That got your attention, right? Actually I am in a place called “The Palace” – a hotel on New Montgomery Street that I always think of as “the Sheraton Commander” (but am not sure that’s right either.) I won’t be here for long so good luck trying to find the physical instantiation of me today.
Two of my favorite bloggers (and people I adore – both working with and just simply as people) have excellent posts up today that are worth reading. I’ll start with Dick Costolo’s post titled Have a Company Voice. Dick is so completely right – I was at a board meeting yesterday and while talking about launch and roll out strategy, I wish I could have simply passed around a copy of this post (jh – hint.)
Fred Wilson has the other great post up this morning (actually – it’s a threesome of posts.) He’s blogging about historical venture capital performance and his latest is The Rise and Fall Of The Venture Business . Actually, read them in order if you are interested.
- VC Fund Performance – Some History
- VC Fund Performance – Selection Bias
- The Rise and Fall Of The Venture Business
Now, before you respond and say “why is a venture guy spending all this time pulling this data together”, remember that we have investors also. Fred’s annual meeting is next week and I expect to see some of this information synthesized there. It’s awesome that he’s sharing this broadly and “thinking out loud” as he works through the data.