While no one at Wilson Sonsini is exclusively focused on start-ups, a few lawyers have emerged as leaders in this area.
Within months of relocating, he co-founded Qiming Venture Partners, at the time one of the few investment firms focused on start-ups.
A venture capitalist is seeking investors for a new fund focused on start-ups.
Robert Scoble explains why he loves PandoDaily, a new media company focused on start-ups.
Some candidates acknowledge that staying focused on start-ups will be challenging because the number of jobs each creates will be small.
A number of measures were focused on start-ups and smaller businesses, with the CBI predicting that a "new wave of finance" could be unleashed through the Enterprise Investment Scheme.
Instead, they are choosing to set up new operations in London or, in the case of the blue-chip firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, remain focused on start-ups close to home.
It initially focused on start-up Web companies, but has gone on to offer features like e-mail and database search that are attractive to more mainstream corporate customers, including the InterContinental Hotels Group, Samsung and Netflix.
"Eighty percent of business development is focused on start-ups, and only 20 percent of start-ups survive," said J. Jean Horstman, the chief executive of Inner City Entrepreneurs.
NEW YORK TIMES Investor in Twitter Looks to Raise New Fund | Chris Sacca, a former Google executive who became a technology investor, has started a new firm, Lowercase Spur, focused on start-ups, and is now soliciting investments after talking about raising as much as $50 million, Bloomberg News reports, citing a memo and unidentified people familiar with the matter.
Congress should require that federal funds be focused on starting early and intensively with disadvantaged students, not on high schools.
