Tony Fish, a Board Of Intellectual capital member and Web 2.0 authority have recently posted a new entry on his blog.
“I met Susan Crawford when I spoke at Supernova 2008 and was impressed by her talk and passion for the idea of the One Web day. So, I have decided to support the idea of [...]
Archive for July, 2008
One Web Day
Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Gerbsman Partners, Web 2.0, tagged Board Of Intellectual Capital, boic, Gerbsman Partners, One web Day, supernova 2008, Susan Crawford, Tony Fish, Web 2.0 on July 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Silicon Valley Venture Capital Confidence Index Q2 2008
Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Gerbsman Partners, Intellectual capital, Investments, tagged Board Of Intellectual Capital, boic, Gerbsman Partners, mark cannice, Market research, Silicon Valley Venture Capital Confidence Index, Steven Gerbsman, venture financing on July 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Gerbsman Partners is please to attach the Silicon Valley Venture Capital Confidence Index Q2 2008. The Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Confidence Index TM is published on a quarterly basis by Mark V. Cannice, Ph.D, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Founder and Executive Director of University of San Francisco Entrepreneurship Program for the MBA program. Dr. [...]
Deepening Cycle of Job Loss Seen Lasting Into ’09
Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Gerbsman Partners, Intellectual capital, Market research, tagged boic, Gerbsman Partners, global economic downturn, global economy, House prices, Jobb loss, Robert Tillman, slumping economy, stagnation in economy on July 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As automakers dropped their latest batch of awful sales numbers on the market on Tuesday, reinforcing the gloom spreading across the economy, the troubles confronting American workers seemed to intensify.
Plummeting home prices have in recent months eliminated jobs for hundreds of thousands of people, from bankers and real estate agents to construction workers and furniture [...]
Fannie, Freddie Shares Plummet on Capital Worries
Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Gerbsman Partners, Investments, tagged boic, Gerbsman Partners, global economic downturn, lending crisis, Robert Tillman, stagnation in economy, venture financing on July 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Shares of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the largest providers of funding for U.S. home mortgages, closed at their lowest levels since 1992 on concern the companies need to raise more capital amid larger-than-expected losses. Corporate “federal agency” debt obligations and mortgage-backed securities guaranteed by the companies also plummeted relative to government debt as investors [...]
The “Crisis” In Venture Capital
Posted in Gerbsman Partners, Intellectual capital, Market research, tagged Board Of Intellectual Capital, boic, crisis management, Erick Schonfeld, Gerbsman Partners, ipo, m&a, National Venture Capital Association, patric carlsson, techcrunch, Venture Capital, Venture crisis, venture financing on July 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Erick Schonfeld at Techcrunch recently posted a good article on the state of venture financing.
There were no venture-backed IPOs in the second quarter, and M&A deals are down. The last time there were no VC-backed IPOs in a quarter was in 1978. The liquidity drought for venture-backed startups is so bleak that the National [...]
