CNET News: The $300 million Andreessen Horowitz venture capital fund is searching for any number of the estimated 15 startups that will make over 100 million dollars when they reach fruition. Could your business be one of them? Ina Fried covers Marc Andreessen's efforts to get from one side of the VC table to the other in her topical article, Andreessen explains his move to venture capital. Fried writes,

VentureBeat - Deals & More: Adeo Ressi, Founding Member of TheFunded.com, and sometimes sensational VC provocateur, thinks there are some inevitable changes in the venture capital business that are coming due and many economic signs point to some kind of VC recovery in the offing. From his guest piece, Change is in the air for venture capitalists, Ressi makes a handful of predictions for the coming months ahead, including this one:

Feld Thoughts: Startups attempting to secure some kind of interaction with a venture capitalist in hopes of getting funded need to be aware that there will be many, many more "Noes" than "Yesses" along the way to success. Brad Feld, co-founder of the Foundry Group, early-stage investor and entrepreneur for over 20 years, offers his tactical approach to being available while at the same time spending as little energy as possible on potential opportunities that don't strike him as profitable in his recent post, Saying No In Less Than 60 Seconds. Here's a snippet of Feld's thought process:

The Next Big Thing: Jeff Bussgang breaks down some insider tips on understanding venture capital funding rates as quoted by Don Dodge in his June 25th blog entry, Why VCs say no 99% of the time. Bussgang says, "As one wise old VC once told me, 'the trick in this business is to spend very little time on a lot of deals, and then a lot of time on very few deals.' In other words, see everything to be a better investor, but exert a very tough first filter so that you only spend time on very, very few deals.  In my experience, a typical VC has the bandwidth to actively 'spend time' or actively work on only one to two deals at any given time and perhaps 10-20 in a year -- as compared to those 300-500 they get exposed to." Find out why this formula works magic, and not only for venture capitalist, by reading the rest of Dodge's piece at the above link.