Topic: Venture Capital Firms
State: Venture capital firm boosts Conn.'s economy
AP News
<div id="subtitle">Conn. development agency credits venture capital firm's investments for jobs, economic boost</div><div><p>Connecticut's economic development agency said Thursday that investments by the state's quasi-public venture capital firm in high-technology businesses has helped boost ...
VCs eschew physical stores, focus on retail tech
Reuters US Online Report Business News
<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters) - Venture capitalists were never very interested in the retail sector, but they are now taking a second look, focusing on a new generation of online retailers and the next wave of technology to help stores optimize how they run their businesses ...
Why Corporations Provide Little Venture Capital
BusinessWeek
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During the Internet bubble, corporate venture capital arms -- subsidiaries of large corporations that invest in startups -- were seen by many of their parent companies as a way to benefit from innovation. For example, Intel Capital invested in the open source software company Red Hat ...
FERTILE GROUND FOR STARTUPS
BusinessWeek
<div><h1>FERTILE GROUND FOR STARTUPS
</h1><p>Who needs job security? In June 2008, as the recession was moving from bad to worse, Caterina Fake gave up a comfortable, executive-level job at Yahoo! to launch a company. She left California and ...
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