Connie Loizos

Okay, I swear I’m not going to post every episode of “Valley Girl,” the online show of Jesse Draper, daughter of venture capitalist Tim Draper. As some of you experienced last time, the show borders on painful — for the guests as much as for viewers, I would guess. Still, Draper has posted a new […]

Just surfing around, and happened across venture capitalist Fred Wilson’s blog, where he writes candidly today about not knowing nearly as much about the Web as Union Square Ventures’ two junior investment pros, and how heavily he depends on his kids to keep him up on cutting-edge technologies and trends. “When they are gone from […]

Back in May, I’d written about Advanced Equities Financial, a Chicago-based investment bank and broker-dealer that’s been ushering a ballooning number of wealthy individuals into late-stage venture deals — and is about to usher in a lot more. I questioned the firm, and its connections to venture capital firms like Benchmark Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield […]

VentureBeat yesterday reported on John Doerr’s daughter Mary, who is trying to raise awareness about global warming through her own newly launched non-profit. Meanwhile, another Kleiner Perkins’ offspring has bigger, less altruistic ambitions. Frank Caufield Jr., son of KPCB cofounder Frank Caufield Sr., is raising $100 million for the second venture capital fund-of-funds of his […]

Joe Piazza has had a number of different careers, including working in the late ’90s as the VP of sales for (now bankrupt) used car dealer Global Motorsports and serving, in 2003, as the chief executive officer of Ducati North America. Today, Piazza sells luxury homes to Silicon Valley millionaires, including about a dozen venture […]

U.S. Venture Partners recently raised $625 million for its tenth fund, which was reported by several trade publications at the end of July. Yet suddenly last week, in both the Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek, there was the news again, straight from USVP in the form of full-page advertisements. What I wondered was why. Why […]

Many in Silicon Valley will only privately confide that between soaring valuations and plummeting exit opportunities, they think a crisis is brewing — or at least one colossal bubble. But not Jawed Karim, an early engineer at PayPal who went on to co-found YouTube with his PayPal colleagues Steve Chen and Chad Hurley. With surprising […]

Barron’s thinks it might be. In a piece today, it reports on the troubles of Western Technology Investment, a San Jose-based debt financing company that’s been unable to agree on new terms with its own lenders, JPMorgan Chase and Deutsche Bank, and whose $125 million credit line will now expire at September’s end. “All the […]

Uh oh. Fenwick & West just released its second-quarter data on trends and terms on VC financings, and the whole thing looks like a collision course: More money in, less money out. Valuations continue to soar. For the 18th consecutive quarter in a row, companies enjoyed up rounds, and the average price increase is 53% […]

Donald Trump wouldn’t be Donald Trump if he didn’t occasionally interrupt his daily routine to seek vengeance on a foe. According to several New York gossip columns, the object of Trump’s ire today is attorney David Scharf of New York law firm Morrison Cohen LLP. He has just slapped the firm with a $5 million […]