Krugman: Has Gordon Brown Saved the World?
October 13, 2008
Calculated Risk / CalculatedRisk (noreply@blogger.com)
Paul Krugman writes in the NY Times: Gordon Does Good. A few excerpts: The natural thing to do ...
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Credit Crisis: Watching for Signs of Progress
October 13, 2008
Calculated Risk / CalculatedRisk (noreply@blogger.com)
Here are a few indicators I'm watching for progress on the credit crisis. The yield on 3 month treasuries. (note: bond markets are closed for Columbus Day).
Turns out, Sequoia raised more money than any other VC firm
October 13, 2008
SiliconBeat: News about tech money and innovation / Matt Marshall
A shakeout in the venture capital industry appeared to take hold in the third quarter of the year, even before the latest decline in the stock market began.
VC Gloom Means Entrepreneur and Angel Boon » Dogster Inc. Company Blog
October 12, 2008
Mickipedia / mickikrimmel
VC Gloom Means Entrepreneur and Angel Boon » Dogster Inc. Company Blog - To all entrepreneurs, now is a GREAT time to make something.
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The Long Countdown: In Russia, a Second Home for U.S. Astronauts
October 13, 2008
New York Times
American astronauts have developed mutual respect for their Russian counterparts during years of cooperation.
ATEL Ventures, Inc. Completes $1.250 Million Capital Lease Facility and Equity Financing with Precision Materials
October 13, 2008
The Earth Times Online Newspaper - Health News
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ATEL Ventures, Inc. Completes $1.250 Million Capital Lease Facility and Equity Financing with Precision Materials (Business Wire)
October 13, 2008
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Stock Market Technical Analysis 10/13/08
October 13, 2008
AlphaTrends / noreply@blogger.com (Brian)
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At London Webfest, Startups Still in Denial
October 12, 2008
GigaOM : On Broadband, VoIP & The Next Generation Internet / Olly Farshi
A deluge of European startups descended on London’s ExCel Centre for the Future of Web Apps 2008 conference this week, and while the economic crisis has already reached Europe, the fear clearly ...
Nassim Taleb Gets Mad
October 12, 2008
Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed / pk
My friend Nassim "The Black Swan" Taleb lets loose about economists, forecasting, risk and the financial crisis while on a U.K. TV program.
Pakistan, The Land That Financial Bad News Forgot: Part II
October 11, 2008
Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed / pk
Given all the pain in markets last week, I thought it would be a good time to check in again on The Land That Financial Bad News Forgot. Yes, Pakistan.
Wix Picks Up $3.5 Million Series B Funding
October 13, 2008
CenterNetworks / Allen Stern
NY-based Wix has announced that they have raised a Series B round of funding in the amount of $3.5 million. This is in addition to the previously raised $3.5 million Series A round and $1.
Bloom Energy Licenses Modine’s Fuel-Cell Tech
October 13, 2008
Earth2Tech / Craig Rubens
Bloom Energy, the Kleiner Perkins-backed fuel-cell startup reported to “almost certainly have a commercial product ready within a year or two,” has just licensed thermal management ...
U.K.: cash injections for RBS, HBOS, Lloyds TSB
October 13, 2008
Calculated Risk / CalculatedRisk (noreply@blogger.com)
UPDATE: From the NY Times: Britain Props Up Banks as Fed Leads Funding Effort The Royal Bank of Scotland — once viewed as among the most solid of Britain’s Main Street institutions — announced it ...
Be It Resolved: Shares are Derivatives
October 13, 2008
Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed / pk
I want to warn people about another derivatives sub-market, one that gets far less attention than the purportedly $36-trillion market (or whatever the current claimed number is) for credit default ...
Treasury's Got Mitsubishi's Back
October 13, 2008
Dealbreaker
Andrew Ross Sorkin reports that Treasury officials, probably trying to get Mitsubishi to sign on the damn dotted line, have told the Japanese bank that its "planned investment in the embattled* Wall ...
Wattbot Launches Site to Speed Up Clean Energy Adoption
October 13, 2008
Earth2Tech / Katie Fehrenbacher
A new web site called Wattbot aims to speed the adoption of clean power and energy-efficiency tools, acts as a sort of middle man for interested consumers and energy providers, which they hope will ...
Chevron venture capital arm pursues clean tech
October 13, 2008
Venture Capital News - Venture Capital News Headlines | Bizjournals.com
Chevron Corp. is closing in on its goal of having one-third of its newest venture fund invested in clean tech.
Economist Irving Fischer Talking Stocks From 1929
October 13, 2008
Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed / pk
Great video (via Barry) of economist Irving Fischer talking stocks after the crash of 1929:
Credit Default Swaps Market Only $34.8 Trillion! Whew!
October 12, 2008
The VC Channel
The Deposit Trust & Clearing Corporation folks do some weekend working debunking myths about credit default swaps (or, as I like to call them, rodents of unusual size).
Lets Spread the FUD - Web 2.0 Style.
October 12, 2008
jacktams.co.uk - Blog / Jack
A deluge of European startups descended on London’s ExCel Centre for the Future of Web Apps 2008 conference this week, and while the economic crisis has already reached Europe, the fear clearly hasn’t ...
The Sound Of Silence
October 12, 2008
Dealbreaker
Silence on the Morgan Stanley front cannot be good. For all our ribbing, Japanese financial institutions are not stupid.
Magazine Covers for the Week
October 12, 2008
Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed / pk
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How Mortgage Lenders and VCs are Identical
October 12, 2008
HipMojo.com / Ashkan Karbasfrooshan
Michael Arrington’s Tech Crunch started off as a blog that “obsessively covered startups” but has now turned into F*ckedCompany2.0, argues Dare Obasanjo.
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Free Financial Advice
October 13, 2008
1938 Media / info@1938media.com (1938 Media)
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Wirtz buys out Glazer after 3 months in joint venture
October 13, 2008
chicagotribune.com - Business
Wirtz Beverage Group said Monday it has purchased Glazer's Distributors' interest in their newly-minted Illinois joint venture, just three months after the state's second- and third-largest liquor ...
Who Will Be The Biggest Loser: 1999 VC Funds or 2006 PE Funds?
October 13, 2008
Burnham's Beat / Bill Burnham
1999 vintage Venture Capital funds are infamous for being some of the worst performing private investment funds of recent memory with the average 1999 Venture Capital fund returning only about $0.
Health 2.Over? Techcrunch Calls Web 2.0 Bubble Pop and Sequoia Says RIP Good Times
October 13, 2008
Trusted.MD Network - Empowering Healthcare Relationships / hippocrates
Last week's financial markets set new grim records. The weekly Dow decline of 18.2% beat even the Great Crash of 1929 record.
Sequoia lays out the bear case for Web 2.0
October 13, 2008
Tech Blog / Kevin Allison
We wrote last week about some of Silicon Valley’s savviest investors warning of a coming shakeout among Web 2.0 companies.
Roll Call: Barack Obama lends VCs a hand
October 13, 2008
Dealscape / Maria Woehr
Yes, peHub, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama did just propose to eliminate capital gains taxes on venture capitalists. - Maria Woehr...
ic2 Capital Launches $250M Growth Fund; To Invest $50M By Year End
October 13, 2008
VC Circle - Indian Venture Capital, Private Equity, M&A :: Main Page / Madhav Chanchani
Private equity firm ic2 Capital has launched a $250 million for growth capital investment in mid-cap companies.
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