| DragonVenture Focus: cross-Pacific venture capital, consulting and merger and acquisition company. |
| Edelson_Technology_Partners Investment focus: startups, second round and mezzanine financing and leveraged buyouts in a broad range of technologies. |
| Edison_Venture_Fund Investment focus: proprietary technologies or unique services in emerging markets, generally prefering expansion stage companies. |
| EnerTech_Capital Investment focus: profitable service and technology companies related to utilities and the broader energy marketplace but will also consider early-stage. |
| Enterprise_Partners Investment focus: privately held early-stage and emerging growth companies and selective leverage buy-outs of established companies. |
| Equilant_Venture_Advisors Produces presentations and diagrams that help entrepreneurial companies achieve success at key events, including venture funding, product launches, roadshows and customer sales. |
| EuclidSR_Partners Investment focus: exploit the accelerating changes and advances in healthcare and information technologies. |
| Falcon_Seaboard Focus: privately-owned diversified energy and investment company with global operations. |
| Financial_Development_Company Focus: assists companies with their venture and equity capital needs. |
| First_Analysis_Venture_Capital Investment focus: all stages of development in industrial and institutional automation, knowledge and information management, outsourced and specialized services, specialty chemicals and materials, t |
| FLAG_Capital_Management,_LLC Investment focus: manages limited partnerships through which qualified individuals, families and their trusts or foundations invest in venture capital funds. |
| Flagship_Ventures Investment focus: life science, information technology, and communications sectors. |
| Forest_Hill_Partners Investment focus: equity capital in management buyouts, turnarounds, recapitalizations, and growth financings. |
| Foundation_Capital Investment focus: start-ups in their formative stages, and all subsequent financings as a company develops, involving Enterprise & Internet Software, Communications & Networking, Technical So |
| Fox_Paine Focus: capital for management buy-outs, going private transactions, and company expansion and growth programs. |
| Freeman_Spogli Private equity investment firm dedicated to investing in growing companies. |
| Fremont_Partners Investment focus: established middle market businesses. |
| Fremont_Ventures Focus: help experienced management teams build businesses by providing relationships, strategic insight and ongoing financial support. |
| Friedland_Capital Focus: venture capital and equity raising services. |
| Frontenac_Company Investment focus: health care services, information technology services and consumer/industrial businesses. |
| Fulcrum_Partners_Ltd Offers training for those involved in all aspects of the venture capital and private equity markets. |
| FundingPost Raising venture capital by presenting to angel and venture investors. |
| Funk_Ventures,_Inc_ Investment firm with focus on venture capital, business acceleration and real estate. |
| Gabriel_Venture_Partners Investment focus: funding through every stage of the company growth cycle. |
| Gaebler_Ventures Focus: early-stage venture capital investment with focus on information technology and business services companies. |
| Gemini_Investors Focus: investing in middle market companies. |
| General_Atlantic_Partners Investment focus: long term minority investor focused exclusively on software and services, and related information technologies. |
| General_Catalyst Funds breakthrough ventures and backs exceptional entrepreneurs via capital, business building resources and strategic support. |
| Generation_Partners Investment focus: seed to late stage information technology companies in telecommunications, data communications, computing and the Internet. |
| Glick_Morganstern_Capital_Group Focus: arranges and negotiates financing for growth, acquisition, turnaround and start-up. |
| Greylock Investment focus: all stages of corporate development for companies in the software, communications, and healthcare industries |
| Gryffindor_Capital_Partners Investment focus: emerging technology, growth equity and corporate consolidations in energy, information technology, manufacturing, diversified services, business services and healthcare. |
| Hamilton_Robinson Investment focus: smaller, middle market opportunities in the areas of energy, utilities, industrial process and business services. |
| Hampshire_Equity_Partners Focus: invests in growth financing, buyouts, acquisitions, consolidations and corporate restructuring. |
| HarbourVest_Partners Investment focus: software, hardware, data communications, telecommunications, financial services and management buy-outs of operating companies. |
| Harris_&_Harris_Group,_Inc_ Venture capitalist investment company which supports private investee companies. (Nasdaq: HHGP). |
| Hibiscus_Investments Investment focus: bringing leading edge technology to the marketplace. |
| Hickory_Venture_Capital_Corporation Investment focus: rapidly growing ventues throughout the Southeast, Southwest, Mid-Atlantic and Midwest, especially involving healthcare services, medical devices, telecommunications, and software |
| HRJ_Capital Focus: raising pools of capital from individuals involved in professional sports and investing it with a small number of top-tier venture capital funds. |
| Hydro-Quebec_CapiTech Focus: invests in companies whose technological products and services are related to the energy field. |
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A View from The Schwartz Group & Bob Schwartz: New forces are at work changing our lives and empowering us on a new grand scale. Never before have we seen individuals with so much access, so much power to effect change, to build individuality or to communicate directly with the world. The power has shifted to the individual.
10 years ago, the day Netscape went public in 1996, I was working as an executive at a consumer technology interface company and I still recall our CTO coming to me and saying, “It has all changed… Individuals will now have more power than ever before, enough power to take down governments”. Our CTO was known to be dramatic yet he was right as there is now an massive and accelerated shift of power to individuals.
From a single blogger destroying the decades of credibility of 60 Minutes, to a school teacher who drove millions of viewers to an iPod commercial created for fun. Individuals have more power than ever before.
The Internet boom/ bust left in its place a fertile scalable foundation with new, easy to use tools and means of distribution at little or no cost…and it will only get better. The photo above of Manhattan Beach pier at sunrise was an impromptu photo I took with my Treo 600 while walking my dog two Xmas mornings ago. I have one 11 yr old son who started programming in Flash and went to the UCLA campus to C++ Camp last summer, and my older son (14) is busy producing, filming and editing digital film leveraging his iBook and software in middle school. The power has shifted to the individual
There is a massive shift to empowered people expressing their individuality - A trend of “Mass Individualism”.
Particularly in the areas of content and community as demonstrated by the tremendous growth of individual empowered entertainment (iPods, PodCasting, Blogs, Tivo, VOD), and the display of individuality within new communities (MySpace, Tribe, Flickr, SecondLife, KickApps). People are empowered like never before.
I been fortunate to work with early stage, fast growth and Fortune 500 companies in leadership roles (CEO, CMO, GM) to drive the growth of their Internet (eCommerce & Content) business and have led some of the internets leading businesses (“founding” and spinning off fashion apparel leader Nordstrom.com, President of paid content leader USSearch.com). One reoccurring success focus of mine has been the growth of “Lifetime Customer Value”. Focusing your core goal as "increasing the value of a customer" sets the stage for other metrics to fall into place; customer acquisition, transaction size, purchase repetition and profitability. So how can content and community play a role in customer value?
Most eCommerce sites though successful still look like the same one dimensional catalogues of 1999, yet these powerful trends of content, community and individuality have emerged. What does it look like when you blend empowered individuals within a platform of content, community and commerce? And how can content companies embrace their new found ability (broadband, VOD, Mobile) to think "direct commerce and retail" and build Lifetime Customer Value relationships?
The infrastructure is now in place and economical, powerful new trends are emerging empowering mass individualism, driving with new forms of eCommerce blended with content and community. There is a new window for new consumer brand leaders to emerge. I am determined to be in the midst of building such leaders...Stay tuned.
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The SchwartzGroup consults, assumes interim executive and advisory positions with consumer brand companies and divisions with the focus on enabling rapid change (fast growth or turn-around) through the assessment, development and execution of Company vision, strategy, partnerships, capital, talent, technology and core operations leaving the company with a very strong platform to move forward. SchwartzGroup is hired by and works closely with the Founders, Board, Capital Partners (VC, Private Equity) or CEO. SchwartzGroup compensation is weighted toward value delivery and success. Contact: Bob at SchwartzGroup.com
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