Venture capital – Science, Technology, Society

Natural language shopping

Posted on May 21, 2013June 10, 2013 by timbatchelder

Natural language comparison service Versus IO scores $2.8M in funding
David Meyer, gigaom.com

In the development of natural language processing, the semantic web and so on, e-commerce provides a rich breeding ground. Companies such as Amazon and Google always want to find better ways to learn what it is potential customers…

Natural language comparison service Versus IO scores $2.8M in funding http://flip.it/Irpru http://flip.it/C4WL0

NLP Company Versus IO Raises $2.8M (semanticweb.com)
How Facebook Built Natural Language Into Graph Search (slashdot.org)

Domain name prospecting

Posted on May 21, 2013June 11, 2013 by timbatchelder

Build Your Startup On A Vacant Domain Name
David Teten, forbes.com

This is part two of a two-part series on domain names and startups; part 1 was “Should a Startup Spend VC Funding on a Domain Name?”.

I’ve written in the past about how to identify a great startup opportuni…

Build Your Startup On A Vacant Domain Name http://flip.it/pR4uU http://flip.it/ZmYYu

How Many New Domain Names Will the Explosion in gTLDs Really Produce? (thenextweb.com)
Build Your Startup On A Vacant Domain Name – Forbes (cctld.dk)
Livestream CEO: Good Domain is the Best Marketing Investment Ever Made (tldmagazine.com)

Transcriptic biotech startup funded by Google Ventures

Posted on December 16, 2012April 16, 2013 by timbatchelder

Biotech Startup Transcriptic Receives $1.2M In Seed Funding Led By Google Ventures And FF Angel
Catherine Shu, techcrunch.com

Startup biotech company Transcriptic has raised $1.2 million in a seed funding round from a wide group of investors led by Google Ventures and FF Angel (Founders Fund‘s seed stage arm), and private investors Mark Cuban and Naval Ravikant.…

RT @TechCrunch: Biotech Startup Transcriptic Receives $1.2M In Seed Funding Led By Google Ventures And FF Angel http://flip.it/5mgni by @catherineshu http://flip.it/Z2oo3

Google Ventures launches major seed capital fund for entrepreneurs working on Google Glass (sociable.co)
Google Ventures Creates Group to Drive Google Glass Innovations (eweek.com)
Google Ventures teams up with Andreessen Horowitz and KPCB to fund Glass projects (siliconrepublic.com)
Venture-Capital Firms Team up To Invest In Google Glass (huffingtonpost.com)

Vinod Khosla says tech will replace 80% of what docs do

Posted on December 13, 2012April 10, 2013 by timbatchelder

Technology will replace 80% of what doctors do – Fortune Tech
cnn.com

Data-driven healthcare won’t replace physicians entirely, but it will help those receptive to technology perform their jobs better.

By Vinod Khosla

FORTUNE — Healthcare today is often really the “practice of medicine” rather than the…

http://flip.it/t2nZy

Vinod Khosla To Entrepreneurs: Venture Capitalists Are Not Your Friends (forbes.com)
Startup Grind Silicon Valley Hosts Vinod Kholsa (Khosla Ventures) (startupgrind.com)
One doctor’s personal motivation to go from anger to entering the arena of healthcare innovation (medcitynews.com)
Startups are about to blow up the textbook (tech.fortune.cnn.com)
Debra Chrapaty: Here’s Why I Left My Job As Zynga’s CIO To Run A Startup (embargozone.com)

Design and cleantech: a winning combination

Posted on November 1, 2012March 27, 2013 by timbatchelder

Design and cleantech: a winning combination
Posted by Chris Sherwin, guardian.co.uk

In his third article on sustainability and design, Chris Sherwin makes the case for using design to help clean and green technologies succeed

A few years ago, green start-up Intelligent Energy (IE), the proud owners and developers of a world-cla…

http://flpbd.it/ex0Vi

Denmark Tops First-Of-Its-Kind Global Cleantech Innovation Index (chimalaya.org)
Where the money is in cleantech: oil and gas [GigaOM] (gigaom.com)
Crowdfunding Coming of Age in Cleantech (cleantechies.com)
Cleantech Accelerator Greenstart Evolves into Venture Company (triplepundit.com)
Creating Safer, Brighter and More Energy Efficient Places with Xeralux LED (eco-business.com)
The state of cleantech venture capital: what lies ahead (gigaom.com)
Westly Group raises $160M cleantech fund (sustainablebusinessoregon.com)
Crowdfunding Coming of Age In Cleantech (renewableenergyworld.com)
Breaking Down The Mystery of Cleantech (earthtechling.com)

New models for venture firms find both ideas and the money

Posted on August 22, 2012August 23, 2012 by timbatchelder

Knode and other local startups are the focus of new vc approaches that involve less time shuffling papers at a desk, and more time doing ethnographic research on what people actually do.

Some venture firms find both ideas and the money – Boston.com.

Fred Wilson says venture capital funds have gotten too big (technologyreview.com)
Dave McClure is ripping VCs again: They’re f***ing arrogant and stupid a**holes (geekwire.com)
Nearly Half of Innovative U.S. Startups Are Founded by ‘User Entrepreneurs,’ According to Kauffman Foundation Study (kauffman.org)
Y Combinator’s Young Startups Tout Revenue Over Users (go.bloomberg.com)
Foundation with $249M invested with VCs says VC model is “broken” (kauffman.org)
iKnode (programmableweb.com)
Enlight Bio’s Knode Advances Social Network for Pharma (xconomy.com)
Get to Know: Knodes (quotidianventures.com)
The Knodes Fund. It’s an exciting new collaboration… (quotidianventures.com)

Entrepreneur Startup How-To Guides

Posted on August 23, 2011August 26, 2012 by timbatchelder

Startup How-To Guides.

For those of us looking to start a company these guides provide a simple, direct way to learn the nuts and bolts without forking over 100k+ to a top tier MBA program.

Want to pitch at DEMO 2012? Here’s your chance. [Verge Startups] (indysphere.com)
Startup Trajectories (growthology.org)
Startup is not your job (igzebedze.com)
Louisville Startup: Impulcity Smooth As Butter Event Discovery Now In Beta (nibletz.com)
Helloworld.im Here with the Rackspace Startup Program (rackspace.com)
Reflections from Hong Kong’s ‘Lean Startup’ bootcamp (bulletfame.wordpress.com)
Your startup is not a startup, it’s just a website. (crranky.com)
lsparrish on Who Wants To Start An Important Startup? (lesswrong.com)
BOOK REVIEW: The $100 Startup – It’s Awesome (juangreatleap.com)

Black Coral Capital: Private Equity Fund Investing in CleanTech Space

Posted on May 30, 2011February 11, 2013 by timbatchelder

Black Coral Capital logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Another link from Jay. Black Coral Capital is a fund investing in the alternative energy / cleantech space. The fund can invest in a wide variety of cleantech arenas, both directly and through funds. Black Coral was formed in late 2008 and is presently building out its presence in North America.

Black Coral Capital – Private Equity Fund.

“Enterprise Private Equity” has Today Announced the Launch of the Government Funded Scheme which Invests into Entrepreneurs (prweb.com)
Hedge, Private Equity Managers Must Wait on Bonuses: ESMA (bloomberg.com)
Chart of the week: the growth pains of EM private equity (blogs.ft.com)
JOBS Act of 2012 Prompts Launch of Accredited Investor Markets, an Educational Resource for Accredited Investors (prweb.com)
How to Address the Misconceptions About Private Equity (axialmarket.com)
Week in Review: Debut Funds, Distressed and Private Equity’s Wake (axialmarket.com)

TechCrunch: the scoop straight from Silicon Valley

Posted on August 25, 2007August 25, 2012 by timbatchelder

Image via CrunchBase

TechCrunch.

Michael Arrington‘s TechCrunch blog covers software and Web start-ups with inimitable passion, candor, and fervor.

TechCrunch broke the news – AOL’s official statement: “deciding” to move on (nextlevelofnews.com)
TechCrunch Giveaway: Phosphor Watch And A Free Ticket To Disrupt SF #TCDisrupt (techcrunch.com)
TechCrunch Giveaway: 3 Vizio Co-Stars! #TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
The Headline Hub, Sept. 9 (digitalsurgeons.com)
How does TechCrunch handle the TechCrunch effect? (rackspace.com)
Yo Forbes, Fuck You (techcrunch.com)
Where and How to Meet Potential Investors (grasshopper.com)
Minnesota Venture Firm Tells Startups: Stop Reading TechCrunch (nibletz.com)
Winner of TechCrunch50 RedBeacon on The Rackspace Cloud (rackspace.com)
iPhone 5 Release Date And New Pictures (987ampradio.cbslocal.com)

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