Scott Austin, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 20, 2011 at 12:00 am PT
Y Combinator is considered by many as Silicon Valley’s elite start-up school, offering selected entrepreneurs a three-month crash course to help them build companies and raise capital.
Scott Austin, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 20, 2011 at 12:00 am PT
Fred Wilson is no longer the venture-capital blogging king.
The Union Square Ventures partner, whose firm is an investor in many high-profile web companies including Twitter Inc., is known more to some in the start-up community for the valuable insight he shares on his blog than for the deals he actually makes.
Scott Austin, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 12, 2011 at 12:46 pm PT
At some point in our lives – perhaps bleary-eyed while watching an infomercial at 3 a.m. – we’ve all probably shouted out, “I thought of that years ago!” Most of us, however, never actually acted on our instinct to, say, create a blanket with sleeves or an exercise weight you shake.
Scott Austin, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 6, 2011 at 2:10 pm PT
While accepting an excellence award from a local economic development group, the CEO of solar cell maker SpectraWatt Inc. raved about the company’s prospects. “Things are going gangbusters here,” Andrew Wilson said in October, according to the local paper Poughkeepsie Journal. “I don’t know that I could describe a better situation than the one we’re in now.”
Scott Austin, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 23, 2010 at 11:35 am PT
Last week’s news that Twitter raised $200 million in funding led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers capped a year chock full of newsworthy headlines in venture capital. Turning our attention to 2011, we decided to ask the insiders–venture capitalists and start-up CEOs–to tell us what news they think will light up the tech blogosphere in the new year.
Scott Austin, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 22, 2010 at 4:58 pm PT
Very few entertainers have a better understanding of the grueling and sometimes ruthless nature of the audition process than Paula Abdul.
During the early part of her career in the 1980s she shuttled from one unsuccessful casting call to the next, often waiting hours in line like she did in her first audition with “The Gong Show,” only to get rejected for being too short.
Scott Austin, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 7, 2010 at 12:00 am PT
If you encounter an official from the National Venture Capital Association, be careful asking the innocent question, “How’s it going?” Don’t expect the official to answer, “Oh you know, same-old, same-old.” Instead, you’ll likely get an earful.
Scott Austin, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on August 12, 2010 at 5:00 am PT
When Richard Rosenblatt talks, we listen. The man who once served as the former chief of MySpace creator Intermix Media heads one of the most heavily funded and high-profile venture-backed companies, Demand Media Inc.
Scott Austin, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on July 14, 2010 at 2:28 pm PT
“The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” a new Disney flick starring Nicholas Cage, may not be scoring stellar reviews, but if you still want tickets to see it, Twitter of all places is your answer for a special deal.
Scott Austin, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 19, 2010 at 1:57 pm PT
The information-technology industry, which produced some of the world’s largest tech companies and spawned Silicon Valley, continues to lose favor with venture capitalists.
Tech giants like Apple, Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Oracle and Sun Microsystems all benefited in their early days from venture capital.
