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Leader: Open source to boom?
Leader We - and hopefully the VC community and rest of the industry - learned that lesson with the dot-coms. Is open source the next big boom à la dot-com? Granted the fervour around all things open source, in particular poster... [03 Mar 2005]
Tech investment healthy in Europe, healthiest in UK
News Keith Arundale, European VC leader at PwC's Global Technology Industry Group, said: "Some investors will be thinking why they should invest in early-stage companies when they can make so much on buyouts. [17 Jun 2004]
Benhamou on Cisco - and setting the pace in networking
News Networking industry veteran Eric Benhamou, still chairman of 3Com and a Silicon Valley VC, has spoken out on why, over the past six or seven years, Cisco went on to become a giant while others fell by the wayside. [29 Mar 2004]
Leader: Boom and bust - here we go again...?
Leader But rather than thinking that kind of high-profile failure should ward us off ever going down a similar route, attendees at the Innovation Summit in London have instead been looking at what we can learn and how we can once again enjoy a... [02 Mar 2004]
Julie Meyer's Philosophy - Build counter-cyclically
Comment Julie Meyer is a well-known figure in VC circles, for her ongoing work at Ariadne Capital with dozens of start-ups, and from her time in the late 1990s as one of the central figures at start-up network... [31 Jul 2002]
Ebusiness Despatches: Now VCs must hold their nerve
Comment The trouble is these people, good though they invariably are, don't bring the same networks, advice and shared cultural knowledge a VC based in the UK would. Entrepreneurs and even big companies are taking the right... [10 Jul 2002]
Serialisation: eBoys - Part 1 - Go Big or Go Home
Comment In the following excerpt we learn how new boy VC David Beirne was handed one of the biggest projects of them all - help create Webvan. Well, sh*t," Bruce Dunlevie [fellow Benchmark VC] said when Beirne... [08 Apr 2002]
2002 looking good for start-ups
News That's according to accountancy firm Grant Thornton, mid-tier accountant and adviser to several dozen start-ups, which points out that last year VC company exits via flotations and trade sales fell and the main exit... [28 Mar 2002]
Ellison slammed by former lieutenant
News Lane is now chairman of integration software vendor SeeBeyond, as well as being a general manager at VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Larry Ellison's plan to persuade Oracle customers they should stick to... [04 Feb 2002]
