This is the second post in a series about the things venture capitalists look for when they perform due diligence of an expansion stage company’s sales organization. To read the intro to the series, click here. To read the first post, click here. When David Meerman Scott published his book The New Rules of Marketing…
Read Full Article about VC Due Diligence: Do You REALLY Know Your Buyer Personas?This week’s tax cut deal extends the Bush tax cuts. As part of the deal: The 15% capital gains rate on investment income remains in place (even for those individuals who, thanks to their start up or expansion stage business, make more than $250,000 a year.) The deal brings the Estate tax to its lowest…
Read Full Article about Startup Policy: How does the new tax deal affect your small business?Today I read an interesting article in Inc.com. It described the current state of the Venture Capital industry. To sum up, the article explained how the first quarter of 2010 showed an increase in the IPO or M&A exits of companies backed by venture financing. Nine companies went public, compared to none during the first…
Read Full Article about Venture Capital Investing Trends For 2010Since we specialize in providing venture capital financing for high growth software or technology enabled companies, our portfolio companies typically normally experience very fast growth in the period before and right after we invest. Curiously enough, usually it is the website infrastructure that first shows the signs of growing pains, as the company gains more…
Read Full Article about How expansion stage software companies can scale their websites successfullyWhen you’re hot, you’re hot! If you’ve never heard of the company called Groupon, well now you have! Groupon is a daily deal site that has been getting a lot of press recently, especially after closing a very large round of growth capital of $135M, as well as acquiring the popular mobile app service company…
Read Full Article about Get Your GrouponAs the below chart indicates, IPOS have dramatically decreased since 2007, but for 2010 there is some hope! So, which lucky companies with venture capital financing are most likely to have the opportunity for this type of company exit strategy? A TechCrunch article provides some great insight into the 2010 IPO forecast. Below are the top 10 candidates. 1. Facebook Total…
Read Full Article about Who will IPO in 2010?Yesterday, March 27th, BusinessWire.com announced that the expansion stage SaaS companyVovici raised $6.3 million in venture capital financing from existing investors Austin Ventures and Mayfield Fund. Vovici is one of the leading providers of Enterprise Feedback Management solutions. As a matter of fact, OpenView Venture Partners also uses Vovici when we need to better understand…
Read Full Article about Vovici Raised $6.3 Million in Series C FundingIf you travel often for business, there is a company that can help you manage your itinerary in a way that will help your trip be more organized and convenient than ever before. It is also an effective way to manage an occasional family vacation. It’s a perfect example of how so many online companies…
Read Full Article about TripIt: An Organized Way To TravelEntrepreneurs have been creating companies and venture capitalists have been investing in ecosystem’s surrounding software and Internet platforms for years. Living within a large platform ecosystem is not a bad business growth strategy. A number of large technology companies got their start in the IBM ecosystem, came other platforms with ecosystems including Unix, Oracle, Microsoft,…
Read Full Article about On Platform Ecosystems- A Coming Explosion of the Facebook Ecosystem?With the iPad launching this Saturday, there is an extreme amount of excitement amongst consumers to get their hands on the cool device. Kleiner just announced they are doubling their iFund to $200MM to support venture capital financing of iPad apps. Startups are beefing up their product and development in efforts to launch killer apps…
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