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The “conscious avoidance” doctrine has long confounded criminal defense lawyers and their clients. read »
Bubble? What bubble? One of Europe's leading venture capital funds is so confident about the opportunities in Europe's technology firms that it's just armed itself with a new growth fund worth 500 million euros ($700 million). read »
Enterprise collaboration startup Mavenlink has raised $3.9 million in new financing from Quest Software and Madden Capital Partners as well as individual angels, the company plans to announce today. The company has raised $5.5 million in total. read »
Over the years, I've known many entrepreneurs whose good ideas, often small ones, could never get funded. The venture capital system and angel investors are right for some kinds of new businesses, but what about start-up financing for the rest of us? read »
Accel Partners, the venture firm behind Facebook, Groupon and other hot consumer companies, is creating a $100 million fund dedicated to a different area: big data. read »
At times, the stories I read out of Detroit seem to arrive from two entirely different cities. One city is the home of an unexpected resurgence. Fueled by a handful of energetic start-ups, the downtown is slowly pulling in workers and occupants. It's an image that city boosters, from local financiers to D.C. officials, prefer to project. Last month, when I asked HUD Secretary Donovan which city gave him the most hope, he named, without hesitation, the Motor City. He echoed his earlier praise for[...] read »
Use it or lose it. That’s the message about Millennial entrepreneurial talent that underpins the mission of Gen Y Capital Partners. The start-up accelerator that bills itself as for Gen Y by Gen Y began accepting applications last week and has already been lauded in a speech by President Obama and received coverage in major tech outlets such as Mashable and TechCrunch. read »
Groupon showed them all, didn’t it? After the laughing stock it temporarily became after filing its first S-1, the daily deal site mopped the floor with its critics on Friday, raising $700 million with its 35-million share offer. It was the largest tech IPO since Google raised $1.7 billion in 2004, placing Groupon, say its most enthusiastic supporters, in the same league as Amazon and Apple. read »