NEW YORK, June 7 (Reuters) - Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management Inc are short-listing potential candidates to become the next Dell Inc chief executive should they succeed in a proxy battle against Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners, two sources close to the matter told Reuters. A number of high-profile industry executives have been identified as possible successors to ...

Last night, at the Churchill Club’s annual VC roundtable in Mountain View, CA, venture capitalists from firms like Greylock Partners, Khosla Ventures, and New Enterprise Associates told an audience how to best pitch them. Of course, none of these investors could agree. For instance, Peter Sonsini, a partner at NEA, told would-be entrepreneurs they should use VCs’ famous “herd mentality” to their...    

Tumblr was New York City's first $1 billion exit since DoubleClick sold to Google in 2007. But it won't be the last. A number of other startups in New York have become huge businesses, expected to exit for at least $1 billion. Others probably won't get the billion-dollar acquisitions they're hoping for, but they'll still sell for boatloads of cash. ...