Recently online: A look at Weather Underground’s offerings for businesses that want to target their ads based on the weather; and some IT nightmares from inside hospitals.
Month: May 2012
Venture Capital’s Dismal Batting Average
The Kauffman Foundation reports that very few VC firms deliver the outsized returns that investors expect from the asset class. Our chart from their data, in last week’s magazine, shows how dismal it is. The full report is here.
In other recent research, Kauffman shows that a widely cited number for how many jobs IPOs create is misleading.
Chinese Venture Firms Back Foreign Startups
Earlier this month in Bloomberg Businessweek, I wrote about venture capital firms from China that invest in American startups and help them do business on the mainland.
Health Care + Data Mining
In this week’s Bloomberg Businessweek: a look at how one electronic health records company is using its data to get a broader understanding of public health trends.
Also online: more questions about what happens if small businesses shift to self-insurance; freelancers want to get paid too; and how new laws might pave the way for local investing.
John Tozzi 