Venture Capital

There’s been a lot of talk about Oracle being the major consolidator of mature software companies, but IBM continues to march forward aggressively. They bought FileNet today for $1.6

I love to invest in companies where I can be actively involved as a user of their products. One of the benefits of actively blogging over the past two years [...]

Both of the local Denver papers ran good summary articles on the closing of the sale of Adelphia to Time Warner Cable and Comcast. This was a long and arduous [...]

Last week, a private equity group led by KKR, Bain Capital, and Merrill Lynch announced that they were acquiring HCA for $33 billion. HCA is the largest hospital operator in [...]

Colorado saw two big acquisitions this week – both in the telecomm (which – in my universe – includes what used to be called cable) sector. On Friday, Time Warner [...]

Fred Wilson has a great, thoughtful post up titled “Scars From The Last Bubble.” If you are a VC or an entrepreneur, I recommend you read it slowly. Remember, it’s [&hell

Fred Wilson has a good answer up to a question that was posed to him the other day about VCs and fees. Our startup company recently started seeking funding and [...]

Paul Kedrosky has a great article up on PE Week Wire about Venture Capital Best Practices. His conclusion – “There are no best practices in venture capital. You’ve e

Last Thursday, Tucows announced that it was buying Boulder’s NetIdentity. At a deal value of over $20m, it’s healthy for a company with only 10 employees, although m

Just when you thought you’d never hear from me and Jason on 409A again, we received the following missive from a lawyer friend of ours: (The) IRS is now saying [...]