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Venture capitalist guilty of defrauding investors (San Fransisco Chronicle)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:01:22 GMT

A former Silicon Valley venture capitalist faces up to 28 years in prison after a jury convicted him of bilking investors of more than $20 million. Forty-nine-year-old Moses Joseph was convicted Tuesday of 22 felony counts that included theft, securities...

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VC convicted of swindling clients out of $20 million the wrong way [Venture Capital] (Valleywag)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:00:00 GMT

Moses Joseph began working at a Palo Alto VC firm called the Anila Fund in 1999 and soon after began conning banks such as US Bank, Wells Fargo, Eastman Kodak, Bank One and Silicon Valley Bank out of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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VC convicted of swindling $20 million from clients the wrong way [Venture Capital] (Valleywag)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:00:00 GMT

Source : Valleywag (subscribe)

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Venture Capital: Monster venture firm continues to raise funds (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:22:00 GMT

Rob Monster stirred the venture capital pot last summer when the entrepreneur-turned-angel investor launched Monster Venture Partners, saying at the time that venture capitalists deserved a "bad rap" for putting entrepreneurs in the "back corner."Now, after a very active year in which Monster placed bets on more than 20 early-stage startup companies and hired two...

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Yes, there are "Series F" funding rounds and the Active Network just closed one [Venture Capital] (Valleywag)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:00:00 GMT

The Active Network, which owns sports portal Active.com and also provides Web-based marketing and other services, just raised $80 million closing a round of funding led by Disney's ESPN Networks.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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Venture Capital and the Modern Startup - Building a Company is a Team Sport (PodTech Network)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:47:31 GMT

A post today called Fuck the VCs caught my attention. I’ve been a full time entrepreneurs for over 10 years now and have tons of experience with VCs. Heck alot of my friends are VCs - “not that there is anything wrong wit that”. The fact is that VCs have lost their abiity to do early [...]

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VCs Are Still Pouring Money In India : Sequoia And Clearstone Unfold Their Future Plans For India (WATblog)

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 08:21:40 GMT

Sumir Chadha, managing director at Sequoia Capital India said, “There is a lot of investor interest and we are not too worried about (market) cycles.” Rahul Khanna, director Clearstone Venture Advisors in an interview with Economic Times said, "This is the right time to invest in the Indian companies as a VC investor..."

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Assistant Controller in MENLO PARK, CA (GadBall.com)

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:15:00 GMT

Our client, a top Venture Capital firm in the Silicon Valley, is seeking an experienced Assistant Controller. This firm is well known for backing the top entrepreneurs in the valley. This is a great opportunity to join a prestigiousdynamic firm and work with creative minds. They have great benefits, lunch catered everyday, 401Kpension plan, and excellent holidays. Assistant Controller...

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Internet: Threat Level Red (Who Has Time For This?)

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:23:00 GMT

Yesterday a Bessemer company rescued 42% of the internet... As you probably read about in news coverage of the recent Black Hat conference, Dan Kaminsky brilliantly discovered a catstrophic vulnerability in the internet's Domain Name System (DNS). The vulnerability permits a hacker to "poison the cache" of DNS servers with incorrect IP addresses -- a phisher's dream come true. Even better for hackers,...

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Screenlife being sold to Paramount (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:41:00 GMT

... of a Seattle company that grew to prominence through angel financing rather than institutional venture capital.

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Jury convicts man in $20M Palo Alto VC scam (bizjournals)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:41:29 GMT

A Santa Clara County jury has convicted a former Palo Alto venture capitalist on 22 felony counts in a complex white-collar crime case, the county district attorney's office said Friday.

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Taking an in-depth look at the Obama energy proposals including a VC fund (Driive)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:28:00 GMT

... vehicles onto American roads in large numbers. He also proposes a Clean Technologies Deployment Venture Capital Fund to help get new technology beyond the research stage. What's interesting about this point is the VC Fund terminology. Venture Capitalists don't typically invest their cash out of concern for the common good. They usually want a stake that they can cash...

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Venture-Backed Companies May See SBIR Dollars (Patent Baristas)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:24:32 GMT

... a pivotal compromise that would allow limited investment in the SBIR program by majority-owned venture capital firms. According to Senator Kerry, Chairman of the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, the government-wide program has generated more than 84,000 patents and millions of jobs. The reauthorized SBIR and STTR programs will pump another $1 billion into our small...

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A new eye is cast over secondhand VCTs (Financial Time)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:57:00 GMT

The secondhand market for venture capital trusts (VCTs) – which give tax relief on investments in fledgling companies – is becoming more active, as investors look to buy traded VCTs for the tax-free dividends they offer.

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Centaurus scoops up National Coal shares (The Houston Business Journal)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:57:44 GMT

Centaurus Energy Master Fund LP has acquired all 3.3 million shares of National Coal Corp. held by a Houston venture capital firm. (NCOC)

Source : The Houston Business Journal (subscribe)

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Photovoltaic module maker secures $104M in funding (EE Times)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:45:00 GMT

AVA Solar, a thin-film photovoltaic module manufacturer based in Fort Collins, Colo., said it has secured $104 million in a second round of venture capital funding.

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Where did the VCs Go? (Texas Startup Blog)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:18:07 GMT

That is what an article in the Dallas Business Journal asked earlier this month. Jeff Bounds reported that, “Venture capitalists were AWOL during the second quarter of 2008″ explaining that only $17.3MM was invested by Venture Capital firms in North Texas companies during the second quarter of 2008! Really? Only $17.3MM? Jeff continues by suggesting [...]

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Industry Leading Entrepreneurs, Investors and Journalists Debate the Tech Industry's Future at DEMOfall 08 (Red Orbit )

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:00:31 GMT

Angelsoft, LLC, Arx, Atlanta Venture Forum, Band of Angels, BoogarLists, Comerica Bank, Conference Guru, Connect Public Relations, Cooley Godward Kronish, LLP, Cornerstone Angels, Data Essence, Digsu.com, Ethos Networks Ltd., Eye-to-Eye Communications, Financing Partners, Funding Universe, funP, GigaOm, Golden Capital, GoldMail, Granite Financial Group, LLC, Guidewire Group, HomeIt.com,...

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Crisis in the Valley? (Memex 1.1)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:53:00 GMT

Judy Estrin has a new book coming out. She gave an interview tot he New York Times... Ms. Estrin said that the United States is stifling innovation by failing to take risks in sectors from academia to government to venture capital. “I’m not generally an alarmist, but I am really, really concerned about this country,” [...]

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Make Even More Millions Sitting In The Pub (Mannerisms)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:25:42 GMT

Further to my earlier blog on making-millions-while-sitting-in-the-pub type businesses, it seems that Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Silicon Valley's top venture capital company, has put $100 million into a fund which will exclusively back start-up companies developing iPhone applications. Naturally,...

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