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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

Both Sides of the Table

Are “strategic investors&# (e.g. industry investors rather than VCs) a good idea for entrepreneurs. We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. Online service offering privacy certification for web sites. Total raised: $5.0mm.

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This Week in VC with Jim Armstrong of Clearstone

Both Sides of the Table

Palm (acquired by HP ) – In our interview we talked about how transformational mobile computing is and why it’s different than web computing (e.g. Investors: Greylock (Asheem Chandna) (lead), LightSpeed (Ravi Mhatre) (lead). Investors: Google Ventures. I believe that “strategic&# money is an oxymoron.

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Everything you should know before working with investors across Asia

The Next Web

The region’s power players can be integral in accelerating your company’s growth in Asia – more so than investors in the U.S. which will help with recruiting employees, finding the best partners, fast-tracking distribution in key countries, and landing marquee customers.

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