Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Gerbsman Partners, Web 2.0, tagged Board Of Intellectual Capital, boic, Gerbsman Partners, One web Day, supernova 2008, Susan Crawford, Tony Fish, Web 2.0 on July 31, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Tony Fish, a Board Of Intellectual capital member and Web 2.0 authority have recently posted a new entry on his blog.
“I met Susan Crawford when I spoke at Supernova 2008 and was impressed by her talk and passion for the idea of the One Web day. So, I have decided to support the idea of One Web day through our blog. If you are also interested in doing the same, please contact Susan as per her blog.”
Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Gerbsman Partners, Intellectual capital, Market research, tagged boic, Gerbsman Partners, global economic downturn, global economy, House prices, Jobb loss, Robert Tillman, slumping economy, stagnation in economy on July 21, 2008| Leave a Comment »
As automakers dropped their latest batch of awful sales numbers on the market on Tuesday, reinforcing the gloom spreading across the economy, the troubles confronting American workers seemed to intensify.
Plummeting home prices have in recent months eliminated jobs for hundreds of thousands of people, from bankers and real estate agents to construction workers and furniture manufacturers. Tighter lending standards imposed by banks in the wake of huge mortgage losses have made it hard for many Americans to secure credit — the lifeblood of expansion in recent years — crimping the appetite of consumers, whose spending amounts to 70 percent of the economy.
Read the complete article at NY Times here
Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Gerbsman Partners, Investments, tagged boic, Gerbsman Partners, global economic downturn, lending crisis, Robert Tillman, stagnation in economy, venture financing on July 15, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Shares of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the largest providers of funding for U.S. home mortgages, closed at their lowest levels since 1992 on concern the companies need to raise more capital amid larger-than-expected losses. Corporate “federal agency” debt obligations and mortgage-backed securities guaranteed by the companies also plummeted relative to government debt as investors thinned positions, analysts said
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Posted in Gerbsman Partners, Intellectual capital, Market research, tagged Board Of Intellectual Capital, boic, crisis management, Erick Schonfeld, Gerbsman Partners, ipo, m&a, National Venture Capital Association, patric carlsson, techcrunch, Venture Capital, Venture crisis, venture financing on July 10, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Erick Schonfeld at Techcrunch recently posted a good article on the state of venture financing.
There were no venture-backed IPOs in the second quarter, and M&A deals are down. The last time there were no VC-backed IPOs in a quarter was in 1978. The liquidity drought for venture-backed startups is so bleak that the National Venture Capital Association is calling it a “crisis.” Last quarter there were only 5 IPOs that brought in a piddling $283 million. That compares to 43 IPOs during the first half of 2007 that brought in $6.3 billion.
Click here to read the full article on Techcrunch.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Board Of Intellectual Capital, boic, funding, Gerbsman Partners, hichtech funding, Robert Tillman, startups, Venture Capital on July 7, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Here is an interesting observation from by Josh Kopelman, Managing Director of First Round Capital. His blog, Redeye VC is a good source for frontline observations on funding.
“A pre-launch, stealth-mode company just closes a seed round of funding. Three weeks go by, and the news of the company’s funding starts appearing in VentureBeat, PEHub, and Venturewire. The story is then picked up by mainstream tech bloggers and press. The CEO starts getting phone calls from journalists. I then receive frantic, angry phone calls and emails from the CEO that go something like this: “Dude! Did you announce the funding? We wanted to stay under the radar…”
Click here for some interesting viewpoints.
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