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At 70, Ralph “Chris” Christoffersen says he doesn’t mind sticking out as “the white haired guy in the audience” at investment conferences. So far, it’s proven exponentially more interesting—not to mention more lucrative—than retirement. That was Christoffersen’s plan back in 2001, after stepping down from Ribozyme Pharmaceuticals, the biotech startup he’d taken public two years […]

Cleantech VCs are looking for ways to reduce their carbon footprints.

VCs have long used recruiters to find talent for their portfolio companies. Now some of them are using headhunters to find GPs for their venture firms—though they like to keep it hush-hush. Here’s how it’s done.

In the wake of Enron and the 2002 passage of Sarbanes Oxley, it was easy to have compassion for the Big Four accounting firms. Their reputations in tatters after gross lapses in duty by “a few bad apples,” accountants were faced with public scolding, extensive new legal oversight, and the daunting challenge of re-earning their […]