Quora Raises Series A from Benchmark Capital
(Reuters) – As Wall Street eagerly awaits signs that Internet sensation Facebook will offer shares to the public, the venture capitalists that prowl California’s Silicon Valley are keeping close tabs...
View ArticleQuora Underscores The Power of “AngelList”
For a brief period on Friday afternoon, Quora, the Benchmark-backed question-and-answer site, went down, and the digerati lit up with Twittersphere with questions about when the service would be...
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Scoop: Benchmark Closes ‘Oversubscribed’ Seventh Fund with $425M — Updated
Benchmark Capital, the Sand Hill Road firm that has enjoyed a succession of exits since its 1995 founding — including eBay, Juniper Networks, Red Hat, and, more recently, OpenTable — has closed on $425...
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Back in Business: Fresh off his failure to carpetbag his way into office on behalf of the people of New York state, Harold Ford instead opts to become a senior client manager for Morgan Stanley...
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Ashton Kutcher, Jimmy Fallon, and that Annoying Brunette from Glee: Go ahead, you try and pick three people out of Hollywood more likely to wind up in the title roles for this eventual movie...
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The New Peer Pressure: At Stanford, “If You Haven’t Started Company by Age...
Recently, New York magazine featured Feross Aboukhadijeh in a piece titled “Bubble Boys.” Aboukhadijeh is a Sacramento-born, 20-year-old computer science student at Stanford who has been characterized...
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A New Cadre of Facebook Angels? Don’t Count on It
When Facebook goes public as expected this spring, a casual observer might assume that Facebook alums will begin investing in startups. It’s an easy conclusion to draw. Big liquidity events tend to...
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Wilson, Suster, Feld Rank as Most Influential VCs Online
It should come as no surprise that the most influential VCs online are uber-bloggers Fred Wilson, Mark Suster and Brad Feld, according to a report issued this week by Boston-based expansion stage VC...
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Why Linkedin’s Big Deal May Be Coming Soon
To say that public market investors are smitten with Linkedin is an understatement. Twenty months after its 2011 IPO, shares of the business networking giant are trading at $120, or almost three times...
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Meet Business Insider’s new political columnist. The fatter a company’s annual report, the shakier it’s stock price is. A federal jury convicts five Bernie Madoff employees of fraud. Cisco pledges to...
View ArticleTiger Global helps Q&A site Quora raise $80 mln: Reuters
(Reuters) – Question-and-answer service Quora has raised $80 million in funding led by financier Tiger Global, the latest in a group of no-revenue startups to land outsized checks from investors. The...
View ArticleStructure Capital backs Equidate
Equidate has raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding. The investors included Structure Capital and Quora co-founder Charlie Cheever. Also, the company has named John-Paul Teutonico as its head of...
View ArticleTiger Global raises $2.5 bln venture fund
Tiger Global Management nearly doubled the amount of venture capital raised this quarter by unveiling a $2.5 billion fund in a document filed Friday with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The...
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