Entrepreneurship

When I was on vacation last week, I read John Bogle’s book Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life.  In addition to be a superb book, it had a

Sim Simeonov, a partner at Polaris Venture Partners, sent me (along with a bunch of his closest friends) the following email this morning. “Founders often ask about the dilution they

Don Dodge totally nails it in his post Create 50,000 companies for $1B.  He builds on Fred Wilson’s No Thanks post when discussing what the US government should do with

My monthly column in Entrepreneur Magazine is up (and on the newsstands).  This month’s article is titled Check Your VC’s Pulse and offers entrepreneurs three important questions to ask your

I’ve been spending more talking in public recently.  I always try to be accessible to entrepreneurs and spend time in interesting venues where I learn something, but I hate conferences.

On the eve of the passing of the massive “economic stimulus package” (I was really hoping it was going to be more than 1 trillion so Dr. Evil could start

I watched Rafael Nadal play two incredible matches at the Australian Open over the weekend.  In the semifinals, he defeated Fernando Verdasco in a 5 hour and 14 minute match

My monthly column in Entrepreneur Magazine is up (and on the newsstands).  This month’s article is titled VC or Angel Money? and has some suggestions for how to think about

Fred Wilson has a magnificent post up this morning from Berlin titled Bits Of Destruction.  In it, he nails a critical point about innovation. “This downturn will be marked in

Today’s lunch time conversation was about valuing competence vs. loyalty.  In some organizations, loyalty is the most important attribute while in others competence is valued over loyalty. I have