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First Robbie, Now Baxter

As Steve Jurvetson, an investor in Rethink Robotics, explains: robots are coming soon to a workplace near you

2 min read · 24 May 2013

Robotic Startups Hungering for Venture Capital

Cheaper hardware costs are revolutionizing, if not re-energizing, robotics, especially when it comes to products for home, office and factory

6 min read · 24 May 2013

Heat-Seeking Missile: Finding (and Fostering) Innovation

After launching Under the Radar and the Grow Conference and working with countless startups, Debbie Landa says that innovation is there in plain sight...if you're looking for it.

3 min read · 23 May 2013

Valuations Of Venture Deals In Silicon Valley Decline A Bit

Silicon Valley venture capitalists tempered their enthusiasm for investing in the first quarter, though only modestly, as software and Internet startups continued to spark spirited check writing, according to a study from Fenwick & West.

2 min read · 23 May 2013

Union Square & Spark Capital: Venture's New Power Couple?

The two East Coast venture firms have been posting stellar returns, boosted in large part by investments they’ve made together. The latest case in point? Tumblr, first backed when it was a two-person operation.

2 min read · 22 May 2013

Lessons On Company Building From Andy Bechtolsheim

Develop the right product at the right time for the right market and, when you do, the outcome is more predictable than you might imagine, says Andy von Bechtolsheim, the Silicon Valley sage who co-founded Sun Microsystems and famously invested early in Google.

2 min read · 22 May 2013

Executive Perspective: Bitcoin Excitement Levels Pick Up

The CEO and co-founder of digital currency exchange AlphaPoint says she no longer has to explain to VCs what bitcoin is

2 min read · 21 May 2013

A Longtime TCV Partner Resurfaces with a New Fund: Iconiq Strategic Partners

Will Griffith, a venture capitalist who spent a dozen years with Technology Crossover Ventures, is raising a fund for a firm called Iconiq Strategic Partners.

2 min read · 21 May 2013

Venture-Backed IPOs Show Spirited Performance This Year

Of 18 venture-backed IPOs so far in 2013, companies trading above their IPO price greatly outnumber those that have sunk below it

2 min read · 21 May 2013

Talking Priorities With New NVCA Chair Josh Green

The Mohr Davidow GP says he will focus on IPOs, broadening the association's reach and finding a replacement for retiring president Mark Heesen.

3 min read · 20 May 2013

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