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The color of money

Fri, 25 May 2001 10:04:51 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author venuv - You can start a company with money from your millionaiare (lottery-ticket) neighbor if you wish. Do that if you want

your company to go nowhere. If you want to hit the big time, you better be worried about the color of your venture capital money...

Become a .com Billionaire?

Tue, 12 Sep 2000 18:40:29 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author clayzer - It finally came to me one night when I was going to bed at 4am. The great idea to change the face of the internet had finally just popped into my head. I really don't know all the ideas that were running through my head just suddenly synergized...

Raise Money For Your Business Ideas & Access To Industry Top

Fri, 1 Sep 2000 04:15:16 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author charles - Foundation Capital partners invite you to submit your best business ideas to them. They don't want you to hesitate to consider them as the venture capital firm that can make a successful and long-lasting company out of your ideas. In fact, they are...

The Right VC For You: Promotes Involvement In Community!

Sat, 26 Aug 2000 22:23:42 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author charles - Who said that the thousands of newly minted millionaires of the New Economy don't care about social issues baffling our society? Who would even think that there was a VC firm that promotes personal involvement and encourages its partners, entrepreneurs...

Greylock Makes Out Of Your Ideas A Top Company

Wed, 23 Aug 2000 01:16:25 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author charles - Are you an idea generator? If so, then Greylock wants to hear from you. Greylock wants to build a relationship with your team! For Greylock, it is just a question of backing your $multimillion ideas not only with 34-year experience, support in all...

The Benchmark of Venture Capital Firms?

Wed, 16 Aug 2000 16:31:21 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jpmcgurk - Obviously if you are going to throw a name on yourself like Benchmark, you know what you're doing, and in my opinion, these guys do. Benchmark was originally comprised of 4 partners when it was originally founded in 1995, then soon added David Beirne,...

Are You Ready To Submit ideas@redpoint.com?

Sun, 13 Aug 2000 19:26:21 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author charles - Success in this new economy depends on the brightness of your ideas and the team you surround yourself with. More importantly, it depends on who is your VC firm. Redpoint Ventures, as a name, may be fairly new to the industry, but the partners who form...

Leading Info Tech Venture Is In It For The Long Run

Sun, 13 Aug 2000 17:11:28 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author charles - www.augustcap.com is a venture firm founded in 1995 by some luminaries of the industry. It is a company that is looking forward to creating long-lasting companies. In other words, these partners are seeking entrepreneurs who want to build for the...

Got Ideas? ICP Wants You To Submit Them

Sat, 11 Mar 2000 04:50:10 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author charles - The power of your mind and the strength of your imagination may be the key to the size of your bank account. Nowadays, more than ever before, venture capitalists make this statement true. They want you to knock at their door with your wild executive...

Offroad Capital is great.

Mon, 21 Feb 2000 01:41:47 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author beerbuff - I just purchased my first deal through Offroad Capital after having reviewed three other deals. I am very impressed with the professionalism of Offroad Capital and it's employees.

The information provided on each deal was very helpful. I...

serial entrepreneur?

Tue, 15 Feb 2000 14:15:57 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author ghost_rider - Who They Fund:

One common denominator amongst the Benchmark portfolio seems to be relative experience. Many, if not all, of their funded companies consist of serial entrepreneurs (webvan, loudcloud, living, ashford, visor) or industry experts...

High Octane VC !!

Sun, 13 Feb 2000 13:12:22 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author tim_guleri - Building a company that has sustainable value and a highly differentiated

product in today’s hyper-speed Internet economy takes seasoned business savvy and speed...enter Greylock !

I selected Greylock as our first (and subsequent) round...

Why Wait On To Your Brilliant Ideas? Improve On Them With KPCB

Tue, 25 Jan 2000 04:25:02 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author charles - Who has not heard of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as leaders of the venture capitals in the Silicon Valley? Startups, born of sound, brilliant ideas needed large amounts of money in their formative rounds. This is where KPCB comes in with more...

Sequoia wins the race

Mon, 24 Jan 2000 21:47:57 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author davidmr12 - Sequoia is always seens as one of the top three VC firms among the likes of Benchmark and Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers. They backed some of the best startups of our time, probably the most legendary being their seed funding of Yahoo, actually they...

Greylock Leader of the pack

Mon, 24 Jan 2000 21:40:08 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author davidmr12 - Greylock is one of the leading Venture Capital firms on the east coast, with one of the longest operating histories. While the firm is unfortunately not one of the lead investors in Epinions, they have definitely had some of the best VC investments of...

KPCB Best of the Best

Mon, 17 Jan 2000 04:57:16 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author davidmr12 - When you think venture capital, you know the best VC firm in the country is Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers. John Doerr is a legend in the industry and he has helped in transforming the venture capital industry. Kleiner Perkins was the first VC firm...

Not for your Average Joe

Wed, 12 Jan 2000 19:05:05 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author danielhorowitz - Benchmark Capital is without a doubt the biggest of the big and the best of the best, but what does that mean to you the entrepenuer. Benchmark has grown into one of the biggest VC firms around. You might ask how did that happen? Well I have a few words...

One of Paul Allen's: www.paulallen.com

Sun, 9 Jan 2000 19:48:11 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author charles - The name says it all. The person who has not read or heard about Paul Allen may not have been paying attention at the phenomenon caused by the advent of the Internet and ensuing businesses. Name Paul Allen in any sector of this new economy and people...

Turn Your Hot Ideas Into Prospering Companies With Sequoia Capital

Sun, 9 Jan 2000 14:24:35 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author charles - Who has never heard of the success stories of Apple Computer and Cisco Sytems? Both of these companies are success stories in the Silicon Valley and all over the world. Sequoia Capital was there for them when they needed finances to get started. And...

Want To Become Amazingly Rich? Check This Out

Thu, 6 Jan 2000 21:55:54 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author hwz1 - Offroad Capital is a venture capital concept that brings the private investment world to the somewhat mainstreet investor. Essentially, the company permits the investor to make a smaller investment that normal in firms that are in the start up stage,...

New Heroes: All Kinds Of Entrepreneurs With Bright Ideas

Sun, 2 Jan 2000 21:03:51 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author charles - If you have some sound ideas, if you are confident they can make you the next hot startup owner around, Benchmark Capital would like to hear from you. But first, make sure you have all of your ideas summarized in a well-prepared business plan. If you...

Getting VC Funding From Idealab...? Just How Hard Is It?

Thu, 23 Dec 1999 02:53:26 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author demosthenes - I have friends who have successfully made contact with them but have not been "incubated." Idealab is more an internet incubator than a venture capital firm that was started by Bill Gross in 1996. I haven't applied to this venture capital firm...