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Developer Funding – How to Build Your Team and Raise Money (Google I/O Panel)

This morning, I attended the VC session titled “From Weekend Hack to Funded Startup – How to Build Your Team and Raise Money”, with Naval Ravikant (founder of AngelList, ePinions, VentureHacks), Rich Miner (Partner at Google Ventures and co-founder of Android) and Kevin Rose (founder of Digg, Milk, Pownce and Partner at Google Ventures), moderated by Don Dodge. Below are the highlights from the session, including some great questions from the audience.

Inspire and invest in our innovators

The UK has everything it needs to build great startups. Talent, money and ideas, the trinity of startup success, are all present in the UK.London has the largest venture capital and private equity industries in Europe. The city’s cultural vibe attracts global talent, and the UK enjoys far more public sector support than the US. So what’s holding back the UK from growing successful startups?

Games of Luck vs Games of Skill and What it Means for the Tech Industry

There’s been a lot of talk recently about small startups being over funded.  Sean Parker, founder of Napster,  President of Facebook and Founders Fund investor,  said: “The market is ridiculously overcrowded with early-stage investors. A lot of these early-stage investors will fund literally anything…  [it’s] the assembly line approach to investing.” What’s the problem with …

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Dos and Don’ts When Raising Venture Capital For the First Time

Every now and then I run into a post that I’d love VC Cafe readers to see. The post “What I learned from raising venture capital” by Gabriel Weinberg, the founder of DuckDuckGo is one of them. WHAT TO DO WHEN RAISING VENTURE CAPITAL: Save up good news for the middle of the process – launching features that promote growth and getting recognition from the industry (awards, etc) in good timing can help “maximize luck”

It’s a Family (tree) Business: My Herritage Acquires Polish Startup

Techcrunch broke the news on the acquisition of Poland-based Bliscy.pl by Israel-based MyHeritage.com. Bliscy will help MH increase reach as the acquisition brings MyHeritage family network to 56 million registered users and approximately 762 million profiles, 18 million family trees and 116 million photos.

How Can Venture Capital Funds Differentiate Themselves [VC Wish List Part 2]

10 things VCs can do to differentiate themselves and provide more value to potential investments – based on feedback from dozens of entrepreneurs. So what makes one VC fund be better perceived than others?

“Teuza” Looking To Raise $120M for New Projects

Teuza – A Fairchild Technology Venture Ltd., is a publicly-traded fund founded in 1992 which invests primarily in venture companies which are active in the fields of software semiconductors, communications, electronics and medical equipment. According to Globes it “plans to raise a $120 million follow-on fund having fully invested its current $36 million fund. The …

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Report: Venture Capital Investments in Israel Down in 2007?

The economy slump in the US is creeping out on the venture capital investments in Israel. Kesselman & Kesselman PricewaterhouseCoopers Israel has released its latest MoneyTree report, analyzing Israeli venture capital investments in Q4 of 2007.  53 venture capital firms participated in a report that shows no growth in investments compared to the same period …

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