Venture Capitalist Fred Wilson shares some insight on the VC financing process. ********* The way a venture capital fund works is the investors (called LPs) invest their money in the fund over a five to seven year period, on an as needed basis, to fund the investments the fund makes and...

Regarding the validity of the "only 1% of users participate" idea. ************* There's this pernicious assumption that's been floating around for some time. It started with Bradley Horowitz from Yahoo, I think - or at least that's the first person I remember discussing it in detail....

Google News experiments with comments. ************ Perspectives about the news from people in the news — We wanted to give you a heads-up on a new, experimental feature we'll be trying out on the Google News home page. Starting this week, we'll be displaying reader comments...

Marc Andreessen chimes in with some on insight on the age debate -- whether or not age makes a difference in entrepreneurial ability. ************* A short time back, several smart bloggers engaged in an enthusiastic debate about age and entrepreneurs -- some taking the position that...

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I remain skeptical as to the viability of many of these banks. *** ING, the Dutch bank, said the fallout from the collapse of the subprime mortgage market in the US would have "no material impact" on the company which reported record second quarter results. Read Full Article