Oxstones Investment Club™I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions [...]
Venture completes $325M deal for chemical refinery
Freeport-McMoRan-led venture completes its $325M acquisition of Finnish refinery Associated Press – PHOENIX (AP) — A joint venture group [...]
Google grows into a venture capital power
By GARETT SLOANE Google is close to becoming the top dog in yet another business sector: venture capital. The search [...]
Social Impact Investing Will Be the New Venture Capital
by Sir Ronald Cohen and William A. Sahlman, HBR Blog, blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/01/social_impact_investing_will_b.html, During the past century, governments and charitable organizations have [...]
The Top Tech IPOs Of 2012 And The Venture Capitalists Who Invested
By Tomio Geron Forbes The overall IPO market in 2012 was modestly better than 2011, but it was driven largely [...]
Venture Capitalist Fred Wilson Just Did The Hardest And Smartest Thing Any Investor Can Do
By Henry Blodget, Business Insider, Venture capitalist Fred Wilson, of Union Square Ventures, has helped his firm post some of [...]
University Endowments Face a Hard Landing
For years, America’s largest, richest and most prestigious universities have been the envy of investors. They churned out double-digit returns [...]
Why Facebook is Killing Silicon Valley
By Steve Blank, From www.steveblank.com/2012/05/21/why-facebook-is-killing-silicon-valley/, We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, [...]
Seeking the Next Start-Up Hit
By JENNA WORTHAM and NICOLE PERLROTH | New York Times, When Facebook bought Instagram for $1 billion last month, it [...]
Spotlight on a Startup
By StockerBlog.com, Many accredited investors are looking for alternatives to stocks, bonds, gold, real estate, and bank accounts. With excess [...]
