Entrepreneurship

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

I’ve started writing a monthly column for Entrepreneur Magazine called VC Insider.  The first article is titled Perfect Your Pitch and has a list of mistakes I see over and

On October 7th, I wrote a post titled Ok Entrepreneurs, Time to Step Up.  There were plenty of great comments about the post that – as with most good comment

Ted Rheingold at Dogster has a great post up titled 10 Tips for Building a Profitable Business.  My favorite is #4: Spend at least 50% of your time selling. Many

I’ve made a large number of mistakes in my life.  My goal when I make a mistake is to understand what I did wrong, learn from it, pick myself up,

I had dinner tonight at the Defrag pre-conference "Future of Email" gathering.  It was a great crowd that included a bunch of smart people working on interesting email / communication [

VentureBeat had a Downturn RoundTable yesterday consisting of a panel of VCs and an panel of entrepreneurs giving their advice on what to do to whether to current economic crisis.

Today’s special guest post is from Sarah Reed of Lowenstein Sandler PC.  Sarah is a good friend and collaborator with my partner Jason on the NVCA Model Legal Document task

Ok, by now you’ve read 3,127 blog posts either talking about the coming current downturn credit crisis recession coming reconfiguration of all things as we’ve known them.  You’v

Fred has a fantastic blog up titled Capital Efficiency Finds It’s Moment.  It – combined with his posts My Thoughts On "Startup Depression" – are full of suggestions t