Preparing For A First Meeting With Me
I have lots of short meetings. I’ll try to meet with anyone that I can that is referred to me or seems to be doing something relevant to my world.
Entrepreneurship
How to Raise Capital as a First Time Entrepreneur
Earlier this week Dave Lavinsky, who writes the Growthink Blog, interview me on How to Raise Capital as a First Time Entrepreneur. Other than me doing a crappy job of
The Best Entrepreneurs Know How To Fail Fast
Last night at the TechStars Boulder Mentor dinner I got into a conversation about what makes a better CEO of a new startup – an experienced entrepreneur who’s last company
Be The Kid Rock of Tech Marketing
Eric Norlin, producer of the Defrag and Glue conferences, has a phenomenal rant up today titled An Open Letter to Technology Startup Marketers. We had an email exchange the other
Great Entrepreneurs Believe in Karma
I met with an entrepreneur yesterday that I hadn’t seen in a few years. I originally met with her about five years ago when she was starting her company. She’d
WSGR’s Entrepreneurs Report – Private Company Financing Trends
Wilson Sonsini puts out a quarterly Entrepreneurs Report. The Winter 2008 issues is titled Private Company Financing Trends. They asked me if I’d contribute an article around the topic of
Entrepreneurs – Don’t Be Afraid of GDP Growth Rate
All the economics and newscasters like to talk about GDP Growth Rate (and its importance to life, the universe, and everything). Whatever. One of my very smart LPs sent me
Do Stuff
“There is a category of people that do stuff and a category of people that stuff gets done to.” The following short video is from the end of the event
Have You Ever Failed?
As I was going through my morning information routine, I noticed a number of articles that I’d put in the “how to not fail” bucket. I read a few of
Daily Data
I had a call this morning with a CEO of a young company I’m on the board of. They are well funded so they have plenty of urgency, but no