Baier had an inkling, mostly from the horror stories spreading through the klatch of VC-backed entrepreneurs.
Instead, he wanted to join the VC world and joined well-known firm Andreessen Horowitz.
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My words were saying how exciting it was to raise money from a VC.
As of 2011, the U.S. maintained over 80 percent of global biopharmaceutical-related VC funding.
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This seems like a strange concept for a VC, but it actually is quite common.
If the industry can get these building blocks in place, VC firms are likely to respond.
True, the role of a VC is to help emerging companies finance their growth.
With his death, there are only 12 living holders of the VC left worldwide.
In other words, founders should be careful about taking large amounts of VC money.
Although VC fundraising is falling, VC investing is growing and becoming even more competitive.
Before getting into the VC business, Faris worked at Intel and Siemens.
But Seedfund Advisors, an Indian early stage VC team, has been there from the start.
Before getting the financing, Mattes put together a list of five top VC firms.
I've become a case-study in VC fossilization, a Luddite one-liner, like Ken Olsen and the PC.
All in all, the Intucell deal showed how a VC can provide lots of strategic value.
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Five years ago, the major VC firms were all bases in Silicon Valley or Boston.
Its extensive knowledge about all things VC plus its quantitative analysis made this project possible.
Jim returns from the big VC meeting and some employees agree he looks stressed.
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The VC option started to appear in later-stage venture deals about four years ago.
High Tech, VC funded, working 120-hours a week, please pass the engineers type start-ups?
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Moon had also attracted the attention of Polaris, and the VC firms started talking.
His VC citation was read out at the Grenadier Guards barracks in Aldershot, Hampshire.
Since July 2008 Lesson Nine has been funded by Kizoo AG and VC-Fonds Berlin.
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Now it looks like the once-hottest VC firm on the East Coast is barely hanging on.
No start-up will subject itself to such a casino-like result and no VC will finance it.
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Read on to learn how global behemoth Citi has gotten into the VC business.
This investment is being made through an uncommon collaboration between angel investors and VC firms.
It landed VC funding from Draper, Fisher Jurvetson and others and was growing like mad.
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While Wright pleaded his case to investors, Rothrock, the lead VC, hunted for a longer-term chief.
Other companies pursue disruptive innovation with internal VC arrangements, hackathons, innovation days and yes, innovation departments.
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