Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:21:54 +0000 http://www.oregonstartups.com/ en-us http://www.oregonstartups.com/images/logo.gif http://www.oregonstartups.com/ steve_morris@oregonstartups.com http://www.oregonstartups.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=306 Portland Business Journal: m-six, a three-employee company that is developing photo-realistic architectural rendering software, was the top choice of the 45-member Angel Oregon investment group. The other 3 finalists were CSI Digital, Remote Technologies, and Lumencor. Read more. Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:21:54 +0000 http://www.oregonstartups.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=305 John Cook's Venture Blog: Web 2.0 University, which bills itself as the "Web 2.0 education solution for executives and technical leaders," will be offering classes in Seattle next week. Read more. Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:21:35 +0000 http://www.oregonstartups.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=304 Red Herring: The median valuation of U.S. venture-backed companies—before the capital infusion—climbed to $18.5 million in 2006, the highest level since the boom year of 2000, Dow Jones VentureOne reported. Read more. Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:21:17 +0000 http://www.oregonstartups.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=303 Boston.com: Will private-equity firms bursting with cash become a new exit option for venture capital? Read more. Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:20:45 +0000 http://www.oregonstartups.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=302 Chicago Tribune: It's been just over 20 years since Arch Venture Partners set out to finance inventions born in university laboratories. And the Chicago-based venture-capital firm still has a niche that is largely its own. Read more. Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:20:21 +0000 http://www.oregonstartups.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=301 TheStreet.com: An experienced fund-raiser explains how it is done... as they say at the amusement park before strapping you into the roller coaster, make sure you are physically fit and have no heart aliments, because when you get on this ride, your guts will be in more knots than a Philly soft pretzel. Here is the first set of hurdles you will have to manage. Read more. Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:19:59 +0000 http://www.oregonstartups.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=300 Portland Business Journal: Oregon's Legislature is fast-tracking a package of bills that could radically change Oregon's manufacturing and agricultural industries. Read more. Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:19:09 +0000 http://www.oregonstartups.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=299 Congratulations to the 2007 Angel Oregon Finalists. They are: Remote Technologies (winner of Seed Oregon): provides a complete web-based Information Technology solution for restaurants Lumencor: designs and manufactures a novel light engine for life science instrumentation CSI Digital: wholesaler of internet services for regional telecoms M-Six: visualization software for architectural drawingsAnd I have to mention that two of the four (Lumencor and Remote Technologies) are OTBC resident ventures. Read more about Angel Oregon in Mike Rogoway's Silicon Forest Blog. Sun, 18 Feb 2007 13:26:07 +0000 http://www.oregonstartups.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=298 CNET: Venture capitalists are spending big on start-ups that are peripheral to sites like MySpace, Facebook and YouTube. Companies such as Panjea, Vuvox, Mixpo and Share2Me give fans of Web video and photo-sharing the ability to easily reformat or repost multimedia content that's already floating around out on the Web. Read more. Sun, 18 Feb 2007 13:18:52 +0000 http://www.oregonstartups.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=297 The Oregonian: W hen the Oregon Treasury and state investment council launched the state's $105 million venture investment fund three years ago, it was hailed as a way to help fill the gap between the state's promising young companies and the cash they needed to grow... Three years later, the fund is delivering less than expected.Read more. Sun, 18 Feb 2007 13:18:41 +0000 http://www.oregonstartups.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=296 The Oregonian: Four years after the Legislature pushed the state-run pension fund to plow $100 million into Oregon-based business startups, only $7 million has found its way into businesses and just a fraction of that into businesses in Oregon. Read more. Sun, 18 Feb 2007 13:18:29 +0000 http://www.oregonstartups.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=295 The New York Times: Biotechnology has been “one of the biggest money-losing industries in the history of mankind,” Arthur D. Levinson, chief executive of Genentech, told analysts in New York last year. Read more. Sun, 18 Feb 2007 13:18:15 +0000 http://www.oregonstartups.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=294 The New York Times: Give birth to an information-technology idea in Silicon Valley and the chances of success seem vastly higher than when it is done in another ZIP code. Read more. Sun, 18 Feb 2007 13:18:03 +0000 http://www.oregonstartups.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=293 Seattlepi.com: Marketing guru Rowland Hanson is putting his expertise behind a new firm called The Branding Foundry that will help struggling entrepreneurs commercialize their ideas. Read more. Sun, 11 Feb 2007 12:47:36 +0000 http://www.oregonstartups.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=292 SBA: Study finds that state efforts to promote small business formation will be more fruitful in terms of generating economic growth than virtually any other policy option. Read more.. Sun, 11 Feb 2007 12:47:22 +0000 http://www.oregonstartups.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=291 American Venture Magazine: Recent years have seen an increase in the diversity of financing options for entrepreneurs. Two phenomena have driven this change and both have serious implications for financiers and financees. Read more. Sun, 11 Feb 2007 12:47:07 +0000 http://www.oregonstartups.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=290 Red Herring: They’re into their favorite game: get the foreigner drunk. You can usually avoid it in Beijing or Shanghai, but not in Chinese cities where East and West do business with less frequency.Read more. Sun, 11 Feb 2007 12:46:54 +0000 http://www.oregonstartups.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=289 Seeing Both Sides blog: "I've been in the venture business over 10 years and still haven't received a carry check," complained a VC buddy to me the other day. Read more. Sun, 11 Feb 2007 12:46:41 +0000 http://www.oregonstartups.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=288 Business Week: Some of the biggest venture capital firms are raising large funds, targeting more established companies, and increasingly setting their sights abroad. That's the finding of recent research by Dow Jones (DJ) VentureOne. Read more. Sun, 11 Feb 2007 12:46:30 +0000 http://www.oregonstartups.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=287 Red Herring: Investments in clean technology made up 14 percent of total venture capital investments last year, leading one VC to call it the “coming of age” year for cleantech. Read more. Sun, 04 Feb 2007 12:52:36 +0000 http://www.oregonstartups.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=286 The Seattle Times: The Alliance of Angels said that in 2006 the organization invested $5.8 million in 31 companies. Of those startups, 11 received a follow-on investment, meaning they had received money from the membership in the past. Read more. Sun, 04 Feb 2007 12:52:19 +0000 http://www.oregonstartups.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=285 San Francisco Chronicle: Silicon Valley, ever subject to boom-bust cycles, has returned to prosperity after a five-year downturn. Read more. Sun, 04 Feb 2007 12:52:01 +0000 http://www.oregonstartups.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=284 Portland Business Journal: Microchip maker Intel Corp. has given $1 million to set up a collaborative research center with Oregon Health & Science University to study how technology can be used to help people as they age. Read more. Sat, 27 Jan 2007 13:36:55 +0000 http://www.oregonstartups.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=283 The Oregonian: The merger of two major Linux development groups Monday marks a "maturing" of open-source software, the combined organization's new director says. Read more. Sat, 27 Jan 2007 13:36:41 +0000 http://www.oregonstartups.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=282 Red Herring: Ethanol could be headed for a bubble if the industry doesn’t make some big changes, according to a report released Monday by Pavilion Technologies. Read more. Sat, 27 Jan 2007 13:36:28 +0000