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February 9, 2010, 7:13 am, 646972

The guys over at Venturehacks have come up with an excellent idea to create a curated list of tech-focused angel investors.  While I fully support the project, I did notice that the list of “angels” includes a number of GPs at traditional Venture Capital firms.  I know many of ...


February 3, 2010, 7:13 pm, 643963

The guys over at Venturehacks have come up with an excellent idea to create a curated list of tech-focused angel investors.  While I fully support the project, I did notice that the list of “angels” includes a number of GPs at traditional Venture Capital firms.  I know many of ...


February 2, 2010, 1:13 am, 642403

At the risk of being provocative, let me state a general and rather counter intuitive rule of Venture Capital: The more experienced and older and entrepreneur is, the harder it is to raise money for anything that isn’t directly related to their previous work history.

It’s true.  Just ask VCs to ...


February 1, 2010, 9:13 pm, 642364

At the risk of being provocative, let me state a general and rather counter intuitive rule of Venture Capital: The more experienced and older and entrepreneur is, the harder it is to raise money for anything that isn’t directly related to their previous work history.

It’s true.  Just ask VCs to ...


January 30, 2010, 1:13 pm, 641262

Electric car company Tesla Motors filed it’s initial S1 registration statement today which means that if everything goes smoothly with the SEC it is looking at a late Q2 IPO.   The headline of most stories about the filing is that Tesla plans to raise $100M, but my guess is they are ...


January 29, 2010, 9:13 pm, 641135

Electric car company Tesla Motors filed it’s initial S1 registration statement today which means that if everything goes smoothly with the SEC it is looking at a late Q2 IPO.   The headline of most stories about the filing is that Tesla plans to raise $100M, but my guess is they are ...


January 28, 2010, 5:13 am, 639641

Back in the 1990’s, Lou Gerstner helped engineer one of the great turnarounds in corporate history.  In just a few years, he took IBM from a cash hemorrhaging techno dinosaur on the brink of being broken into little pieces and turned it back into one of America’s most ...


January 25, 2010, 9:13 pm, 637842

Back in the 1990’s, Lou Gerstner helped engineer one of the great turnarounds in corporate history.  In just a few years, he took IBM from a cash hemorrhaging techno dinosaur on the brink of being broken into little pieces and turned it back into one of America’s most admired ...


January 15, 2010, 9:13 am, 632504

The Venture Capital industry is about to enter a kind of mid-life crisis that could test its very foundations thanks to three key drivers:

Returns: For a long time, returns have the biggest selling point for venture capital as an asset class. Thanks the collapse of the tech bubble in 2000 ...


January 12, 2010, 1:13 pm, 630605

The Venture Capital industry is about to enter a kind of mid-life crisis that could test its very foundations thanks to three key drivers:

Returns: For a long time, returns have the biggest selling point for venture capital as an asset class. Thanks the collapse of the tech bubble in 2000 ...