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November 19 2009
by Todd Hixon
The Death of B2B Venture Capital?
At the October 21 Xconomy “Global Vision for Venture Capital …” forum, Terry McGuire remarked that Polaris has stopped taking risk on commercial/industrial technology start-ups, as the recent experience has not been good. That’s a consequential thing. “Commercial/industrial technology” encompasses enterprise software, most of telecom and datacom, and large parts of clean tech. ...
May 9 2009
by Todd Hixon
IT Panel: TLH notes from the NVCA Annual Meeting
Moderator = Chip Hazard (a VC)Panel:CIO of TransUnionPartner at Bain who does IT consultingDavid Skok, Matrix GPCIOs cutting 10-20% based on expected revenue shortfalls of 10%-40%
have lost discretionary spending ability
Focus is on short term savings and efficiency, not on the future
50% discount rate, need payback within a budget year
variablize costs — avoid capital and multi-year ...
