Hope for Venture Capitalism? September 17th, 2010Venture Capital Highlights: One venture capital firm suggests its VC 3.0 model might be the cure for what’s ailing the VC sector. Read article. Read More
U.S. VCs Find Raising Funds Difficult September 13th, 2010Venture Capital Highlight: 56 percent of U.S. VC funds surveyed said they expect limited partners will be “less inclined” to invest in U.S. funds over the next five years. Read article. Read More
Florida Software Company Receives $2.83M Funding for PC Recovery Tech September 2nd, 2010Venture Capital MMM client, Persystent Technology Corporation, completes $2.83M venture capital round in a complex transaction involving multiple securities. Read article. Read More
Atlanta Tech Company Closes $1M VC Funding September 2nd, 2010Venture Capital Comment: FX Bridge Technologies was one of a number of MMM clients that closed on a financing this past month. Hopefully this is a sign that funding is opening back up. Read article. Read More
Most Active VC Firms of 2009-10 September 1st, 2010Venture Capital CB Insights announces the top 10 most active venture capital firms from Q3 ‘09 to Q2 ‘10 by number of deals. See them here. Read More
10 Common Mistakes Made By Start-up Entrepreneurs September 1st, 2010Venture Capital Angel Investors 10 short but important lessons for early stage businesses. Read them here. Read More
The “Series A” Dilemma August 30th, 2010Venture Capital The “Series A” Dilemma The line is growing of entrepreneurial companies seeking Series A funding in the range of $1-2 million. In the course of my three decades of representing tech companies, I can’t remember so many entrepreneurs looking for Series A money at the same time. This is a good news/bad news story. The good news is there are dozens of entrepreneurs starting companies and bootstrapping them with their own money and cash from friends and family. A significant number of these new entrepreneurs are first-timers — and many of them are bouncing back from a recent lay-off or consulting role. The Read More
Atlanta: The Hotbed of Banking Innovation August 25th, 2010Venture Capital Financial Tech Finextra holds a “Twitter-view” with Atlanta start-ups, consultants and advocates. Read it here. Read More
Managers: It’s Time to Act Like Venture Capitalists August 24th, 2010Venture Capital Traditional business executives need to act like VCs and less like accountants, making lots of bets on new ideas/products and cutting their losses on unsuccessful ones. Full Article. Read More
Viridity Software Announces $8 Million Series B Financing Round August 24th, 2010Venture Capital Data Centers Data center software tool company receives financing from leading funds in new area –resource management (ERM) solutions. Full Article. Read More