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2006 ended with a bang in regard to venture investing according to statistics from the latest Moneytree Report, published by PriceWaterhouse Coopers, National Venture Capital Association and Thomson Financial. The report indicates that venture investing for Q4 of 2006 remained steady nationwide at $5 to $6 billion, helping venture capital investing reach an all time high in 2006.
For more on the report and a list of which east coast venture firms topped the list in regard to amount invested, visit my recently launched blog simply called: Venture Capital East.
Of course, more venture money invested, more opportunity for executives hoping to land a job with emerging growth companies. In this issue of Talent Pool News [east] you can read about recently appointed execs from companies such as New York-city based KickApps, Reston, Va.-based Approva and Intellitactics, Fairfax, Va.-based SiloSmashers, Lexington, Ma.-based Predictive Biosciences, Jacksonville, Fla.-based Vurv, New York City-based Cosmocom, and Moorsetown, NJ-based Miles Technologies.
If your eye hasn’t already caught it on the Front Page, you’ll see there is some big name news in the Board of Directors world. John Sculley, of Pepsi-Cola and Apple fame, has joined the board of West Palm Beach-based PDSHeart.
Part of my goal by publishing Talent Pool News [east] is to ferret out the risk takers on this side of the river. I found one, based in Boca Raton, better known as a place to retire than a place to put your nest egg on the line, by the name of Navroze Mehta. I spoke to Mehta earlier this month for my column Executive Close-Up. When I got off the phone my thought was: this is why I write this stuff.
Michael Greeley of IDG Ventures Boston has a similar affinity for entrepreneurs. I came across Greeley via Predictive Systems, a company his fund recently invested in. For more on Greeley, see this month's VC Profile.
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About Janet Stites' Talent Pool News [east]
Talent Pool News [east] is an online journal covering Executive-level talent at emerging growth companies up and down the east coast. The publication systematically tracks the comings and goings of executives—CEOs, COOs, CFOs etc.—at start-ups and venture backed firms, as they help create the next generation of Fortune 1000 companies. What’s more, it facilitates a community among what has historically been an under-the-radar group of men and women. Primary coverage includes start-up firms in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida.
Columns include Executive Hires, Boardroom Appointments, Executive Close-up, VC Profile, Funding, and Boardroom Briefs. Talent Pool News [east] is the brainchild of Janet Stites, long-time science, technology and business journalist, and co-founder of New York-based AlleyCat News magazine.
About Janet Stites
Janet Stites has worked as a science, technology and business writer and publisher for twenty years. Best known in the New York City-area for her work as founder and publisher of tech/finance magazine AlleyCat News, Stites has most recently worked as a freelance writer for publications such as Fortune Small Business and the Bulletin of the Santa Fe Institute and researcher and consultant in business development, sales, marketing and communications, for clients such as Business Development Institute, Deloitte & Touche, North Fork Bank, and Geller & Company.
In the late eighties, she was founding publisher, editor and part-owner of the telecommunications trade magazine, PHONE+. Later she worked as a science writer for OMNI Magazine and the Santa Fe Institute. In 1994, she served as editorial director for Jupiter Communications managing newsletter, research reports and conferences. In 1995, she launched one of the first consumer online newsletters NetGuide Now!, a weekly electronic newsletter published by CMP’s NetGuide Magazine.
She has written for the Pricewaterhouse Technology Forecast and has been a frequent guest on CNNfn. She has been profiled in Fortune, Folio, CyberTimes (owned by The New York Times), Worth and more. She served on Mayor Guiliani's New Media Task Force, was a founding member of the New York-based Women in New Media, and has twice been a judge for Ernst & Young’s “Entrepreneur of the Year" award's program.
Talent Pools News [east] is owned by The Carter Stites Group, LLC.
Copyright 2006, Janet Stites, The Carter Stites Group, LLC
Who’s Who at Talent Pool News [east]
Publisher & Editor: Janet Stites
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Editorial Consultant: Joe D’Agnese
Research: Julie Pearne
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