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What is the Midas List?

mpvc — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:30:00 GMT

What is the Midas List?

The annual Midas List is a handpicked list of the top 100 venture capitalists chosen by and published by Forbes magazine.

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.

As an appetizer version of the list, here is the top 10:

1	L. John Doerr	Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
2	Michael Moritz	Sequoia Capital
3	Ram Shriram	Sherpalo
4	David Cheriton	Stanford University
5	Andreas von Bechtolsheim	Sun Microsystems
6	William Ford	General Atlantic LLC
7	Lawrence Sonsini	Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
8	Asad Jamal	ePlanet Ventures
9	Ronald Conway	Angel investor
10	Navin Chaddha	Mayfield Fund

For the complete listing, visit:

http://www.forbes.com/midas

What is the difference between Angels and Venture Capitalists?

mpvc — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 21:59:00 GMT

What’s the difference between Angel Investors and VentureCapitalists?

Angel Investors typically are privately wealthy benefactors,friends or family.

Angels are high net worth individuals and successfulbusiness people who invest their own funds, typically up to about 1.5 million.

Venture Capitalists are larger organizations such ascorporations who invest in start-ups companies or enterprises.

VentureCapitalists invest ‘OPM' –> other people’s money—> that is raised when VCs puttheir fund together.

Venture Capitalists’ funds usually start at about $ 5million.

Reference:

Knowing Your Investor

WhoThey are and What they Want to Hear

Website Magazine Feb 2008 Jim Butz

Welcome to VentureCapitalistsBlog.com

mpvc — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:00:00 GMT

Welcome to Venture Capitalists Blog!

Are you a business owner or start up company with a greatidea for a new product or expansion?

Are you an investor looking to back the next great, excitingand profitable business plan?

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Marie Benz

Vice President

Eminent Domains Inc.

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