Getting venture capital on the Internet
NYT talks about venture capitalists soliciting companies using the Internet. vFinance is one of the companies they talk about in detail. The site helps angel investors and entrepreneurs to find possibilities of investment:
The service is inexpensive - PlantFind.com, which is based in Boynton Beach, Fla., spent about $350 to connect with individual investors who provided a total of about $500,000 - and the process is relatively simple.
AllensBlog also gets mentioned in the article, Allen Morgan is a general partner at Mayfield Partners. According to NYT, the blog “gives entrepreneurs a place to bat around their ideas with Mr. Morgan, and try to entice his company to invest.”