Kenneth Moelis has a unique talent for translating his 25-year career on Wall Street into the kind of information that financial specialists from the Street and beyond need the most. In this keynote podcast, Moelis puts the current Wall Street climate in clear perspective, from explaining how he sees the ...

“None of us smart enough to call the bottom in financials or any other industry,” says Gary W. Parr, vice chairman at independent investment bank Lazard. Noting the value to investors of structuring deals for a few years of protection before converting to common, Parr says he’s seen funds change ...

When times get tough, investors need to answer a few key questions: which industries are most attractive for investment? What deal structures are investors choosing? Where are sellers’ expectations?

In this podcast, although there was some consensus around the prediction that deal flow in the U.S. will drop below the impressive ...

Whether you call it a credit crunch or a credit squeeze, there’s evidence to be found that the chilled climate for deals has spread from the realm of the mega-deal into the middle market. To discuss the new economic realities in deal-making, The Deal convened a panel, “Deals ...

In this podcast, John Doerr, partner at Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, and Mike Moritz, of Sequoia Capital, talk openly about themselves and their lives in venture capital. The keynote session was recorded live at the National Venture Capital Association May 2008 annual meeting. Doerr and Moritz ...

Most of the time online interaction goes well for companies. Transparency is becoming more accepted and problems are rare. But what does a company or person do if they are attacked? Marketing Voices talks to Denise Shiffman, author of The Age of Engage and founder of Venture ...

In this episode of The Reboot, Sonic the Hedgehog fans went nuts after several screenshots and a video trailer of the blue-haired hero’s latest adventure, Sonic Unleashed, were leaked online. SEGA Europe later confirmed that the game will come out this year. In other ...

Cydni Tetro and Colin Kelly discuss the key events this week, including the release of the Top 100 Venture Entrepreneurs from vSpring Capital. It is a peer-nominated and peer-selected group of individuals that the community predicts will become a CTO or CEO of a high-tech company in the next ...

Join BearingPoint Senior Manager Kirsten Trusko in this podcast to explore consumer-directed health care and how it is affecting the mergers and acquisitions market. A rush of M&A activity is under way at the convergence of the banking, insurance and health industries. Companies in all three ...

Some quick highlights in this weeks Connectcast include reflections about James Levoy Sorenson’s legacy includes inventing disposal surgical masks and an entire legacy of medical innovations. A quick discussion around Venture Debt options and when they should be considered - Innoventures a new company, UVEF tackles social ...

Guy Kawasaki uses his marketing flair to launch his newest site, ALLTOP. Leading with the egos site which contains the top tech blog feeds, Kawasaki talks how he leveraged the egos focus to drive traffic to Alltop. Kawasaki also metaphorically jousts with Forrester Analyst, Jeremiah Owyang ...

Co-founder and CEO Shane Baldwin likes to think of Silverleaf Capital as the “entrepreneur’s entrepreneur.” In its first 10 months of life, Silverleaf has already placed more than a half-billion dollars under management. With a board that includes top executives from throughout the U.S. and investors that span a ...

The Consumer Electronics Show usually isn’t a big show for gamers, but this year’s event was expected to be different. CES dedicated more show floor space for its Gaming Showcase and there were even rumors that Microsoft’s Bill Gates would reveal a new version of the ...

If anyone is in a position to say something about emerging technologies to bring us entertainment, we couldn’t have done any better than to get Shelly Palmer’s comments. His resume is too long for this post but knowing that he’s managing director of Advanced Media Ventures Group and president of ...

Kreeda, a gaming startup located in Mumbai, the epicenter of India’s nascent gaming industry. Earlier this year Kreeda received an undisclosed amount of money from IDG Ventures India and Bodhi Softbank Holdings.

In Part-2 of the conversation we talk to Quentin about doing business in India vs. doing business in ...

Gaming is fast gaining track in India and Mumbai is the epicenter for the industry. I finally caught up with Quentin Staes-Polet, CEO of Kreeda in Bangalore to find out about Kreeda, doing business in India and the challenges of doing business in India. Kreeda bills itself as India’s ...

Wall Street Journal’s Kara Swisher and Don Clark, Business Week’s Rob Hof, Forbes‘ Victoria Murphy Barrett and Scobleizer’s Robert Scoble joined Ann Winblad of venture capital firm Hummer Winblad, at the annual What’s Hot and What’s Not, for 2008. Hosted by the Public Relations Society ...

Wall Street Journal’s Kara Swisher and Don Clark, Business Week’s Rob Hof, Forbes‘ Victoria Murphy Barrett and Scobleizer’s Robert Scoble joined Ann Winblad of venture capital firm Hummer Winblad, at the annual What’s Hot and What’s Not, for 2008. Hosted by the Public Relations Society ...

Wall Street Journal’s Kara Swisher and Don Clark, Business Week’s Rob Hof, Forbes‘ Victoria Murphy Barrett and Scobleizer’s Robert Scoble joined Ann Winblad of venture capital firm Hummer Winblad, at the annual What’s Hot and What’s Not, for 2008. Hosted by the Public Relations Society ...

Yuri Ammosov, a senior policy officer of the Russian Government in charge of venture capital and high tech development programs, talks with me about how Russia is flush with cash thanks to the rising energy prices (they are one of the world’s leading oil producers) and are working with ...

If you’re a blogger you should check SezWho out. It’s a technology that you add to your blog server that lets your blog’s comments be FAR more useful. Here Jitendra Gupta, CEO, and Tedd Corman, VP of business development, gives us all the details. VentureBeat uses this, along with ...

Mark Marshall, Managing Director of The Accend Group, provides outsourced accounting services and the financial decision making on a virtual model. Like Salesforce.com, Marshall’s organization “rents” the CFO and general accounting services on a monthly basis. One of the top sources for acquiring new customers is venture capitals. VCs ...

AtTask provides on-demand project and portfolio management software. Scott Johnson, CEO and Founder, and his team have self-funded and enhanced the @task offering over the past six years with dashboard UI, Web 2.0 collaboration, workflow, templates, APIs, and global language support. In that time, AtTask landed an impressive ...

Back to MarketingVoices by popular demand, venture capitalist Sharon Wienbar of Scale Venture Partners, tells Jennifer Jones what is hot and not hot in venture investing for social media today. She also tells why Facebook is gaining incredible momentum and what other social media trends are affecting ...