Venture Capital - a diverse half dozen
- Kleiner Perkins
- Kleiner, Perkins Caufield & Byers is the doyenne of Silicon Valley venture firms, but look at the backgrounds of the general partners (= the investment executives).
- Sequioa
- Sequoia is the VC with the grooviest website and the roll-call that includes both Yahoo! and Google.
- Gemini Israel Funds
- Gemini is one of the leading Israeli VCs that have perfected the process of taking Israeli tech start-ups global - mainly by moving their sales & marketing and corporate HQ to the US (often with a float on NASDAQ, although AIM is developing an Israeli following).
- Pond Ventures
- Pond is one of three European VCs successfully implementing a " go global early strategy" akin to that of the Israeli VC firms.
- Index Ventures
- Index is Geneva and London based, internationally staffed VC akin to Pond.
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Amadeus Capital
- Cambridge and London based, Amadeus is a tech VC, founded by Hermann Hauser (founder of Acorn and, thereby, ARM), deliberately modelled on the US West Coast funds.
- Web 2.0 - and other radical influencers
Chris Anderson is the editor of Wired and author of the original article about the long tail.
Eric Raymond is the author of The Cathedral & the Bazaar a 1997 treatise on the effects of the massive collorative effort behind open-source software development, effectively a precursor to many of the ideas of Web 2.0.
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