November 11th, 2008
Today’s guest blogger is Corey Blahuta, the Austin Managing Director for vcfo, Inc. He can be reached at cblahuta@vcfo or (512)345-9441. For more information see: www.vcfo.com.
My company, vcfo, hosted a great event last Thursday where a panel of experts discussed a variety of alternative financing strategies. It struck me as funny to call these “alternative [...]
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October 13th, 2008
If you’re an early stage Information Technology (IT) or Web 2.0 company, you should consider at the Rice Alliance’s 6th Annual IT/Web 2.0 Technology Venture Forum on December 11th. Submit an electronic version of your company’s non-confidential executive summary to tvforum@rice.edu. This annual event is probably the premier early stage venture forum in Texas. Check [...]
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July 28th, 2008
Here’s some of the interesting items we’re following:
Connie Loizos over at PEHub blogged about a conversation with former Austinite Mike Maples. In it he talks about the window for investing in social media companies, and what types of deals his new $33M fund is looking at now.
Lori Hawkins at The Statesman had a writeup on [...]
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February 19th, 2008
Invodo, an Austin-based provider of online video software and services has raised around $1.2M of a planned $1.5M Series A financing. The company provides rich media management software and services to allow companies to utilize video to engage customers. The company claims that rich, video-based product information will decrease abandonment rates for online retailers and [...]
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