27% in medical devices.
With my background in venture capital and investment banking, the Tides board chose a CEO from way outside what would have been its comfort zone 35 years ago and signaled its readiness to start a more entrepreneurial phase and adapt to new times.
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Nanosolar is one of several Silicon Valley startups that have attracted billions of dollars in venture capital to develop a thin-film technology called copper indium gallium selenide, or CIGS. Such solar cells use little expensive silicon, the main ingredient of conventional photovoltaic cells.
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