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Now and then a polarizing topic will make its way through the venture capital industry and several prominent investor/bloggers will chime in with their collective opinions in quick succession. Tuesday

In the latest example of VC chatter - wherein multiple venture capitalists simultaneously blog about a hot issue - the topic du jour is the debate between convertible debt and

I've learned a lot about startup culture since I started writing about it at the beginning of January, and there is a trend that I have noticed that is different

In the wake of the financial meltdown, a new set of financial regulations proposed by Senator Christopher Dodd aimed at plugging the "too big to fail" loopholes could have some

It's Monday and that means that the Interactive portion of SXSW is drawing closer and closer to its close tomorrow after a weekend of great talks, panels, parties and overall

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,

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,

A startup in the finance vertical aims to democratize investment by providing a more usable interface for financial tools and perhaps even ward off future financial calamity by decentralizing control

This is how it's supposed to work. A team of super-smart engineers/entrepreneurs comes up with a radical plan to disrupt a huge industry. It builds its technology, gets traction, and,

We recently spoke with Jean-Francois "Jeff" Clavier, founder and managing partner of SoftTech VC, one of the most active seed-stage investors in Web 2.0 startups. He invests from a $15

In the last two months, we have interviewed six VCs. In each case, we asked the same question: "How is early-stage financing doing during this downturn compared to the last

For the fifth in our series of interviews with investors, we decided to do something different. Elliott Dahan, of the START Fund, cannot write you a check. At least not