Venture & Angel Capital

Women Get Less VC Money

By Anita Campbell - Jul 1, 2004 - Leave a Comment

Colleague and friend Kirsten Osolind over at re:invention (company) (blog) teamed up with Growthink Research to release a pioneering report, Venture Funding for Women Entrepreneurs.The report analyzed 1,860 companies that raised over $19 billion of venture capital in 2003 in the United States. In … Read More

VCs and Bootstrapping

By Anita Campbell - May 29, 2004 - Leave a Comment

One of my favorite columns is Guy Kawasaki's "Art of the Start" in Forbes.com. I like it because he delivers insights for startups, in a wise-cracking kind of way. When asked in a recent column about VCs who leave companies hanging without saying yes or no, this is what he had to say: I'll … Read More

What VCs REALLY Want

By Anita Campbell - May 22, 2004 - Leave a Comment

Here's a trend going in the wrong direction. Venture capitalists want to see business plans that clearly define the markets for a business. And that should be pretty obvious if any entrepreneur stops and thinks about it. After all, VCs are investing big money on the expectation that a business … Read More

Crouching Tiger: VCs in Asia

By Anita Campbell - Apr 13, 2004 - Leave a Comment

I see that Red Herring has launched a new column to follow the rising levels of venture capital in Asia. The United States has traditionally dominated the world in venture capital investment levels. As the 2003 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor reports (at page 76):"Companies that have changed the … Read More

Third World Version of Venture Capital

By Anita Campbell - Apr 2, 2004 - Leave a Comment

Forbes has an uplifting article profiling tiny businesses that have broken the cycle of poverty and desperation. With the help of microloans, entrepreneurs in places like Pakistan, Haiti, Burma, El Salvador, Tanzania and Afghanistan have started businesses, become self-sufficient, and even … Read More

Venture Capital Trend: Blogging

By Anita Campbell - Mar 17, 2004 - Leave a Comment

It seems like every venture capitalist these days is blogging. Well, perhaps not every VC. But the trend is certainly rising.So why are they taking up blogging? Ed Sim over at Beyond VC, a venture capitalist who invests in early information technology businesses, says one of his main reasons for … Read More

2004 Venture Capital Activity Up

By Anita Campbell - Feb 27, 2004 - 1 Comment

A new survey shows that U.S. venture capitalists are more optimistic in 2004 than in the past three years. Looking ahead to 2004, 84% of the VCs think the environment for entrepreneurs looking for early stage capital will be better than 2003. And 7 out of 10 venture capitalists expect to invest … Read More

Globalization Trend Attracts Venture Capital

By Anita Campbell - Oct 24, 2003 - 3 Comments

Cleveland-based Crystal Internet Venture Funds is shifting its investment strategy to focus on computer hardware and software companies engaged in global commerce between the U.S. and Asia. Crystal is raising a new $150 Million fund which will be invested either in U.S. companies that will do … Read More