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Week in deals, June 28, 2010Summary of tech companies and other startups in North America that raised venture financing in the past week
- SpareFoot.com Raises $2 Million
SpareFoot.com, an Austin, Texas-based operator of an online marketplace for self storage, has raised $2 million in Series B funding. Silverton Partners and FloodGate co-led the round, and were joined by Capital Factory.
- peHUB Wire: Monday, June 21, 2010
59,000 and Counting...
- peHUB Wire: Monday, June 21, 2010
59,000 and Counting...
- Week in deals, May 24, 2010
Summary of tech companies and other startups in North America that raised venture financing in the past week
- SwiftTest Gets Seeded
SwiftTest Inc., a Santa Clara, Calif.-based developer of commercial IP network testing tools and solutions, has raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding from Benhamou Global Ventures and FloodGate. Eric Benhamou and Mike Maples have joined the SwiftTest board of directors, as part of the financing.
- peHUB Wire: Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Random Ramblings
- peHUB Wire: Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Random Ramblings
- Index seeks more early stage deals
Firm says that Index Seed represents a return to its investment roots
- Mastering the VC Game Is Available Today - Why So Grumpy?
My book, Mastering the VC Game, is officially available today (and 40 pages of excerpts are available for free http://www.jeffbussgang.com/ if you want to preview it), yet I'm kind of grumpy. I've gotten nice reviews (see AVC http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/04/mastering-the-vc-game.html Boston.com http://www.boston.com/business/technology/innoeco/2010/04/new_book_discloses_the_two_phr.html and YoungEntrepreneur http://www.youngentrepreneur.com/blog/review-mastering-the-vc-game-%e2%80%93-a-venture-capital-insider-reveals-how-to-get-from-start-up-to-ipo-on-your-terms/ for a few examples) and TechCrunch http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/27/jack-dorsey-fred-wilson-twitter-book-excerpt/ BusinessWeek http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/apr2010/sb20100426_706979.htm and Upromise http://community.upromise.com/t5/Upromise-Insider/bg-p/upromise-insider have done really nice excerpts. But I confess I'm a bit of a perfectionist (when I'd come home with a 95% on a test, my parents would ask me what happened on those 5% points - I wonder if that has anything to do with it?) and so I find myself mulling about the mistakes I made with it. Tangible, print products are tough because, unlike a blog post or a piece of software code, you can't just change it on the fly. Here are the top three things I've been stewing on: