Software startups reaped lions share of venture capital investment in fourth quarter By Peter Delevett pdelevett@mercurynews.com Posted: 02/18/2012 03:17:00 PM PST Related Stories Feb 19: 2011 marked another strong year for venture capital, but will it continue? Feb 18: VC funding chart, fourth quarter 2011 Maybe they should start calling it Software Valley. Venture [...]
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Posted in Business models, Inetellectual Property, Investments, MoneyTree report, Technology on February 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Advantages of a “Date-Certain” Mergers and Acquisition Process Over a “Standard Mergers and Acquisitions Process”
Posted in Inetellectual Property, Intellectual capital, Board Of Intellectual Capital, Gerbsman Partners, Venture Capital, Distressed IP, Distressed Intellectual Property, Business models, NVCA, National Venture Capital Association on February 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Advantages of a “Date-Certain” Mergers and Acquisition Process Over a “Standard Mergers and Acquisitions Process” Every venture capital investor hopes that all of his investments will succeed. The reality is that a large percentage of all venture investments must be shut down. In extreme cases, such a shut down will take the form of [...]
Companies that would do best without venture capital
Posted in Business models, Economy, Intellectual capital, Investments, Market research, Strategy, tagged boic, Gerbsman Partners, Investment strategy, VC on January 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
By Dan Shapiro. “I just got the following email. Subject: Small taxi company looking to expand Hello, I run a small taxi company outside of Boston Massachusetts. My community has been targeted for casino development and I am looking to expand my business. Could you possibly provide some advice on how to find venture capital? [...]
How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work
Posted in Investments, FaceBook, Board Of Intellectual Capital, Gerbsman Partners, Market research, Business models, Strategy, Economy, google, internet, tagged Economy, boic, Gerbsman Partners, apple, iphone, Jobs, corning, iMac, NeXt on January 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Article from NYTimes. When Barack Obama joined Silicon Valley’s top luminaries for dinner in Californialast February, each guest was asked to come with a question for the president. But as Steven P. Jobs of Apple spoke, President Obama interrupted with an inquiry of his own: what would it take to make iPhones in the [...]
