Entrepreneurship

I was a keynote speaker at the University Venture Fund Conference last Friday.  I had a great time and was blown away by the quality of the 300+ undergrad and

My friend Dave sent me a hysterical Onion article titled Failure Now An Option.  I hate the phrase "failure is not an option" – of course it is.  Some choice

It’s always useful to put failure in perspective.  While Citigroup is likely to announce a $20 billion writedown tomorrow, that’s difficult for most of us to relate to. However, I

Every day I get emails from people working on new startups.  I’m continually amazed at how many of them come from their existing corporate email address.  There are lots of

I heard a great line recently.  Michael Price – one of the senior guys at Evercore and a long time friend (we were on the PeoplePC board together) was interviewed.

Creating companies from scratch is really difficult.  Every successful entrepreneur knows the daily challenges and struggles that conspire against him.  Sometimes the entrepreneur thinks to

I love a good rant.  I got one several months ago from Janet Stites in reaction to a post I wrote about financial projections.  I asked her if I could

One of the hallmarks of a great entrepreneur is knowing what you suck at.  I suck at plenty of things – Paul Berberian’s blog The Name Game reminded me of

Every day I get inbound emails from entrepreneurs looking for funding.  I triage these quickly as I can usually tell within a couple of minutes of looking at whatever is

I just went upstairs and taught the folks at Lijit how to make money on the Internet. They are all now proud and happy recipients of a bunch of pennies,