Posts Tagged ‘vc’

TechCrunch 120708,The End Of Venture Capital As We Know It?.
The carnage on Wall Street is having a trickle-down effect on venture capital firms. The limited partners who typically invest in VC funds—university endowments, pension funds, investment banks, other institutions, and wealthy individuals—are short of cash right now. Harvard’s endowment lost $8 billion in the past [...]

Interesting post on building specialized communities on top of Twitter. StockTwits is one example. I saw tweets from @infoarbitrage that looked like “$C” which my screenreader vocalized as “Canadian dollar.” These invariably led to discussions of Citigroup, not the Looney. Now I know that “$C” is a cue for StockTwits.
Information Arbitrage: Twitter: I Can See [...]