Now it looks like the once-hottest VC firm on the East Coast is barely hanging on.
So we saw an opportunity to build a VC firm more appropriate to how companies are getting built today.
But Marc might feel the stake is too small to justify basically shutting down his VC firm for a few years.
When Draper graduated from Harvard Business School at age 26 in 1984, he couldn't land a job with a VC firm.
Peter, managing director at MPM Capital, invited WCC to invest in Aratana alongside his firm and another VC firm, Avalon.
Fu juggles the intense responsibility of working at a VC firm with a more than full course load in the civil and environmental engineering department.
As the vice president of digital media at a VC firm, I spent my days looking at digital advertising from 50, 000 feet, analyzing trends and identifying market opportunities.
"More often than not, in a troubled situation, investors will try to find some kind of exit strategy, " admits John Higginbotham , chairman of VC firm SpaceVest , another original Space.com investor.
As a partner in Glengary LLC, an early-stage VC firm, we provide the necessary support and network AND hold them accountable for milestones, without asking for meaningless data in business plans.
The founder-entrepreneur purchases his stock for a penny a share and the VC general partner is allocated a percentage of the stock (if the VC firm is profitable) without paying extra for it.
"Tesla is a bellwether that people are interested in these alternative energy technologies, " says Robin Vasan, a managing director at Mayfield, a Menlo Park-based VC firm that has three energy technology companies in its portfolio.
"The post-bubble years were excellent, because values had come down a bit and businesses were better-managed, " says Bernard-Louis Roques, co-founder of Truffle Capital, a Paris VC firm that invests in Internet, biotechnology and energy-related start-ups.
And in Munich, Bavarian officials have made a number of tax and other rulings aimed at encouraging venture investing, says Rudolf Franz, the director of German operations for 3i, a big British VC firm, in Munich.
"You can't have a venture economy with only one VC firm in town, " says Gregory Johnson, a general partner at Gateway Associates, which invests nearly half of its funds in high-tech companies in and near St.
The VC firm is unlike any other.
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If a corporate investor intends to acquire a company, its valuation expectations will be different from that of traditional venture capitalists who want to maximize their investment, said Paul Lee of Lightbank, an early stage VC firm in Chicago.
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So Steiner did what the entrepreneurs he often wrote about did: he went out and got funding from seed-funding VC firm YCombinator for a technology he believes can bring customers back to the stores and he signed up two grocery store chains to test out his idea.
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Through its investments in VC funds, the firm can see which startups are outperforming and which are rotting in portfolios.
But stepping into this void came a new company--half VC, half private equity firm--called Allied Minds, of Quincy, Mass.
Her instinct was to leave a spot for another VC in part to prevent the firm from backing a rival.
Instead, he wanted to join the VC world and joined well-known firm Andreessen Horowitz.
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That greenhorn VC who took the deal after I'd punted made a killing for her firm--half a billion?
Group (the founding stakeholder), along with VC firms Swarraton Partners, Naxos Capital Partners, Tudor Ventures Group and private equity firm Sloane Robinson.
Within days he had Houston and Ferdowsi in front of Sequoia, the firm that backed Google and Yahoo, claiming, falsely, Dropbox was fielding multiple VC offers.
According to the research firm VentureOne, the dizzy days of 1999 and 2000 produced an average of one VC-backed tech IPO every working day--more than 250 of them each year.
Horowitz today wrote an interesting blog post about being told by a VC early in his career that he was not CEO material, and the resulting focus of his firm in making founders into CEOs.
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