Connie Loizos
A new, so-called stock exchange in Boulder called SSX, or The Story Stock Exchange, has formed to “create a portfolio of listed projects” that are too small for venture capital or bank backing but it plans to introduce to mentors, advisors, and investors, as well as help to grow. SSX was co-founded by John Metzger, […]
Within start-up circles, it’s a frustrating paradox: If you start a company and it takes off, there’s a very good chance you’ll be elbowed aside at some point. What are the odds, specifically? According to a decade of extensive research by Noam Wasserman – an HBS professor and author of the new book, The Founder’s Dilemmas […]
London-based Knowledgemill, a three-year-old email management company, has raised growth capital from YFM Equity Partners, a venture firm with offices throughout England, and the London-based venture firm MMC Ventures. The exact size of the round is not being disclosed. PRESS RELEASE: London Bridge based KnowledgeMill Ltd today announced significant expansion with growth capital funding from […]
Last week, 38-year-old Jeremy Blackburn, co-founder and former chief operating officer of Canopy Financial, was found dead in a truck in a “barn-like structure” owned by his family members in Illinois’ Lee County, according to an account in the Chicago Tribune. Blackburn was to begin serving a 15-year prison sentence the next day.
One of the most powerful men in Silicon Valley isn’t someone who appears frequently in the tech press. He isn’t a venture capitalist or an entrepreneur. He doesn’t tweet or live in California. (And no, he isn’t Russian.) He’s 39-year-old Henry Ellenbogen, manager of the oldest small cap mutual fund in the country, T. Rowe […]
Boston-based NXT Capital’s Venture Finance has promoted Peter Fair to Managing Director. Fair, who is based in NXT’s Palo Alto office, came to the firm through Velocity Financial, which merged with NXT Capital last October. Fair also also worked as a director at TriplePoint Capital, and as a principal with the San Francisco-based private equity firm […]
Odesk, a Redwood City, Calif., platform for finding and hiring remote freelance workers, has received $15 million in Series D funding led by T. Rowe Price Associates. Other investors in the round include Benchmark Capital, Globespan Capital Partners and Sigma Partners. The nine-year-old company has now raised a total of $44 million in funding. PRESS RELEASE: […]
The social media juggernaut is prepping potential investors for what is expected to be the largest IPO in U.S. history later this month, although, who knows, now that Ginkgo Residential Trust has also filed to go public.
According to new data from the Kauffman Foundation, the country is seeing “among the highest levels of entrepreneurship” in 16 years. But those “startups” are increasingly run by one person who may well have lost his or her job in the recession.
Online and mobile apps for hiring one's underemployed neighbors are gaining traction says the founder of TaskRabbit, who sees the trend as offering some indication that small business hiring is on the rise.