Lawrence Aragon

Seems Roger McNamee has some serious competition in the Guitar Hero department. You’ll recall that VC/buyout maven McNamee moonlights as a guitarist for Moon Alice. Now comes word that Ryan McIntyre, a general partner at Foundry Group, is also a guitarist for a band called Soul Patch (I think the name’s tongue in cheek; at […]

This just in: Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is launching a $100M fund to back companies developing applications for the iPhone. I don’t know enough about it to have an opinion yet, but a few questions have come to mind. One, are the Google Boys going to be pissed at Board Member John Doerr because KP hasn’t […]

Here’s a little taste from the latest Venture Capital Journal. Anybody or anything else you’d add to the list? Overexposed: The 7 people and things we got tired of seeing over and over again in ’07 By VCJ staff Used to be that Sequoia’s Don Valentine would sooner eat glass than speak with a reporter, […]

At a time when VC exits are few and far between, new-kid-on-the-block Claremont Creek Ventures has recorded its first liquidity event this fall. Claremont portfolio company PropertyBridge, which provides electronic payment services to the real estate management industry, was acquired during October by MoneyGram International (NYSE: MGI). The sale price wasn’t disclosed, but Claremont says […]

I didn’t think the Blueprint guys could top last year’s effort, but Gary Snoman is funnier than ever. See for yourself.

In this month’s VCJ, Tom Perkins says he doesn’t see eye to eye with John Doerr on the issue of global warming. “John and I — we don’t agree,” he tells VCJ’s Joanna Glasner. “I’m not a Holocaust denier. I’m not saying climate doesn’t change. … We perhaps only differ as to the degree of […]

Based on the number of mentions in the press, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is the cleantech king for this year. But in fact, Draper Fisher Jurvetson has done the most cleantech deals this year – by a long shot. Preliminary data from Thomson Financial (publisher of peHUB) show that DFJ invested in 11 cleantech […]

A knowledgeable source tells me that a Forbes report that two New York hedge funds have each invested $250 million in Facebook is untrue. The report may have surfaced because Facebook had been “talking to a number of PE and financial investors, such as hedge funds, prior to the detailed discussions with the strategics,” the […]

Yet another piece of evidence that the venture business is another bubble: Bang Ventures — a VC firm no one has ever heard of — got airtime on CNBC (video after jump) to pitch YouBetheVC.com. It’s asking anyone with a Web 2.0 business plan to post it on the site, then the general public will decide which three […]

After going through the VC bubble of 1999-2000, I feel like we’re in the midst of another one — and it’s going to burst sometime this year. There are a growing number of signs that, when added up, make talk of a bubble compelling. Today, Fenwick & West released a survey showing that valuations rose over 70% […]