There’s a great meme developing this morning on the need to simplify funding terms and documents.  The 2006 was the last time I went out to raise venture capital.  I believe that there is a new breed of VC emerging including True Ventures, Founder’s Fund, Union Square Ventures, Foundry Group and several others that have this founder / investor alignment ethos.  I This is part of my ongoing series “ Pitching a VC “. The meme was kicked off by Chris Dixon with this post saying that term sheets need to be simplified and align investor / founder interests.

It was CardioNet , which is a great company Jim Sweeney started/runs down in San Diego (and participated in OCTANe's CA Medical Device Forum in 2006) at the intersection of health care and wireless data. (Congrats, Patrick's Day funding IPO Oil globalizatio I was reading the daily Venture Wire blurb last Friday. Usually these are "quick reads" and sort of a mix between a story in the LA Times and Food and Wine, but the content in this one was particularly fascinating and alarming at the same time.

Los Angeles-based Ranker , an online web site which allows users to create their own lists, and share them with friends, said Thursday evening that the firm has raised $750,000 in a seed investment round, part of a planned $1M funding effort. Ranker said that those angels include investors in founder Clark Benson's former startup, eCrush, which was sold to Hearst Corporation in 2006. According to the firm, the round was led by Siemer Venture Capital, along with un-named angel investors. The new funding brings the company's total raised to $1.75M.

Los Angeles-based GOOD , a media firm which operates Reason Pictures, GOOD Magazine, and GOOD Digital, announced this week that it has raised a Series A funding round. Amount of the funding was not disclosed. Ben Goldhirsch founded GOOD in 2006, and prior to this round was funded by Goldhirsch himself, who told the New York Times in 2006 that he planned to invest $10M in the company over the next 5 years. Investors included angels and Nicholas Negroponte and Ben Goldhirsch, the firm's CEO and co-founder. Goldhirsh is the son of Inc.

in funding, according to a regulatory filing by the firm today. According to the filing, the funding includes equity, debt, and warrants received since July of 2006. No details on the funding have been announced by the company. Lake Forest-based Internet Connectivity Group , which is developing wireless equipment for connecting digital signage to the Internet, has now raised $8.2M The firm's hardware bridges between wireless LANs and cellular networks. ...Tags:

When venture capitalists scale back investing activities it can be very swift and leave many companies that are in the process of fund raising hung out to dry.  Just ask anybody who was trying to close funding the fateful week of September 11, 2001 or even March 2000.  The rest of this post series deals with the reasons why VC froze up in the first place, why investments have heated up recently and why the future of I would argue that the shut-down of September 2009 was equally severe yet there are signs that this “VC Ice Age” has begun to thaw. But any entrepreneurs raising capital

Today, San Diego-based Metaplace (www.metaplace.com), which develops virtual world software, is announcing a funding round from Charles River Ventures, Crescendo Ventures, and high profile investors Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. We left Sony in 2006 in order to do Metaplace--I'd dreamed about doing it for about ten years, and actually put together our first prototype in the spare bedroom, with my wife helping me out. We spoke with Raph Koster, the firm's CEO and founder, about the site and the new investment round. Metaplace was formerly known as Areae. First

think you were the same way, you started your company with the credit card, and very creative funding. We gathered up the funds to be able to buy the hardware and the equipment everything and software and the program. And I said, "Alright, I am going to fund a business with my credit cards once I graduate. If you like my interview, please vote for it on my favorite news site. --Andrew Andrew

In 2006, Steven Dietz, a partner at my firm, GRP Partners, had given me $500,000 in a seed in convertible debt when I started my second company, Koral.  GRP GRP Partners had also funded my first company.  I Steven knew that from a fund perspective he wasn’t going to earn the amount of money that a typical VC might look for since we were selling early.  But I was going to save this post for a while but the Patzer Problem meme has forced my hand. I

Without much fanfare -- or outside funding -- he built his community of booklovers to 650,000 members. And Goodreads, before it got any outside funding, it was him, just building this thing up. On his own, and then he went out an got funding. It actually started Here's an easy way to vote for this interview on Hacker News. --Andrew Andrew