A Kink in Venture CapitalÂs Gold Chain
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For the firm Sevin Rosen, the high-risk, high-return venture capital business may have turned into all risk and no return.
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Learn the secrets of investing in this often-intimidating sector.
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Green tech financiers share tips for spotting sustainable start-ups.
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Investing in small caps that have big bets in one market can sometimes bring rich rewards.
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By Todd R. Brown  SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO -- Talk about working blue: A local venture- capital firm recently fell prey to a hacker who took over the company's Web site and directed viewers to several porn sites instead.
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Silicon Valley's VC community picks its favorite candidates.
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Just like love, online dating could be a risky proposition for investors.
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Science and skill unite in the growth-investing universe.
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As the online ad market booms, private equity firms flush with investment capital are looking at an array of Web players with an eye toward combining them into large-scale digital marketing firms.
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Business & money: Merger fever is sweeping the macho, cash-rich mining sector, but there are more than just egos involved
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Fred Wilson thinks so. And I agree. The reason the tech sector runs in cycles of euphoric booms and deep busts is that there is little support for long-term investment in tech. The new concepts that will fuel the next boom cycle are already here, but there isn't enough money flowing into developing them. The ideas that are getting investment are more and more derivative of the original idea that fueled the boom cycle that is now (likely) coming to an end. If you look back at the last two busts, there was one in the early 90s when the software boom had run out of juice, and then in the early 00s when the web boom had run its course. In both cases, the seeds of the next boom were already planted, but the investors weren't pushing money in their direction. The savior after the early 90s bust was the web, and the second was what they call Web 2.0, which is a really lame way to describe the networked creative environment, what I called the Two-Way Web. I'm going to be in NY in October, and I hope to meet with Fred and other investors to talk about how we can soften the busts and enhance the booms.
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There are two topics most venture capitalists hate to discuss: companies they invested in that tanked, and companies they didn't invest in that soared.
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Companies with growing yields can make you rich in more ways than what's obvious.
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Investors, looking for gold in hedge funds, have found dross.
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PORTSMOUTH, N.H. - As venture capitalists shift their focus to later-stage deals with more mature technology companies, a growing and increasingly organized class of private investors known as "angels" has been picking up the slack in funding smaller start-ups.
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The software company's investments are showing some promise.
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Make sure your investment's revenue stream is diversified -- or you could get hurt.