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In case you didn't know, foreign investments now make up half of the successful VC deals. It's a trend that's shifting the landscape for investors and entrepreneurs alike, and it's only likely to accelerate.
The biggest names in social networking -- Facebook, Twitter, Zynga and LinkedIn -- haven't yet gone public, but their stock does get traded by the very rich on private exchanges. Now, some of those transactions have raised the interest of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Groupon, the online social coupon site launched in 2008, is looking to raise hundreds of millions of dollars in expansion-related funding after rejecting a bid from search giant Google worth as much as $6 billion, Bloomberg News reported Thursday, citing people familiar with the process.
Just a few days after Google reportedly offered $6 billion for the top group-buying site, Groupon, the service's biggest rival, LivingSocial, has scored a $175 million investment from Amazon. But how long will these hot deals last?
Amazon.com Inc. and Facebook are among partners in a $250 million fund run by venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers that will support entrepreneurs creating social-media applications and services.
This week, Greg Doyle and his cohorts at InLab Ventures dropped a bomb on the struggling venture capital sector with the public launch of a radical new model for VC. Dubbed VC 3.0, it could revolutionize the game -- but it gores a host of Sand Hill's sacred cows in the process.
Among today's top online stories for investors: What is early eBay investor Bill Gurley saying about Google? Will the GOP take the House in November? And what happens to stock spammers?
When Serious Materials announced $60 million in additional venture capital funding last month, investor Jim Pettit felt more than a little bit vindicated. Pettit and his venture capital firm Navitas Capital led the early funding rounds in Serious, a Sunnyvale, Calif. maker of energy efficient...
Noted venture capitalist Bill Gurley of Benchmark Capital speculated this week, on his blog "Above the Crowd," about the near-term future of his industry. In short, it is not very bright. Gurley outlines why he thinks the sector is headed for a catastrophic but much needed contraction on the order...

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