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Battery Ventures Announces New $750 Million Fund

VC Cafe

The New York Times says the new fund is a signal that Silicon Valley is being revived, but according to the Wall Street Journal , it was lower fees and carry that facilitated securing the capital: It helped that Battery proactively offered some investor-friendly terms.

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Why Internal Ventures are Different from External Startups

Steve Blank

One memorable example of this was Xerox’s internal venture capital fund, Xerox Technology Ventures (XTV). The success of Documentum and Document Sciences, they felt, came largely from Xerox technology and customers, yet the startup companies XTV funded got all the credit. As Steve would say, this is a big idea.

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