VentureLoop News

4 of 6 Hottest Silicon Valley Startups are VentureLoop Clients

admin — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:00:24 +0000

Reuters recently announced its Silicon Valley Six, who are considered the hottest startups in Silicon Valley. The selection is described as follows:

“The Silicon Valley Six, made up of the hottest privately held companies with annual revenue of more than $100 million, were chosen based on informal polling by Reuters of venture capitalists and others.”

Here are the 4 hot startups, along with their hot startup jobs, on VentureLoop:

Index Ventures relaunches VentureCareers on new website

admin — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 19:18:42 +0000

Index Ventures, one of the most successful venture firms in Europe, has relaunched VentureCareers on their slick new website. Jobs are located in both Europe and the US. Check them out.

Index Ventures Career Site

Washington vs. Silicon Valley

admin — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:58:36 +0000

This a is a great WSJ article about the threat of regulation on the venture capital industry. The VC industry had nothing to do with the financial meltdown, yet they are being caught up in a massive regulation fiesta in Washington DC. This could have some very negative long-term consequences on the industry.

Read the article here

Signs of life in the venture-backed job market?

admin — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:12:57 +0000

We made an interesting observation late Wednesday night. As our monthly metrics reports began streaming to our venture capital clients, we noticed that for the first time in several months more than half of our VC firm’s portfolio companies added more jobs than they removed for the month. As venture-backed startups have cut back in these tough economic times, they have been pulling job openings from their career sites. While new jobs are still added each month, the number of jobs eliminated has been significantly higher. So while a newly funded startup might list 5 new job openings, 3 other venture-backed firms might eliminate 10 previously posted jobs. But not in July. Is this s sign of hope in the job market?

Historically startups and early stage companies tend to begin hiring sooner than the bigger public companies as economic times improve. They have more flexibility and can commit to headcount without the market pressures that publicly traded companies feel. Could this be a sign of better things to come? We don’t know, but it was at least a refreshing observation. We’ll keep you posted on any other positive signs and check in next month to determine if this was an anomoly or the beginning of a trend.