“Hot Money”: New VC model QuickStart by Charles River

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"Hot Money": New VC model QuickStart by Charles River

06:34 | John Furrier | Nov 1st, 2006 8:28pm |

Launched today, George Zachary talks about Charles River Ventures‘ QuickStart program, a seed funding program to jumpstart “capital lite” companies. He talks about the benefits to entrepreneurs, why it’s good timing for the current landscape, and why he is excited about it. With 1,000 emails in the QuickStart quickstart@crv.com inbox on day 1, George and Bill Tai better be excited! Listen to a longer, more in-depth discussion with PodTech Founder John Furrier. More news here, here, here, and here.

Update: George posts about QuickStart on his Sense and Cents blog.

Click here for transcript.

Tags: George Zachary, Charles River Ventures, QuickStart, entrepreneurs, Bill Tai, PodTech, John Furrier

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December 4th, 2006 at 3:14 pm

[…] This is a second innovative program Charles River is behind in recent weeks. The firm recently launched QuickStart, a seed funding program, which provides $250,000 loans to emerging entrepreneurs. Here is a video podcast on PodTech with George Zachary with the overview of the program and its benefits to entrepreneurs. […]
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December 8th, 2006 at 3:03 pm

[…] At the inaugural CRV (Charles River Ventures) Entrepreneur Idol, presented at Stanford[/tag Graduate School of Business, [tag]George Zachary of CRV presents to Stanford MBA students about today’s state of early stage venture capital, the rise of consumer Internet businesses, and CRV’s QuickStart, a recently launched seed funding program that lends itself to the current climate. Zachary comments “We are focused on the returns business…We want to return capital on the capital, not just sit around and make 2% of our own money every year”. See George talk about QuickSart here and listen here. […]
Return Capital on the Capital | Entrepreneurship with John Furrier: Podcasts with Entrepreneurs and VCs:
December 8th, 2006 at 3:13 pm

[…] At the inaugural CRV (Charles River Ventures) Entrepreneur Idol, presented at Stanford[/tag Graduate School of Business, [tag]George Zachary of CRV presents to Stanford MBA students about today’s state of early stage venture capital, the rise of consumer Internet businesses, and CRV’s QuickStart, a recently launched seed funding program that lends itself to the current climate. Zachary comments “We are focused on the returns business…We want to return capital on the capital, not just sit around and make 2% of our own money every year”. See George talk about QuickSart here and listen here. […]