Entrepreneurship

Congrats to my friend (and world traveler) Ben Casnocha for being highlighted in BusinessWeek as one of the best entrepreneurs under 25.

I was at a board meeting on Friday for a company that is doing great and growing quickly. This will be their second year of revenue and – for a

Failure can be “positive” – John Funk at Evergreen IP is about to start writing about a project he and his partners just killed. Understanding why things don’t work &ndas

I got the following note the other day from a friend: After reading your latest post on Board Room Rules, I started thinking about the pressures that entrepreneurs experience starting,

Scott Converse (CEO of ClickCaster) has post summarizing his first board meeting. Todd Vernon (CEO of Lijit) does also (ok – his second board meeting.) Finally – Jeff Bussgang

I got the following email from AdBrite yesterday. I had AdBrite adds on my blog for a while and had minimal revenue, so I took them off. I hadn’t thought

I got a great email from a reader in Europe in response to my The Demo post that said “Here in Europe we VCs refer to the practice of introducing

Several weeks ago, I brokered a meeting between two of my portfolio companies. One of them is relatively mature, has a good sized customer base, and a great set of

Yesterday, I was on a conference call with an entrepreneur that I’ve backed in the past. He wanted to walk me through the idea for a new business that he

Brad Spirrison has a nice article in the Chicago Sun-Times titled Feedburner’s investors have its technology at their fingertips. Among other things, he highlights that three of the FeedBu