Feld Thoughts on Down to Business
The nice folks at Down to Business have republished my post The Priorities of a Venture Capitalist. Down to Business is a website and online show that is a fresh
Venture Capital
It's Monday. Do You Know What Your VC Is Doing?
A well worn tradition of most venture capital firms is the Monday Meeting. While there are several variations of it, including having it the meeting on Tuesday or Friday in
HP Buys LeftHand Networks for $360 Million
Congrats to the everyone involved in LeftHand Networks – it was announced today that HP is buying them for $360 Million in cash. LeftHand was born and raised in Boulder
Approaching A VC
My partner Chris Wand has a long guest post up on Ask the VC titled How Should I Approach a VC I Don’t Know? Lots of good do’s and don’ts
More Fred Wilson on Venture Fund Economics: Gross and Net Returns
And post #2 is up (I guess post #1 went up yesterday and I missed it since I only read feeds in the morning.) Post #2 is titled Gross and
How Venture Fund Economics Work
Fred Wilson has an excellent post up today titled Venture Fund Economics. It appears to be the first of several posts he’s planning to write on this topic. "When I
Brief Thoughts On How The IBM Acquisition Machine Works
The NY Times has a great short article up titled The I.B.M. Acquisition Machine: A Seller’s Perspective. It has several quotes from Pierre Haren, the co-founder of CEO of Ilog
FAS 157 – Another Annoying Accounting Provision
I feel like bitching about FAS 157 today. I was at the annual meeting for one of our LPs yesterday and there was a long discussion about the impact of
Top, Bottom, Middle, or Who Cares?
Having been an entrepreneur and VC for over 20 years, I’ve now seen plenty of economic cycles – both at a macro level and specifically in the areas I invest
Avoiding the Shareholder Rep Problem
My partner, Jason Mendelson, had a post yesterday on AskTheVC about our view on the problem of figuring out who will have to serve as the shareholder rep following the