An article in this week’s Mass High Tech reports New England (NE) Venture Capital (VC) financings dropped 31% in the number of deals done during the second quarter, as compared with the same period last year, according to a new report from Dow Jones VentureSource. This drop represented a decline of 22.4% in value [...]

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In a July 24th story, the New York Times reports that according to a survey of venture capitalists (VCs) by tax and advisory firm KPMG, VCs expects the current Initial Public Offering (IPO) doldrums to stretch until at least 2010. As a measure of this pessimism, only 9% of those surveyed think it will pick [...]

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In his July 2nd blog, “Startup Advice from George Constanza: Do The Opposite,” Dharmesh Shah at OnStartups.com makes the case that “doing the opposite” (zigging when others are zagging) can actually work for startups, citing a few examples in his blog from VC funding negotiation, to recruiting early employees and early customer conversations.
I couldn’t [...]

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