Market Insight
Google Ventures is expanding its Start-Up University mentorship program, moving from a 12,000 sq ft. building to a space nearly twice that size. Calling itself "the most operational VC firm in Silicon Valley," Google's venture arm is backing up technology companies at a faster clip than rival firms on average.
February 2012
2. Top Ten Reasons Why Large Companies Fail To Keep Their Best Talent
Whether it's a high-profile tech company like Yahoo!, or a more established conglomerate like GE or Home Depot, large companies have a hard time keeping their best and brightest in house.
December 2011
3. Big Data... Big Money
With its new $100 million Big Data Fund, Accel Partners' offices across the globe will invest in applications that help form an ecosystem around existing big data building blocks such as Hadoop and NoSQL.
December 2011
4. Solid State - Cool Technology with Business Heating Up
Flash Memory Summit - What was once seen as just a cool niche technology is now turning into a real market that's definitely heating up.
November 2011
5. Venture capital in startups: $8.4 billion
$8.4 billion. That's how much venture capital was invested in startup companies, according to Dow Jones VentureSource.
October 2011
6. Avoiding 5 Common Hiring Mistakes
While hiring the wrong person at IBM is not good, hiring the wrong person at a 10 person startup can be a disaster.
October 2011
7. Box.net Raises $81 Million Expansion Round
On the heels of raising a $48 million Series D financing in February, enterprise application maker Box.net has closed an $81 million expansion round of capital.
October 2011
8. The Daily Start-Up: VCs Upping Hiring Pressure On Start-Ups
Investors adding pressure to Silicon Valely start-ups; lacking a full team or being unable to prove to be capable of hiring on could create extra hurdles in raising money and receiving funding from investors.
September 2011
9. New TV deals to expand PGA Tour coverage to -- everywhere
PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem said fans will be able to watch the tour product via more portals than ever, including streaming coverage on their cellphones, computers and tablets via websites at CBS, NBC and the tour.
September 2011
10. Is Flash Memory The Way To Go For Storage Start-Ups?
Near universal agreement that flash will replace hard disk drives in enterprise storage, but unclear if it's a new feature for established vendors or opportunity to build a new, lasting company.
August 2011
11. Cloud Startups Get Big Funding Infusions
A host of cloud upstarts kicked off with big dollar funding injections.
August 2011
12. Tech's Big Brains Talk Jobs
Discussions on how to translate the boom in technological innovention in careers for our job-hungry nation.
August 2011
13. Twitter lands $800 million venture capital deal, breaking record
Microblogging site lands largest venture capital in history, part of an $800 million funding deal.
August 2011
14. Why Amazon's streaming service will become a major competitor
Amazon announces offer of NBCUniversal TV and movies for Amazon Prime members at no additional cost
July 2011
15. 5 Reasons Working At An Enterprise Startup Is Cool Again
The invention of the Web browser and the Internet hitting global scale, working for a consumer technology company became the cool thing to do
July 2011
16. Reality check: LinkedIn gets a downgrade from analyst
Analyst with JP Morgan downgrades stock and set a price target of $85
July 2011
17. Americans Watch 30.3B Online Videos in April '10
About 178 million US internet users watched 30.3 billion online videos during April 2010
June 2010
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