According the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), there are 798 venture capital firms managing more than $235B in the United States. These are long-term, professional investors who specialize in funding and building new, innovative companies.
So how do you figure out who to approach for funding? This is the area where I find […]

A few months ago I started working on a next round of funding for our company, Splunk. As an exercise I decided to keep notes on the progress of the fund raising in hopes of looking back and perhaps sharing a thing or two with other entrepreneurs. I’ve raised a lot of venture […]

Who am I to second guess it. Virtualization is hot. In the past week VMWare went public closing at the end of the first day with a $20B market cap and Citrix agreed to buy XenSource for $500M.
WOW! This kind of activity make the bubble days pale in comparison.
I […]

Last week two significant developments took place in the world of datacenter technologies. At first these two events may seem unrelated but a closer look makes for an interesting debate about how we’ll be managing our IT environments and who will be providing the solutions.
First Marc Andreesen posted on his blog, “HP […]