Quote of the Day: Mark Gorenberg on Analytics
“Every decade, there’s the start of a cataclysmic shift in technology markets. Today that shift is to analytics” Mark Gorenberg, Managing Director, Zetta Venture Partners FinSMEs 11/02/2015
“Every decade, there’s the start of a cataclysmic shift in technology markets. Today that shift is to analytics” Mark Gorenberg, Managing Director, Zetta Venture Partners FinSMEs 11/02/2015
“There’s food for everybody but not everybody has access to it“ Pope Francis, broadcasting at Idee di Expo, International Exhibition Expo 2015, Feeding our planet, Energy for Life FinSMEs 07/02/2015
A cap table is an agreement between founders, employees & investors: if we sell the company, this is how we split the proceeds. — Chris Dixon (@cdixon) January 16, 2015 Chris Dixon, Andreessen Horowitz, on Twitter FinSMEs 16/01/2015
“Funding is not success, funding is the ingredient for success” Anand Sanwal, CEO and Co-Founder at CB Insights, in an interview for SarderTV (watch it here) FinSMEs 03/01/2014
“…I see Italy as a dead man walking…” Augusto Marietti, Mashape CEO, interviewed on Italian TV, La7, asked on how he sees Italy from the Silicon Valley (watch it here) FinSMEs 10/10/2014
“After having spent last 7 years in neverending journeys across most European cities I have little doubts in my mind that the European Tech Ecosystem does not exist as such…or at least not yet“ Roberto Bonanzinga, Venture Capitalist and Entrepreneur (read his entire post “Unleashing the European tech ecosystem” here) FinSMEs 08/09/2014
“Our job is to sift through a funnel of 2,000 to 3,000 opportunities per year, invest in 15, help them staff up, launch their product, and build their sales and marketing engine to successfully raise follow on rounds from the best VC firms“ Jeff Clavier, founder and managing partner, SoftTech VC, on the raise of Fund […]
“The world doesn’t need more startups. What the world needs is more businesses” Paul Singh, Entrepreneur (Disruption) and Investor (500 Startups), speaks about the newly lanched Crystal Tech Fund FinSMEs 14/04/2014
“Readmill’s story ends here. Many challenges in the world of ebooks remain unsolved, and we failed to create a sustainable platform for reading. For this, we’re deeply sorry. We considered every option before making the difficult decision to end the product that brought us together“. Henrik Berggren, David Kjelkerud, & the Readmill team, explained in […]
“Quality journalism businesses need to either take responsibility for their own high-quality advertisers and ads, or work with partners who do. There is no excuse for crappy network-served teeth whitening come-ons andone weird trick ads served against high quality content. Disastrous.“ Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, in his latest post “The Future of the News Business: A Monumental […]
“I want to be running Pando for the rest of my career” Sarah Lacy, Founder of Pando, speak about achievements and targets of the company and announces a $1.2m Series A funding round (read here) FinSMEs 18/02/2014
“Indiegogo is playing a central role in the transformation of the global economy” John Doerr, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, comments on KPCB’s investment in the crowdfunding platform (read here) FinSMEs 28/01/2014
“I believe that quality nutrition is today’s real luxury“ Renzo Rosso, Italian fashion entrepreneur, Founder of Diesel, explains his latest investment in EcorNaturaSì (read here) FinSMEs 15/01/2014
“Yunha Kim is a kick ass female living with five of her male team members to bring her vision to life of disrupting the mobile marketing world” Tyra Banks speaks about Yuhna Kim, CEO and co-founder of Locket, following her investment in the NYC-based startup FinSMEs 19/11/2013
BREAKING NEWS: find motherfucker who compromised my email, kick his/her ass all over the internet, & i’ll fund your startup. #DaveGotAPosse — Dave McClure (@davemcclure) November 17, 2013 FinSMEs 17/11/2013