Archive for the 'venture capital' Category

Green tech roundup

Lefty February 11th, 2007

Nice post on VentureBeat about the current VC trend of investing in “green” technology.  Check it out.

Entrepreneurial Finance

Lefty February 11th, 2007

I just got back from another full day at Stern, where I started my first elective course, “Entrepreneurial Finance”. The focus of the class is on the inner workings of the venture capital industry, as well as the private equity markets more generally. The professor seems genuinely passionate about the topic, and his enthusiasm seems to have infected the class.

He made one fact about the VC industry very clear: these guys make an insane amount of money. Listening to the lecture also reinforced something of which I was already aware, but I never really think about that much: after San Francisco, Boston is by far the biggest hotbed of tech entrepreneurship in the country. I assume this is largely because of Harvard and MIT. Maybe it’s time to head up there for a visit to check out the scene.