Leading Venture Capital Firm Andreessen Horowitz to Sponsor 2012 NewME Accelerator
Cross posted on NewME Accelerator Just one month away from starting the 2012 cycles of the NewME Accelerator (February 20) we’re excited to announce one of the top venture capital firms in technology, Andreessen Horowitz, as our most recent partner. The partnership includes sponsorship of the accelerator as well as mentorship and speaker dinners with [...]
Read MoreQ1 Venture Capital Funding Close to Pre-Recession Levels
Spring is here an the air is ripe with opportunity — especially for startups. If you’re an entrepreneur searching for funding, this could be year. According to private investment research firm CB Insights, the first quarter of the year saw funding levels almost matching pre-recession levels. In fact, there was $7.5 billion of venture capital funding invested [...]
Read MoreEghosa Omoigui: The Art of the Tech Deal
The majority of us go live out our lives seeing only the current state of the world. We notice technology giants like Facebook and Google, we carry advanced mobile devices, and we use services like Dropbox to store our data. However, Eghosa Omoigui has his eyes firmly upon the future. As a venture capitalist, he [...]
Read MoreRebuttal: Why More Black Celebs Should Become VC’s
This post is in response to the earlier post on the need for Black Celebs to become VC’s as a means to increase investment in Start-ups founded by African Americans. This post is in no way to meant to slight the previous writer on her well intended idea but in a effort to get more [...]
Read More1stFriday.com Invited to Y Combinator Startup School
BlackWeb2.0 would like to congratulate 1stFriday.com, the online social networking community of professional African Americans for being accepted as one this year’s Y Combinator School attendees looking to learn from the best on how to expand perfect their pitch and acquire some serious expansion capital…
Read MoreAfrican Americans Only 1% of Internet Start-up Founders
Black Web 2.0 has written about the importance of securing funding for Internet start-ups at various stages from the great idea to contracting the know-how to build it to the launch. Private investment research firm CB Insights has released its first ever Human Capital Venture Capital report. In part one of the report, the company takes an in-depth [...]
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