Author: WTN News

OnBioVC.com recently reported on the trends of international VC bioscience funding for the 2Q 2009 and found that there were 88 financings for 2Q09 versus 71 deals in 2Q08. The combined second quarter 2009 bioscience investment totaled approximately $1.7B, an increase of roughly $538.2M compared...

Karl and Dorsey Gude of East Lansing, Mich., can remember simpler mornings, not too long ago. They sat together and chatted as they ate breakfast. They read the newspaper and competed only with the television for the attention of their two teenage sons. Technology has...

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We started tracking VC funding in October 2008, as the financial markets were melting. The more we looked, the more we found that the headlines were wrong. It was not all doom and gloom, not in our corner of the universe: early-stage Web tech ventures....

Shifting jobs or entire careers is very risky business. Before you run off to join the circus (so to speak), serious evaluation must be made before years of hard work toward mastery in a particular field are cast aside for the allure of something completely...