Entrepreneurship

As my partners at Foundry Group know, every time I hear the word “marketing” I throw up a little in my mouth. I hate traditional marketing and have always resisted

On Monday I was at the White House to help announce the Startup America Partnership. As part of this, TechStars announced the TechStars Network, an affiliation of TechStars-like programs across

I just had an exchange with an entrepreneur that I don’t know.  It went something like the following via several emails over the course of a week. Entrepreneur: I’m working

Most of the companies I’m an investor in have a fiscal year that lines up with the calendar year.  As a result, with a few exceptions, the 2010 numbers are

I recently sat through an annual CEO 360 review at a company that has been very serious about executive development since inception.  It reminded me how powerful this is when

I’ve spent a lot of time this year talking about the importance of entrepreneurship to our economy and society.  Hopefully the work and energy that I’ve put into understanding and

On Saturday, I spent the day with my MIT fraternity (the Lambda Phi Chapter of Alpha Delta Phi) at the Microsoft NERD facility in Cambridge next to MIT.  We did

At a talk I gave recently to a room full of first year graduate business school students, I was asked “what motivates me.”  Before I answered, I felt compelled to

I think the best way for entrepreneurs – especially first time or aspiring ones – to learn is to hear stories from other entrepreneurs.  That was one of the motivations

I think I’ll avoid all the “are super angels colluding“, “no they aren’t“, “go fuck yourself and stop talking horseshit“, and “guys, quit being na