Bits Blog: If You're a Venture Capitalist, You're Most Likely a White Man

Ellen Pao, the venture capitalist who sued Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers for discrimination and retaliation last May, said late Tuesday that the venture capital firm had fired her.

The 2012 Midas List of Top Venture Capitalists is launching tomorrow, and in anticipation we are giving readers a sneak peak of sorts. One of the most frequently asked questions in career service centers and tech blogs around the world is, "How do I become a venture capitalist?"?? By analyzing the backgrounds of the 2012 ...

Jerry Weissman has been helping companies go public for nearly a quarter century. He’s not an engineer or a venture capitalist, though; he’s a former theater director, who schools top executives in how to talk to Wall Street. Getting a story into a clear logical flow can mean millions. Here’s how.

The following post was published on the Knowledge@Wharton website on February 29, 2012. In 22 years of working with venture capitalists, Steven M. Cohen, co-manager of Morgan Lewis?s emerging business and technology practice, can only remember one time when a venture capitalist returned feedback to a presenter and ultimately invested. When the odds are that ...

Start-ups often need big money and investors steeped in big science and big government. In what would have been an unaccustomed move for a Silicon Valley venture capitalist not too long ago, Alan Salzman recently flew to Copenhagen to attend a conference on climate change and schmooze government policymakers.

Venture capitalists are loosing ground to other emerging nations according to a recent report by Deloitte and Canada's Venture Capital & Private Equity Association. Two-thirds of industry insiders surveyed expect  the local industry to shrink over the next five years, while anticipating growth in the sector in China, India and Brazil