2012-02-13T14:33:06Z http://venturecapitalistsblog.com/atom.aspx Quick Blogcast tag:www.venturecapitalistsblog.com,2008-02-24:570249d9-6bd2-485e-b42c-2d542c32dffe mpvc 2008-02-24T20:30:00Z 2008-02-24T20:30:00Z <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">What is the Midas List?</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></div><div>The annual Midas List is a handpicked list of the top 100<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"> venture capitalists </span>chosen by and published by Forbes magazine.  </div><div>The dealmakers featured in the list are from around the world, and specialize in tech and life sciences.  The Midas list can be sorted by rank, name and company.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>As an appetizer version of the list, here is the top 10:</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; "><table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1"><tbody><tr valign="top"><td class="highlight" align="center" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-image: url(http://images.forbes.com/media/lists/99/2006/bg.gif); font-weight: bold; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 204, 0); ">1</td><td class="rowcolor" nowrap="nowrap" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 153, 102); "><a href="http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/99/biz_08midas_L-John-Doerr_2946.html" style="text-decoration: none; ">L. John Doerr</a></td><td class="rowcolor" align="left" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 153, 102); ">Kleiner Perkins Caufield &amp; Byers</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td class="highlight" align="center" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-image: url(http://images.forbes.com/media/lists/99/2006/bg.gif); font-weight: bold; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 204, 0); ">2</td><td class="rowcolor" nowrap="nowrap" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 153, 102); "><a href="http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/99/biz_08midas_Michael-Moritz_1YIC.html" style="text-decoration: none; ">Michael Moritz</a></td><td class="rowcolor" align="left" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 153, 102); ">Sequoia Capital</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td class="highlight" align="center" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-image: url(http://images.forbes.com/media/lists/99/2006/bg.gif); font-weight: bold; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 204, 0); ">3</td><td class="rowcolor" nowrap="nowrap" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 153, 102); "><a href="http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/99/biz_08midas_Ram-Shriram_PED7.html" style="text-decoration: none; ">Ram Shriram</a></td><td class="rowcolor" align="left" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 153, 102); ">Sherpalo</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td class="highlight" align="center" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-image: url(http://images.forbes.com/media/lists/99/2006/bg.gif); font-weight: bold; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 204, 0); ">4</td><td class="rowcolor" nowrap="nowrap" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 153, 102); "><a href="http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/99/biz_08midas_David-Cheriton_LD0O.html" style="text-decoration: none; ">David Cheriton</a></td><td class="rowcolor" align="left" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 153, 102); ">Stanford University</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td class="highlight" align="center" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-image: url(http://images.forbes.com/media/lists/99/2006/bg.gif); font-weight: bold; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 204, 0); ">5</td><td class="rowcolor" nowrap="nowrap" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 153, 102); "><a href="http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/99/biz_08midas_Andreas-von-Bechtolsheim_0JRL.html" style="text-decoration: none; ">Andreas von Bechtolsheim</a></td><td class="rowcolor" align="left" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 153, 102); ">Sun Microsystems</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td class="highlight" align="center" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-image: url(http://images.forbes.com/media/lists/99/2006/bg.gif); font-weight: bold; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 204, 0); ">6</td><td class="rowcolor" nowrap="nowrap" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 153, 102); "><a href="http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/99/biz_08midas_William-Ford_101E.html" style="text-decoration: none; ">William Ford</a></td><td class="rowcolor" align="left" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 153, 102); ">General Atlantic LLC</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td class="highlight" align="center" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-image: url(http://images.forbes.com/media/lists/99/2006/bg.gif); font-weight: bold; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 204, 0); ">7</td><td class="rowcolor" nowrap="nowrap" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 153, 102); "><a href="http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/99/biz_08midas_Lawrence-Sonsini_O4BK.html" style="text-decoration: none; ">Lawrence Sonsini</a></td><td class="rowcolor" align="left" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 153, 102); ">Wilson Sonsini Goodrich &amp; Rosati</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td class="highlight" align="center" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-image: url(http://images.forbes.com/media/lists/99/2006/bg.gif); font-weight: bold; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 204, 0); ">8</td><td class="rowcolor" nowrap="nowrap" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 153, 102); "><a href="http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/99/biz_08midas_Asad-Jamal_CIBC.html" style="text-decoration: none; ">Asad Jamal</a></td><td class="rowcolor" align="left" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 153, 102); ">ePlanet Ventures</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td class="highlight" align="center" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-image: url(http://images.forbes.com/media/lists/99/2006/bg.gif); font-weight: bold; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 204, 0); ">9</td><td class="rowcolor" nowrap="nowrap" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 153, 102); "><a href="http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/99/biz_08midas_Ronald-Conway_VZJR.html" style="text-decoration: none; ">Ronald Conway</a></td><td class="rowcolor" align="left" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 153, 102); ">Angel investor</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td class="highlight" align="center" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-image: url(http://images.forbes.com/media/lists/99/2006/bg.gif); font-weight: bold; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 204, 0); ">10</td><td class="rowcolor" nowrap="nowrap" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 153, 102); "><a href="http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/99/biz_08midas_Navin-Chaddha_094F.html" style="text-decoration: none; ">Navin Chaddha</a></td><td class="rowcolor" align="left" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 153, 102); ">Mayfield Fund</td></tr><tr valign="top"></tr></tbody></table><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">For the complete listing, visit:</span></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">http://www.forbes.com/midas</span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div> tag:www.venturecapitalistsblog.com,2008-02-23:8ea17376-6bd7-4c98-82e7-8818dda799cf mpvc 2008-02-23T21:59:00Z 2008-02-23T21:59:00Z <!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">What’s the difference between Angel Investors and VentureCapitalists?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Angel Investors typically are privately wealthy benefactors,friends or family.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Angels are high net worth individuals and successfulbusiness people who invest their own funds, typically up to about 1.5 million.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Venture Capitalists are larger organizations such ascorporations who invest in start-ups companies or enterprises. </p><p class="MsoNormal">VentureCapitalists invest ‘OPM' –&gt; other people’s money—&gt; that is raised when VCs puttheir fund together. </p><p class="MsoNormal">Venture Capitalists’ funds usually start at about $ 5million.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Reference:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:14.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial-BoldMT;color:#333333">Knowing Your Investor<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:ArialMT;color:#333333">WhoThey are and What they Want to Hear</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial-BoldMT;color:#333333"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial-BoldMT;color:#333333">Website Magazine Feb 2008 Jim Butz</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p><!--EndFragment--> tag:www.venturecapitalistsblog.com,2008-02-22:d886dd83-8932-4ef5-8c07-32c76cd47921 mpvc 2008-02-22T21:00:00Z 2008-02-22T21:00:00Z <!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal">Welcome to Venture Capitalists Blog!</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Are you a business owner or start up company with a greatidea for a new product or expansion?</p><p class="MsoNormal">Are you an investor looking to back the next great, excitingand profitable business plan?</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Then this blog is for you! 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