Last week West Corp announced it was buying Raindance Communications for $110 million. This comes two weeks after West Corp announced it was buying Intrado for $465 million. You could [&he
A VC friend emailed me the following question(s) a few weeks ago: The rumor this week regarding Yahoo acquiring Digg for $30M sparked a discussion here around company valuation. The [...]
Congrats to my cousin Jon Feld, his business partner Todd Price, and all the folks at Navigator Systems – they announced on Friday that Navigator Systems has been acquired by Hitachi [&hell
I guess it is only fair that while Jason and I rip on the IRS, accountants, and lawyers regarding 409A, we make take a few shots at the VC community. [...]
Tom Evslin – founder/CEO of ITXC and author of hackoff.com – has started writing a series called “VC Primer from an Entrepreneur’s POV.” His audience is &ldquo
EDS announced yesterday that it was awarded the majority of the five-year multibillion-dollar General Motors system integration services awards. This is worth $3.8 billion over five years and &n
What Fred said. Absolutely spectacular and brilliant.
Pascal Levensohn just released his latest white paper titled “Rites of Passage: Managing CEO Transition in Venture-Backed Technology Companies.” Last fall I posted my partner Heidi R
At a board meeting last week we were discussing the dynamics of keeping VC’s informed that expressed interest in “being kept up to date” on the company for the purpose [...]
I just received a memo from a name-brand Silicon Valley law firm in response to a board discussion that I was part of about 409A (the company granted some options today, obligatory [...