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This post is sponsored by Silicon Valley Rocks. Tech professionals by day, rockers by night – on December 9 at the Great American Music Hall , they’ll pick up their instruments and venture onto the big stage to let their alter egos shine… for a good...
Tags: Silicon Valley Rocks, San Francisco, Technology Internet, Venture capital, Santa Clara County California, Silicon Valley, Entertainment Culture, Online social networking, FarmVille, Facebook, Mafia Wars, Mob Wars, Facebook applications, Social media, Zynga, Business Finance
Business owners face the greatest challenges in the first 18 months in the life of a business. Typically those businesses that are not going to prove viable will fail during this start-up period. South Africa is a country where it is difficult to establish...
Tags: South African Revenue Service, small businesses, South Africa, Cape Town, Vacy New South Wales, allnews, Bank, Small business, Entrepreneurship, Private equity, Venture capital, Business Finance
Ireland has dropped out of the top 20 most attractive global countries for venture capital and private equity investment, according to a new report published today. Business School in collaboration with Ernst & Young, places Ireland in 21st position,...
Tags: United Kingdom, London, Private equity, Corporate finance, Venture capital, Investor, Equity investment, Finance, Stock market, Investment, Business Finance, Northern Ireland, Ireland, February 15 2003 anti-war protest, Northern Europe, Western Europe, Political riots, Roy Keane, Irish language, Irish diaspora, Divided regions, allnews
Venture-capital funds are cutting fees as they scrounge for cash amid a bruising fund-raising environment. Battery Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Opus Capital are among venture-capital firms that have dangled lower costs in front of investors in...
Tags: cut fees, Singapore, Battery Ventures, Business Finance, Private equity, Venture capital, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Two recent decisions by the Securities and Exchange Board of India Board have far reaching implications for the capital market. One of these seeks to address the special concerns of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in raising resources. The second...
Tags: capital market, SME, raising resources, smaller companies, floor price, SEBI, medium enterprises, India, Chennai, Small and medium enterprises, Venture capital, Qualified Institutional Placement, Stock market, Initial public offering, Stock exchange, Business Finance
In 1992, I was 26 and already spending my fair share of time online. For several years, I'd been a satisfied customer of America Online. Although I liked the service, I decided not to buy shares of the company at the initial public offering that year.
Tags: AOL, rules breaker, Wall Street, great companies, Microsoft, New York City, Private equity, Stock, Rate of return, Venture capital, Stock market, Corporate finance, Financial ratios, Business Finance
Entellus Medical Inc., which is developing an easier, more cost-effective way to treat severe chronic sinus infections, has raised an additional $30 million in venture capital. The Maple Grove-based start-up said Essex Woodlands Health Ventures of Palo...
Tags: Tom Ressemann, Eden Prairie, Sinusitis, Entellus, The Hobbit films, Venture capital, Hobbit, Business Finance, Rhinology, General practice, Headaches
With the economy back on the recovery track, senior executives are once again eyeing the exit door. Emboldened by easing credit flow and a palpable pick-up in consumer demand, a raft of officials holding senior-level positions at major companies straddling...
Tags: Mr Dhabhai, Reserve Bank of India, Indian Institute of Management, Amrop International India, consulting firms, Haier, India, New Delhi, Ashok Soota, Venture capital, Wipro Technologies, Management consulting, Companies based in Bangalore, Software companies of India, MindTree, Business Finance
Twitter, the social-networking company valued at $1 billion by venture capitalists, said it is generating sales of more than $4 million a year and plans to build on that revenue with advertising. Twitter plans to start the ad business in early 2010, Chief...
Tags: advertising, Dick Costolo, San Francisco, Online social networking, Web 2.0, Institutional Venture Partners, Benchmark Capital, Venture capital, Twitter, Real-time web, Social media, Business Finance, Technology Internet, Software distribution, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft, Software as a service, Microsoft Office, Presentation software, Cloud applications, Blog hosting services, Foursquare, Google, Gone
Conroy Diamonds and Gold has raised €250,000 in fresh capital to fund work on the Clontibret gold project in Co Monaghan as well as other exploration work in the area. Conroy raised the cash through the issue of a further 7.14 million new shares to funds...
Tags: MAK Capital Fund LP, Agilysys, Ireland, Dublin, Private equity, Stock market, Hedge fund, Collective investment scheme, Venture capital, Financial services, Investment, Funds, Business Finance, Zinc, Gold, Chemical elements, Transition metals, Clontibret