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Hyatt Hotels Corp. is one of six initial public offerings anticipated this week, making it the most active week in IPOs since that of Sept. 21, when seven companies went public. The hotel chain, which is expected to debut Thursday on the New York Stock ...

Foursquare Labs Inc., a New York mobile social networking startup whose $1.35 million first-round financing

Venture capitalists and entrepreurs at Next NY's Shake Shack party talk about why New York City is a great place to start a business.

"When you get a great company in your portfolio like Gomez,, stick with it," urges Richard Brekka, president of New York private equity firm Dolphin Equity Partners LP, whose investment in Gomez Inc. back in 2000 paid off on Wednesday, when Compuware ...

Spark Capital's Bijan Sabet points out that good startups are still able to get deals done, despite the tough economy. He tells The Deal that Union Square Ventures' Fred Wilson and he, co-investors in Boxee, were very pleased with the $6 million Series B ...

New York technology companies are hiring this fall, says Mike Fitzgerald of recruiting firm The Winter, Wyman Cos. The Deal spoke with Fitzgerald about hiring trends and how venture capital can open up the talent pool for startups. For hot New York ...

Cloud computing, location-based mobile and online education are among the technologies on the radar of Intel Capital's Sita Vasan, who focuses on the digital home. We caught up with Vasan at nextNY's recent

Twitter Inc. is all the rage this year, but what's next? To search for the next big hit on the Internet, we went to Shake Shack II, the hottest party on the New York tech scene where we

Few people understand the Internet and how it is evolving as well as John Borthwick, the co-founder of Betaworks whose THINK/ Musings blog is food for the Internet intelligensia. One of the many online phenomena he articulated early and well is the ...

David S. Rose, chairman of New York Angels, talks to The Deal about how angel investors are handling the recession. The biggest impact has been a "flight to quality," meaning entrepreneurs have to work harder -- and take their companies further -- in ...

A java jolt has helped many a student through an all-nighter, but for Greycroft Partners' Drew Lipsher, coffee played a significant role in underwriting his business school education. At the recent Shake Shack II party, Lipsher told The Deal's Mary ...

Perot Systems, the company founded by sometime presidential candidate Ross Perot, is in the news this week due to its acquisition by Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL). But last week, it was the entrepreneur himself that being talked about, as The Deal asked Stuart ...

Charlie O'Donnell, co-founder of career development site Path101.com,

In this episode of The Deal's Behind the Money online video show, Eyal Goldwerger, who took the CEO job at TargetSpot Inc. earlier this month, talks about online audio advertising

Three hundred of New York's most interesting tech entrepreneurs and investors mingled Tuesday evening at a hip shindig hosted by nextNY. Sponsored by New York Angels, recruiting firm

In this episode of The Deal's Behind the Money online video show, Eyal Goldwerger, who took the CEO job at TargetSpot Inc. earlier this month, talks about online audio advertising

Take a lesson from Matrix Partners' Paul Ferri, advises National Venture Capital Association president Mark Heesen in Part 2 of The Deal's Behind the Money video interview. At 79, Ferri, whose firm new $600 million fund is the largest VC fund raised this ...

The venture capital fundraising climate is downright Darwinian these days, says National Venture Capital Association president Mark Heessen in this episode of The Deal's Behind the Money online video show. While marquee firms -- such as the new ...

Jeff Pulver's recent 140 Characters Conference on "exploring the disruptive nature of Twitter, 140 characters at a time" in New York drew an impressive roster of presenters, some of whom flew in from the San Francisco Bay Area to attend, including ...