Venture Capital

Today’s announcement that Microsoft is paying about $6 billion to buy aQuantive is the latest ownership change of an advertising-related Internet company. Yesterday WPP Group announced tha

Jason and I have written extensively about 409A – a new tax regulation for pricing stock options in private companies that both of us think is fundamentally absurd. For the [...]

I saw Paul Kedrosky deliver his Top Ten VC Lies. Priceless (and accurate.) I also met him face to face for the first time – we both commented on how [...]

Google’s acquisition of DoubleClick for $3.1 billion indicates that we aren’t in Kansas anymore. Fred has a good riff titled The Banner Is Back and the WSJ does a good job [&hel

My partner and co-conspirator at AsktheVC (Jason Mendelson) guest blogs tonight. Unfortunately, I (Jason) get stuck being the shareholder representative in our merger deals where we can’t f

The MIT Enterprise Forum has an annual program called Venture Capital Outlook. If you are in Colorado, you can see a 40 minute digital presentation of this from MIT/Cambridge and [...]

Following is an exchange I had with a friend and someone I like to co-invest with. Me: You’ve been awfully quiet lately. Is everything ok? Just checking in and saying [...]

Earlier this week eBay announced it was buying StubHub for $310 million. My partner Ryan McIntyre – who was an early angel investor in StubHub (congrats Ryan – dinner next [...]

A friend of mine and active angel investor asked me the following question recently: “I thinking of getting involved in a ‘base hit’ type company, but one that feels like [&hel

Mark Suster of Koral has a great story up on his corporate blog about his experience raising venture capital. I’m just glad I don’t appear to be one of the [...]