I came across this New-York Times article about MySpace, its economics and challenges: For MySpace, Making Friends Was Easy. Big Profit Is Tougher (sub req’d). It is full of interesting data points, and is especially interesting in the light…

I was very happy to see that my good friend Tali just joined the ranks of the VC bloggers, and be the first VC blogher in a long time — which is great. Tali is a General Partner at Gemini Israel Funds —…

Buddy Will Price has the Venture Investment Statistics for 2005, from VentureSource, a division of Dow Jones and Ernst & Young.

• Commitments to VC Funds, $22.2 bn. Up 18.7% from 2004
• VC Financings, $22.1bn. Up 2.8%…

I mentioned two days ago the continued decrease of the volume IPOs of VC-backed companies. Discussing it with a VC friend, we sort of joked about the efficiency of the Sarbanes Oxley regulation that is essentially scaring away from…