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Over the last five years, Red Rocket Ventures has consulted or mentored over 500 startups.  But, unfortunately, most of these companies have had the same problem.  They are typically so focused on building their produc...

Some years, a major exit for a company like Facebook can shake up the ranks of venture capital’s top investors, putting an entire fund into the black and returning millions, if not billions, to a firm’s limited partn...

FORBES staff counts down this year's top 10 venture capitalists on the Midas list -- featuring a new number one.

For the longest time, I was in search of the best business mentor. I wanted someone I could readily speak to about my problems. I figured that If I found someone with the right amount of experience, someone that had ?mad...

Guest Post: The difference between the enterprise companies of the '90s and their successors is as stark as the contrast between dinosaurs and mammals.     

When Amitav Chakravartty was charged with finding somewhere for his extended family to stay for a graduation in Southern California, he turned to Craigslist.

The latest startup to alleviate the hassle of posting and packaging is Shyp.     

New York's market for on-demand delivery startups feels like it's just about to reach capacity. What little room was left has just been filled by Instacart's new speedy grocery service.     

Unlike in years past, it's not going to sell out in a few minutes with technical glitches aplenty. No, this time, they've devised a new means of torture.     

Instead of a streaming radio service, Last.fm said it plans to focus all its attention on improving its recording and scrobbling of tracks on other streaming music services.     

Big bucks for Bitcoin -- yet again.     

The firm most recently raised $18 million in March 2012. Following that round, ThreatMetrix told VentureBeat that its new funds would be used to fuel its international expansion.     

Sponsored Post: Ambry Genetics ("Ambry") announces the launch of ExomeNext™ and ExomeNext-Rapid™ at the American College of Medical Genetics (ACMG) conference today in Nashville. The new assays feature lower turnarou...

Verizon says it will ramp up its development of open cloud and virtualization solutions. It's a smart move for Verizon, which only recently started focusing on cloud computing.     

Ariosa Diagnostics is already a firm favorite with pregnant women. But it's about to become a big name on Wall Street, with its impending initial public offering.     

Anyone who is closely following the Initial Public Offering (IPO) market cannot help but ask a question about King Digital’s (NYSE:KING) IPO that made its debut today: where is the hype?

Amazon.com dropped prices for its cloud services -- for the 42nd time.     

Google the term "Is SEO dead?" and what comes back in return is over 44 million references including the aptly titled article of the same name by fellow Forbes contributor Jayson DeMers. In his article DeMers shares a co...

Public cloud heavyweight Amazon Web Services has added instances designed for apps that needs lots of memory and lots of storage.     

Popular customer relationship management (CRM) vendor SugarCRM is enlarging its data offering today by announcing integrated business data from Dun & Bradstreet (D&B). The new data will help its users better pinpoint sal...

Avis Budget Group focuses on a 360-degree view of the customer by applying a segmentation strategy called 'customer lifetime value.' This allows it to look at the relationship not just as a transaction but from a longer-...

King's stock price falls in its first day of trading, but its CEO says the social-game company can deliver in the long run.