ReadWriteStart

After tech heavy hitters like Jason Calacanis, Robert Scoble and Fred Wilson expressed public outrage over its pay-to-play fees, the Keiretsu Forum has begun waiving fees for early-stage startup presentations.

Today is the anniversary of the Lehman Brothers collapse, which triggered the financial meltdown. That was when ReadWriteWeb started tracking Series A deals in Web technology. Thanks to our partner

I had hoped that by 25, I would have been living in LA, dating actresses, and getting bit parts in bad movies as "the ugly guy"... you know, in the

The Swiss love precision. You can see it in their watches and reliable trains. You can see it in their founding myth, the story of William Tell. He had to

This is one post/chapter in a serialized book called Startup 101. For the introduction and table of contents, please click here. You did it all: you built a valuable venture

There doesn't seem to be a week that goes by without someone lamenting the sorry state of the venture capital market or our favorite exit ramp: the IPO market. Granted,

This is one post/chapter in a serialized book called Startup 101. For the introduction and table of contents, please click here. There are two schools of thought about founders as

The following is one in a series of guest posts we're running here on ReadWriteWeb. This one is by Reshma Sohoni, CEO of Seedcamp, the global organization dedicated to helping

This is one post/chapter in a serialized book called Startup 101. For the introduction and table of contents, please click here. If you have raised money from investors, you will

Philadelphia-based early-stage investment outfit DreamIt Ventures is in the business of finding, funding, and accelerating great startups. Like many similar programs we've covered in the past, DreamIt, now in its

We have been tracking Series A deals in Web technology since the market mayhem in October 2008, and since May we have been working with ChubbyBrain, which tracks this kind

This is one post/chapter in a serialized book called Startup 101. For the introduction and table of contents, please click here. When you first start out, you will find it

This is one post/chapter in a serialized book called Startup 101. For the introduction and table of contents, please click here. There comes a time for every venture when the

The following is one in a series of guest posts by venture capitalists that we're running on ReadWriteStart. This one is by Paul Jozefak, a VC based in Hamburg, Germany,

This is one post/chapter in a serialized book called Startup 101. For the introduction and table of contents, please click here. The three steps to building an online brand are:

This is one post/chapter in a serialized book called Startup 101. For the introduction and table of contents, please click here. If you have kids, you will often hear (or

This is one post/chapter in a serialized book called Startup 101. For the introduction and table of contents, please click here. The language of business is numbers, not concepts. All

The ways to grow a tech startup company are outnumbered only by the ways to skin a cat. In between multiple rounds of venture capital from investment groups and skin-of-your-teeth

This is one post/chapter in a serialized book called Startup 101. For the introduction and table of contents, please click here. We added this chapter after reading a recent comment:

This is one post/chapter in a serialized book called Startup 101. For the introduction and table of contents, please click here. In How to Be an Effective CEO, we noted

This is one post/chapter in a serialized book called Startup 101. For the introduction and table of contents, please click here. First-time entrepreneurs are usually also first-time CEOs. When you

This is one post/chapter in a serialized book called Startup 101. For the introduction and table of contents, please click here. "It ain't over till the fat lady sings" means

Venrock has quite a history as a VC firm. In the 1930s, Laurance Rockefeller pioneered early-stage financing by investing in the entrepreneurs who started Eastern Airlines and McDonnell Aircraft. In

This is one post/chapter in a serialized book called Startup 101. For the introduction and table of contents, please click here. First, the good news: building a website today is

The following is one in a series of guest posts by venture capitalists that we're running here on ReadWriteWeb. This one is by Paul Jozefak, a VC based in Hamburg,