Articles about Investors in Startups as of October 25, 2009

Joe LieblFor those of you that follow my blog, you know that I write about my Grandpa Joe from time to time.  What stands out about Grandpa Joe is that he was one of the happiest people I have ever met.  He had a phenomenal sense of humor and could work a room of adults and/or children equally well.  One of the reasons he was happy is that he had a great passion – fishing.  He lived in Minnesota (known as “The Land of 10,000 Lakes”) and his world revolved around fishing.  As a young lad, I learned

Infosys co-founder and chairman N.R. Narayana Murthy sold company shares worth around US$37mn to set up a venture capital fund for incubating Indian start-ups. Murthy will use the money as seed capital for a venture capital fund which he plans to set up in India. A statement issued by Infosys said that the proposed venture capital fund would encourage and support young entrepreneurs having

How many of you have heard about the Jeremie Fund? This is European Commission initiative to provide seed funding and other support to innovative, early stage companies. Most of what we’ve heard in Hungary has been word of mouth. There’s been very little published in the Hungarian press, or on the Internet. RealDeal.hu published this brief announcement: Eight winners have been announced in a tender for the New Hungary Venture Capital Program (Új Magyarország Kockázati T?keprogram), which will see venture capital funds receiving EU backing to help finance local start-ups.

The iPhone is an incredibly impressive device. Much how the Blackberry put email access into your pocket, the iPhone has provided the first usable mobile browsing experience. As the first mover in the space, Apple exercises a near monopoly in the space with an impressive 40% market share in mobile internet traffic. Kudos to everyone involved in the effort at Apple for setting a high bar for any potential competitor.   Some would put Apple’s early success in historic terms, claiming the iPhone has the fastest user growth in tech history .

(I’m live-blogging from Startup School, a daylong program from startup incubator YCombinator held at Berkeley today. Mark Pincus is the CEO of social gaming company Zynga. If these notes are a bit scattered, it’s because it’s paraphrased and Pincus is doing a stream-of-consciousness style talk.) So Pincus starts his talk by outlining his pretty conventional career right out of college — he went into banking. Then to business school. Then he said he hadn’t really succeeded at any of those companies.

(I’m live-blogging from Startup School, a daylong program from startup incubator YCombinator held at Berkeley today. Mark Pincus is the CEO of social gaming company Zynga. If these notes are a bit scattered, it’s because it’s paraphrased and Pincus is doing a stream-of-consciousness style talk.) So Pincus starts his talk by outlining his pretty conventional career right out of college — he went into banking. Then to business school. Then he said he hadn’t really succeeded at any of those companies.