Bill Tai, general partner with Charles River Ventures, is an avid kiteboarder. He talks about the excitement and dangers of the sport and how the sport has evolved from windsurfing. He talks about leaping off the waves skimming across the water and the complete sense of freedom he feels when ...

Bill Tai, general partner with Charles River Ventures, talks about what made Google a unique and compelling investment opportunity. He explains what VCs look for in an entrepreneur and a startup idea. He says VCs are looking for ideas that have the potential to disrupt an entire industry and an ...

Bill Tai, general partner at Charles River Ventures, gives an update on the success of CRV Quickstart, a unique financing vehicle that Charles River announced last Fall that attracted a lot of interest in the entrepreneurial community. Bill talks about the trends in VC investing that make smaller, earlier stage ...

At the inaugural (Charles River Ventures) CRV Entrepreneur Idol, presented at Stanford Graduate School of Business, 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 ...

Basab Pradhan is co-founder and CEO of Silicon Valley-based Gridstone Research.

As a fairly recent entry into the financial services space, where Basab and the Gridstone team are focused on creating products and services for the financial services sector. The company is more than a year old and has ...

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 ...

George Zachary of Charles River Ventures speaks with PodTech Founder John Furrier about CRV QuickStart, a new, innovative program the VC firm launched today. QuickStart offers loans of up to $250,000 to entrepreneurs to get their businesses started. Why? It’s a great deal for entrepreneurs, and it’s a ...