Venture Capitalists Move From Web to Algae
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Investors are now searching for a holy grail that symbolizes wealth in both profits and whatâs good for the environment.
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While Google Inc.&#39;s auction-based initial public offering may not spur a wave of copycats, venture capitalists are sorting through the IPO to see what can be learned for future deals.
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Robert Metcalfe, a founder of 3Com Corp. and the engineer who led the development of Ethernet computer networking technology, is taking the helm at a Cambridge start-up that seeks to replace imported oil with home-grown algae.
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By Todd R. Brown  SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO -- Talk about working blue: A local venture- capital firm recently fell prey to a hacker who took over the company's Web site and directed viewers to several porn sites instead.
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Venture capital funding in the U.S. rose nearly 11 percent last year, in part driven by investments in clean technology and Internet-related companies.
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Silicon Valley's VC community picks its favorite candidates.
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Big opportunities await patient investors in nanotech, cleantech, and robotics.
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Two Silicon Valley firms show energy-efficient practicies in their own facilities.
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By Mike Musgrove, Washington Post Staff Writer  Last month, venture capitalist Fred Wilson drew a lot of attention on the Internet when he declared a 21st century kind of bankruptcy.
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You don't have to be Google to challenge the way Wall Street manages initial public offerings. A little southwest Virginia biotechnology company has just gone public using the same innovative "open IPO" process as Google.
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The magazine Business 2.0 offers a rundown of invention ideas from venture capitalists and the amounts they are offering for people willing to carry out their ideas.
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What a new venture fund says about the future of the industry.
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Venture capitalists are lavishing money on the fashionable Linux supercomputing concept--but smaller firms face much larger rivals.
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Researchers are goading tiny organisms like bacteria and algae into producing fuels like hydrogen and methane. The process is not useful yet, but the technology could be a solution to the energy problem. By Amit Asaravala.
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Many of the same venture capitalists who financed Internet companies in the 1990s are now financing alternative energy start-ups.
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There are two topics most venture capitalists hate to discuss: companies they invested in that tanked, and companies they didn't invest in that soared.
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To the world outside Silicon Valley's tight-knit community of startups, venture capitalists, and angel investors, TechCrunch is just another mouthy blog. But to entrepreneurs in the white-hot consumer Internet boom, Arrington has become a power broker.