Why Google Ventures Should Matter to You

Yesterday Google launched Google Ventures, a fund that will invest in companies in the consumer internet, software, hardware, clean-tech, bio-tech, and healthcare industries. As you can see they are interested in a number industries however they won’t be limited to just those.  They are also interested in funding companies in a variety of stages [...]

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$10 Million Won’t Make Honey Any Sweeter For Investors

I’m having a hard time figuring out what makes the new online version of Honey magazine worth a $10 million dollar investment.  Sure, the re-emergence of Honey in an online only format will no doubt be popular among fans of the old print edition and those new to the Honey brand.  Sahara Media has the [...]

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Start-up Funding Explained, Part 2

Companies aren't that different from mortgages. Not many people own their houses out right and not many people want to co-own their homes and split the equity (if any at all in this market) with a co-owner. The same applies to businesses. In Part 2 of the Start-up Funding Explained series we take a look at the differences between equity and debt and even get some experience based tips from an entrepreneur.

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Start-up Funding Explained, Part 1

We are starting your week off right with some tips on how to get your start-up funded. Robert Greene over at Syncom Venture Partners was kind enough to take time out of his schedule to help with developing content for this series. Syncom is the leading venture capital firm primarily focused on early to mid-stage investments in underserved segments of the media and communications industry.

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Weekly Money Trail- 08/01/2008

Cisco Systems has agreed to acquire software company Pure Networks for $120 million in cash as the networking giant expands its consumer product portfolio. This is Cisco’s first acquisition of a venture-backed company since it announced in November that it would acquire Securent, a provider of policy management software, for $100 million in cash. Cisco, which [...]

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The Weekly Money Trail- July 13, 2008

Bellevue, Investors Brings Alerts.com Back To Life A few years ago, investors poured more than $18 million into Alerts.com, a developer of software that alerted users when content changed on high-traffic Web sites. http://www.alerts.com

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Weekly Money Trail 7-4-2008

Microsoft throws it’s weight behind Semantic light weight, POWERSET.COM Powerset has been closely watched as a potential challenger to Google because of its search engine’s ability to understand both the meaning of search queries and the language of a Web page in order to match the two together. Google has generally eschewed natural-language search in favor [...]

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THE WEEKLY MONEY TRAIL-6/20/2008

San Francisco, Mochi Media Makes $10M To Monetize Games With plans to build out its infrastructure to meet demand from game developers for its ad platform, Mochi Media Inc. has raised a $10 million Series B round of funding. http://www.mochimedia.com New York Hanger Network Racks Up $10M More Hanger Network In-Home Media Inc., which distributes ads, coupons and promotional [...]

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Always On Hollywood 08

The Always on Hollywood event went off big as usual. There were tons of VC’s and institutional bankers there courting the business of the young, and the fresh (hot media start ups). There were quite a few impressive starts up offering their pitches for rooms full of venture capitalist ready to wage their calculated bets on [...]

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