Growthink Blog
MAY 14, 2014
All of a sudden, it is boom time again for venture capital funds, with over $10.3 billion in fresh capital raised by 578 funds in the 1st quarter, up 36% from 2012. But for the individual investor, is investing in a venture capital fund really a good idea? Here’s why: Market Efficiency.
David Teten
SEPTEMBER 6, 2015
She had so much insight to share that we broke the interview into two parts, 1) Corporate Venture Capital and more broadly, 2) How the Fortune 500 Can Buy, Invest and Partner with the Innovation Economy (coming soon). . Entrepreneurs today expect more than just capital from their investors. I posted a summary of this at PeHub.
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Up and Running
JUNE 14, 2010
And the beneath-the-surface rumblings were about how it was screwing up the venture capital business model. The article suggests – and we agree – that angels are disintermediating traditional VCs in many cases. That’s where venture capital is normally strong. No, I don’t have data.
Growthink Blog
APRIL 2, 2012
Then, layer in elements of the kinds of companies funded by angel investment groups and early stage venture capital firms – i.e. focused on hot technology spaces like mobile commerce, healthcare information technology and possessing fast-scaling revenue and thoughtful “Porter Five Forces-Friendly” business models.
Growthink Blog
DECEMBER 20, 2016
Crowdfunder and its VC Index Fund provide the opportunity for direct online investment into single ventures, as well as diversification into a broad VC-led portfolio (Index Fund) of early-stage startups – backed by many of the world’s leading Venture Capital firms and private investors. Mr. Alo Ghosh.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 13, 2009
I’m not going to cover in this post the obvious post-show marketing tasks such as following up on all those business cards you grabbed, communicating with all those people who registered at your site and leveraging your new found fame to score venture capital. I’ll talk about all that in a future post.
Growthink Blog
DECEMBER 6, 2017
For Aetna, the existential fear that in a world of big data, predictive analytics, and financial disintermediation of why do big insurance companies like them need to exist at all anymore. For CVS , the fear of Amazon coming into their market and squeezing them , as they have done to so many others , so hard that margins just evaporate.
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