{"id":98,"date":"2006-08-23T13:11:15","date_gmt":"2006-08-23T20:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montaraventures.com\/blog\/?p=98"},"modified":"2007-12-04T09:10:11","modified_gmt":"2007-12-04T17:10:11","slug":"100m-venture-capital-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/23\/100m-venture-capital-giveaway\/","title":{"rendered":"$100M Venture Capital Giveaway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThere was a great article in <a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/magazines\/business2\/\">Business 2.0<\/a> today reviewing <a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2006\/08\/21\/technology\/100milliongiveaway.biz2\/index.htm?section=money_topstories\">20 ideas that specific VCs would invest in<\/a> with dollar amounts. It may not reach the levels of  &#8220;irrational exhuberance&#8221; seen in the late 1990&#8217;s, but money is available for good ideas.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s a condensed list: (read the <a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2006\/08\/21\/technology\/100milliongiveaway.biz2\/index.htm?section=money_topstories\">article<\/a> for details.) <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Integrated computerized car &#8211; $5M\n<li>Lightweight database &#8211; $3M\n<li>Ultracapacitors\/better batteries &#8211; $6M (two separate offers)\n<li>Websheets (web spreadsheets) &#8211; $5M\n<li>Mobile Patient Monitoring &#8211; $10M\n<li>Repurposed Drugs &#8211; $10M\n<li>Mobile Search &#8211; $2M\n<li>Location based services &#8211; $8M (two separate offers)\n<li>Product placement marketplace\/vlogs &#8211; $8M (two separate offers)\n<li>Social marketplace &#8211; $10M\n<li>Mashup Matchmaker &#8211; $4M\n<li>Green Luxury Homes (on a budget) &#8211; $5M\n<li>Web Concierge &#8211; $5M\n<li>Green Office Services &#8211; $1M\n<li>Virus\/bacteria detector\/sensor &#8211; $10M\n<li>Ad arbitrage for the little guy &#8211; $3M\n<li>Massively entertaining idea &#8211; $5M\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s a pretty interesting list. I was struck that &#8220;green&#8221; themes were apparent, but no appetite for alternative fuels was included.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<small>Technorati Tags:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/venture+capital\" rel=\"tag\"> Venture Capital<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/investment\"> Investment<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/ideas\"> Ideas<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a great article in Business 2.0 today reviewing 20 ideas that specific VCs would invest in with dollar amounts. It may not reach the levels of &#8220;irrational exhuberance&#8221; seen in the late 1990&#8217;s, but money is available for good ideas. Here&#8217;s a condensed list: (read the article for details.) Integrated computerized car &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}