Mills, a physicist and a co-founding partner in Digital Power Capital, an energy tech venture fund.
As we outline in our paper in the July issue of Nature Biotechnology, LS venture investing dramatically outperformed Tech venture investing over the past decade.
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But regardless of whether the company is an app shop, a renewable energy company, a bio-tech venture, or something still to be imagined, we need to remember that people who start technology companies are neither heroes nor potential heroes, they are simply people with the same limitations and conflicts as anyone else.
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Mitt Romney appeals to the sort of investors and people who run high-tech, venture capital-backed businesses.
Select high-tech companies and venture capitalists can count on new subsidies and tax breaks.
No wonder, too, that high-tech companies and venture capitalists are fighting the FASB tooth and nail.
At Upside, I had a dream of publishing long, Playboy-style interviews with tech titans and venture capitalists.
Tech firms and venture capitalists welcome these initiatives, but are deeply frustrated by a lack of action in other areas.
Disruption, that buzzword that gets tech geeks and venture capitalists excited, has all its usual negative connotations for the cable industry.
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When a pal and I started a magazine called Upside during the late 1980s--our aim was to cover tech startups and venture capital--we knew little about magazines.
This list below of most highly valued venture-backed tech IPOs of 2012 was compiled by a prominent venture firm and looks accurate from my checks.
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This kind of success has helped land two NEA venture capitalists, Richard Kramlich and Peter Morris , on Forbes' Midas List of tech's top venture investors.
It seems unlikely that the new team at Sequoia Capital India will place a lot of bets on the kind of disruptive tech companies that the venture firm is known for in Silicon Valley.
The Seattle company, run by serial tech entrepreneur Andy Sack, seeks to streamline the loan application process and relies heavily on recommendations from angel investors, venture capitalists and tech industry veterans.
Following these kind of valuations assigned to companies, huge money started pumping into venture capitalists and tech companies.
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The case is the latest accusation of sexual misconduct in the workplace in the venture capital and tech industry and raises questions about the extent of the issue in the industry.
The decision is a huge win for the motley collection of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and tech companies such as Google who have been pushing to make wireless networks more like the Internet.
The decision is a huge win for the motley collection of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and tech companies such as Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) who have been pushing to make wireless networks more like the Internet.
But, for all the buzz that has been created around Tech City, the whole venture's main product so far has been PR rather than new profitable businesses - lots of funky Shoreditch events, few signs yet of any billion dollar tech titans.
Vinod Khosla, who is a renowned financier and venture capitalist in the tech sector.
One committee member, Tom Perkins, who is 78 years old, has experience working in venture capital in the tech sector.
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His rationale: venture-backed clean tech companies need to be efficient with their capital, and that means turning to a third party to build their wares.
Tech entrepreneurs also work and meet venture capitalists at Coupa.
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If nominated, Genachowski would be "the first FCC nominee ever to have previously hit the trifecta of being a venture capitalist, a tech executive and an entrepreneur, " Hundt says.
Inwentash spent the 1990s not in the bowels of a uranium mill but pursuing riches in high tech and biotech via publicly traded venture funds through Pinetree Capital, which he founded in 1992.
New York-based Union Square Ventures is one of the most respected venture capital firms in the tech world.
We have Facebook, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Tesla, among a long list of other major tech companies, plus almost every major venture capital firm.
Enough time has passed since the 2001 crater of venture capital funding for high tech that the truly great companies should begin to show themselves.
There are many people and institutions in Silicon Valley willing to help new startups, including incubators, universities, angels, venture capital firms and big tech companies.
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All those factors argue for funding at least some types of green tech startups with patient capital, not venture firms looking to exit within a few years.
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