Entrepreneurship

Thankfully I no longer get fedexed binders of board packages from my portfolio companies in advance of a board meeting. Through the modern miracle of email, the board packages show

I’ve noticed a pattern in many of the VC and entrepreneur blogs I read – very few people ever talk about failure. Failure is a key part of entrepreneurship. As an [&

Often there’s a perception that to be a successful CEO, you need to be an extrovert. Media and pop culture reinforces this – we regularly see people that are comfortable

I’ve been to a zillion board meetings (ok – let’s guess between 1,000 and 2,000 assuming 10+ / month for the past 12 years.) While the food is usually lousy

Will Price at Hummer Winblad has a really nice blog post up on a speech he attended by Verne Harnish the other day. Verne is a long time friend, extremely

I did a quick podcast interview with Outside In Innovation a few weeks ago when I was at MIT at Eric von Hippel’s Innovation Lab seminar. There are two segments –

Jason and I occasionally get asked “why are the majority of companies incorporated in Delaware, regardless of their actual physical location?” Besides being difficult to spell (c&rsq

Recently, I spent part of a day at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA at the National Center for Women & Information Technology Entrepreneur Alliance Planning Session.

Josh Kopelman has a thoughtful post on why he prefers preferred equity instead of convertible debt in seed-stage investments. I agree with everything he says – definitely worth reading if

I got an email from a blog reader that said “there’s one attribute ‘missing’ from your list of needed characteristics for an entrepreneur – being a good salesman.”&