Angel & VC Financing
These two postings from David Hornik at Venture Blog are definitely funny. It makes the most sense if you read his prior post called “Calendar Calisthenics” first (the serious one in which he laments his compressed schedule) and then you’ll see the humour in the follow-up “Calendar Calisthenics Redux” posting where his friend made fun [...]
Richard Smalley recently testified to the U.S. Senate on how how nanotechnologies and distributed power grids are the future of power.
Here is a wonderful article on Laurance Rockefeller, philanthropist, philosopher, mediator, venture capitalist, conservationist. It is inspiring to say the least.
Here are some quotes that Jeff Harrow of The Harrow Group found: “If I were just setting out today to make that drive to the West Coast to start a new business, I would be looking at biotechnology and nanotechnology.” Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com From the May 14, 2004 Nanotech Insider http://www.forbesinc.com/newsletters/nanotech/ – Michael [...]
From one of my favourite newsletters, The Harrow Group Technology Report, comes this article on nanospheres, tiny little bits of material that were used in an amazingly successful cancer killing experiment: As published in pages 171 – 176 of Issue 2 of the June 25 Cancer Letters (an abstract is freely available while the full [...]
This article talks about how 8 Silicon Valley Bankers and 25 VCs are doing an exploratory trip to China to explore business opportunities. This to me seems like a serious pivot point in East/West VC relations. In the article, they note the changing attitudes in China about Western financing. This is something to watch. QUOTE: [...]
It has been said that in some societies in the world, if the village shaman curses an individual to death, that individual will be cast out from the rest of the village and the other villagers will pretend that the person does not exist. They will not feed, talk to, nor acknowledge the presence of [...]
Biotech is definitely taking more and more of a percentage of the VC funds that are being placed. This is one more article commenting on that trend and it also makes note of the fact that the placements are in new companies finally rather than in just keeping the existing portfolio companies alive.
Here is an article about Benchmark’s new fund.
The Universe is 14 billion years old and will either either re-collapse into itself, expand into a completely diluted state, or rip apart in its 36th billion year in a runaway expansion so violent that galaxies and planets will be torn asunder in a fraction of a second. How do we manage the polarity inherent [...]
