Venture Capital

I just posted the great VC blog of the day over on Ask the VC but I think that it is so useful I’m reposting about it here. One of

I was talking to a friend yesterday about exits.  In it, he suggested that the tech M&A market had shut down just like the tech IPO market had. This didn’t

Holy Absurdity Batman, someone actually writes a dedicated 409A site called 409A Dismay.  For the latest and greatest 409A silliness, you are one click away from a subscription.

Over the past few years, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how people communicate with each other.  As an active user of all computer based communication technologies such

I was going to edit my Getting A VC’s Attention post but I thought the point I was going to add was important enough to highlight it in a separate

I regularly get asked "how do you get a VC’s attention?"  Fred Wilson at Union Square Ventures just demonstrated – on his blog – how this works. Last week while

Union Square Ventures just announced their new $156m fund – Union Square Ventures 2008.  My relationship with USV goes back to the mid-1990’s – well before USV was created.

Every day I tell at least one entrepreneur that I am passing on investment in their company.  Some times I tell 10.  I don’t know what the most in one

On the way to the airport this morning I twittered "Dell bought messageone (not sure i get that one) and someone bought bebo. Another m&a day."  Fred Wilson immediately responded [&

I got an email this morning from an entrepreneur that I know that has been trying to raise an early round from a "seed VC investor" for the past few