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Learning to Surf – The Ebb and Flow that Propels VC ReturnsVCs need to invest in more capital-light Internet companies. No, VCs should be investing larger sums in capital-heavy cleantech companies. Wait, VCs need to evolve and re-invent themselves. Scratch that—VCs need to get “back to basics,” working their craft at a wooden hobby bench like Santa’s little helpers. Thin the herd: Ship half of the VCs to Algeria to ensure success for the rest... Popular prescriptions to cure such VC market schizophrenia almost always include at least one glaring omission: Context. So many discussions of venture's ails consider the industry in isolation, exclusively from the practitioner’s perspective. It’s as if an individual investor reviewed their brokerage statements over the past two decades and concluded: “I sure was a better stock picker in the late 1990s.” The truth is VC’s success is connected and correlated to global financial markets and flows of institutional capital.
Playing the Flash CardWith flash memory prices declining, VCs are wagering the technology will be a major force in data centers and the enterprise
- Exit watch, week of May 3, 2010
News briefs about the acquisitions of Siri, Silicon Clocks and other VC-backed companies
- Silicon Labs Buys Silicon Clocks
Silicon Labs (Nasdaq: SLAB) has acquired Silicon Clocks, a Fremont, Calif.-based provider of integrated timing solutions for electronic systems. No financial terms were disclosed. Silicon Clocks had raised over $32 million in VC funding, from Silicon Labs, Charles River Ventures, Formative Ventures, Lux Capital and Tallwood Venture Capital.
- peHUB Wire: Wednesday, April 28, 2010
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- peHUB Wire: Wednesday, April 28, 2010
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- Week in deals, March 15, 2010
Summary of North American tech companies and other startups that raised venture financing in the past week
- SiBEAM Raises $36.5 Million
SiBeam Inc., a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based developer of semiconductor systems solutions for wireless communications platforms, has raised $36.5 million in Series D funding. Return backer Foundation Capital led the round, and was joined by new investors Lux Capital and Hatteras Funds. Also participating were existing shareholders U.S. Ventures Partners and New Enterprise Associates. The company previously raised more than $80 million.
- Dixon Doll: Plagiarist? [Update: It Was The Ghostwriter]
Updated after jump On January 4, Peter Hebert of Lux Capital wrote a guest piece for us titled Ten VC Predictions for 2010: Outrunning The Bear /59632/ten-predictions-for-2010-outrunning-the-bear/ Yesterday, venture capital icon Dixon Doll sent out an email on behalf of conference organizer IBF, for an upcoming event. Unfortunately, Doll’s letter included a pair of passages lifted verbatim from Hebert’s post without attribution. The following appeared in both (without any syllabic difference): After years of intrigue and speculation, not to mention tens to several hundred million dollars invested, several energy technology companies finally lift the curtain and introduce themselves to the world. As weak fund performance from the lost decade finally forces LPs to question historic allocations to "franchise funds. I don’t know if Doll wrote this himself, or if someone at IBF wrote it and he just pulled out his rubber
- peHUB Wire: Wednesday, February 10, 2010
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