BlogForward : Money

Microsoft turned Internet browsing from an application license driven economy to one supported by advertising and deals with search engines for default placement.

Cisco CEO John Chambers gave the market a cold bath with his assessment of the economy, and its impact on technology spending for 2008. Now it’s Cisco taking a dip.

Bear Stearns analyst Robert Peck thinks the online marketplace will step up in its Wall Street performance this year.

Plans for free wireless access for San Francisco could come to fruition if a startup called Meraki can do what Google and EarthLink could not: satisfy the local bureaucracy.

…Velocity Interactive Group. Comprised of some of the most experienced and visionary investors, executives and entrepreneurs……in digital media and communications, Velocity Interactive Group brings human capital, in addition to financial capital, to their portfolio companies.

Ross Levinsohn and Jonathan Miller launched Velocity Investment Group earlier this year with the goal of acquiring and investing in digital and communication media startups. Today, they announced their merger with ComVentures to form their new Velocity Interactive Group. Ross is former President of Fox Interactive and Jonathan, former Chairman and CEO of America Online.

However, two major ComVentures partners, Michael Rolnick and Jeb Miller, will be pursing other interests. So, if I can assume correctly, Keyur Patel will be one of the major partner with Velocity IG. To support this assumption, here are few of my personal analysis;

” Velocity IGs fund is investing in NDTV Networks, IndiaTV, Fabrik, Doppelganger and Mixercast.

” Velocity IGs primary areas are digital media and communications of which Media is something Keyur Patel is pursuing rigorously. He started FUSE+Media which targets primarily the Media and Entertainment Industry in India.

” Velocity IGs footprints are in Palo Alto, Los Angeles, New York, China and India. Well, their listed address for India is the hometown of Keyur Patel. He was also extremely successful in China and knows that country very well. He was responsible for turning around Maxtor into a Profit company with the One-Touch-Backup button idea and of course, their units are mass-produced in China.

Here my personal wishes to Keyur Patel and the new Velocity IG for a prospective future. Velocity IG is investing out of its current fund and has over $1.5B in assets under management. The fund will be invested in digital media companies exclusively.

On one of the merger news, from Om Malik, few phrases that caught my stark attention was;

“The private equity styled investments dont exactly make sense in pre-revenue pre-profit start-ups, Velocity was trying to acquire. In other words, the deals were too complex for Silicon Valley.”

Is this something that Startup Entrepreneurs should take notice of a noticeable trends that might happen with initial investments from VCs. Or this is just my personal acknowledgement of learning something new today!

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